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Joe Reis
Joe Reis, Salt Lake City data engineer, co-author of the O'Reilly bestseller Fundamentals of Data Engineering with Matt Housley, Ternary Data co-founder, creator of Mixed Model Arts and The Joe Reis Show.
Joel Moses
Joel Moses (1941–2022) was a computer scientist born in Mandatory Palestine who helped develop the Macsyma computer algebra system at MIT and rose to become its provost.
John Backus
John Backus was an American computer scientist at IBM who led the team that created FORTRAN, invented BNF, and received the 1977 Turing Award; he died in 2007.
John Cocke (computer scientist)
John Cocke was an American computer scientist at IBM who pioneered RISC architecture and optimizing compilers, earning the 1987 A.M. Turing Award and the National Medal of Science.
John David Kubiatowicz
John David Kubiatowicz is an American computer scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley, known for the Alewife multiprocessor, OceanStore, and Tapestry, and a 2000 PECASE award.
John Gustafson (computer scientist)
John L. Gustafson is an American computer scientist known for Gustafson's law of parallel speedup, winning the inaugural Gordon Bell Prize in 1988, and inventing the posit number format.
John L. Hennessy
John L. Hennessy, also known as John Leroy Hennessy, is an American computer scientist who was Stanford University's 10th president from 2000 to 2016 and won the 2017 Turing Award.
John Ousterhout
John Ousterhout is an American computer scientist and Stanford professor known for the Tcl scripting language, the Sprite operating system, log-structured file systems, and the Raft consensus algorithm.
Jonathan S. Turner
Jonathan S. Turner is a computer scientist at Washington University in St. Louis whose work on high-performance packet switching shaped ATM technology; he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007.
Jordan Tigani
Jordan Tigani is an American database engineer, co-founder and CEO of MotherDuck (2022), built on DuckDB. Previously a founding engineer, engineering director, and product lead of Google BigQuery (Dremel) and CPO of SingleStore; author of the Big Data is Dead thesis.
Joseph M. Hellerstein
Joseph M. Hellerstein (not Joseph L. Hellerstein of UW) is a UC Berkeley EECS computer science professor, Jim Gray Professor, database researcher, Trifacta and RunLLM co-founder, and 2023 SIGMOD Codd Innovations Award winner.
Joseph Weizenbaum
Joseph Weizenbaum (1923–2008) was a German-American computer scientist who created ELIZA, the first chatbot, and later criticized artificial intelligence in his 1976 book Computer Power and Human Reason.
Josiah Hester
Josiah Hester is a Native Hawaiian computer scientist and associate professor at Georgia Tech known for battery-free computing, intermittent systems, and wearable health sensing devices.
Julien Le Dem
Julien Le Dem is a French software architect, open source leader, and entrepreneur who co-created Apache Parquet, Apache Arrow, and OpenLineage; chaired Parquet at the ASF, co-founded Datakin (acquired by Astronomer), and is now Principal Engineer at Datadog in Berkeley, California.
Kai Li
Kai Li (李凯) is a Princeton University computer scientist and National Academy of Engineering member known for distributed shared memory, deduplication storage, and co-leading ImageNet.
Kanianthra Mani Chandy
Kanianthra Mani Chandy, known as K. Mani Chandy, is a computer scientist and emeritus professor at Caltech, known for the distributed snapshot algorithm with Leslie Lamport.
Keith Uncapher
Keith Uncapher (1922–2002) was an American computer scientist who founded USC's Information Sciences Institute in 1972, after directing computer science research at RAND, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.
Ken Kennedy (computer scientist)
Ken Kennedy (Kenneth W. Kennedy, 1945–2007) was an American computer scientist at Rice University whose compiler optimization research helped ordinary scientists use supercomputers; he founded Rice's computer science department.
Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson (Kenneth Lane Thompson), born in 1943, is an American computer scientist who designed Unix at Bell Labs, created the B language, and co-created Go.
Kostas Tzoumas
Kostas Tzoumas (Κώστας Τζούμας), Greek computer scientist from Ioannina; co-founder and CEO of Berlin's Data Artisans, commercializer of Apache Flink; PhD from Aalborg; sold to Alibaba for a reported 90 million euros in 2019, renamed Ververica.
Kristen Nygaard
Kristen Nygaard (1926–2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist who, with Ole-Johan Dahl, designed the Simula languages and introduced objects, classes, and inheritance, earning the 2001 Turing Award.
László Bélády
László Bélády was a Hungarian-born computer scientist who spent 1961 to 1981 at IBM Research, where he discovered Belady's anomaly and published a 1966 page-replacement study that became the most cited paper in computer software.
Lawrence Roberts (computer scientist)
Lawrence Roberts was an American computer scientist who supervised the ARPANET, the packet-switching precursor to the Internet, and later founded the first commercial packet-switched carrier, Telenet.
Leonard Kleinrock
Leonard Kleinrock, born 1934, is an American computer scientist at UCLA whose mathematical theory of packet switching underpinned the Internet; his lab sent the first ARPANET message in 1969.
Leslie Lamport
Leslie Lamport, born 1941 in New York City, is an American computer scientist who developed LaTeX and won the 2013 ACM Turing Award for work on distributed systems.
Lloyd Tabb
Lloyd Tabb, American software developer, founder and CTO of Looker (Santa Cruz data analytics, sold to Google for $2.6B), designer of LookML, earlier Borland and Netscape engineer, now co-creator of the Malloy data language at Meta.
Lorrie Cranor
Lorrie Faith Cranor is a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist who pioneered usable privacy and security research and served as FTC Chief Technologist in 2016.
Marc Auslander
Marc Auslander is an American computer scientist at IBM's Watson Research Center known for the PL.8 compiler, the AMERICA architecture behind the RS/6000, and K42.
Marc Timme
Marc Timme is a physicist working on the collective dynamics of networks, including synchronization, neural circuits, and power grids, who heads the Chair for Network Dynamics at TU Dresden.
Marcel Kornacker
Marcel Kornacker, database engineer, UC Berkeley PhD (2000), founding tech lead of Google F1's query engine, creator of Apache Impala, co-creator of Apache Parquet, and CTO and co-founder of Pixeltable, the multimodal AI data infrastructure company launched December 2024.