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Scott Shenker
Scott Shenker is a computer scientist and UC Berkeley professor who pioneered software-defined networking and fair queueing, founded Nicira Networks and Databricks, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.
Shimon Schocken
Shimon Schocken is an Israeli computer scientist and educator best known for co-creating the Nand to Tetris course, where students build a complete computer from logic gates in one semester.
Shirshanka Das
Shirshanka Das is an Indian-American engineer, founder of the DataHub open-source metadata platform at LinkedIn, and co-founder and CTO of Acryl Data, its enterprise company. UCLA Ph.D., ex-PayPal, Yahoo, and LinkedIn, with Apache Gobblin involvement.
Sophie Wilson
Sophie Wilson, also known as Sophie Mary Wilson, is a British computer scientist who designed the ARM instruction set and co-designed the BBC Micro with Steve Furber.
Stephan Ewen
Stephan Ewen, Berlin-based German engineer, co-creator of Apache Flink and Stratosphere, co-founder and CTO of data Artisans/Ververica, and founder of Restate (durable execution).
Stephen Thomas Kent
Stephen Thomas Kent is an American computer scientist and network security pioneer who was primary author of the IPsec standards and joined the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013.
Steve Furber
Steve Furber, or Stephen Byram Furber, is a British computer engineer born in 1953 who co-designed the BBC Micro and ARM processor and later led the SpiNNaker project at Manchester.
Steven B. Lipner
Steven B. Lipner is an American software security specialist who created and led Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle, serves as SAFECode's Executive Director, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.
Sugih Jamin
Sugih Jamin is a computer scientist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, known for microeconomic admission control for data networks and co-authoring the 1997 RSVP protocol specification.
Sundararaja Sitharama Iyengar
Sundararaja Sitharama Iyengar is a computer scientist who works on distributed sensor networks and digital forensics at Florida International University, best known as co-inventor of the Brooks–Iyengar algorithm, a fault-tolerant sensor fusion method.
Susan J. Eggers
Susan J. Eggers is an American computer architect who developed simultaneous multithreading, adopted by Intel as Hyper-Threading, during her faculty career at the University of Washington.
Susan L. Graham
Susan L. Graham is an American computer scientist and emerita professor at UC Berkeley, the first woman professor in Berkeley Engineering, known for Berkeley Pascal and the gprof profiler.
Terry Welch
Terry A. Welch (1939–1988) was an American computer scientist who created the LZW data compression algorithm, later central to GIF and Unix compress and to Unisys's 1994 patent controversy.
Thierry Cruanes
Thierry Cruanes is a French computer scientist, co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Snowflake, the cloud data platform. Former Oracle query-optimization group lead and IBM researcher; co-author of the 2016 Snowflake SIGMOD paper.
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee, also known as TimBL, is the British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web at CERN in 1989 and founded the World Wide Web Consortium.
Tim Peters (software engineer)
Tim Peters is a software engineer and long-time Python core developer who designed Timsort, Python's standard sorting algorithm also used in Java and Android, and wrote the Zen of Python.
Tom Kilburn
Tom Kilburn was a British engineer who, with G.C. Tootill, built the Manchester Baby, the world's first stored-program computer, and led the Mark 1 and Atlas machines.
Tony Hoare
Tony Hoare, also known as C.A.R. Hoare, was a British computer scientist who invented Quicksort, Hoare logic, and CSP, won the 1980 Turing Award, and died in 2026.
Tyler Akidau
Tyler Akidau, Google streaming engineer, Apache Beam founder, Dataflow Model paper and Streaming Systems author, later Snowflake and Redpanda CTO working on AI agent governance.
Van Jacobson
Van Jacobson is a computer scientist known for the TCP congestion-control algorithms he developed with Mike Karels in the late 1980s, used in over 90% of Internet hosts.
Vint Cerf
Vint Cerf, full name Vinton Gray Cerf, is an American computer scientist born in 1943 who co-designed TCP/IP, the Internet's core protocols, and shared the 2004 Turing Award with Robert Kahn.
Virgilio A. F. Almeida
Virgilio A. F. Almeida is a Brazilian computer scientist and professor emeritus at UFMG, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2025 for work on distributed systems.
Ward Cunningham
Ward Cunningham, born Howard G. Cunningham in 1949, is an American computer programmer who developed the first wiki, WikiWikiWeb, coined technical debt, and co-authored the Agile Manifesto.
Wes McKinney
Wes McKinney (born 1985) is the American creator of Python pandas, co-creator of Apache Arrow and Ibis, author of Python for Data Analysis, former Voltron Data CTO, and founder of Kenn Software.
Wesley A. Clark
Wesley A. Clark (1927–2016) was an American computer scientist who designed the LINC, widely recognized as the first personal computer, and shaped the TX-0 and TX-2 at MIT.
William Kahan
William Morton Kahan is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist at UC Berkeley who designed IEEE 754 floating-point arithmetic and won the 1989 Turing Award.
Yale Patt
Yale Patt is an American computer architect and professor at the University of Texas at Austin, known for branch prediction and superscalar design ideas used in Intel and AMD chips.
Zhamak Dehghani
Zhamak Dehghani, creator of data mesh and founder and CEO of Nextdata, introduced the decentralized data architecture at Thoughtworks in 2018, wrote Data Mesh (O'Reilly, 2022), and now builds Nextdata OS for Autonomous Data Products.