Engineers and computer scientists

Robert Metcalfe

Robert Metcalfe, also known as Bob Metcalfe, is an American engineer and entrepreneur who invented Ethernet at Xerox PARC in 1973, founded 3Com, and won the 2022 Turing Award.

Robert Michael White

Robert Michael White was an American Air Force test pilot who flew the X-15 and became the first pilot to exceed Mach 4, Mach 5, and Mach 6.

Robert Noyce

Robert Norton Noyce, known as Bob Noyce and nicknamed the Mayor of Silicon Valley, was an American engineer who co-invented the integrated circuit and co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel.

Robert O. Ambrose

Robert O. Ambrose is an American roboticist and Texas A&M professor who led NASA's Robonaut humanoid robot program at Johnson Space Center before joining Texas A&M in 2021.

Robert R. Gilruth was an American aeronautical engineer who set the flying-qualities standards for aircraft acceptance, then directed NASA's human spaceflight program, including the 1969 Apollo 11 lunar landing.

Sep 20, 2026

Robert Ritchie (materials scientist)

Robert O. Ritchie is a materials scientist and H.T. & Jessie Chua Distinguished Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley, known for research on fracture and fatigue of materials.

Robert S. Chau

Robert S. Chau is a semiconductor engineer who led Intel's transistor research behind strained silicon, high-k metal gate, and Tri-Gate FinFET technologies, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013.

Robert S. Elliott

Robert S. Elliott (1921–2009) was an American electrical engineer and UCLA educator known for slot array antenna design, electromagnetic theory, and the textbook Antenna Theory and Design.

Robert S. Langer

Robert S. Langer (born 1948) is an American chemical engineer at MIT whose biomaterials work founded modern controlled drug delivery and tissue engineering, and who co-founded Moderna.

Robert S. Schechter

Robert S. Schechter (1929–2014) was an American chemical and petroleum engineer who spent his 41-year career at the University of Texas at Austin and co-developed the spinning drop tensiometer.

Oct 26, 2026

Robert S. Seiner

Robert S. (Bob) Seiner, Pittsburgh-based consultant, author of the Non-Invasive Data Governance books, president of KIK Consulting, publisher emeritus of TDAN.com, CMU Heinz College adjunct faculty, DAMA Professional Award winner.

Robert Samuel Schechter

Robert Samuel Schechter (1929–2014) was an American chemical and petroleum engineer who spent 41 years at the University of Texas at Austin and co-developed the spinning drop tensiometer.

Robert Schapire

Robert Schapire is an American computer scientist who invented boosting, the method of combining weak learners into one accurate rule, and with Yoav Freund created AdaBoost in 1995.

Robert Sedgewick (computer scientist)

Robert Sedgewick (born 1946) is an American computer scientist, founding chair of Princeton's computer science department, known for red–black trees and the Algorithms textbook series.

Robert Smilowitz

Robert Smilowitz is an American structural engineer specializing in protective design and blast engineering, a Senior Principal at Thornton Tomasetti elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.

Robert Spinrad

Robert Spinrad (1932–2009) was an American computer designer who pioneered laboratory automation at Brookhaven National Laboratory and headed Xerox PARC from 1978 to 1983, during the commercialization of personal computing.

Róbert Szelepcsényi

Róbert Szelepcsényi (born 1966) is a computer scientist who, as an undergraduate at Comenius University in Bratislava, proved in 1987 that nondeterministic space is closed under complementation.

Robert Tappan Morris

Robert Tappan Morris is an American computer scientist who created the 1988 Morris worm and became the first person convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Robert Thomas Jones (aerodynamicist)

Robert Thomas Jones (1910–1999) was an American aerodynamicist who, working at NACA's Langley laboratory, independently discovered the swept-back wing theory and later proposed the oblique wing.

Robert Tienwen Chien

Robert Tienwen Chien (1931–1983) was a Chinese-born computer scientist and coding theorist at the University of Illinois and IBM, known for the Chien search used in decoding BCH and Reed–Solomon codes.

Robert V. Thomann

Robert V. Thomann (1934–2026) was an American environmental engineer and Professor Emeritus at Manhattan College, known for modeling PCB bioaccumulation in the Lake Michigan food chain.

Robert W. Adams

Robert W. Adams is an American electrical engineer at Analog Devices known for pioneering commercial delta-sigma audio converters; he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.

Robert W. Balluffi

Robert W. Balluffi (1924–2022) was an American materials scientist and MIT professor whose experiments proved lattice vacancies exist, clarified grain-boundary structure, and co-authored the textbook Kinetics of Materials.

Robert W. Bower

Robert W. Bower (1936–2024) was an American electrical engineer who invented the self-aligned gate MOSFET, patented in 1969 at Hughes Research Laboratory, and later taught at UC Davis.

Robert W. Brodersen

Robert W. Brodersen (1945–2024) was an American electrical engineer and UC Berkeley professor who pioneered low-power CMOS design and co-founded the Berkeley Wireless Research Center.

Robert W. Cahn

Robert W. Cahn (1924–2007) was a German-born British metallurgist and materials scientist who proved dislocations exist in crystals, named polygonization, and founded leading journals in the field.

Robert W. Cairns

Robert W. Cairns (1909–1985) was an American industrial chemist who led military rocket propellant research at Hercules Incorporated and served as president of the American Chemical Society in 1968.

Robert W. Farquhar

Robert W. Farquhar (1932–2015) was an American astrodynamicist who coined "halo orbit," directed the ISEE-3 mission to the Sun–Earth L1 point, and led NEAR Shoemaker to the first landing on an asteroid.

Robert W. Floyd

Robert W. Floyd (1936–2001) was an American computer scientist at Stanford who designed the Floyd–Warshall algorithm and Floyd–Steinberg dithering, opened the field of program verification, and won the 1978 Turing Award without ever earning a doctorate.