| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Dan Ariely |
Economist |
29-Apr-1968 |
|
The Upside of Irrationality |
| Paul Baran |
Engineer |
29-Apr-1926 |
26-Mar-2011 |
Packet-sharing in computer communications |
| Grady Booch |
Computer Programmer |
27-Feb-1955 |
|
Unified Modeling Language |
| Anita Borg |
Computer Programmer |
17-Jan-1949 |
6-Apr-2003 |
Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology |
| Steve Bourne |
Computer Programmer |
? |
|
/bin/sh |
| Fred Brooks |
Computer Programmer |
19-Apr-1931 |
|
Father of the IBM System 360 |
| Rodney Brooks |
Scientist |
30-Dec-1954 |
|
Robotics and artificial intelligence researcher |
| Ed Catmull |
Business |
31-Mar-1945 |
|
Pixar Co-Founder, Disney Animation president |
| Vint Cerf |
Scientist |
23-Jun-1943 |
|
Co-Designed Internet's TCP-IP protocol |
| Dorothy Denning |
Scientist |
12-Aug-1945 |
|
Professor, interest in encryption |
| Edsger Dijkstra |
Computer Programmer |
11-May-1930 |
6-Aug-2002 |
Enemy of the goto statement |
| John Presper Eckert |
Computer Programmer |
9-Apr-1919 |
3-Jun-1995 |
ENIAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I computers |
| Ed Felten |
Computer Programmer |
25-Mar-1963 |
|
Broke SDMI |
| Bob Frankston |
Computer Programmer |
14-Jun-1949 |
|
Programmer of Visicalc |
| Hector Garcia-Molina |
Educator |
c. 1954 |
|
Stanford EECS Professor |
| C. Daniel Gelatt |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
President of NMT Corporation |
| Chuck Geschke |
Business |
11-Sep-1939 |
|
Co-Founder of Adobe |
| Ronald Graham |
Mathematician |
31-Oct-1935 |
|
Mathematician, Computer Scientist |
| Donald P. Greenberg |
Educator |
c. 1933 |
|
Prof. of Computer Graphics, Cornell |
| John L. Hennessy |
Educator |
c. 1953 |
|
President of Stanford University |
| Danny Hillis |
Business |
25-Sep-1956 |
|
Co-Founder, Thinking Machines |
| Starr Roxanne Hiltz |
Sociologist |
c. 1943 |
|
Mother of on-line education |
| Grace Murray Hopper |
Computer Programmer |
9-Dec-1906 |
1-Jan-1992 |
Computer programming pioneer |
| Anita K. Jones |
Educator |
c. 1942 |
|
Professor at University of Virginia |
| Robert E. Kahn |
Scientist |
23-Dec-1938 |
|
Co-Inventor, Internet's TCP-IP protocol |
| Maria M. Klawe |
Educator |
5-Jul-1951 |
|
President, Harvey Mudd College |
| Donald E. Knuth |
Computer Programmer |
10-Jan-1938 |
|
The Art of Computer Programming |
| Ray Kurzweil |
Inventor |
12-Feb-1948 |
|
Age of Spiritual Machines |
| Tom Leighton |
Mathematician |
c. 1956 |
|
Co-founder of Akamai |
| Lawrence Lessig |
Attorney |
3-Jun-1961 |
|
Constitutional and internet law |
| John William Mauchly |
Physicist |
30-Aug-1907 |
8-Jan-1980 |
ENIAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I computers |
| John McCarthy |
Computer Programmer |
4-Sep-1927 |
24-Oct-2011 |
Created LISP programming language |
| Steve McConnell |
Computer Programmer |
c. 1963 |
|
Author of Code Complete |
| Carolyn Meinel |
Author |
c. 1946 |
|
Walking scr1pt k1dd13 factory |
| Mike Muuss |
Computer Programmer |
16-Oct-1958 |
20-Nov-2000 |
Ping |
| Ted Nelson |
Computer Programmer |
17-Jun-1937 |
|
Hypertext pioneer, Xanadu |
| Ken Perlin |
Scientist |
c. 1957 |
|
Perlin noise |
| Ron Rivest |
Computer Programmer |
1947 |
|
The R in RSA |
| Pamela Samuelson |
Educator |
c. 1949 |
|
Computer Law Professor at UC Berkeley |
| Robert Sedgewick |
Computer Programmer |
c. 1946 |
|
Algorithms |
| David Sobel |
Attorney |
? |
|
EFF Senior Counsel |
| Gene Spafford |
Computer Programmer |
c. 1957 |
|
Spaf |
| Bjarne Stroustrup |
Computer Programmer |
1950 |
|
Inventor of C++ programming language |
| Ivan Sutherland |
Engineer |
16-May-1938 |
|
Father of computer graphics |
| Murray Turoff |
Scientist |
13-Feb-1936 |
|
Computer conferencing and instant messaging |
| Guido van Rossum |
Computer Programmer |
? |
|
Created Python programming language |
| John Warnock |
Computer Programmer |
6-Oct-1940 |
|
Co-Founder of Adobe |
| Niklaus Wirth |
Computer Programmer |
15-Feb-1934 |
|
Inventor of Pascal, Modula-2 |
