Explore Pioneers

John von Neumann

Hungary

mathematics

Harry Huskey

U.S.A

programming languages

Kathleen Booth

United Kingdom

programming languages

Maurice Wilkes

United Kingdom

programming languages

Hedy Lamarr

Hungary

communication technology

An Wang

China

hardware

Richard Hamming

U.S.A

coding theory

Sergei Alekseyevich Lebedev

Russia

programming languages

David Caminer

United Kingdom

hardware

David Huffman

U.S.A

information theory

Cuthbert Hurd

U.S.A

hardware

Alan Perlis

U.S.A

programming languages

Maurice Karnaugh

U.S.A

digital logic design

Grace Hopper

U.S.A

programming languages

Richard E. Bellman

U.S.A

control systems

Frank Gray

U.S.A

hardware

Karen Spärck Jones

United Kingdom

human-computer interaction

Kenneth Iverson

Canada

programming languages

John Backus

U.S.A

programming languages

Arthur Burks

U.S.A

hardware

Heinz Zemanek

Austria

programming languages

Willis Ware

U.S.A

computer security

Noam Chomsky

U.S.A

linguistics and language processing

Wolfgang Händler

Germany

artificial intelligence