Pioneers in Computer Science
Pioneers in CS

Data Insights

184 Pioneers, By the Numbers

Patterns across 12 centuries of computer science history.

Portrait photo

98%

180 of 184

Full biography

100%

184 of 184

Awards

87%

160 of 184

Distribution by Era

Ancient & Medieval
4
Mechanical
2
Early Electronic
34
Cold War
60
Personal Computing
42
Internet Age
30
AI Era
12

Gender Breakdown

Female20 · 11%
Male164 · 89%

Top Countries of Origin

U.S.A
93
United Kingdom
23
Germany
8
France
7
Italy
5
Denmark
4
Hungary
4
Spain
3
Netherlands
3
Israel
3
Russia
2
India
2

Top Fields of Work

1hardware
51
2programming languages
38
3theory of computation
34
4algorithms
17
5artificial intelligence
15
6software engineering
14
7cryptography
13
8operating systems
8
9mathematics
8
10human-computer interaction
8
11applied computing
7
12networking
7
13internet
6
14computer security
5
15database management systems
4