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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, or simply al-Khwarizmi was a mathematician active during the Islamic Golden

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, or simply al-Khwarizmi was a mathematician active during the Islamic Golden

Badīʿ az-Zaman Abu l-ʿIzz ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ar-Razāz al-Jazarī was a polymath, scholar, inventor, mechanical

Ramon Llull, sometimes anglicized as Raymond Lully, was a Catholic philosopher, theologian, poet, missionary, apologist

Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist, and diplomat

Joseph Marie Charles dit Jacquard was a French weaver and merchant

Charles Babbage was an English polymath

George Boole was an English autodidact, mathematician, philosopher and logician who served as the first

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician

Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot was a French telegraph engineer and inventor of the first means of digital

Ramón Silvestre Verea Aguiar y García was a Galician journalist, engineer and writer, known as

Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege was a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician

Charles Sanders Peirce was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known

Herman Hollerith was a German-American statistician, inventor, and businessman who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine

Luitzen Egbertus Jan "Bertus" Brouwer was a Dutch mathematician and philosopher who worked in topology,

Percy Edwin Ludgate was an Irish amateur scientist who designed the second analytical engine in

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was an English philosopher, logician, mathematician, and public

Leonardo Torres Quevedo was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician and inventor, known for his numerous

Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar was an Indian mathematician who worked during the early 20th century

Frank Wilfred Jordan was a British physicist who together with William Henry Eccles invented the

William Eccles may refer to:William Eccles (physicist) (1875–1966), British physicist and pioneer in the development

Vannevar Bush was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II

Kurt Friedrich Gödel was a logician, mathematician, and philosopher

Rózsa Péter, until January 1934 Rózsa Politzer, was a Hungarian mathematician and logician

Akira Nakashima was a Japanese electrical engineer of the NEC

Emil Leon Post was an American mathematician and logician

Alonzo Church was an American computer scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who made major contributions

Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist

Stephen Cole Kleene was an American mathematician and logician

George Robert Stibitz was an American researcher at Bell Labs who is internationally recognized as

Claude Elwood Shannon was an American polymath who was a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist,

Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman

John Vincent Atanasoff was an American physicist and inventor credited with inventing the first electronic

John William Mauchly was an American physicist who, along with J

Thomas Harold Flowers was an English engineer with the British General Post Office

John Adam Presper "Pres" Eckert Jr

Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman, FRS, generally known as Max Newman, was a British mathematician and

Allen William Mark ("Doc") Coombs was a British electronics engineer and early computer designer at

Howard Hathaway Aiken was an American physicist and a pioneer in computing

Harry Douglas Huskey was an American computer design pioneer

John von Neumann was a Hungarian and American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist and engineer

Kathleen Hylda Valerie Booth was a British computer scientist and mathematician who wrote the first

Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes was an English computer scientist who designed and helped build the

Richard Wesley Hamming was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer engineering

Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian and American actress and inventor

An Wang was a Chinese-American computer engineer and inventor, and cofounder of computer company Wang

Sergey Alekseyevich Lebedev was a Soviet scientist in the fields of electrical engineering and computer

David Caminer OBE was a British computer engineer who helped to develop the world's first

Maurice Karnaugh was an American physicist, mathematician, computer scientist, and inventor known for the Karnaugh

Alan Jay Perlis was an American computer scientist and professor at Purdue University, Carnegie Mellon

Cuthbert Corwin Hurd was an American computer scientist and entrepreneur, who was instrumental in helping

Grace Brewster Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral

David Oliver Huffman was an American actor and producer

Karen Ida Boalth Spärck Jones was a self-taught programmer and a pioneering British computer and

Richard Ernest Bellman was an American applied mathematician, who introduced dynamic programming in 1953, and

Francis Tierney Gray is a Scottish football manager and former player

Kenneth Iverson may refer to:Kenneth E

John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist

Arthur Walter Burks was an American mathematician who worked in the 1940s as a senior

Heinz Zemanek was an Austrian computer pioneer who led the development, from 1954 to 1958,

Howard George Willis Ware, popularly known as Willis Howard Ware was an American computer pioneer

Edward Joseph McCluskey was a professor at Stanford University

Wolfgang Händler was a German mathematician, pioneering computer scientist and professor at Leibniz University Hannover

Allen Newell was an American researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND

Herbert Alexander Simon was an American scholar whose work influenced the fields of computer science,

Avram Noam Chomsky is an American intellectual, philosopher, linguist, political activist, and social critic

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Saul Rosen was an American computer science pioneer

Seymour Ginsburg was an American pioneer of automata theory, formal language theory, and database theory,

John McCarthy may refer to:

Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr

Paul Baran was a Polish-American engineer who was a pioneer in the development of computer

Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, known simply as J

Peter Naur was a Danish computer science pioneer and 2005 Turing Award winner

Friedrich Ludwig "Fritz" Bauer was a German pioneer of computer science and professor at the

Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, known as Tony Hoare or C

Leonard Kleinrock is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer

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Ole-Johan Dahl was a Norwegian computer scientist

Kristen Nygaard was a Norwegian computer scientist, programming language pioneer, and politician

Wesley Allison Clark was an American physicist who is credited for designing the first modern

Marvin Minsky was an American mathematician who did research in cognitive and computer science aspects

Douglas Carl Engelbart was an American engineer, inventor, and a pioneer in many aspects of

Ivan Edward Sutherland is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, widely regarded as a

Seymour Roger Cray was an American electrical engineer, computer scientist, mathematician, and supercomputer architect who

Joseph Weizenbaum was a German-American computer scientist and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of

Pier Giorgio Perotto was an Italian electrical engineer and inventor

John Wilder Tukey was an American mathematician and statistician, best known for the development of

James William Cooley was an American mathematician

Donald Watts Davies, was a British computer scientist and Internet pioneer who was employed at

Corrado Böhm was an Italian computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Rome

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist

Kenneth Lane Thompson is an American pioneer of computer science

Stephen Arthur Cook is an American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician who has made significant contributions

Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist and mathematician

Frances Elizabeth Holberton was an American computer scientist who was one of the six original

Adriaan "Aad" van Wijngaarden was a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist, programmer, mathematician, and science essayist

Per Brinch Hansen was a Danish-American computer scientist known for his work in operating systems,

James Hardy Wilkinson FRS was a prominent figure in the field of numerical analysis, a

Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd was a British computer scientist who, while working for IBM, invented

Alan Curtis Kay is an American computer scientist who pioneered work on object-oriented programming and

Frances Elizabeth Allen was an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing

Niklaus Emil Wirth was a Swiss computer scientist

Per Erik Rutger Martin-Löf is a Swedish logician, philosopher, and mathematical statistician

Margaret Hamilton may refer to:Margaret Hamilton (nurse) (1840–1922), American nurse in the Civil War Maggie

Masatoshi Shima is a Japanese electronics engineer

Federico Faggin is an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur

Lynn Ann Conway was an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, and transgender rights activist

Richard Matthew Stallman, also known by his initials rms, is an American free software movement

Gary Arlen Kildall was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur

André Trương Trọng Thi (1936–2005) was a Vietnamese-French computer engineer

François Gernelle is a French engineer, computer scientist and entrepreneur famous for inventing the first

Jacek Karpiński was a Polish pioneer in computer engineering and computer science

Charles William Bachman III was an American computer scientist, who spent his entire career as

Charles Patrick "Chuck" Thacker was an American pioneer computer designer

Edwin Earl Catmull is an American computer scientist and animator who is the co-founder of

Elizabeth Jocelyn "Jake" Feinler is an American information scientist

James, Jim, or Jimmy Gray may refer to:

Leslie Barry Lamport is an American computer scientist and mathematician

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Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor

Dana Stewart Scott is an American logician who is the Hillman University Professor emeritus of

Michael Oser Rabin was a computer scientist who was co-recipient, with Dana Scott, of the

Bailey Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie ForMemRS is an American cryptographer and mathematician and one of the

Martin Edward Hellman is an American cryptologist and mathematician, best known for his invention of

Stephen Gary Wozniak, also known by his nickname Woz, is an American technology entrepreneur, electrical

Ronald Linn Rivest is an American cryptographer and computer scientist whose work has spanned the

Adi Shamir is an Israeli cryptographer and inventor

Leonard Max Adleman is an American computer scientist

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David Neil Cutler Sr

Vinton Gray Cerf is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of "the

Robert Elliot Kahn is an American electrical engineer who, along with Vint Cerf, first proposed

Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist, known for the development of the C++ programming

Alexander Alexandrovich Stepanov is a Russian-American computer programmer, best known as an advocate of generic

Edmund Melson Clarke, Jr

Ernest Allen Emerson II was an American computer scientist and winner of the 2007 Turing

Anders Hejlsberg is a Danish software engineer who co-designed several programming languages and development tools

Michael Ralph Stonebraker is an American computer scientist specializing in database systems

Radia Joy Perlman is an American computer programmer and network engineer

Richard Manning Karp is an American computer scientist and computational theorist at the University of

Stephen Byram Furber is an English computer scientist, mathematician and hardware engineer, and Emeritus ICL

Sophie Mary Wilson is an English computer scientist, a co-designer of the instruction set for

Bertrand Meyer is a French academic, author, and consultant in the field of programming languages

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John Edward Hopcroft is an American theoretical computer scientist

Robert Endre Tarjan is an American computer scientist and mathematician

Barbara Jane Liskov is an American computer scientist who has made pioneering contributions to programming

John Cocke may refer to:John Cocke (1925–2002), American computer scientist John Alexander Cocke (1772–1854), American

John Gustafson may refer to:John Gustafson (musician) (1942–2014), bassist and vocalist John Gustafson (scientist), computer

William "Velvel" Morton Kahan is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, who is a professor

Shafrira Goldwasser is an Israeli-American computer scientist

Fernando José "Corby" Corbató was an American computer scientist, notable as a pioneer in the

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known

Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner was a British computer scientist, and he won the 1991

Jack Cole may refer to:Jack Cole (artist) (1914–1958), American comic book artist and cartoonist Jack

Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish and American software engineer who is the creator and

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Richard Edwin Stearns is an American computer scientist who, with Juris Hartmanis, received the 1993

Chai Keong Toh is a Singaporean computer scientist, engineer, industry director, former VP/CTO and university

Juris Hartmanis was a Latvian-born American computer scientist and computational theorist who, with Richard E

Edward Albert Feigenbaum is an American computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence,

Sally Jean Floyd was an American computer scientist known for her work on computer networking

Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy is an Indian-born American computer scientist

Rosalind Wright Picard is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist who is the Grover

Manuel Blum is a Venezuelan-born American computer scientist who received the 1995 ACM Turing Award

Amir Pnueli was an Israeli computer scientist and the 1996 Turing Award recipient

Feng-hsiung Hsu is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist and electrical engineer

Andrew Chi-Chih Yao is a Chinese computer scientist, theoretical physicist, and computational theorist

Joseph Sifakis is a Greek-French computer scientist

Geoffrey Everest Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, cognitive psychologist and Nobel Prize

Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the presumed pseudonymous person or persons who developed

Leslie Gabriel Valiant is a British American computer scientist and computational theorist

Susan Lois Graham is an American computer scientist

Judea Pearl is an Israeli-American electrical engineer, computer scientist and philosopher, best known for championing

Silvio Micali is an Italian computer scientist, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and

John Leroy Hennessy is an American computer scientist and chairman of Alphabet Inc

David Patterson may refer to:David Patterson, American professor of computer science at UC Berkeley Dave

Yann André Le Cun is a French–American computer scientist working in the fields of artificial

Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist, and a pioneer of artificial neural networks and

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