- Bjarne Stroustrup
Bjarne Stroustrup (born December 30, 1950 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a computer scientist and the College of Engineering Chair Professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. He is most notable for developing the C++ programming language. A rough English attempt at pronunciation of his name would be "B-yar-ne Strov-stroop". Stroustrup, in his own words, "invented C++, wrote its early definitions, …
- Jon Kleinberg
Jon Kleinberg is a computer scientist with a reputation for tackling important, practical problems and, in the process, deriving deep mathematical insights. His research spans diverse topics ranging from computer networking analysis and routing, to data mining, to comparative genomics and protein structure. He is best known for his contributions to two aspects of network theory: "small worlds" and searching the World Wide Web.
- Doug Lea
Doug Lea is a professor of computer science at State University of New York at Oswego where he specializes in concurrent programming. He is on the Executive Committee of the Java Community Process and chaired JSR 166, which added concurrency utilities to the Java programming language. He is also the author of dlmalloc, a widely-used public-domain implementation of malloc.
- Christos Papadimitriou
Christos Papadimitriou is a Professor in the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He studied at the National Technical University of Athens (BS in Electrical Engineering, 1972) and at Princeton University (MS in Electrical Engineering, 1974 and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1976). He has also taught at Harvard, MIT, the National Technical University of Athens, Stanford, and UCSD.
- Amir Pnueli
Amir Pnueli (born April 22, 1941) is an Israeli computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1996 "for seminal work introducing temporal logic into computing science and for outstanding contributions to program and systems verification". Born in Nahalal, Israel, Pnueli received a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics at the Technion in Haifa, and Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Weizmann Institute of Science.
- Marissa Mayer
Marissa leads the product management efforts on Google's search products - web search, images, groups, news, Froogle, the Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Labs, and more. She joined Google in 1999 as Google's first female engineer and led the user interface and webserver teams at that time.
- Vasant Honavar
Vasant Honavar is an American computer scientist, specializing in artificial intelligence. He received his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he worked with Leonard Uhr. Vasant Honavar is a professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University. He heads the Iowa State University Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory. He is the founding director of the Iowa State University Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning and Discovery.
- Luis von Ahn
Luis von Ahn Named One of Worldâs Top Young Innovators: Technology Review Magazine To Honor Carnegie Mellon Computer Scientist
- Elliotte Rusty Harold
Elliotte Rusty Harold is an adjunct professor in the Computer Science Department of Polytechnic University of New York. He is the author of several books on Java and XML.
- H. T. Kung
H. T. Kung (Kung, Hsiang-Tsung), b. November 9, 1945 is a computer scientist. His current research is primarily in the area of communications networks and network security, but his interests have been broad-ranging, including complexity theory, database theory, VLSI design, and parallel computing. He received his bachelor degree from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, and first taught there, …
- Martin Abadi
Martín Abadi is a computer scientist, currently working at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1987 as a student of Zohar Manna. He is well-known for his work on computer security and on programming languages, including his paper (with Burrows and Roger Needham) on the "Burrows-Abadi-Needham logic" for analyzing authentication protocols, and his book (with Luca Cardelli) "A Theory of Objects", …
- Randal E. Bryant
Randal E. Bryant (born October 27, 1952) is an American computer scientist and academic noted for his research on formally verifying digital hardware, and more recently some forms of software. He is also Dean of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, where he has taught since 1984.
- Andries van Dam
Andries "Andy" van Dam (born 1938) is a professor of computer science and former Vice-President for Research at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Originally appointed as a professor of applied mathematics, he helped to found the computer science program as a joint project between the departments of applied mathematics and engineering. When the program was promoted to a full department, van Dam served as its first chair, from 1979 to 1985.
- Eric Allender
Eric W. Allender is an American computer scientist active in the field of computational complexity theory. In 2006 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is currently a professor at Rutgers University.
- Cem Kaner
Cem Kaner J.D., Ph.D., is a Professor of Software Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology, and the Director of Florida Tech's Center for Software Testing Education & Research (CSTER) since 2004. He is perhaps best known outside academia as an advocate of software usability and software testing. Prior to his professorship, Kaner worked in the software industry beginning in 1983 in Silicon Valley "as a tester, programmer, tech writer, software development manager, …
- Gene H. Golub
Professor Gene Howard Golub (b. 1932, February 29 in Chicago, Illinois, USA), Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science (and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering) at Stanford University, is one of the preeminent numerical analysts of his generation. He was educated at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, receiving his B.S. (1953), M.A. (1954), and Ph.D. (1959) all in the field of Mathematics.
- Margo Seltzer
Margo Seltzer is a researcher in the area of computer systems. Currently she is a full professor (Harvard College Professor) at Harvard University. Dr. Seltzer is a member of the Systems Research Group at Harvard. Dr. Seltzer got her PhD. in 1992 from Berkeley, advised by Michael Stonebraker. Her dissertation was ‘‘File System Performance and Transaction Support.’’ Her most widely known work includes work in log structured file systems, databases, …
- Russell Impagliazzo
Professor Impagliazzo is a mathematician who focuses on the foundations of cryptography, or using "hard problems" for security applications. Hard problems require a prohibitive amount of time or resources to solve. Complexity theory, the mathematical domain in which Impagliazzo works, aims at establishing how hard a problem really is. A grade school student would obtain 10 percent of 100 by multiplying 0.10 by 100 the long way, making 15 separate calculations.
- Michael D. Smith
Michael D. Smith is the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He is also the division's Associate Dean for Computer Science and Engineering. In addition to his academic position, Smith is the Chief Scientist and co-founder of Liquid Machines, Inc., a provider of enterprise rights management software.
- David Cheriton
David R. Cheriton is a Canadian-born computer science professor at Stanford University and a billionaire as a result of his investments in technology companies. He received his Masters and PhD degrees from the University of Waterloo in 1974 and 1978, respectively, and spent three years as an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia before moving to Stanford.
- Patrick Winston
Patrick Henry Winston is a computer scientist. Winston was director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory for most of its existence, from 1972 to 1997. He succeeded Marvin Minsky, who left to found the MIT Media Lab shortly after establishing the AI Lab in the wake of the political upheavals at that time. He was succeeded by Rodney Brooks after a long, stable period.
- Stuart J. Russell
Stuart Russell (born 1962) is a computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence. Stuart Russell was born in Portsmouth, England. He received his B.A. with first-class honours in Physics from Oxford University in 1982, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford in 1986. He then joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently Professor and Chair of Computer Science.
- Mario Szegedy
Mario Szegedy is a Hungarian computer scientist, professor of computer science at Rutgers University. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Chicago. Szegedy's research areas include complexity theory and quantum computing. He was awarded the Gödel Prize twice in 2001 and 2005 for his work on probabilistically checkable proofs and on the space complexity of approximating the frequency moments in streamed data.
- James Aspnes
James Aspnes is a professor in Computer Science at Yale University. He got his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992. His main research interest is distributed algorithms. In 1989, he wrote and operated TinyMUD, one of the first "social" MUDs that allowed players to build a shared virtual world.
- Brad Fitzpatrick
Bradley Joseph "Brad" Fitzpatrick (born February 5, 1980 in Iowa), often seen on the Internet under the nickname bradfitz, is an American programmer. He is best known as the creator of LiveJournal and is the author of many popular free software projects. Born in Iowa, Fitzpatrick grew up in Beaverton, Oregon and majored in computer science and minored in German at the University of Washington in Seattle.
- Terry Halpin
Dr. Terry Halpin, professor at Neumont University, formalized the object role modeling notation and has authored five books and over 100 technical papers. Dr. Halpin is leading a team of developers at Neumont in the creation of NORMA, or Neumont Object Role Modeling Architect, an add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. He previously lectured at the University of Queensland, Australia.
- Manfred K. Warmuth
Manfred K. Warmuth is a researcher and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His main research interest is computational learning theory with a special focus on online learning algorithms.
- Richard Fateman
Richard Fateman is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a BS in Physics and Mathematics from Union College in 1966, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1971. He was a major contributor to the Macsyma computer algebra system at MIT and later to the Franz Lisp system.
- Andrew Barto
Andrew Barto is a professor of Computer science at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and chair of the department since January 2007. His main research area is reinforcement learning. Professor Barto is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow and Senior Member of the IEEE, and a member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Society for Neuroscience.
- Susan Decker
Susan L. Decker is the President of Yahoo! Inc.. Previously she was director of Costco Corporation. She graduated from Tufts University with Bachelor of Science in computer science and economics. She then graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School. Susan Decker is on the board of directors of Berkshire Hathaway, Intel and Costco.
- Marshall Brain
Marshall Brain is the founder of HowStuffWorks. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a master's degree in computer science from North Carolina State University. Before founding HowStuffWorks, Marshall taught in the computer science department at NCSU and ran a software training and consulting company. Learn more at his site .
- Sean Ho
Sean Ho (born May 4, 1978) is an assistant professor of Computing Science at Trinity Western University.
- Claude Comair
Claude Comair was born in and raised in Tannourine, Lebanon until he was 18. He has two degrees, one in Architecture and one in Environmental Engineering. He was invited to be a faculty member at the Osaka University in 1983. He founded the DigiPen Institute of Technology. He has worked on games for Nintendo, Digital Eclipse Software, Inc., Intelligent Systems Co., Ltd. and Namco.
- Bob Davoli
Bob joined Sigma in 1995. He has 20 years of experience in the high technology industry. Most recently he was President and CEO of Epoch Systems, the leading vendor of client-server data management software products. He sold the firm in 1993 to EMC for $141 million. Previously, he was the Founder, President and CEO of SQL Solutions, a leading purveyor of services and tools for the relational database market.
- Rodney A. Brooks
Dr. Rodney Brooks is Director (until June 30, 2007) of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics at MIT. He is also CTO of iRobot Corp (Nasdaq: IRBT). He received degrees in pure mathematics from the Flinders University of South Australia and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1981.
- Thomas Easton
I have been teaching Computer Science, Environmental Science, and Life Science courses at Thomas College in Waterville, Maine, since 1983. A list of current and recent courses is available at http://www2.thomas.edu/faculty/easton/. Despite a doctorate in theoretical biology, I am clearly a generalist.
- Hayden Porter
"For Haydn Porter the Playboy model and actress, see Haydn Porter." Hayden Porter is a computer scientist who helped create some of the most advanced atmospheric models used by NASA today. He is a Daniel Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Furman University, currently on sabbattical for the 2006-2007 school year.
- Jonathan Abrams
I'm a Carleton University engineering student majoring in Computer Systems. I want to be succesful just like my hero Jonathan Abrams (the founder of this site). I did a co-op term at Nortel Networks in my hometown of Nepean (a suburb of Ottawa), just like he did!
- Radia Perlman
Radia Perlman specializes in network and security protocols. She is the inventor of the spanning tree algorithm used by bridges, and the mechanisms that make modern link state protocols efficient and robust. She is the author of two textbooks, and has a PhD from MIT in computer science. Her thesis on routing in the presence of malicious failures remains the most important work in routing security.
- Benoit Schillings
Benoit joined Qt Software (originally Trolltech) in October 2005 serving as Chief Technologist responsible for leveraging Qt Software's existing technologies and services in addition to strengthening the company's ability to bring new technologies quickly to market. Mr. Schillings was a principal contributor to the launch of Be Incorporated, where he designed, developed and implemented the technically acclaimed BeOS.