- Donald Knuth
Don's father was a Lutheran school teacher and church organist. Don studied piano, and for a brief time organ, through high school. Later as a faculty member of Caltech, he was called upon to be a long-term substitute organist at Faith Lutheran Church in Pasadena, California. He became a member of the American Guild of Organists in 1965, and saw his first Abbott and Sieker organ at that time.
- John McCarthy
John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts, sometimes known affectionately as Uncle John McCarthy), is a prominent computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1971 for his major contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence. He was responsible for the coining of the term "Artificial Intelligence" in his 1955 proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth Conference. McCarthy championed mathematical logic for Artificial Intelligence.
- Vint Cerf
Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) (last name pronounced just like the English word "surf") is an American computer scientist who is commonly referred to as one of the "founding fathers of the Internet" for his key technical and managerial role, together with Bob Kahn, in the creation of the Internet and the TCP/IP protocols which it uses. He was also a co-founder (in 1992) of the Internet Society (ISOC), …
- Niklaus Wirth
Niklaus E. Wirth (b. February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984 he won the Turing Award for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.
- Rodney Brooks
Rodney Allen Brooks (b. December 30, 1954 in Adelaide) is Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is Chief Technical Officer and sits on the Board of iRobot Corp. From July 1, 2003 until June 30, 2007, he was director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; prior to that, he was director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
- Sebastian Thrun
Sebastian Thrun is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where he also serves as the Director of the Stanford AI Lab. His research focuses on robotics and artificial intelligence. Thrun has delivered numerous invited plenary presentations at leading conferences and symposia (a list is available here ). He served as the inaugural general conference chair of Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2005 .
- Terry Winograd
Terry Allen Winograd (born February 24, 1946) is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He is known within the philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence fields for his work on natural language using the SHRDLU program. SHRDLU was written in the years from 1968-70. In making the program Winograd was concerned with the problem of providing a computer with sufficient "understanding" to be able to use natural language.
- 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.
- John Koza
John R. Koza is a computer scientist and a consulting professor at Stanford University, most notable for his work in pioneering the use of genetic programming for the optimization of complex problems, and for the evolution of computer programs which solve them. He was a cofounder of Scientific Games Corporation, a company which built computer systems to run state lotteries in the United States. He also invented the scratch-off lottery ticket.
- John L. Hennessy
John LeRoy Hennessy, the founder of MIPS Computer Systems Inc., is currently serving as the 10th President of Stanford University. He earned his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University, and his Master's degree and Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Hennessy became a Stanford faculty member in 1977. In 1984, he used his sabbatical year to found MIPS Computer Systems Inc.
- Donald Norman
Donald A. Norman is a professor emeritus of cognitive science at University of California, San Diego and a Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University, but nowadays works mostly with cognitive science in the domain of usability engineering. He also teaches at Stanford University and is a member of the editorial board of Encyclopædia Britannica. He currently splits his time between consulting and his teaching and research at Northwestern and Stanford.
- Deborah McGuinness
Deborah Louise McGuinness is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence, specifically in knowledge representation and reasoning, description logics, the semantic web, explanation, and trust. She is the co-director and senior research scientist at the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University. McGuinness received a B.S. in math and computer science from Duke University, …
- Edward Feigenbaum
Edward Albert Feigenbaum (born January 20, 1936) is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence. He is often called the "Father of expert systems." Feigenbaum completed his undergraduate degree, and a Ph.D., at Carnegie Mellon University. He received the ACM Turing Award, the most prestigious award in computer science, jointly with Raj Reddy in 1994 "For pioneering the design and construction of large scale artificial intelligence systems, …
- Robin Milner
Robin Milner FRS (born 1934, Plymouth, England) is a prominent British computer scientist.
- Dan Boneh
Dan Boneh is an associate professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is a well known researcher in the areas of applied cryptography and computer security. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University in 1996 (under the supervision of Richard J. Lipton). Boneh is one of the principal contributors to the development of pairing-based cryptography.
- Mark Dean
Mark Dean (born March 2, 1957) is an inventor and a computer scientist. He holds three of the nine original IBM patents upon which personal computers were based. He led the team that developed the ISA bus, and he led the design team responsible for creating the first one-gigahertz computer processor chip. Born in Jefferson City, Tennessee, Dean holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tennessee, …
- Bertrand Meyer
Bertrand Meyer (born 1950 in France) developed the Eiffel programming language, and is an author, academic and consultant in the field of computer languages. Meyer pursues the ideal of simple, elegant and user-friendly computer languages and is one of the earliest and most vocal proponents of object-oriented programming (OOP). His book on "Object-Oriented Software Construction" is often considered the best work on presenting the case for OOP.
- Ted Selker
Dr. Ted Selker is an Associate Professor at the MIT Media and Arts Technology Laboratory and the Director of the Context Aware Computing Lab (www.media.mit.edu/context). Prior to joining MIT faculty, in November 1999, Ted worked at the IBM Almaden Research Center, where he became an IBM Fellow in 1996. He has served as a consulting professor at Stanford University, taught at Hampshire University of Massachusetts, at Amherst and Brown Universities.
- Andy Bechtolsheim
Andy Bechtolsheim , co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and employee number one, is a product architect with the Systems Group. Andy works with the Systems Group to help drive next generation X64 and storage servers product architecture as well as HPC opportunities. Bechtolsheim has more than 25 years of Network Computing knowledge and expertise.
- John Hopcroft
John Edward Hopcroft (born October 7, 1939) is a renowned theoretical computer scientist. He received his bachelor's degree from Seattle University in 1961 and his master's degree and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1962 and 1964, respectively. He then worked for three years at Princeton University. He has since been based at Cornell University, where he is currently the IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science.
- Larry Tesler
Lawrence G. (Larry) Tesler (born April 24, 1945) is a computer scientist working in the field of human-computer interaction. Tesler has worked at Xerox PARC, Apple Computer, Amazon.com, and Yahoo! Tesler studied computer science at Stanford University in the 1960s, and worked for a time at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. From 1973 to 1980, he was at Xerox PARC, where, among other things, he worked on the Gypsy word processor and Smalltalk.
- B. J. Fogg
B.J. Fogg is best known for promoting the concept of "captology," a word he coined to describe the overlap between persuasion and computers. As a doctoral student at Stanford University (1993-1997), Fogg used methods from experimental psychology to demonstrate that computers can change people's thoughts and behaviors in predictable ways. His thesis was entitled "Charismatic Computers." Fogg founded the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford.
- Gio Wiederhold
Gio Wiederhold is Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, with courtesy appointments in Medicine and Electrical Engineering. His research focuses on large-scale systems design and evolution, specifically applied to information systems, the protection of their content, often using knowledge-based techniques.
- Jeffrey Ullman
Jeffrey D. Ullman (born November 22, 1942) is a renowned computer scientist. His textbooks on compilers (various editions are popularly known as the Dragon Book), data structures, theory of computation, and databases are regarded as standards in their fields. Ullman received a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Mathematics from Columbia University in 1963 and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1966.
- Jim Horning
James J. "Jim" Horning is an American computer scientist and ACM Fellow. Jim Horning received a PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 1969 for a thesis entitled "A Study of Grammatical Inference." He was a founding member, and later Chairman, of the "Computer Systems Research Group" at the University of Toronto, Canada (1969-1977). He was then a Research Fellow at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC, …
- 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.
- Roger Moore
Roger D. Moore was the 1973 recipient (with Larry Breed and Richard Lathwell) of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery. :"For their work in the design and implementation of APL360, setting new standards in simplicity, efficiency, reliability and response time for interactive systems." Moore was a founder of I.P. Sharp Associates and held a senior position in the company for many years.
- Barbara Liskov
Barbara Liskov (born Barbara Huberman, 1939), is a prominent computer scientist. She is currently the Ford Professor of Engineering in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her BA in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1961, and became the first woman in the United States to be awarded a PhD in Computer Science, in 1968 from Stanford University.
- Andrei Broder
Andrei Broder is a Research Fellow and Vice President of Emerging Search Technology for Yahoo!. He previously has worked for AltaVista as the vice president of research, and for IBM Research as a Distinguished Engineer and CTO of IBM's Institute for Search and Text Analysis. Broder's research centers around the internet, and internet searching. He is credited with being one of the first people to develop a CAPTCHA, while working for AltaVista.
- Robert Tarjan
Robert Endre Tarjan (born April 30, 1948 in Pomona, California) is a renowned American computer scientist. He is the discoverer of several important graph algorithms, including Tarjan's off-line least common ancestors algorithm, and co-inventor of both splay trees and Fibonacci heaps. Tarjan received the Turing Award jointly with John Hopcroft in 1986.
- 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", …
- Robert Floyd
Robert W Floyd (June 8, 1936 - September 25, 2001) was an eminent computer scientist. Born in New York, Floyd finished school at age 14. At the University of Chicago, he received a Bachelor's degree in liberal arts in 1953 (when still only 17) and a second Bachelor's degree in physics in 1958. Becoming a computer operator in the early 1960s, …
- Steve Deering
Dr. Steve Deering is a Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, where he is working on the development and standardization of architectural enhancements to the Internet Protocol. Prior to joining Cisco in 1996, he spent six years at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, engaged in research on advanced internet technologies, including multicast routing, mobile internetworking, scalable addressing, and support for multimedia applications over the Internet.
- Raphael Finkel
Raphael Finkel (born 1951) is an American computer scientist and a professor at the University of Kentucky. He compiled the first version of the Jargon File. He is the author of "An Operating Systems Vade Mecum", a textbook on operating systems, and "Advanced Programming Language Design", an introductory book on programming paradigms. Raphael Finkel and J.L. Bentley created the data structure called the quadtree.
- David H. Bailey
David H. Bailey is a mathematician and computer scientist. He received his B.S. in mathematics from Brigham Young University in 1972 and his Ph.D. in mathematics from Stanford University in 1976. He worked for 14 years as a computer scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, but since 1998 has been the Chief Technologist of the Computational Research Department at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
- Monica S. Lam
Monica Lam is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University since 1988. She received a B.Sc. from University of British Columbia in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1987. She has worked in the areas of compiler optimization, software analysis to improve security, simplifying computing with virtualization. Her contributions compiler optimizations include software pipelining, data locality, parallelization.
- Surajit Chaudhuri
Surajit Chaudhuri is a computer scientist best-known for his contributions to database management systems. He is currently a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, where he leads the Data Management, Exploration and Mining group. Chaudhuri is an ACM Fellow. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 1991.
- 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.
- Martin Kay
Martin Kay is a computer scientist known especially for his work in computational linguistics. Born and raised in Great Britain, he received his M.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1961. In 1958 he started to work at the Cambridge Language Research Unit, one of the earliest centers for research in what is now known as Computational Linguistics. In 1961 he moved to the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California, …
- William Michael
Dr. William Michael (Mike) Johnson is a technologist, and pioneer in superscalar microprocessor design. Mike joined AMD in 1985 as the chief architect of the 29K family of microprocessors, and held various management and leadership positions on the 29K, K5 and K7 processor teams. He was vice president of the Advanced Architecture Labs, responsible for technology development in the areas of processor, multimedia, networking, telecommunications, …