Vint Cerf

Vint Cerf

male
TCP/IP, Google employee, Internet pioneer, founding fathers of the Internet, Internet history, internet…EFF Pioneer Award recipient, Prince of Asturias Award winner, TuringAwardlaureate
Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) (last name pronounced just like the English word "surf") is an American computer scientist who is commonly...
John McCarthy

John McCarthy

male, 82 years old
TuringAwardlaureate, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Princeton University, National Medal of Science recipient, mathematical logic, Turing Award
John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts, sometimes known affectionately as Uncle John McCarthy), is a prominent computer...
Douglas Engelbart

Douglas Engelbart

male, 84 years old
computer pioneer, computer mouse, invented the mouse, GUIs, Human-Computer Interaction, mouse…TuringAwardlaureate, Lovelace Medal laureate
Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925 in Oregon) is an American inventor of Swedish and Norwegian descent. He is best known for inventing...
Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth

male, 71 years old (Stanford, California, United States)
computer scientist, TuringAwardlaureate, mathematician, Emacs user, The Art of Computer Programming, computer pioneer…Grace Murray Hopper Award laureate
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...
Bob Kahn

Bob Kahn

male, 70 years old
TCP/IP, TuringAwardlaureate, Internet pioneer, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Transmission Control Protocol, Internet Protocol…Prince of Asturias Award winner
Robert E. Kahn, (born December 23 1938) invented the TCP protocol, and along with Vinton G. Cerf created the IP protocol, the technologies used to...
Alan Curtis Kay

Alan Curtis Kay

male, 69 years old
HP Labs, TuringAwardlaureate, Hewlett-Packard, computer scientist, graphical user interface, window
Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and...
John Backus

John Backus

male, deceased (2007) (San Francisco, California, United States)
TuringAwardlaureate, programming language creator, National Medal of Science recipient, IBM 704, Backus-Naur form, National Medal of Science…ACM Turing Award, Turing Award
John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language...
Ken Thompson

Ken Thompson

male, 66 years old
computer programmer, UNIX, Google employee, TuringAwardlaureate, ken, inferno
Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4 1943), commonly referred to as Ken Thompson (or simply Ken in hacker circles), is an American pioneer of...
Dennis Ritchie

Dennis Ritchie

male, 68 years old
computer pioneer, TuringAwardlaureate, scientist at Bell Labs, C programming language, Lucent Technologies, Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie…Turing Award
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (born September 9, 1941) is an American computer scientist notable for his influence on ALTRAN, B, BCPL, C, Multics, and...
Ron Rivest

Ron Rivest

male, 62 years old
RSA, public-key, computer scientist, modern cryptographer, TuringAwardlaureate, From Schenectady…Turing Award
Professor Ronald Lorin Rivest (born 1947, Schenectady, New York) is a cryptographer, and is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Computer...