List of computing people
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This page aims to list articles on Wikipedia about people who are important or notable in the field of computing, but who are not primarily computer scientists or programmers.
Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
[edit] A
- Alfred Aho, the A in AWK
- Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation
[edit] B
- Charles Babbage, inventor of the programmable computer
- Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
- Stephen Bourne, developer of the Bourne shell
[edit] C
- Noam Chomsky, linguist, language theorist (Chomsky hierarchy) and social critic
[edit] D
- Theo de Raadt, founder of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects
[edit] E
- J. Presper Eckert, ENIAC
- Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
- Marc Ewing, creator of Red Hat Linux
[edit] F
[edit] G
- Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft
- James Gosling, "father" of the Java programming language
[edit] H
[edit] I
[edit] J
- Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, founder of NeXT, CEO of Pixar
- Bill Joy, co-founder Sun Microsystems, BSD
[edit] K
- Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie, Programming Language C
- Donald E. Knuth, "The Art of Computer Programming", TeX
[edit] L
- Ada Lovelace
- Lawrence Lessig, professor of law and founder of the Creative Commons
[edit] M
- John William Mauchly, ENIAC
- John McCarthy, LISP programming language
- Bob Miner, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
- Marvin Minsky, AI luminary
- Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of Intel, Moore's Law
[edit] N
- Roger Needham
- John von Neumann, Theoretical Computer Science
[edit] O
[edit] P
- Jon Postel, Internet pioneer, founder of IANA
- Sir John Anthony Pople pioneer in computational chemistry
[edit] Q
[edit] R
- Eric Raymond, Open Source movement luminary
- Dennis Ritchie
- Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, Len Adleman, Encryption (RSA)
[edit] S
- Richard Stallman, founder of GNU
[edit] T
- Linus Torvalds, (aka Linus Thorwald) Linux
- Alan Turing, British mathematician and cryptographer
[edit] U
[edit] V
[edit] W
- Kevin Warwick, Cyborg scientist, implant self-experimenter.
- Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Critic
- Niklaus Wirth, developed Pascal
- Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple creator of the Apple I and Apple II computers
[edit] X
[edit] Y
[edit] Z
- Konrad Zuse, built one of the first computers
