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List of computing people

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This is a list of people who are important or notable in the field of computing, but who are not primarily computer scientists or programmers.

Contents

A

  • Alfred Aho, the A in AWK
  • Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation

    • B

  • Charles Babbage, inventor of the programmable computer
  • Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
  • Stephen Bourne, developer of the Bourne shell

    • C

  • Noam Chomsky, linguist, language theorist (Chomsky hierarchy) and social critic
  • John D. Carmack, realtime computer game graphics, id Software

    • D

  • Theo de Raadt, founder of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects

    • E

  • J. Presper Eckert, ENIAC
  • Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
  • Marc Ewing, creator of Red Hat Linux

    • G

  • Guido van Rossum, author of Python-programming language
  • Bill Gates, co-founder and Chairman of Microsoft
  • James Gosling, "father" of the Java programming language

    • H

  • Grace Hopper

    • I

  • Jonathan Ive, Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple,

    • J

  • Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple
  • Bill Joy, co-founder Sun Microsystems, BSD

    • K

  • Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie, Programming Language C
  • Donald E. Knuth, "The Art of Computer Programming", TeX

    • L

  • Ada Lovelace
  • Lawrence Lessig, professor of law and founder of the Creative Commons
  • Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of the PHP Scripting Language

    • 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

    • N

  • Roger Needham
  • John von Neumann, Theoretical Computer Science

    • O

  • Stevan Ognenovski

    • P

  • Jon Postel, Internet pioneer, founder of IANA
  • Sir John Anthony Pople, pioneer in computational chemistry

    • R

  • Eric Raymond, Open Source movement luminary
  • Dennis Ritchie
  • Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, Len Adleman, Encryption (RSA)
  • Guido van Rossum, Python (programming language) Benevolent Dictator For Life
  • Robert Noyce, co-founder of Intel and the founder of integrated circuit
  • Rasmus Lerdorf

    • S

  • Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical.
  • Richard Stallman, founder of GNU
  • Olaf Storaasli, NASA Finite element machine
  • Bjarne Stroustrup, founder of C++

    • T

  • Linus Torvalds, Linux
  • Alan Turing, British mathematician and cryptographer

    • W

  • Kevin Warwick, Cyborg scientist, implant self-experimenter.
  • Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum, computer critic
  • Sophie Wilson, designer of the ARM instruction set
  • Niklaus Wirth, developed Pascal
  • Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple creator of the Apple I and Apple II computers
  • Stephen Wolfram, founder of Wolfram Research, physicist, software developer, mathematician

    • Z

  • Konrad Zuse, built one of the first computers

    • References

    List of computing people Wikipedia
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