The Computer Science Department at Stanford University in Stanford, California, is a leading school for computer science. It was founded in 1965 and has consistently been ranked as one of the top computer science programs in the world. Its location in Silicon Valley makes it unique among computer science programs.
The Stanford University Computer Science Department was founded in 1965 by George Forsythe.
The CS department grants B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees.
The Gates Computer Science Building, or "Gates Building" houses the Computer Science Department as well as the Computer Systems Laboratory. It also houses 550 faculty, staff and students. The building was named after Bill Gates, who donated $6 million of its total cost of $38 million. It was constructed over two years and completed in 1996.
Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
Orkut Büyükkökten, founder of Orkut
Will Harvey, entrepreneur
Reed Hastings, Netflix founder
Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube
Joe Lonsdale, founder of Addepar and Palantir Technologies
Larry Page, co-founder of Google
Blake Ross, co-creator of Mozilla Firefox
Mike Schroepfer, CTO of Facebook
David E. Shaw, hedge fund manager, D. E. Shaw & Co.
Charles Simonyi, inventor of Microsoft Word, former chief architect at Microsoft
Kevin Systrom, co-founder of Instagram
Vinton Cerf, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
Douglas Engelbart, Turing award-winning computer scientist, inventor of the computer mouse, former researcher, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
Edward Feigenbaum, Turing award-winning computer scientist, father of expert system, coinventor of Dendral
Robert Floyd, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
Gene Golub, former faculty, a leading authority in numerical matrix analysis, inventor of the algorithm for Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)
Leonidas J. Guibas, Allan Newell award-winning pioneer in data structures and geometric algorithms
John L. Hennessy, pioneer in RISC, President of Stanford
Sir Antony Hoare, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
John Hopcroft, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
Alan Kay, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
John Koza, pioneer in genetic programming
Daphne Koller, professor in CS, co-founder of Coursera
Donald Knuth, professor emeritus, computer science pioneer, creator of TeX, author of The Art of Computer Programming, Turing award winner
Barbara Liskov, the first woman earning a ph.d in CS (from Stanford), Turing award-winning computer scientist
Edward McCluskey, professor in EE, IEEE John von Neumann Medal winner
John McCarthy, responsible for the coining of the term Artificial Intelligence, and inventor of the Lisp programming language and time sharing, Turing award winner
Robert Metcalfe, former faculty, co-inventor of Ethernet, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
Robin Milner former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
Allen Newell Turing award-winning computer scientist
Andrew Ng, faculty in CS, winner of 2010 Computers and Thought Award
John Ousterhout, faculty in CS, winner of Grace Murray Hopper Award
Amir Pnueli postdoc, Turing award-winning computer scientist
Ronald Rivest former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
Raj Reddy, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
Tim Roughgarden, faculty in CS, winner of Grace Murray Hopper Award
Arthur Samuel, former faculty, a pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence. The Samuel Checkers-playing Program appears to be the world's first self-learning program, and as such a very early demonstration of the fundamental concept of artificial intelligence (AI).
Dana Scott former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
Robert Tarjan, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
Sebastian Thrun director of Stanford AI LAB, team leader of Stanford driverless car racing team, whose entry Stanley won 2005 DARPA grand challenge.
Jeff Ullman, professor in CS, IEEE John Von Neumann prize winner
Niklaus Wirth former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist, inventor of the Pascal Programming Language
Terry Winograd, faculty in CS, winner of 2010 Computers and Thought Award
Andrew Yao, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
William Yeager, inventor of multi-protocol internet router
