Computer scientists

Dr. Adele Goldberg is a computer scientist who wrote or co-wrote books on the programming language Smalltalk-80. She is currently working for Neometron, Inc., of Redwood City, California. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adele Goldberg (computer scientist)"

Alan Mathison Turing ( June 23, 1912 – June 7, 1954) was a British mathematician, logician, and cryptographer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alan Turing"

Alexander Razborov is a Russian mathematician who won the Nevanlinna Prize in 1990 for his work in theoretical aspects of computer science. ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Razborov"

Dr. Alfred V. Aho is a computer scientist. He is the Lawrence Gussman Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, where he is also vice-chair of undergraduate education for the computer science department. He served as chair of the department from ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfred Aho"

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. ...more on Wikipedia about "Amir Pnueli"

Anastassia "Natassa" Ailamaki ( Greek: Αναστασια Αιλαμακη) (born 1967 in Nicosia, Cyprus) is an Assistant Professor of computer science at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science. She currently resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but is a native of Greece. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anastassia Ailamaki"

Andrew D. Gordon is Co-designer of Spi Calculus (with M. Abadi), Ambient calculus ( Luca Cardelli), and other various programming languages. Until 1997 he was a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, after which he became Senior Researcher in Programming Principles and Tools for Microsoft. ...more on Wikipedia about "Andrew D. Gordon"

Academician Andrey P. Ershov ( 19 April 1931 - 8 December 1988) was a Soviet computer scientist, notable as a pioneer in systems programming and programming language research. He was responsible for the languages ALPHA and Rapira, AIST-0 the first Soviet time-sharing system, electronic publishing system RUBIN, and MRAMOR, a multiprocessing workstation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Andrey Ershov"

Anil Nerode is a U.S. mathematician. He is presently the Goldwin Smith Professor of Mathematics at Cornell University. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anil Nerode"

Arthur Whitney is a computer scientist most notable for developing the APL-inspired programming languages A+ and K. He also wrote the initial prototype of J, a terse and macro-heavy single page of code in one afternoon, which then served as the model for J implementor Roger Hui. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur Whitney"

Avadis "Avie" Tevanian is the Chief Software Technology Officer at Apple Computer. He is also a member of the board of embedded software tools company Green Hills Software. Responsible for setting company-wide software technology direction at Apple, Tevanian joined the company in 1997. ...more on Wikipedia about "Avie Tevanian"

Avinash Kak (born in Srinagar, Kashmir on 22 October 1944) is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University who has done pioneering research in image processing, tomography, computer vision, and computer languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Avinash Kak"

Barbara Liskov (born November 7, 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 bachelor's degree 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. Most universities did not have Computer Science departments at that time and Stanford's was strictly limited to graduate students. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barbara Liskov"

Barbara Simons is a prominent computer scientist and past president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She has held various technical, administrative, and public policy positions with the ACM since the early 1990s ** ; she is founder and former Chair of USACM, the ACM U.S. Public Policy Committee. Her main areas of research are compiler optimization and scheduling theory. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barbara Simons" My shortopedia and me.

Bart Selman is an associate professor of computer science at Cornell University. He previously was at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He has (co-)authored over 90 publications, which have appeared in venues spanning Nature, Science, Proc. Natl. Acad. of Sci., and a variety of conferences and journals in AI and Computer Science. He has received five Best Paper Awards. He has also received the Cornell Stephen Miles Excellence in Teaching Award, the Cornell Outstanding Educator Award, an NSF Career Award, and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. Currently, he is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bart Selman"

Ben Shneiderman (born August 21, 1947) is an American computer scientist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ben Shneiderman"

Bertrand Meyer (born 1950 in France) developed the Eiffel programming language, and is an author, academic and consultant in the field of computer languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bertrand Meyer"

Bill Griswold is a full professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He is the son of Ralph Griswold. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bill Griswold"

William Nelson Joy (born 1954), commonly known as Bill Joy, co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bill Joy"

Computer scientist Bob O. Evans ( 19 August, 1927 – 2 September, 2004) led IBM's 1960's development of a new class of mainframe computers—the famous System/360 line—helping keep the company in the commercial lead as a large-scale data-processing power. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bob O. Evans"

Brad Cox is a computer scientist and Ph.D. of mathematical biology known mostly for his work on: ...more on Wikipedia about "Brad Cox" Things Go Better with www.shortopedia.com. Computer_scientists

Brian Randell is a British computer scientist, specializing in research in software fault tolerance and dependability. He is also interested in, and a noted authority on, the early (prior to 1950) history of computers; he was a co-founder of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing journal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brian Randell"

Butler W. Lampson (born 1943) is a computer scientist, considered to be one of the most significant in the history of the field. ...more on Wikipedia about "Butler Lampson"

Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (Tony Hoare or C.A.R. Hoare, born January 11, 1934) is a British computer scientist, probably best known for the development of Quicksort, the world's most widely used sorting algorithm, in 1960. He also developed Hoare logic, and the formal language Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) used to specify the interactions of concurrent processes and the inspiration for the Occam programming language. ...more on Wikipedia about "C. A. R. Hoare"

Carl E. Hewitt is an Associate Professor (Emeritus) in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). ...more on Wikipedia about "Carl Hewitt"

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