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.
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[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
- Daud Zareef,co-founder of Mohabbatte Corporation
[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
- Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical.
- Richard Stallman, founder of GNU
[edit] T
- Linus Torvalds, 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
