People from Canada

Rob Pike

Canadian programmer who co-created the Go language and UTF-8

Theo de Raadt

Founder of OpenBSD and OpenSSH

Born 1968

Brian Kernighan

Canadian computer scientist who co-wrote The C Programming Language and co-created AWK

Born 1942

Stewart Butterfield

Canadian co-founder of Flickr and Slack

Born 1973

Richard S. Sutton

Canadian-American scientist who founded modern reinforcement learning

Alfred Aho

Canadian computer scientist, author of the “Dragon Book” and co-creator of AWK

Born 1941

Joseph Tsai

Alibaba co-founder and chairman who owns the Brooklyn Nets

Born 1964

Yoshua Bengio

Canadian deep-learning pioneer and one of the “godfathers of AI”

Born 1964

Stephen Cook

Computer scientist who formulated the P versus NP problem

Born 1939

Sid Meier

Creator of the Civilization strategy-game series

Born 1954

James Gosling

Canadian computer scientist known as the father of Java

Born 1955

Geoffrey Hinton

“Godfather of AI” and Nobel laureate who made neural networks work

Born 1947

Chamath Palihapitiya

Sri Lankan-born Canadian investor who led growth at Facebook and founded Social Capital

Born 1976

Alex Krizhevsky

Creator of AlexNet, the network that launched the deep-learning boom

Kenneth E. Iverson

Canadian computer scientist who created the APL programming language

1920 – 2004

William Kahan

Mathematician known as the father of floating-point arithmetic

Born 1933

Willard Boyle

Canadian physicist who co-invented the CCD image sensor

1924 – 2011

Vitalik Buterin

Russian-Canadian programmer who co-founded Ethereum

Born 1994

Tobias Lütke

German-Canadian founder and CEO of Shopify

Rasmus Lerdorf

Danish-Canadian programmer who created PHP

Born 1968

Garrett Camp

Canadian entrepreneur who co-founded Uber and StumbleUpon

Born 1978

Andrej Karpathy

AI researcher and educator who led Tesla’s Autopilot vision and co-founded OpenAI

Born 1986

Aidan Gomez

Transformer co-author and co-founder of Cohere