People from United States
326 profiles
Science
David Patterson
Berkeley professor who coined RISC and co-created RAID
Born 1947
Science
Dario Amodei
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, the company behind Claude
Born 1983
Science
Claude Shannon
Father of information theory and the digital age
1916 – 2001
Science
Carver Mead
Caltech engineer who revolutionised chip design and coined “Moore’s law”
Born 1934
Science
Anne Wojcicki
Co-founder of the consumer genetics company 23andMe
Born 1973
Science
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Computer scientist who created MINIX and wrote classic textbooks
Born 1944
Science
Andrew Ng
AI educator who co-founded Google Brain and Coursera
Born 1976
Alan Perlis
Programming-language pioneer and the first winner of the Turing Award
1922 – 1990
Science
Alan Kay
Xerox PARC visionary behind Smalltalk, the Dynabook and modern graphical interfaces
Born 1940
Technology
Mark Hurd
Executive who led NCR, Hewlett-Packard and Oracle
1957 – 2019
Technology
Marc Randolph
Co-founder and first CEO of Netflix
Born 1958
Technology
Linus Torvalds
Finnish-American creator of the Linux kernel and Git
Born 1969
Science
Leonard Kleinrock
UCLA scientist whose lab sent the first message over the ARPANET
Born 1934
Science
Leonard Adleman
Co-inventor of RSA encryption and pioneer of DNA computing
Born 1945
Technology
Larry Wall
Linguist-programmer who created the Perl programming language
Born 1954
Technology
Larry Roberts
ARPA programme manager who designed and led the ARPANET
1937 – 2018
Technology
Larry Page
Co-founder of Google and inventor of PageRank
Born 1973
Technology
Kevin Systrom
Co-founder of Instagram
Born 1983
Technology
Kevin Mitnick
Once America’s most-wanted hacker, later a security consultant
1963 – 2023
Technology
Kent Beck
Creator of extreme programming and pioneer of test-driven development
Born 1961
Science
Juris Hartmanis
Latvian-born computer scientist who founded computational complexity theory
1928 – 2022
Technology
Jon Postel
Internet pioneer who managed IANA and edited the RFC series
1943 – 1998
Science
John von Neumann
Hungarian-American mathematician who defined the architecture of modern computers
1903 – 1957
Technology
John Romero
Game designer who co-created Doom and Quake at id Software
Born 1967