People from United States

Cleve Moler

Mathematician who created MATLAB and co-founded MathWorks

1939 – 2026

Chris Lattner

Creator of LLVM, Clang and the Swift programming language

Charles Bachman

Engineer who created one of the first database management systems

1924 – 2017

Carly Fiorina

First woman to lead a Fortune 20 company, as CEO of Hewlett-Packard

Born 1954

Brian Chesky

Co-founder and CEO of Airbnb

Born 1981

Brian Acton

WhatsApp co-founder who funded the Signal Foundation

Born 1972

Brewster Kahle

Founder of the Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine

Born 1960

Brendan Eich

Creator of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla and Brave

Born 1961

Bobby Murphy

Co-founder and chief technology officer of Snap

Born 1988

Bob Metcalfe

Inventor of Ethernet and founder of 3Com

Born 1946

Bob Frankston

Programmer who co-created VisiCalc, the first PC spreadsheet

Born 1949

Bill Joy

Co-founder of Sun Microsystems and author of the vi editor and BSD Unix

Born 1954

Bill Atkinson

Apple programmer who created MacPaint, QuickDraw and HyperCard

1951 – 2025

Barbara Liskov

MIT computer scientist known for data abstraction and the Liskov substitution principle

Born 1939

Arvind Krishna

Indian-American chairman and CEO of IBM

Andrew Barto

Co-founder of modern reinforcement learning

Allen Newell

AI and cognitive-science pioneer who co-created the first reasoning programs

1927 – 1992

Alexandr Wang

Founder of Scale AI and Meta’s chief AI officer

Alexander Graham Bell

Scottish-born inventor credited with the first practical telephone

1847 – 1922

Adam Osborne

Pioneer of the portable computer with the Osborne 1

1939 – 2003

Adam Cheyer

Co-founder of Siri and Viv Labs

Aaron Swartz

Programmer and activist who helped create RSS, Reddit and Creative Commons

1986 – 2013

Marissa Mayer

Google’s first female engineer and CEO of Yahoo! from 2012 to 2017

Born 1975

Margo Seltzer

Computer scientist who co-created Berkeley DB