Computer Scientists
155 profiles
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Michael Stonebraker
Database researcher behind Ingres and Postgres
Born 1943
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Maurice Wilkes
British computer pioneer who built EDSAC, one of the first stored-program computers
1913 – 2010
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Herbert A. Simon
Nobel-winning economist and AI pioneer who studied how people make decisions
1916 – 2001
Technology
Gavin Wood
Ethereum co-founder who created Solidity and Polkadot and coined “Web3”
Born 1980
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Fred Brooks
IBM System/360 manager and author of The Mythical Man-Month
1931 – 2022
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Frances Allen
IBM compiler pioneer and the first woman to win the Turing Award
1932 – 2020
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Edward Feigenbaum
Stanford scientist known as the father of expert systems
Born 1936
Edgar F. Codd
IBM researcher who invented the relational model behind modern databases
1923 – 2003
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Demis Hassabis
Co-founder of DeepMind and Nobel laureate for AlphaFold
Born 1976
David Silver
British researcher who led AlphaGo and AlphaZero
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Daphne Koller
Israeli-American computer scientist who co-founded Coursera and leads insitro
Born 1968
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Dana Scott
Logician who gave programming languages a mathematical meaning
Born 1932
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Cleve Moler
Mathematician who created MATLAB and co-founded MathWorks
1939 – 2026
Technology
Charles Bachman
Engineer who created one of the first database management systems
1924 – 2017
Technology
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist who created the C++ programming language
Born 1950
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Barbara Liskov
MIT computer scientist known for data abstraction and the Liskov substitution principle
Born 1939
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Avi Wigderson
Israeli theorist who showed how randomness and computation relate
Born 1956
Ashish Vaswani
Lead author of the transformer paper “Attention Is All You Need”
Andrew Barto
Co-founder of modern reinforcement learning
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Andrej Karpathy
AI researcher and educator who led Tesla’s Autopilot vision and co-founded OpenAI
Born 1986
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Amir Pnueli
Israeli computer scientist who brought temporal logic into computing
1941 – 2009
Allen Newell
AI and cognitive-science pioneer who co-created the first reasoning programs
1927 – 1992
Alfred Aho
Canadian computer scientist, author of the “Dragon Book” and co-creator of AWK
Born 1941
Technology
Adam Cheyer
Co-founder of Siri and Viv Labs