Computer Scientists
155 profiles
Gary Kildall
Creator of CP/M, the first popular microcomputer operating system
1942 – 1994
Science
Fei-Fei Li
Stanford computer scientist who created ImageNet, the “godmother of AI”
Born 1976
Science
Edmund M. Clarke
Co-inventor of model checking, used to verify chips and software
1945 – 2020
Science
E. Allen Emerson
Co-inventor of model checking and Turing Award winner
1954 – 2024
Science
Douglas Engelbart
Inventor of the computer mouse and pioneer of interactive computing
1925 – 2013
Donald Davies
British scientist who coined “packet switching” and built an early packet network
1924 – 2000
Science
Charles P. Thacker
Engineer who designed the Xerox Alto, the first modern personal computer
1943 – 2017
Technology
Charles Geschke
Co-founder of Adobe who co-created PostScript and PDF
1939 – 2021
Science
Butler Lampson
Xerox PARC engineer behind the personal computer and many networking ideas
Born 1943
Technology
Aidan Gomez
Transformer co-author and co-founder of Cohere
Science
Abraham Lempel
Israeli computer scientist who co-invented Lempel–Ziv compression
1936 – 2023