Professors
86 profiles
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Adi Shamir
Israeli cryptographer, the “S” in RSA
Born 1952
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Leslie Valiant
Theorist who created a mathematical foundation for machine learning
Born 1949
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Leonard Kleinrock
UCLA scientist whose lab sent the first message over the ARPANET
Born 1934
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Leonard Adleman
Co-inventor of RSA encryption and pioneer of DNA computing
Born 1945
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Karlheinz Brandenburg
German audio engineer often called the “father of MP3”
Born 1954
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Karen Spärck Jones
British computer scientist who invented inverse document frequency, used in search engines
1935 – 2007
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Juris Hartmanis
Latvian-born computer scientist who founded computational complexity theory
1928 – 2022
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Jürgen Schmidhuber
German AI researcher whose lab co-invented the LSTM neural network
Born 1963
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John McCarthy
Computer scientist who coined the term “artificial intelligence” and invented Lisp
1927 – 2011
Jeffrey Ullman
Stanford computer scientist and textbook author on compilers, databases and algorithms
Born 1942
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William Kahan
Mathematician known as the father of floating-point arithmetic
Born 1933
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Steve Furber
Engineer who co-designed the ARM processor and the BBC Micro
Born 1953
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Sepp Hochreiter
German computer scientist who co-invented LSTM and xLSTM
Born 1967
Robin Milner
British computer scientist who created the ML language and theories of concurrency
1934 – 2010
Robert W. Floyd
Computer scientist who pioneered proving that programs are correct
1936 – 2001
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Richard S. Sutton
Canadian-American scientist who founded modern reinforcement learning
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Richard M. Karp
Computer scientist who showed that many everyday problems are NP-complete
Born 1935
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Raj Reddy
Indian-American AI pioneer and the first Asian-born winner of the Turing Award
Born 1937
Ole-Johan Dahl
Norwegian co-inventor of Simula, the first object-oriented programming language
1931 – 2002
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Niklaus Wirth
Swiss computer scientist who designed the Pascal programming language
1934 – 2024
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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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Isamu Akasaki
Japanese scientist who made the first gallium-nitride blue LED
1929 – 2021
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Herbert A. Simon
Nobel-winning economist and AI pioneer who studied how people make decisions
1916 – 2001