List of Jewish American computer scientists
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This is a list of notable Jewish American computer scientists. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.
- Scott Aaronson, quantum computing[1]
- Hal Abelson, artificial intelligence[2]
- Leonard Adleman, RSA cryptography, DNA computing, Turing Award (2002)[3]
- Adi Shamir, RSA cryptography, DNA computing, Turing Award (2002)[3]
- Paul Baran, Polish-born engineer; co-invented packet switching[4]
- Lenore and Manuel Blum (Turing Award (1995)), Venezuelan-American computer scientist; computational complexity, parents of Avrim Blum (Co-training)[5]
- Dan Bricklin, creator of the original spreadsheet[6]
- Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google[7]
- Danny Cohen, Israeli-American Internet pioneer; first to run a visual flight simulator across the ARPANet[8]
- Robert Fano, Italian-American information theorist[9]
- Ed Feigenbaum, artificial intelligence, Turing Award (1994)[10]
- William F. Friedman, cryptologist[11]
- Herbert Gelernter, father of Unabomber victim David Gelernter;artificial intelligence[12]
- Richard D. Gitlin, co-inventor of the digital subscriber line (DSL)[13]
- Adele Goldberg, Smalltalk design team[14]
- Shafi Goldwasser, Israeli-American cryptographer; Turing Award (2013)[15][16]
- Philip Greenspun, web applications[17]
- Frank Heart, co-designed the first routing computer for the ARPANET, the forerunner of the internet[18]
- Martin Hellman, public key cryptography, co-inventor of the Diffie–Hellman key exchange protocol, Turing Award (2015)[19][20]
- Douglas Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach and other publications (half Jewish)[21]
- Bob Kahn, co-invented TCP and IP, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Turing Award (2004)[22][23]
- Richard M. Karp, computational complexity, Turing Award (1985)[24][25]
- John Kemeny, Hungarian-born co-developer of BASIC[26]
- Leonard Kleinrock, packet switching[27]
- John Klensin, i18n, SMTP, MIME[28]
- Solomon Kullback, cryptographer[29]
- Ray Kurzweil, OCR, speech recognition[30]
- Jaron Lanier, virtual reality pioneer[31]
- Leonid Levin, Soviet Ukraine-born computer scientist; computational complexity, Knuth Prize (2012)[32]
- Barbara Liskov (born Huberman), first woman to be granted a doctorate in computer science in the United States; Turing Award (2008)[14][33]
- Udi Manber, Israeli-American computer scientist; agrep, GLIMPSE, suffix array, search engines[34]
- John McCarthy, artificial intelligence, LISP programming language, Turing Award (1971)[35][36]
- Jack Minker, database logic[37]
- Marvin Minsky, artificial intelligence, neural nets, Turing Award (1969); co-founder of MIT's AI laboratory[38]
- John von Neumann (born Neumann János Lajos), Hungarian-American computer scientist, mathematician and economist[39]
- Seymour Papert, South African-born co-inventor — with Wally Feurzeig and Cynthia Solomon — of the Logo programming language[40]
- Judea Pearl, Israeli-American AI scientist; developer of Bayesian networks; father of Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and later beheaded by rebels in Pakistan[41]
- Alan J. Perlis, compilers, Turing Award (1966)[42]
- Frank Rosenblatt, invented an artificial intelligence program called "Perceptrons" (1960)[43]
- Radia Perlman, inventor of the Spanning Tree Protocol[44]
- Azriel Rosenfeld, image analysis[45]
- Michael Rothman, UEFI[46]
- Ben Shneiderman, human-computer interaction, information visualization[47]
- Abraham Silberschatz, databases, operating systems[48]
- Herbert A. Simon, cognitive and computer scientist; Turing Award (1975)[49]
- Abraham Sinkov, cryptanalyst; NSA Hall of Honor (1999)[29]
- Gustave Solomon, mathematician and electrical engineer; one of the founders of the algebraic theory of error detection and correction[50][51]
- Ray Solomonoff, algorithmic information theory[52]
- Richard Stallman, designed the GNU operating system, founder of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)[53][54]
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum, American-Dutch computer scientist; creator of MINIX[55]
- Warren Teitelman, autocorrect, Undo/Redo, Interlisp[56]
- Larry Tesler, developed the idea of cut, copy, and paste[57]
- Jeffrey Ullman, compilers, theory of computation, data-structures, databases, awarded Knuth Prize (2000)[58]
- Peter J. Weinberger, contributed to the design of the AWK programming language (he is the "W" in AWK), and the FORTRAN compiler FORTRAN 77[59]
- Joseph Weizenbaum, German-born computer scientist; developer of ELIZA; the Weizenbaum Award is named after him[60]
- Norbert Wiener, cybernetics[61]
- Terry Winograd, SHRDLU[62][63]
- Jacob Wolfowitz, Polish-born information theorist[64]
- Stephen Wolfram, British-American computer scientist; designer of the Wolfram Language[65]
- Lotfi Zadeh, Azerbaijan SSR-born computer scientist; inventor of Fuzzy logic (Jewish mother, Azerbaijani father)[66]
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