List of Jewish American computer scientists
This is a list of notable Jewish American computer scientists. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.
- Hal Abelson, artificial intelligence
- Leonard Adleman, RSA cryptography, DNA computing, Turing Award
- Paul Baran, Polish-born engineer, co-invented packet switching
- Lenore and Manuel Blum, Venezuelan-American computer scientists, computational complexity; parents of Avrim Blum
- Dan Bricklin, creator of the original spreadsheet
- Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
- Robert Fano, Italian-American information theorist
- Ed Feigenbaum, artificial intelligence, Turing Award
- William F. Friedman, cryptologist
- Herbert Gelernter, artificial intelligence; father of Unabomber victim David Gelernter
- Richard D. Gitlin, co-inventor of the digital subscriber line
- Adele Goldberg, Smalltalk design team
- Shafi Goldwasser, Israeli-American cryptographer, Turing Award
- Philip Greenspun, web applications
- Frank Heart co-designed the first routing computer for the ARPANET, the forerunner of the internet
- Martin Hellman, public key cryptography, co-inventor of the Diffie–Hellman key exchange protocol, Turing Award
- Douglas Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach and other publications.
- Bob Kahn, co-invented TCP and IP, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Turing Award
- Richard M. Karp, computational complexity, Turing Award
- John Kemeny, Hungarian-born co-developer of BASIC
- Leonard Kleinrock, packet switching
- Solomon Kullback, cryptographer
- Ray Kurzweil, OCR, speech recognition
- Jaron Lanier, virtual reality pioneer
- Leonid Levin, Soviet Ukraine-born computer scientist, computational complexity; Knuth Prize
- Barbara Liskov, first woman to be granted a doctorate in computer science in the United States, Turing Award
- Udi Manber, Israeli-American computer scientist; agrep, GLIMPSE, suffix array, search engines
- John McCarthy, artificial intelligence, LISP programming language, Turing Award
- Jack Minker, database logic
- Marvin Minsky, artificial intelligence, neural nets, Turing Award ; co-founder of MIT's AI laboratory
- John von Neumann, Hungarian-American computer scientist, mathematician and economist
- Seymour Papert, South African-born co-inventor — with Wally Feurzeig and Cynthia Solomon — of the Logo programming language
- Judea Pearl, Israeli-American AI scientist, developer of Bayesian networks; father of Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and later beheaded by rebels in Pakistan
- Alan J. Perlis, compilers, Turing Award
- Frank Rosenblatt, invented an artificial intelligence program called "Perceptrons"
- Azriel Rosenfeld, image analysis
- Ben Shneiderman, human-computer interaction, information visualization
- Herbert A. Simon, cognitive and computer scientist, Turing Award
- Abraham Sinkov, cryptanalyst, NSA Hall of Honor
- Gustave Solomon, mathematician and electrical engineer who was one of the founders of the algebraic theory of error detection and correction
- Ray Solomonoff, algorithmic information theory
- Richard Stallman, designed the GNU operating system, founder of the Free Software Foundation
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum, American-Dutch computer scientist, creator of MINIX
- Warren Teitelman, autocorrect, Undo/Redo, Interlisp
- Jeffrey Ullman, compilers, theory of computation, data-structures, databases, awarded Knuth Prize
- Peter J. Weinberger, contributed to the design of the AWK programming language, and the FORTRAN compiler FORTRAN 77
- Joseph Weizenbaum, German-born computer scientist; developer of ELIZA; the Weizenbaum Award is named after him
- Norbert Wiener, cybernetics
- Terry Winograd, SHRDLU
- Jacob Wolfowitz, Polish-born information theorist
- Stephen Wolfram, British-American computer scientist, designer of the Wolfram Language
- Lotfi Zadeh, Azerbaijan SSR-born inventor of Fuzzy logic
