Computer Science

The history of computer science began long before the modern discipline of computer science, usually appearing in forms like mathematics or physics. Developments in previous centuries alluded to the discipline that we now know as computer science.

In Europe, terms derived from contracted translations of the expression automatic information or information and mathematics are often used, e.g. informatique (French), Informatik (German), informatica (Italian, Dutch), informatica (Spanish, Portuguese).

Charles William Bachman III (December 11, 1924, July 13, 2017) was an American computer scientist, who spent his entire career as an industrial researcher, developer, and manager rather than in academia.

John Cocke (May 30, 1925, July 16, 2002) was an American computer scientist at IBM and recognized for his large contribution to computer architecture and optimizing compiler design.

William "Velvel" Morton Kahan (born June 5, 1933) is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, who is a professor emeritus at University of California, Berkeley.

Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr. (April 19, 1931, November 17, 2022) was an American computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist, best known for managing development of IBM's System/360 family of mainframe computers and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about those experiences in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month.

Peter Naur (25 October 1928-3 January 2016) was a Danish computer science pioneer and 2005 Turing Award winner.

Infobox fields: Computer science

Infobox fields: Computer science; Cryptography

Infobox fields: Computer science

Infobox fields: Artificial intelligence Machine learning Computer vision Robotics Image compression

Infobox fields: Machine learning; Deep learning; Artificial intelligence

Infobox fields: Computer science

Infobox fields: Theoretical computer science

Infobox fields: Computer science

Infobox fields: Computer Science; Computational science; Parallel computing

Infobox fields: Mathematics; Theoretical computer science; Computational learning theory; Theoretical neuroscience

Infobox fields: Mathematics; Computer science

Infobox fields: Chemistry; Computer science

Infobox fields: Computer graphics

Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes (26 June 1913-29 November 2010) was an English computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), one of the earliest stored-program computers, and who invented microprogramming, a method for using stored-program

Robert W. Floyd (born Robert Willoughby Floyd; June 8, 1936, September 25, 2001) was an American computer scientist.

Manuel Blum (born 26 April 1938) is a Venezuelan-born American computer scientist who received the 1995 ACM Turing Award "In recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking".

Juris Hartmanis (July 5, 1928, July 29, 2022) was a Latvian-born American computer scientist and computational theorist who, with Richard E. Stearns, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational

Richard Edwin Stearns (July 5, 1936, August 29, 2026) was an American computer scientist who, with Juris Hartmanis, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory". In 1994 he was inducted

Edward Albert Feigenbaum (born January 20, 1936) is an American computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence, and with Raj Reddy he won the 1994 ACM Turing Award.

Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy (born 13 June 1937) is an Indian-born American computer scientist.

John Edward Hopcroft (born October 7, 1939) is an American theoretical computer scientist.

Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (; born December 24, 1946) is a Chinese computer scientist, theoretical physicist, and computational theorist.

Edwin Earl Catmull (born March 31, 1945) is an American computer scientist and animator who is the co-founder of Pixar and was the president of Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Alfred Vaino Aho (born August 9, 1941) is a Canadian computer scientist best known for his work on programming languages, compilers, and related algorithms, and his textbooks on the art and science of computer programming.

Amir Pnueli (; April 22, 1941, November 2, 2009) was an Israeli computer scientist and the 1996 Turing Award recipient.

David Andrew Patterson (born November 16, 1947) is an American computer scientist and academic who has held the position of professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley since 1976. He is a computer pioneer.

Ernest Allen Emerson II (June 2, 1954, October 15, 2024) was an American computer scientist and winner of the 2007 Turing Award.

Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd (19 August 1923-18 April 2003) was a British computer scientist who, while working for IBM, invented the relational model for database management, the theoretical basis for relational databases and relational database management systems.

Jeffrey David Ullman (born November 22, 1942) is an American computer scientist and the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University.

John Leroy Hennessy (born September 22, 1952) is an American computer scientist and businessman who has served as the chairman of Alphabet Inc.

Joseph Sifakis (Greek: Ιωσήφ Σηφάκης; born 26 December 1946) is a Greek-French computer scientist.

Kristen Nygaard (27 August 1926-10 August 2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist, programming language pioneer, and politician.

Michael Oser Rabin (; September 1, 1931, April 14, 2026) was a computer scientist who was co-recipient, with Dana Scott, of the 1976 ACM Turing Award for their work on computational complexity.

Ole-Johan Dahl (12 October 1931-29 June 2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist.

Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner (13 January 1934-20 March 2010) was a British computer scientist, and he won the 1991 ACM Turing Award.

Shafrira Goldwasser (; born November 14, 1959) is an Israeli-American computer scientist.

Silvio Micali (born October 13, 1954) is an Italian computer scientist, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founder of Algorand, a proof-of-stake blockchain cryptocurrency protocol.

Stephen Arthur Cook (born December 14, 1939) is an American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician who has made significant contributions to the fields of complexity theory and proof complexity.

Gilles Brassard (born April 20, 1955) is a Canadian computer scientist.

Sankar Kumar Pal (born 1950) is an Indian computer scientist.

Stephen Wolfram ( ; born 29 August 1959) is a British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessman.

Orna Berry (; born December 19, 1949), is an Israeli computer scientist, high-tech entrepreneur, and senior executive in the Israeli science and technology industries.

Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri (B. B. Chauduri) is a senior computer scientist and an emeritus professor of Techno India University in West Bengal, India.

Tinku Acharya is an Indian computer scientist, technologist and fellow of the American institute, the IEEE.

In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm ( ) is any well-defined set of instructions that when followed terminates after a finite number of steps that comprise a solution to a given computational problem.

In computer science, a data structure is a way to organize and store data that is usually chosen for efficient access to data.

A programming language is an engineered language for expressing computer programs, typically allowing software to be written in a human readable manner.

In computing, a compiler is software that translates computer code written in one programming language (the source language) into another language (the target language).

He co-invented Ethernet, co-founded 3Com, and formulated Metcalfe's law, which describes the effect of a telecommunications network.