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Scientists whose most historically significant work is in computer science: computation, algorithms, computer architecture and the theoretical foundations of computing. Includes mathematicians and logicians whose own most significant legacy is a foundational result in computing (such as an early model of computation) rather than in mathematics generally.

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All Computer Science
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Adi Shamir

Computer Science

Alan Kay

Computer Science

Alan Perlis

Computer Science

Alfred Aho

Computer Science

Allen Newell

Computer Science

Alonzo Church

Computer Science

Amir Pnueli

Computer Science

Andrew Yao

Computer Science

Avi Wigderson

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Barbara Liskov

Computer Science

Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri

Computer Science

Butler Lampson

Computer Science

Charles Babbage

Computer Science

Charles Bachman

Computer Science

Charles P. Thacker

Computer Science

Chieko Asakawa

Computer Science

Dana Scott

Computer Science

David Patterson

Computer Science

Dennis Ritchie

Computer Science

Donald Knuth

Computer Science

Douglas Engelbart

Computer Science

E. Allen Emerson

Computer Science

Edgar F. Codd

Computer Science

Edmund M. Clarke

Computer Science

Edsger Dijkstra

Computer Science

Edward Feigenbaum

Computer Science

Edwin Catmull

Computer Science

Farida Bedwei

Computer Science

Fernando Corbato

Computer Science

Frances Allen

Computer Science

Frederick Brooks Jr.

Computer Science

Grace Hopper

Computer Science

Herbert Simon

Computer Science

Ivan Sutherland

Computer Science

Jack Dongarra

Computer Science

James H. Wilkinson

Computer Science

Jeffrey Ullman

Computer Science

Jim Gray

Computer Science

John Backus

Computer Science

John Cocke

Computer Science

John Hopcroft

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John L. Hennessy

Computer Science

John McCarthy

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John von Neumann

Computer Science

Joseph Sifakis

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Judea Pearl

Computer Science

Juris Hartmanis

Computer Science

Ken Thompson

Computer Science

Kenneth Iverson

Computer Science

Kristen Nygaard

Computer Science

Leonard Adleman

Computer Science

Leslie Lamport

Computer Science

Leslie Valiant

Computer Science

Manuel Blum

Computer Science

Martin Hellman

Computer Science

Marvin Minsky

Computer Science

Maurice Wilkes

Computer Science

Md. Hanifuddin Miah

Computer Science

Michael O. Rabin

Computer Science

Michael Stonebraker

Computer Science

Niklaus Wirth

Computer Science

Norbert Wiener

Computer Science

Ole-Johan Dahl

Computer Science

Orna Berry

Computer Science

Pat Hanrahan

Computer Science

Peter Naur

Computer Science

Radia Perlman

Computer Science

Raj Reddy

Computer Science

Richard Hamming

Computer Science

Richard M. Karp

Computer Science

Richard Stearns

Computer Science

Robert Kahn

Computer Science

Robert Metcalfe

Computer Science

Robert Tarjan

Computer Science

Robert W. Floyd

Computer Science

Robin Milner

Computer Science

Ronald Rivest

Computer Science

S. C. Dutta Roy

Computer Science

Samarendra Kumar Mitra

Computer Science

Sankar Kumar Pal

Computer Science

Shafi Goldwasser

Computer Science

Silvio Micali

Computer Science

Stephen Cook

Computer Science

Tim Berners-Lee

Computer Science

Tony Hoare

Computer Science

Ujjwal Maulik

Computer Science

Vannevar Bush

Computer Science

Vint Cerf

Computer Science

Whitfield Diffie

Computer Science

William Kahan

Computer Science

Yann LeCun

Computer Science

Yoshua Bengio

Computer Science
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1. Wikipedia: Computer science
WikipediaComputer science, History section, Cambridge Diploma paragraph
Quote, Computer science, History section, Cambridge Diploma paragraph
The world's first computer science degree program, the Cambridge Diploma in Computer Science, began at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in 1953.
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