Contributors to Computer Science

Tim Berners-Lee

Inventor of the World Wide Web

Jeff Bezos

Founder and former CEO of Amazon.

Sergey Brin

Co-founder of Google

John Carmack

Founded ID Software, made first 3D games

Phil Catz

Creating the ZIP File Format

Donald Knuth

Nobel Prize

Analysis and Algorithms

Vint Cerf

"Father of Internet"

Roy L. Clay

Launched HP's first computer

Tim Cook

CEO of Apple

Seymour Cray

Invented fast supercomputer

Whitfield Diffie

Creator of the public cryptology

Edsger W. Dijkstra

Solution to the graph-theory

Douglas Engelbart

Made the computer mouse

Bill Gates

Co-founded Microsoft

James Gosling

Lead designer of the Java program

Margaret Hamilton

Lead Software Designer for Apollo Missions

Grace Hopper

Made first compiler and COBOL

Steve Jobs

Co-Founder and CEO of Apple

Katherine Johnson

Mathematician and NASA researcher

Bob Kahn

Principal architect of the Internet

Alan Kay

Object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface (GUI) design

Barbara Liskov

Helps in the design of computer programming languages

Ada Lovelace

First Computer Programmer

John McCarthy

Father of AI

Marvin Minsky

One of the founders of AI

John von Neumann

Hungarian-American mathematian and physicist

Tim Paterson

Created the 86-DOS for Intel 8086

Dennis Ritchie

Co-Created C Language, developed UNIX

Guido Van Rossum

This person is known for creating the Python programming language

Claude Shannon

Laid the foundation for information theory

Richard Stallman

Founder of GNU operating system

Bjarne Stroustrup

Inventor of C++ programming language.

Ken Thompson

Creating UNIX and Multics

Raymond Tomlinson

Inventor of modern email

Linus Torvalds

Created the Linux operating system.

Alan Turing

Father of modern computer science.

Leslie Valiant

Developed foundational machine learning theory.

John Warnock

Co-founded Adobe

Werner Vogels

Driving technology innovation within Amazon

Evan Williams

Founded Blogger and Medium

Stephen Wolfram

Created algebra language called Wolfram-Alpha

Steve Wozniak

Co-creation of the personal computer

Mark Zuckerberg

Co-Founder of Facebook