List of Jewish American computer scientists

List of Jewish American computer scientists

"This is a list of famous Jewish American Computer Scientists. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans."

* Hal Abelson, artificial intelligence
* Len Adleman, RSA cryptography, DNA computing, Turing Award (2002)
* David Austreng, photographic display, www photographic 3D (Jewish mother)
* Paul Baran, packet switching
* Dan Bernstein, cryptologist ("unconfirmed")
* Manuel Blum, computational complexity, Turing Award (1995)
* Dan Bricklin, creator of the original spreadsheet
* Sergei Brin
* Peter Elias, information theory
* Robert Fano, information theory
* Edward Feigenbaum, artificial intelligence, Turing Award (1994)
* William F. Friedman, cryptologist
* Eugene Garfield, library & information scientist
* David Gelernter, parallel computation, Unabomber victim
* Herbert Gelernter, artificial intelligence.
* Adele Goldberg, Smalltalk design team
* Herman & Adele Goldstine, developers of ENIAC
* Shafi Goldwasser, cryptographer
* Philip Greenspun, web applications
* Martin Hellman, public key cryptography
* Douglas Hofstadter, academic & author (half Jewish)
* Bob Kahn, TCP/IP
* Richard Karp, computational complexity, Turing Award (1985)
* John Kemeny, BASIC
* Leonard Kleinrock, packet switching
* Joseph Kruskal, Kruskal's algorithm
* Solomon Kullback, cryptographer
* Raymond Kurzweil, OCR, speech recognition
* Leslie Lamport, LaTeX
* Jaron Lanier, virtual reality
* Leonid Levin, computational complexity
* Herman Lukoff, helped develop ENIAC and UNIVAC
* John McCarthy, inventor of the term "artificial intelligence" (half Jewish)
* Marvin Minsky, artificial intelligence, neural nets, Turing Award (1969)
* John von Neumann, computer scientist, mathematician & economist
* Larry Page
* David Parnas, software engineering
* Seymour Papert, LOGO
* Judea Pearl, Bayesian networks
* Ken Perlin, fractal noise
* Alan J. Perlis, compilers, Turing Award (1966)
* Lawrence Rabiner, digital signal processing
* Frank Rosenblatt, perceptrons
* Azriel Rosenfeld, image analysis
* Jean E. Sammet, language design
* Bruce Schneier, cryptographer
* Herbert Simon, cognitive & computer scientist, Turing Award (1975)
* Abraham Sinkov, cryptanalyst
* Daniel Sleator, splay trees (Jewish mother)
* Gustave Solomon, error correction
* Ray Solomonoff, algorithmic information theory
* Richard Stallman, GNU, FSF
* Gerald Jay Sussman, Scheme
* Jeffrey D. Ullman, compilers
* Leslie Valiant, parallel computing
* Andrew Viterbi, Viterbi algorithm
* Peter J. Weinberger, awk
* Joseph Weizenbaum, ELIZA, artificial intelligence critic
* Norbert Wiener, cybernetics
* Terry Winograd, SHRDLU
* Jacob Wolfowitz, information theory
* Lotfi Zadeh, fuzzy logic (Jewish mother, Muslim father)


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