List of Jewish American computer scientists
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This is a list of notable Jewish American computer scientists. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.
- Hal Abelson; artificial intelligence[1]
- Leonard Adleman; RSA cryptography, DNA computing, Turing Award (2002)[2]
- Adi Shamir; RSA cryptography, DNA computing, Turing Award (2002)[2]
- Paul Baran, Polish-born engineer; co-invented packet switching[3]
- Lenore and Manuel Blum (Turing Award (1995)), Venezuelan-American computer scientist; computational complexity, parents of Avrim Blum (Co-training)[4]
- Dan Bricklin, creator of the original spreadsheet[5]
- Sergey Brin; co-founder of Google[6]
- Danny Cohen, Israeli-American Internet pioneer; first to run a visual flight simulator across the ARPANet[7]
- Robert Fano, Italian-American information theorist[8]
- Ed Feigenbaum; artificial intelligence, Turing Award (1994)[9]
- William F. Friedman, cryptologist[10]
- Herbert Gelernter, father of Unabomber victim David Gelernter;artificial intelligence[11]
- Richard D. Gitlin; co-inventor of the digital subscriber line (DSL)[12]
- Adele Goldberg; Smalltalk design team[13]
- Shafi Goldwasser, Israeli-American cryptographer; Turing Award (2013)[14][15]
- Philip Greenspun; web applications[16]
- Frank Heart; co-designed the first routing computer for the ARPANET, the forerunner of the internet[17]
- Martin Hellman; public key cryptography, co-inventor of the Diffie–Hellman key exchange protocol, Turing Award (2015)[18][19]
- Douglas Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach and other publications (half Jewish)[20]
- Bob Kahn; co-invented TCP and IP, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Turing Award (2004)[21][22]
- Richard M. Karp; computational complexity, Turing Award (1985)[23][24]
- John Kemeny, Hungarian-born co-developer of BASIC[25]
- Leonard Kleinrock; packet switching[26]
- John Klensin; i18n, SMTP, MIME[27]
- Solomon Kullback, cryptographer[28]
- Ray Kurzweil; OCR, speech recognition[29]
- Jaron Lanier, virtual reality pioneer[30]
- Leonid Levin, Soviet Ukraine-born computer scientist; computational complexity, Knuth Prize (2012)[31]
- Barbara Liskov (born Huberman), first woman to be granted a doctorate in computer science in the United States; Turing Award (2008)[13][32]
- Udi Manber, Israeli-American computer scientist; agrep, GLIMPSE, suffix array, search engines[33]
- John McCarthy; artificial intelligence, LISP programming language, Turing Award (1971)[34][35]
- Jack Minker; database logic[36]
- Marvin Minsky; artificial intelligence, neural nets, Turing Award (1969); co-founder of MIT's AI laboratory[37]
- John von Neumann (born Neumann János Lajos), Hungarian-American computer scientist, mathematician and economist[38]
- Seymour Papert, South African-born co-inventor — with Wally Feurzeig and Cynthia Solomon — of the Logo programming language[39]
- Judea Pearl, Israeli-American AI scientist; developer of Bayesian networks; father of Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and later beheaded by rebels in Pakistan[40]
- Alan J. Perlis; compilers, Turing Award (1966)[41]
- Frank Rosenblatt; invented an artificial intelligence program called "Perceptrons" (1960)[42]
- Radia Perlman; inventor of the Spanning Tree Protocol[43]
- Azriel Rosenfeld; image analysis[44]
- Michael Rothman; UEFI[45]
- Ben Shneiderman; human-computer interaction, information visualization[46]
- Abraham Silberschatz, databases, operating systems[47]
- Herbert A. Simon, cognitive and computer scientist; Turing Award (1975)[48]
- Abraham Sinkov, cryptanalyst; NSA Hall of Honor (1999)[28]
- Gustave Solomon, mathematician and electrical engineer; one of the founders of the algebraic theory of error detection and correction[49][50]
- Ray Solomonoff; algorithmic information theory[51]
- Richard Stallman; designed the GNU operating system, founder of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)[52][53]
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum, American-Dutch computer scientist; creator of MINIX[54]
- Warren Teitelman; autocorrect, Undo/Redo, Interlisp[55]
- Larry Tesler; Cut, copy, and paste[56]
- Jeffrey Ullman; compilers, theory of computation, data-structures, databases, awarded Knuth Prize (2000)[57]
- Peter J. Weinberger; contributed to the design of the AWK programming language (he is the "W" in AWK), and the FORTRAN compiler FORTRAN 77[58]
- Joseph Weizenbaum, German-born computer scientist; developer of ELIZA; the Weizenbaum Award is named after him[59]
- Norbert Wiener; cybernetics[60]
- Terry Winograd; SHRDLU[61][62]
- Jacob Wolfowitz, Polish-born information theorist[63]
- Stephen Wolfram, British-American computer scientist; designer of the Wolfram Language[64]
- Lotfi Zadeh, Azerbaijan SSR-born computer scientist; inventor of Fuzzy logic (Jewish mother, Azerbaijani father)[65]
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Born to prosperous Jewish parents in Budapest in 1903
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Zadeh was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. According to family history, his mother was a Russian Jew and his father was of Turkish origin, with roots in Azerbaijan and Iran.