List of Jewish American computer scientists
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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 "32-BIt Quickdraw" Apple Computer (1987), photo 3D web (1996)
- Paul Baran, packet switching
- Daniel J. Bernstein, cryptologist
- Manuel Blum, computational complexity, Turing Award (1995)
- Dan Bricklin, creator of the original spreadsheet
- Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
- Wendell Brown, co-founder of LiveOps, eVoice and Teleo
- Peter Elias, information theory
- Robert Fano, information theory
- Edward Feigenbaum, artificial intelligence, Turing Award (1994)
- William F. Friedman, cryptologist
- David Gelernter, parallel computation; Unabomber victim
- Herbert Gelernter, artificial intelligence
- Seymour Ginsburg, formal language theory
- Adele Goldberg, Smalltalk design team
- Herman and Adele Goldstine, developers of ENIAC
- Shafi Goldwasser, cryptographer, Turing Award (2013)
- Philip Greenspun, web applications
- Martin Hellman, public key cryptography, Turing Award (2015)
- Douglas Hofstadter, academic and author (half Jewish)
- Bob Kahn, Co-invented TCP & IP, Presidential Medal Of Freedom, Turing Award (2004)
- Richard Karp, computational complexity, Turing Award (1985)
- John Kemeny, BASIC
- Leonard Kleinrock, packet switching
- Jan Koum, co-founder of WhatsApp
- Joseph Kruskal, Kruskal's algorithm
- Solomon Kullback, cryptographer
- Ray Kurzweil, OCR, speech recognition
- Jaron Lanier, virtual reality
- Leonid Levin, computational complexity
- Barbara Liskov, first woman to be granted a doctorate in computer science in the United States, Turing Award (2008)
- Herman Lukoff, helped develop ENIAC and UNIVAC
- Udi Manber, agrep, GLIMPSE, suffix array, search engines
- John McCarthy, artificial intelligence, LISP programming language, Turing Award (1971)
- Marvin Minsky, artificial intelligence, neural nets, Turing Award (1969)
- John von Neumann, computer scientist, mathematician and economist
- Larry Page, co-founder of Google
- 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
- Bruce Schneier, cryptographer
- Adi Shamir, cryptographer
- Herbert A. Simon, cognitive and 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 Ullman, compilers, theory of computation, data-structures, databases, Knuth Prize
- 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)