List of Jewish American computer scientists

This is a list of notable Jewish American computer scientists. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.

Hal Abelson

Leonard Adleman

Shafi Goldwasser

John McCarthy

Marvin Minsky

Azriel Rosenfeld

Bruce Schneier

Lotfi Zadeh

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

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