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)
- 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
- 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)