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, artificial intelligence[1]
- Leonard Adleman, RSA cryptography, DNA computing, Turing Award (2002)[2]
- Paul Baran, Polish-born engineer, co-invented packet switching[3]
- Daniel J. Bernstein, cryptologist, designed Salsa20, Stream cipher and Curve25519; sued the U.S. government about encryption (Bernstein v. United States) (1995)
- 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]
- Wendell Brown, computer scientist, co-founder of Teleo and LiveOps
- Peter Elias, information theory
- Robert Fano, Italian-American information theorist[7]
- Ed Feigenbaum, artificial intelligence, Turing Award (1994)[8]
- Raphael Finkel, Jargon File
- William F. Friedman, cryptologist[9]
- Herbert Gelernter, artificial intelligence; father of Unabomber victim David Gelernter[10]
- Seymour Ginsburg, formal language theory
- Richard D. Gitlin, co-inventor of the digital Subscriber Line (DSL)[11]
- Adele Goldberg, Smalltalk design team[12]
- Herman and Adele Goldstine (born Katz), developers of ENIAC
- Shafi Goldwasser, Israeli-American cryptographer, Turing Award (2013)[13][14]
- Philip Greenspun, web applications[15]
- Martin Hellman, public key cryptography, co-inventor of the Diffie–Hellman key exchange protocol, Turing Award (2015)[16][17]
- James Hendler, semantic web
- Douglas Hofstadter, academic and author (half Jewish), son of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Hofstadter[18]
- Bob Kahn, co-invented TCP and IP, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Turing Award (2004)[19][20]
- Richard M. Karp, computational complexity, Turing Award (1985)[21][22]
- John Kemeny, Hungarian-born co-developer of BASIC[23]
- Leonard Kleinrock, packet switching[24]
- Joseph Kruskal, Kruskal's algorithm
- Solomon Kullback, cryptographer[25]
- Ray Kurzweil, OCR, speech recognition[26]
- Jaron Lanier, virtual reality pioneer[27]
- Leonid Levin, Soviet Ukraine-born computer scientist, computational complexity; Knuth Prize (2012)[28]
- Barbara Liskov (born Huberman), first woman to be granted a doctorate in computer science in the United States, Turing Award (2008)[12][29]
- Herman Lukoff, helped develop ENIAC and UNIVAC
- Udi Manber, Israeli-American computer scientist; agrep, GLIMPSE, suffix array, search engines[30]
- John McCarthy, artificial intelligence, LISP programming language, Turing Award (1971)[31][32]
- Jack Minker, database logic[33]
- Marvin Minsky, artificial intelligence, neural nets, Turing Award (1969); co-founder of MIT's AI laboratory[34]
- John von Neumann (born Neumann János Lajos), Hungarian-American computer scientist, mathematician and economist[35]
- Seymour Papert, South African-born co-inventor — with Wally Feurzeig and Cynthia Solomon — of the Logo programming language[36]
- Judea Pearl, Israeli-American AI scientist, developer of Bayesian networks; father of Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and later beheaded by rebels in Pakistan[37]
- Ken Perlin, Perlin noise
- Alan J. Perlis, compilers, Turing Award (1966)[38]
- Lawrence Rabiner, Digital signal processing, Speech processing
- Frank Rosenblatt, invented an artificial intelligence program called "Perceptrons" (1960)[39]
- Azriel Rosenfeld, image analysis[40]
- Bruce Schneier, cryptographer, author, founder of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc.
- Ben Shneiderman, human-computer interaction, information visualization[41]
- Herbert A. Simon, cognitive and computer scientist, Turing Award (1975)[42]
- Abraham Sinkov, cryptanalyst, NSA Hall of Honor (1999)[25]
- Daniel Sleator, splay trees (Jewish mother)
- Gustave Solomon, mathematician and electrical engineer who was one of the founders of the algebraic theory of error detection and correction[43][44]
- Ray Solomonoff, algorithmic information theory[45]
- Richard Stallman, designed the GNU operating system, founder of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)[46][47]
- Gerald Jay Sussman, Scheme[48]
- Warren Teitelman, autocorrect, Undo/Redo, Interlisp[49]
- Jeffrey Ullman, compilers, theory of computation, data-structures, databases, awarded Knuth Prize (2000)[50]
- Peter J. Weinberger, contributed to the design of the AWK programming language (he is the "W" in AWK), and the FORTRAN compiler FORTRAN 77[51]
- Joseph Weizenbaum, German-born computer scientist; developer of ELIZA; the Weizenbaum Award is named after him[52]
- Norbert Wiener, cybernetics[53]
- Terry Winograd, SHRDLU[54][55]
- Jacob Wolfowitz, Polish-born information theorist[56]
- Stephen Wolfram, British-American computer scientist, designer of the Wolfram Language[57]
- Lotfi Zadeh, Azerbaijan SSR-born inventor of Fuzzy logic (Jewish mother, Azerbaijani father)[58]
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They married in 1942, and had three children, one of whom is the cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter
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Born to prosperous Jewish parents in Budapest in 1903
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- ↑ Siobhan Roberts (Sep 19, 2017). "Remembering Lotfi Zadeh, the Inventor of Fuzzy Logic". The New Yorker.
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.
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