List of Computer Scientists - C

C

• Martin Campbell-Kelly – history of computing
• Luca Cardelli – objects
• Claire Cardie – natural language processing, automatic summarization, machine learning
• Edwin Catmull – computer graphics
• Vinton Cerf – Internet, TCP/IP
• Gregory Chaitin
• Zhou Chaochen – duration calculus
• Peter Chen – entity-relationship model, data modeling, conceptual model
• Xiuzhen (Susan) Cheng – computer networks
• Alonzo Church – mathematics of combinators, lambda calculus
• Gabriel Ciobanu – semantics, process calculi, membrane computing
• Edmund M. Clarke – model checking
• John Cocke – RISC
• Edgar F. Codd (1923–2003) – formulated the database relational model
• Simon Colton – computational creativity
• Paul Justin Compton – Ripple Down Rules
• Gordon Cormack – co-inventor of dynamic Markov compression
• Stephen Cook – NP-completeness
• James Cooley – Fast Fourier transform (FFT)
• Fernando J. Corbató – Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS), Multics
• Patrick Cousot – abstract interpretation
• Seymour Cray – Cray Research, supercomputer
• Nello Cristianini – Machine learning, pattern analysis, artificial intelligence
• W. Bruce Croft
• Haskell Curry