List of Computer Scientists - D

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• Ole-Johan Dahl – Simula
• Ajantha Dahanayake – Meta-CASE theory and implementation, Computer aided method Engineering
• Andries van Dam – computer graphics, hypertext
• Christopher J. Date – proponent of database relational model
• Erik Demaine – computational origami
• Tom DeMarco
• Richard DeMillo – computer security, software engineering, educational technology
• Dorothy E. Denning – computer security
• Peter J. Denning – identified the use of an operating system's working set and balance set, President of ACM
• Michael Dertouzos – Director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) from 1974 to 2001
• Alexander Dewdney
• Vinod Dham – P5 Pentium processor
• Jan Dietz (1945 -ι) – information systems theory and "Design & Engineering Methodology for Organizations"
• Whitfield Diffie (1944-χ) – Public key cryptography, Diffie–Hellman key exchange,
• Edsger Dijkstra – algorithms, Goto considered harmful, semaphore (programming)
• Jack Dongarra – linear algebra high performance computing
• Marco Dorigo – ant colony optimization
• Paul Dourish – human computer interaction
• Charles Stark Draper (1901–1987) – designer: Apollo Guidance Computer, "Father of inertial navigation", MIT Professor.
• Susan Dumais – Information Retrieval
• Adam Dunkels – Protothreads
• Alan Dix – literally wrote the book on HCI Human–computer interaction