List of Computer Scientists - K

K

• William Kahan – numerical analysis
• Robert E. Kahn – TCP/IP
• Avinash Kak – digital image processing
• Daniel Mopati Kapeng – web designing principles
• David Karger
• Alan Kay – Dynabook, Smalltalk, overlapping windows
• Richard Karp – NP-completeness
• Narendra Karmarkar – Karmarkar's algorithm
• Marek Karpinski – NP optimization problems
• John George Kemeny – BASIC
• Ken Kennedy – compiling for parallel and vector machines
• Brian Kernighan (born 1942) – Unix, the 'k' in AWK
• Carl Kesselman – grid computing
• Gregor Kiczales – CLOS, reflection (computer science), aspect-oriented programming
• Stephen Cole Kleene – Kleene closure, recursion theory
• Leonard Kleinrock – ARPANET, queueing theory, packet switching, hierarchical routing
• Donald Knuth – The Art of Computer Programming, MIX/MMIX, TeX, literate programming
• Andrew Koenig – C++
• Michael Kölling – BlueJ
• Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov – algorithmic complexity theory
• Janet L. Kolodner – case-based reasoning
• David Korn – Korn shell
• Kees Koster – ALGOL 68
• Siddhant Kotnala – programming Languages, Operating System
• Robert Kowalski – logic programming
• John Koza – genetic programming
• John Krogstie – SEQUAL framework
• Joseph Kruskal – Kruskal's algorithm
• Thomas E. Kurtz (born 1928) – BASIC programming language; Dartmouth College computer professor