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- Mihai Nadin – anticipation research
- Makoto Nagao – machine translation, natural language processing, digital library
- Frieder Nake – pioneered computer arts
- Peter Naur – BNF, ALGOL 60
- Roger Needham
- James G. Nell – GERAM
- Bernard de Neumann – massively parallel autonomous cellular processor, software engineering research
- John von Neumann (1953–1957) – early computers, von Neumann machine, set theory, functional analysis, mathematics pioneer, linear programming, quantum mechanics.
- Allen Newell – artificial intelligence, Computer Structures
- Max Newman – Colossus, MADM
- Andrew Ng – artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics
- Nils Nilsson – artificial intelligence
- G.M. Nijssen – NIAM
- Jerre Noe
- Emmy Noether
- Peter Nordin – artificial intelligence, genetic programming, evolutionary robotics
- Donald Norman – user interfaces, usability
- George Novacky – Assistant Department Chair and Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, Assistant Dean of CAS for Undergraduate Studies at University of Pittsburgh
- Amos Nuwasiima – PHP Programming book
- Kristen Nygaard – Simula
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