List of Computer Scientists - W

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• Philip Wadler – functional programming
• David Wagner – security, cryptography
• Marilyn A. Walker – natural language processing, spoken dialogue systems, intelligent virtual agents
• Larry Wall (born 1954) – inventor of Perl programming language, study of language structure
• David Waltz
• James Z. Wang
• Manfred K. Warmuth – computational learning theory
• David H. D. Warren – AI, logic programming, Prolog, the 'W' in WAM
• Kevin Warwick – artificial intelligence
• Jan Weglarz
• Jie Wu – computer networks
• Peter Wegner – object-oriented programming, interaction (computer science)
• Peter J. Weinberger – programming language design, the 'w' in AWK
• Mark Weiser – ubiquitous computing
• Daniel J. Weitzner – Office of Science and Technology, USA
• Joseph Weizenbaum – artificial intelligence, ELIZA
• Franklin H. Westervelt – use of computers in engineering education, conversational use of computers, MTS, ARPANET, distance learning
• Steve Whittaker – Human Computer Interaction, Computer Support for Cooperative Work, Social Media
• Jennifer Widom – nontraditional data management
• Janyce Wiebe – subjectivity, natural language processing, automatic summarization,
• Gio Wiederhold – database management systems
• Adriaan van Wijngaarden – Dutch pioneer; ARRA, ALGOL
• Mary Allen Wilkes – LINC developer, assembler-linker designer
• Maurice Vincent Wilkes – microprogramming, EDSAC
• Yorick Wilks – computational linguistics, artificial intelligence
• James H. Wilkinson – numerical analysis
• Sophie Wilson – ARM architecture
• Shmuel Winograd – Coppersmith-Winograd algorithm
• Terry Winograd – artificial intelligence, SHRDLU
• Glynn Winskel – concurrenty theory event structures
• Niklaus Wirth – Pascal, Modula, Oberon (programming language)
• Dennis E. Wisnosky – Integrated Computer-Aided Manufacturing (ICAM), IDEF
• Stephen Wolfram – Mathematica
• William Wulf – compilers