List of Computer Scientists - S

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• George Sadowsky
• Gerard Salton – information retrieval
• Jean E. Sammet – programming languages
• Claude Sammut – artificial-intelligence researcher
• Carl Sassenrath – operating systems, programming languages, Amiga, REBOL
• Mahadev Satyanarayanan – file systems, distributed systems, mobile computing, pervasive computing
• Walter Savitch – discovery of complexity class NL, Savitch's theorem, natural language processing, mathematical linguistics
• Alexander Scaranti – image processing, image retrieval
• Jonathan Schaeffer
• Wilhelm Schickard – one of first calculating machines
• Bruce Schneier – cryptography, security
• Fred B. Schneider – concurrent and distributed computing
• Michael I. Schwartzbach – computer scientist at Aarhus University
• Dana Scott – domain theory
• Michael L. Scott – programming languages, algorithms, distributed computing
• Ravi Sethi – compilers, 2nd Dragon Book
• Nigel Shadbolt
• Adi Shamir – RSA, cryptanalysis
• Claude Shannon – information theory
• David E. Shaw – computational finance, computational biochemistry, parallel architectures
• Cliff Shaw – systems programmer, artificial intelligence
• Scott Shenker – networking
• Ben Shneiderman – human-computer interaction, information visualization
• Edward H. Shortliffe – MYCIN (Medical diagnostoc expert system)
• Joseph Sifakis – model checking
• Herbert A. Simon – artificial intelligence
• Daniel Sleator – splay tree, amortized analysis
• Arne Sølvberg – information modelling
• Brian Cantwell Smith – reflection (computer science), 3lisp
• Karen Sparck-Jones – information retrieval, natural language processing
• Steven Spewak – enterprise architecture lanning
• Robert Sproull
• Maciej Stachowiak – GNOME, Safari, WebKit
• Richard Stallman (born 1953) – GNU Project
• Ronald Stamper
• Richard Stearns – computational complexity theory
• Guy L. Steele, Jr. – Scheme, Common Lisp
• Thomas Sterling – creator of Beowulf clusters
• W. Richard Stevens (1951–1999) – author of books, including TCP/IP Illustrated and Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
• Larry Stockmeyer – computational complexity, distributed computing
• Michael Stonebraker – relational database practice and theory
• Olaf Storaasli – finite element machine, linear algebra, high performance computing
• Christopher Strachey – denotational semantics
• Bjarne Stroustrup – C++
• Madhu Sudan – computational complexity theory, coding theory
• Gerald Jay Sussman – Scheme
• Bert Sutherland – graphics, Internet
• Ivan Sutherland – graphics
• Mario Szegedy – complexity theory, quantum computing