List of Jewish American Computer Scientists

This is a list of famous Jewish American computer scientists. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.

  • Hal Abelson, artificial intelligence
  • Len Adleman, RSA cryptography, DNA computing, Turing Award (2002)
  • Paul Baran, packet switching
  • Dan Bernstein, cryptologist (unconfirmed)
  • Manuel Blum, computational complexity, Turing Award (1995)
  • Dan Bricklin, creator of the original spreadsheet
  • Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
  • Peter Elias, information theory
  • Robert Fano, information theory
  • Edward Feigenbaum, artificial intelligence, Turing Award (1994)
  • William F. Friedman, cryptologist
  • David Gelernter, parallel computation, Unabomber victim
  • Herbert Gelernter, artificial intelligence.
  • Seymour Ginsburg, formal language theory
  • Adele Goldberg, Smalltalk design team
  • Herman & Adele Goldstine, developers of ENIAC
  • Shafi Goldwasser, cryptographer
  • Philip Greenspun, web applications
  • Martin Hellman, public key cryptography
  • Douglas Hofstadter, academic & author (half Jewish)
  • Bob Kahn, TCP/IP
  • Richard Karp, computational complexity, Turing Award (1985)
  • John Kemeny, BASIC
  • Leonard Kleinrock, packet switching
  • Joseph Kruskal, Kruskal's algorithm
  • Solomon Kullback, cryptographer
  • Raymond Kurzweil, OCR, speech recognition
  • Jaron Lanier, virtual reality
  • Leonid Levin, computational complexity
  • Herman Lukoff, helped develop ENIAC and UNIVAC
  • John McCarthy, artificial intelligence, LISP programming language, Turing Award (1971)
  • Marvin Minsky, artificial intelligence, neural nets, Turing Award (1969)
  • John von Neumann, computer scientist, mathematician & economist
  • Seymour Papert, LOGO
  • Judea Pearl, Bayesian networks
  • Ken Perlin, fractal noise
  • Alan J. Perlis, compilers, Turing Award (1966)
  • Lawrence Rabiner, digital signal processing
  • Frank Rosenblatt, perceptrons
  • Azriel Rosenfeld, image analysis
  • Bruce Schneier, cryptographer
  • Adi Shamir, cryptographer
  • Herbert A. Simon, cognitive & computer scientist, Turing Award (1975)
  • Abraham Sinkov, cryptanalyst
  • Daniel Sleator, splay trees (Jewish mother)
  • Gustave Solomon, error correction
  • Ray Solomonoff, algorithmic information theory
  • Richard Stallman, GNU, FSF
  • Gerald Jay Sussman, Scheme
  • Eric Tobis, optimized Viterbi error correction algorithms
  • Peter J. Weinberger, awk
  • Joseph Weizenbaum, ELIZA, artificial intelligence critic
  • Norbert Wiener, cybernetics
  • Terry Winograd, SHRDLU
  • Jacob Wolfowitz, information theory
  • Lotfi Zadeh, fuzzy logic (Jewish mother, Muslim father)
  • Mark Zuckerberg, creator of Facebook

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