Pioneers Of Computing And Information Theory Codexery

A source-cited reference to pioneers of computing and information theory

Pioneers Of Computing And Information Theory (18)

• John McCarthy (computer scientist) — Founding father of artificial intelligence and creator of Lisp.
• John Vincent Atanasoff — American physicist who invented the first electronic digital computer.
• John von Neumann — Mathematician and physicist who shaped quantum theory and computing.
• Ken Thompson — American computer scientist who created Unix and co-developed Go.
• Konrad Zuse — German engineer who built the first programmable computer, the Z3.
• Kristen Nygaard — Co-inventor of object-oriented programming and Simula.
• Leslie Lamport — American computer scientist and mathematician; developed LaTeX and distributed systems theory.
• Linus Torvalds — Finnish-American engineer who created the Linux kernel and the Git version control system.
• Margaret Hamilton (software engineer) — Led Apollo flight software development; coined 'software engineering'.
• Marvin Minsky — American mathematician and co-founder of artificial intelligence.
• Maurice Wilkes — English computer scientist who built EDSAC and invented microprogramming.
• Niklaus Wirth — Swiss computer scientist who designed several programming languages, including Pascal.
• Norbert Wiener — Originator of cybernetics and early theorist of machine intelligence.
• Paul Baran — Co-inventor of packet switching; designed survivable distributed networks.
• Ray Tomlinson — The BBN programmer who sent the first networked email and gave addresses their @ sign.
• Richard Stallman — Free software movement activist and programmer.
• Robert Kahn (computer scientist) — Co-inventor of TCP/IP, the Internet's core protocols.
• Claude Shannon — Polymath who founded information theory and digital circuit design.

Frequently asked questions · How this site is sourced