List of Jewish American computer scientists explained

This is a list of notable Jewish American computer scientists. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.

• Scott Aaronson, quantum computing^[1]
• Hal Abelson, artificial intelligence^[2]
• Leonard Adleman, RSA cryptography, DNA computing, Turing Award (2002)^[3]
• Adi Shamir, RSA cryptography, DNA computing, Turing Award (2002)
• Paul Baran, Polish-born engineer; co-invented packet switching^[4]
• Lenore and Manuel Blum (Turing Award (1995)), Venezuelan-American computer scientist; computational complexity, parents of Avrim Blum (Co-training)^[5]
• Dan Bricklin, creator of the original spreadsheet^[6]
• Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google^[7]
• Danny Cohen, Israeli-American Internet pioneer; first to run a visual flight simulator across the ARPANet^[8]
• Robert Fano, Italian-American information theorist^[9]
• Ed Feigenbaum, artificial intelligence, Turing Award (1994)^[10]
• William F. Friedman, cryptologist^[11]
• Herbert Gelernter, father of Unabomber victim David Gelernter;artificial intelligence^[12]
• Richard D. Gitlin, co-inventor of the digital subscriber line (DSL)^[13]
• Adele Goldberg, Smalltalk design team
• Shafi Goldwasser, Israeli-American cryptographer; Turing Award (2013)^{[14] [15]}
• Philip Greenspun, web applications^[16]
• Frank Heart, co-designed the first routing computer for the ARPANET, the forerunner of the internet^[17]
• Martin Hellman, public key cryptography, co-inventor of the Diffie–Hellman key exchange protocol, Turing Award (2015)^{[18] [19]}
• Douglas Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach and other publications (half Jewish)^[20]
• Bob Kahn, co-invented TCP and IP, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Turing Award (2004)^{[21] [22]}
• Richard M. Karp, computational complexity, Turing Award (1985)^{[23] [24]}
• John Kemeny, Hungarian-born co-developer of BASIC^[25]
• Leonard Kleinrock, packet switching^[26]
• John Klensin, i18n, SMTP, MIME^[27]
• Solomon Kullback, cryptographer
• Ray Kurzweil, OCR, speech recognition^[28]
• Jaron Lanier, virtual reality pioneer^[29]
• Leonid Levin, Soviet Ukraine-born computer scientist; computational complexity, Knuth Prize (2012)^[30]
• Barbara Liskov (born Huberman), first woman to be granted a doctorate in computer science in the United States; Turing Award (2008)^{[31] [32]}
• Udi Manber, Israeli-American computer scientist; agrep, GLIMPSE, suffix array, search engines^[33]
• John McCarthy, artificial intelligence, LISP programming language, Turing Award (1971)^{[34] [35]}
• Jack Minker, database logic^[36]
• Marvin Minsky, artificial intelligence, neural nets, Turing Award (1969); co-founder of MIT's AI laboratory^[37]
• John von Neumann (born Neumann János Lajos), Hungarian-American computer scientist, mathematician and economist^[38]
• Seymour Papert, South African-born co-inventor - with Wally Feurzeig and Cynthia Solomon - of the Logo programming language^[39]
• Judea Pearl, Israeli-American AI scientist; developer of Bayesian networks; father of Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and later beheaded by rebels in Pakistan^[40]
• Alan J. Perlis, compilers, Turing Award (1966)^[41]
• Frank Rosenblatt, invented an artificial intelligence program called "Perceptrons" (1960)^[42]
• Radia Perlman, inventor of the Spanning Tree Protocol^[43]
• Azriel Rosenfeld, image analysis^[44]
• Michael Rothman, UEFI^[45]
• Ben Shneiderman, human-computer interaction, information visualization^[46]
• Abraham Silberschatz, databases, operating systems^[47]
• Herbert A. Simon, cognitive and computer scientist; Turing Award (1975)^[48]
• Abraham Sinkov, cryptanalyst; NSA Hall of Honor (1999)^[49]
• Gustave Solomon, mathematician and electrical engineer; one of the founders of the algebraic theory of error detection and correction^{[50] [51]}
• Ray Solomonoff, algorithmic information theory^[52]
• Richard Stallman, designed the GNU operating system, founder of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)^{[53] [54]}
• Andrew S. Tanenbaum, American-Dutch computer scientist; creator of MINIX^[55]
• Warren Teitelman, autocorrect, Undo/Redo, Interlisp^[56]
• Larry Tesler, developed the idea of cut, copy, and paste^[57]
• Jeffrey Ullman, compilers, theory of computation, data-structures, databases, awarded Knuth Prize (2000)^[58]
• Peter J. Weinberger, contributed to the design of the AWK programming language (he is the "W" in AWK), and the FORTRAN compiler FORTRAN 77^[59]
• Joseph Weizenbaum, German-born computer scientist; developer of ELIZA; the Weizenbaum Award is named after him^[60]
• Norbert Wiener, cybernetics^[61]
• Terry Winograd, SHRDLU^{[62] [63]}
• Jacob Wolfowitz, Polish-born information theorist^[64]
• Stephen Wolfram, British-American computer scientist; designer of the Wolfram Language^[65]
• Lotfi Zadeh, Azerbaijan SSR-born computer scientist; inventor of Fuzzy logic (Jewish mother, Azerbaijani father)^[66]

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