Top 20 Computer Scientist celebrities in United States
Here is the latest list of the world's top 20 Computer Scientist celebrities [Updated January 18, 2022].
Edwin Catmull was born
on March 31, 1945
in United States.
He was named a Museum Fellow for the Computer History Museum in 2013.
Net Worth 2020: $40 Million
Vinton Cerf was born
on June 23, 1943
in New Haven, United States.
He has won numerous of the world's most prestigious awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Salary 2020: $186,787
Grace Hopper was born
on December 9, 1906
in New York City, United States.
She is credited with popularizing the term "debugging" for fixing computer glitches and the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Hopper (DDG-70) is named for her.
Eugene Myers was born
on December 31, 1953
in United States.
He was a 2001 recipient of the prestigious Paris Kanellakis Award.
Annie Easley was born
on April 23, 1933
in United States.
During the Jim Crow era, she worked to ensure that her fellow African-American Alabamans were not disenfranchised, accomplishing her goal by helping prospective voters prepare for the literacy test portion of their applications.
Dennis Ritchie was born
on September 9, 1941
in Bronxville, United States.
In 1997 he was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum, for co-creating the UNIX operating system, and developing the C programming language.
Robert Sedgewick was born
on December 20, 1946
in United States.
He authored Algorithms, a series of computer science manuals.
Jon Bentley was born
on February 20, 1953
in Long Beach, United States.
He devised an optimal solution for Klee's measure problem and also co-invented the Bentley-Ottmann algorithm.
Jim Gray was born
on January 12, 1944
in United States.
He was reported missing at sea after he went on a short sailing trip by himself to the Farallon Islands to scatter his mother's ashes. In spite of multiple searches, he was never found and declared deceased on May 16, 2012.
Charles Bachman was born
on December 11, 1924
in United States.
He worked at General Electric in 1960 where he developed the Integrated Data Store.
Bill Joy was born
on November 8, 1954
in United States.
In his compelling Wired Magazine essay "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us," Joy argues that the very technologies that he and his colleagues worked tirelessly to develop are placing the human race's future generations in jeopardy.
Edward Felten was born
on March 25, 1963
in United States.
He published a well-known study on the subject of the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI).
J. Presper Eckert was born
on April 9, 1919
in United States.
His prototype computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, was used by the military for their artillery calculations.
John Hopcroft was born
on October 9, 1939
in Seattle, United States.
In 1994 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Stuart Umpleby was born
on March 5, 1944
in United States.
He worked on the year 2000 computer problem (aka Y2K).
John McCarthy was born
on September 4, 1927
in Boston, United States.
American computer and cognitive scientist who coined the term 'artificial intelligence.' He has received the Turing Award, John McCarthy United States National Medal of Science, and the Kyoto Prize among other honors for his contributions to computer science.
In 1966 he and his team at Stanford wrote a computer program used to play a series of chess games with counterparts in the Soviet Union.
Katie Bouman was born
on May 9, 1989
in West Lafayette, United States.
She is known for having been a member of the Haystack Observatory and was also supported as a student by the National Science Foundation's Graduate Fellowship program.
Anita Borg was born
on January 17, 1949
in United States.
Her numerous scientific honors include the Association for Women in Computing's prestigious Augusta
Ada Lovelace Award, the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award, and the Heinz Award.
John Backus was born
on December 3, 1924
in United States.
His Fortran was the first computer language to take on a more human syntax, and so was comprehensible and the first widely used high-level language.
Gilad Lotan was born
on August 19, 1981
in United States.
He's also been an adjunct professor for New York University.
