List of Jewish American computer scientists

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


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