This page aims to list articles on Wikipedia about people who are important or notable in the field of computing, but who are not primarily computer scientists or programmers. This is so that those interested in the subject can monitor changes to the pages by clicking on Related changes (http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=List_of_computing_topics) in the sidebar and on the bottom of the page..

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See also: List of programmers, List of computer scientists

Contents: Top - A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Alfred Aho, the A in AWK

B

• Charles Babbage, inventor of the programmable computer
• Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World_Wide_Web
• Stephen Bourne, developer of the Bourne shell

C

• Noam Chomsky, linguist, language theorist (Chomsky hierarchy) and social critic

D

• Theo de Raadt, founder of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects

E

• J. Presper Eckert, Eniac

F

G

• Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft
• James Gosling, "father" of the Java programming language

H

• Grace Hopper

I

J

• Steven Jobs, co-founder of Apple, founder of NeXT, CEO of Pixar
• Bill Joy, co-founder Sun Microsystems, BSD

K

• Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie, Programming Language C
• Donald E. Knuth, "The Art of Computer Programming", TeX

L

• Ada Lovelace

M

• John William Mauchly, Eniac
• John McCarthy, LISP programming language
• Marvin Minsky, AI luminary
• Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of Intel, Moore's Law

N

• Roger Needham
• John von Neumann, Theoretical Computer Science

O

P

• Jon Postel, Internet pioneer, founder of IANA
• Sir John Anthony Pople pioneer in computational chemistry

Q

R

• Dennis Ritchie
• Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, Len Adleman, Encryption (RSA)

S

• Richard Stallman, founder of GNU

T

• Prof. Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Operating Systems minix
• Linus Torvalds, (aka Linus Thorwald) Linux
• Alan Turing, British mathematician and cryptographer

U

V

W

• Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Critic
• Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple creator of the Apple I and Apple II computers

X

Y

Z

• Konrad Zuse, built one of the first computers