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Lotfi Zadeh
  • 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)[3]
  • 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[14]
  • Shafi Goldwasser, Israeli-American cryptographer; Turing Award (2013)[15][16]
  • Philip Greenspun, web applications[17]
  • Frank Heart, co-designed the first routing computer for the ARPANET, the forerunner of the internet[18]
  • Martin Hellman, public key cryptography, co-inventor of the Diffie–Hellman key exchange protocol, Turing Award (2015)[19][20]
  • Douglas Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach and other publications (half Jewish)[21]
  • Bob Kahn, co-invented TCP and IP, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Turing Award (2004)[22][23]
  • Richard M. Karp, computational complexity, Turing Award (1985)[24][25]
  • John Kemeny, Hungarian-born co-developer of BASIC[26]
  • Leonard Kleinrock, packet switching[27]
  • John Klensin, i18n, SMTP, MIME[28]
  • Solomon Kullback, cryptographer[29]
  • Ray Kurzweil, OCR, speech recognition[30]
  • Jaron Lanier, virtual reality pioneer[31]
  • Leonid Levin, Soviet Ukraine-born computer scientist; computational complexity, Knuth Prize (2012)[32]
  • Barbara Liskov (born Huberman), first woman to be granted a doctorate in computer science in the United States; Turing Award (2008)[14][33]
  • Udi Manber, Israeli-American computer scientist; agrep, GLIMPSE, suffix array, search engines[34]
  • John McCarthy, artificial intelligence, LISP programming language, Turing Award (1971)[35][36]
  • Jack Minker, database logic[37]
  • Marvin Minsky, artificial intelligence, neural nets, Turing Award (1969); co-founder of MIT's AI laboratory[38]
  • John von Neumann (born Neumann János Lajos), Hungarian-American computer scientist, mathematician and economist[39]
  • Seymour Papert, South African-born co-inventor — with Wally Feurzeig and Cynthia Solomon — of the Logo programming language[40]
  • Judea Pearl, Israeli-American AI scientist; developer of Bayesian networks; father of Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and later beheaded by rebels in Pakistan[41]
  • Alan J. Perlis, compilers, Turing Award (1966)[42]
  • Frank Rosenblatt, invented an artificial intelligence program called "Perceptrons" (1960)[43]
  • Radia Perlman, inventor of the Spanning Tree Protocol[44]
  • Azriel Rosenfeld, image analysis[45]
  • Michael Rothman, UEFI[46]
  • Ben Shneiderman, human-computer interaction, information visualization[47]
  • Abraham Silberschatz, databases, operating systems[48]
  • Herbert A. Simon, cognitive and computer scientist; Turing Award (1975)[49]
  • Abraham Sinkov, cryptanalyst; NSA Hall of Honor (1999)[29]
  • 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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  12. ^ John Schwartz (Aug 12, 1994). "The Pixelated Professor". The Washington Post.
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  16. ^ AbAbazorius, CSAIL (13 March 2013). "Goldwasser and Micali win Turing Award". MIT News.
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  26. ^ Lisa Fitterman (Dec 13, 2012). "John Kemeny, 87, told bold stories told from behind the scenes". The Globe and Mail.
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  30. ^ Caroline Daniel (Apr 10, 2015). "Breakfast with the FT: Ray Kurzweil". Financial Times.
  31. ^ JP O' Malley (May 7, 2013). "Tech guru Jaron Lanier prophesies a chilling virtual reality". The Times of Israel.
  32. ^ Cnaan Liphshiz (Aug 14, 2017). "This Holocaust monument in Belarus is haunting — and subversive". Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
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  38. ^ Scott Malone (Jan 26, 2016). "Artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky dies; 88". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles.
  39. ^ Nathan Myhrvold (Mar 1, 1999). "John von Neumann". Time. Born to prosperous Jewish parents in Budapest in 1903
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