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x Alan Jay Smith  
Dr. Alan Jay Smith is a computer scientist and researcher in the field of development and applications of caching strategies and the measurement and analysis of computer storage systems with many important contributions to the field. He currently is...
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
    Stanford University  
x Alfred Z. Spector Spector.jpg
Alfred Z. Spector has been Vice President of Research and Special Initiatives at Google since November 2007. Prior to that he was a researcher and software executive at IBM. For several years, he was in charge of all of IBM's software research,...
    Stanford University  
    Harvard University  
x Allen Newell anewell.JPG
Allen Newell (March 19, 1927 - July 19, 1992) was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department of...
Ph.D.   Carnegie Mellon University  
    Princeton University  
Bachelor's degree   Stanford University  
x Andrei Broder  
Andrei Zary Broder (Hebrew: אנדרי זרי ברודר‎) is a Research Fellow and Vice President of Emerging Search Technology for Yahoo!. He previously has worked for AltaVista as the vice president of research, and for IBM Research as a Distinguished...
    Stanford University  
    Technion - Israel Institute of Technology  
x Andy Bechtolsheim Andreas von Bechtolsheim
Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and employee number one, returns to Sun as Chief Architect and Senior Vice President, Network Systems organization and is also a member of Sun's executive management team. In his new role...
    Carnegie Mellon University  
    Stanford University  
x B. J. Fogg B. J. Fogg
B.J. Fogg is best known for promoting the concept of "captology," a word he coined to describe the overlap between persuasion and computers. As a doctoral student at Stanford University (1993-1997), Fogg used methods from experimental psychology to...
    Stanford University  
x Barbara Liskov LISKOV_crop2.jpg
Barbara Liskov (born Barbara Jane Huberman in 1939) is a computer scientist. She is currently the Ford Professor of Engineering in the MIT School of Engineering's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department and an Institute Professor at...
Ph.D. 1968 Stanford University  
Bachelor of Arts 1961 University of California, Berkeley  
x Charles Simonyi Charles Simonyi
Charles Simonyi (Hungarian: Simonyi Károly; born September 10, 1948) is a Hungarian-American computer software executive who, as head of Microsoft's application software group, oversaw the creation of Microsoft's flagship office applications. He now...
    University of California, Berkeley  
    Stanford University  
x Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr. Dan Ingalls
Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr. is a pioneer of object-oriented computer programming and the principal architect, designer and implementor of five generations of Smalltalk environments. He designed the bytecoded virtual machine that made Smalltalk...
    Harvard University  
    Stanford University  
x Daphne Koller Koller.jpg
Daphne Koller is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Fellowship recipient. Her general research area is artificial intelligence. Koller was featured in an article by MIT Technology Review titled ...
    Stanford University  
    Hebrew University of Jerusalem  
x David Eppstein David Eppstein
David Arthur Eppstein (born 1963) is an English-born American professor of computer science at University of California, Irvine and a mathematician. His is known for his work in computational geometry, graph algorithms, and recreational mathematics....
    Stanford University  
    Columbia University  
x J. Alan George  
J. Alan George, FRSC (born November 9, 1943) is a computer scientist and university administrator. In the academic world, George is best known for his extensive research and wide-ranging contributions to the field of numerical linear algebra,...
    Stanford University  
    University of Alberta  
x Jack E. Bresenham  
Jack Elton Bresenham (born 1937) is a former professor of computer science. He retired from 27 years of service at IBM as a Senior Technical Staff Member in 1987. He taught for 10 years at Winthrop University and has five patents. He has three...
    Stanford University  
    University of New Mexico  
x James Lau  
James Lau is chief strategy officer, responsible for guiding the evolution of Network Appliance's business strategy and identifying additional market and product opportunities to fuel future growth. He cofounded NetApp with Dave Hitz in 1992 and was...
Master's degree   Stanford University  
Bachelor of Science   University of California, Berkeley  
Bachelor of Science   University of California, Berkeley  
x Jeffrey Vitter  
Jeffrey Scott Vitter (born 1955 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a professor of computer science and engineering at Texas A&M; University. From 2008 to 2009, he was the provost and executive vice president for academics at Texas A&M; University. He...
    Duke University  
    Stanford University  
    University of Notre Dame  
x Jerre Noe  
Jerre Noe (February 1, 1923 – November 12, 2005) was an American computer scientist. In the 1950s, he led the technical team for the ERMA project, the Bank of America's first venture into computerized banking. In 1968 he became the first chair of...
    Stanford University  
    University of California, Berkeley  
x John Hopcroft John Hopcroft
John Edward Hopcroft (born October 7, 1939) is a renowned theoretical computer scientist. His textbooks on theory of computation (also known as the Cinderella book) and data structures are regarded as standards in their fields. He is the IBM...
Ph.D. 1964 Stanford University  
Master's degree 1962 Stanford University  
Bachelor's degree 1961 Seattle University  
x Lawrence Paulson  
Lawrence Charles Paulson (born 1955) is a professor at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and a fellow of Clare College. He lectures courses on the foundations of computer science, logic and proof among others. He is best known for the...
    Stanford University  
    California Institute of Technology  
x Marissa Mayer Marissa.jpg
Marissa Ann Mayer (born on 30 May 1975) is the Vice President of Search Product and User Experience at the search engine company Google. She acts as a gatekeeper for their product release process, determining when or whether a particular Google...
    Stanford University  
x Mark Bender Gerstein  
Mark B. Gerstein is an American physical and biological scientist working in bioinformatics. As of 2009, he is co-director of the Yale Computational Biology and Bioinformatics program, and Albert L. Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics,...
    Stanford University  
    University of Cambridge  
x Michael D. Smith  
Michael D. Smith is the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He is also the division's Associate Dean for Computer Science and Engineering....
    Princeton University  
    Stanford University  
x Narayanan Shivakumar Shiva.jpg
As Vice President and Distinguished Entrepreneur, Shiva specializes in spinning up new technologies and businesses. Since joining Google in 2001, Shiva and his teams have launched a variety of products in core ads and search, including AdSense,...
    Stanford University  
x Ralph Griswold  
Ralph E. Griswold (19 May 1934, Modesto, CA – 4 October 2006, Tucson, AZ) was a computer scientist known for his research into high-level programming languages and symbolic computation. His language credits include the string processing language...
    Stanford University  
x Ramanathan V. Guha Sm_rvguha.gif
Ramanathan V. Guha (1965) is an Indian computer scientist. He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Since May 2005, he has been working at Google. Guha was one of the early co-leaders of the Cyc Project where he worked from 1987...
Ph.D. 1991 Stanford University  
  1987 University of California, Berkeley  
  1986 Indian Institute of Technology Madras  
x Raphael Finkel  
Raphael Finkel (born 1951) is an American computer scientist and a professor at the University of Kentucky. He compiled the first version of the Jargon File. He is the author of An Operating Systems Vade Mecum, a textbook on operating systems, and...
    Stanford University  
    University of Chicago  
x Robert Kowalski  
Robert "Bob" Anthony Kowalski (born May 15, 1941, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA) is a logician and computer scientist, of Polish descent, who has spent most of his career in the United Kingdom. He was educated at the University of Chicago,...
    University of Edinburgh  
    Stanford University  
    University of Chicago  
    University of Bridgeport  
    University of Warsaw  
x Robert Sedgewick  
Robert Sedgewick (born 1946) is a computer science professor at Princeton University and a member of the board of directors of Adobe Systems. Sedgewick completed his Ph.D. in 1975 under the supervision of Donald Knuth at Stanford. His thesis was...
    Stanford University  
x Robert Tarjan tarjan.jpg
Robert Endre Tarjan (born April 30, 1948) is a renowned American computer scientist. He is the discoverer of several important graph algorithms, including Tarjan's off-line least common ancestors algorithm, and co-inventor of both splay trees and...
Ph.D. 1972 Stanford University  
Master's degree 1971 Stanford University  
Bachelor's degree 1969 California Institute of Technology  
x Rodney Brooks Rodney Brooks in 2005
Rodney Allen Brooks (b. December 30, 1954, in Adelaide, Australia) is a professor of robotics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 1986 he has authored a series of highly influential papers, which have inaugurated a fundamental shift in...
    Flinders University  
    Stanford University  
x Ronald Rivest Professor Ron Rivest
Ronald Linn Rivest (born 1947, Schenectady, New York) is a cryptographer. He is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Computer Science at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a member of MIT's Computer...
Ph.D. 1974 Stanford University  
Bachelor's degree 1969 Yale University  
x Sepandar Kamvar  
Sepandar David Kamvar, also known as Sep Kamvar, is a Persian American computer scientist, artist, and entrepreneur based in San Francisco, CA. He is a consulting assistant professor of computational and mathematical engineering at Stanford...
    Princeton University  
    Stanford University  
x Stephen Omohundro Steve Omohundro.jpg
Stephen Omohundro has had a wide-ranging career as a scientist, university professor, author, software architect, and entrepreneur. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with Honors and Distinction in Physics and with Distinction in ...
Ph.D.   University of California, Berkeley  
    Stanford University  
    Stanford University  
x Steve Deering Steve-Deering
Dr. Steve Deering was a Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, where he was working on the development and standardization of architectural enhancements to the Internet Protocol. Prior to joining Cisco in 1996, he spent six years at Xerox's Palo Alto...
    University of British Columbia  
    Stanford University  
x Surajit Chaudhuri  
Surajit Chaudhuri is a computer scientist best-known for his contributions to database management systems. He is currently a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, where he leads the Data Management, Exploration and Mining group. Chaudhuri is...
    Stanford University  
x Susan Athey  
Susan Carleton Athey (born November 29, 1970) is an American economist. She is currently Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the first female winner of the John Bates Clark Medal. Susan Athey was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew...
    Duke University  
    Stanford University  
    Stanford Graduate School of Business  
x Susan L. Graham  
Susan L. Graham is a computer scientist. Graham is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the Computer Science Division of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley Graham's research...
    Stanford University  
    Harvard University  
x Vaughan Ronald Pratt VaughanPratt
Vaughan Ronald Pratt (born 1944), a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, was one of the earliest pioneers in the field of computer science. Publishing since 1969, Pratt has made innumerable contributions to foundational areas such as search...
    Stanford University  
x Vint Cerf Cerf.jpg
Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is responsible for identifying new...
Ph.D. 1972 University of California, Los Angeles  
Master's degree 1970 University of California, Los Angeles  
Bachelor of Science   Stanford University  
x William James Dally William J. Dally
William James "Bill" Dally is the Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor in the Stanford University School of Engineering and Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Stanford. Previously he taught at MIT where he and his group built the J...
    Stanford University  
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University  
    California Institute of Technology  
x William Michael (Mike) Johnson  
Dr. William Michael "Mike" Johnson is a technologist, and pioneer in superscalar microprocessor design. Johnson joined AMD in 1985 as the chief architect of the 29K family of microprocessors, and held various management and leadership positions on...
    Stanford University  
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