List of computing people

This is a list of people who are important or notable in the field of computing, but who are not primarily computer scientists or programmers.

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  • John Carmack, realtime computer game graphics, id Software
  • Noam Chomsky, linguist, language theorist (Chomsky hierarchy) and social critic

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  • Grace Hopper, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers.

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  • Jonathan Ive, Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple

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  • Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum, computer critic
  • Kevin Warwick, cyborg scientist, implant self-experimenter
  • Niklaus Wirth, developed Pascal
  • Peter J. Weinberger, co-developer of the AWK language
  • Sophie Wilson, designer of the ARM instruction set
  • Stephen Wolfram, founder of Wolfram Research, physicist, software developer, mathematician
  • Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple; creator of the Apple I and Apple II computers

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  • Jill Zimmerman, James M. Beall Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Goucher College
  • Konrad Zuse, built one of the first computers
  • Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook

See also

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