Name Contribution Field of Contribution
Alan Turing Turing Machine
Andrew S. Tanenbaum Operating Systems, MINIX
Bjarne Stroustrup C++
Claude Shannon Information Theory
Dennis Ritchie C (Programming Language), UNIX
Edgar F. Codd Formulated The Database Relational Model
George Boole Boolean Logic
James Gusling Jvl
James Hendler Semantic Web
John Hopcroft Compilers
John von Neumann Early Computers, Von Neumann Machine
Leonard Kleinrock ARPANET, Queueing Theory, Packet Switching,
Hierarchical Routing
Linus Torvalds Linux Kernel, Git
Peter Wegner Object-Oriented Programming, Interaction (Computer Science)
Raj Chandel Hacking
Raj Reddy Artificial Intelligence, Robotics
Richard Stallman Gnu Project
Robert E. Kahn TCP/IP
Sabir Bhatia Hotmail
Seymour Cray Cray Research, Supercomputer
Tim Berners-Lee World Wide Web
Vinod Dham Pentium Processor, AMD K6 Processor
Vinton Cerf Internet, TCP/IP
John Backus FORTRAN, Backus-Naur form
Edsger Dijkstra Algorithms, Goto considered harmful, semaphore (programming),
James Hendler Semantic Web
Brian Kernighan Unix, the ‘k’ in AWK
Carl Kesselman grid computing
Gordon Moore Moore’s law
Jeffrey D. Ullman compilers, databases, complexity theory
Wiederhold database management systems
Christopher J. Date proponent of database relational model
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