# List of Jewish American computer scientists

This is a list of notable Jewish American computer scientists. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.
* Scott Aaronson, quantum computing
* Hal Abelson, artificial intelligence
* Leonard Adleman, RSA cryptography, DNA computing, Turing Award (2002)
* Adi Shamir, RSA cryptography, DNA computing, Turing Award (2002)
* Paul Baran, Polish-born engineer; co-invented packet switching
* Lenore and Manuel Blum (Turing Award (1995)), Venezuelan-American computer scientist; computational complexity, parents of Avrim Blum (Co-training)
* Dan Bricklin, creator of the original spreadsheet
* Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
* Danny Cohen, Israeli-American Internet pioneer; first to run a visual flight simulator across the ARPANet
* Robert Fano, Italian-American information theorist
* Ed Feigenbaum, artificial intelligence, Turing Award (1994)
* William F. Friedman, cryptologist
* Herbert Gelernter, father of Unabomber victim David Gelernter;artificial intelligence
* Richard D. Gitlin, co-inventor of the digital subscriber line (DSL)
* Adele Goldberg, Smalltalk design team
* Shafi Goldwasser, Israeli-American cryptographer; Turing Award (2013)
* Philip Greenspun, web applications
* Frank Heart, co-designed the first routing computer for the ARPANET, the forerunner of the internet
* Martin Hellman, public key cryptography, co-inventor of the Diffie–Hellman key exchange protocol, Turing Award (2015)
* Douglas Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach and other publications (half Jewish)
* Bob Kahn, co-invented TCP and IP, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Turing Award (2004)
* Richard M. Karp, computational complexity, Turing Award (1985)
* John Kemeny, Hungarian-born co-developer of BASIC
* Leonard Kleinrock, packet switching
* John Klensin, i18n, SMTP, MIME
* Solomon Kullback, cryptographer
* Ray Kurzweil, OCR, speech recognition
* Jaron Lanier, virtual reality pioneer
* Leonid Levin, Soviet Ukraine-born computer scientist; computational complexity, Knuth Prize (2012)
* Barbara Liskov (born Huberman), first woman to be granted a doctorate in computer science in the United States; Turing Award (2008)
* Udi Manber, Israeli-American computer scientist; agrep, GLIMPSE, suffix array, search engines
* John McCarthy, artificial intelligence, LISP programming language, Turing Award (1971)
* Jack Minker, database logic
* Marvin Minsky, artificial intelligence, neural nets, Turing Award (1969); co-founder of MIT's AI laboratory
* John von Neumann (born Neumann János Lajos), Hungarian-American computer scientist, mathematician and economist
* Seymour Papert, South African-born co-inventor — with Wally Feurzeig and Cynthia Solomon — of the Logo programming language
* Judea Pearl, Israeli-American AI scientist; developer of Bayesian networks; father of Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and later beheaded by rebels in Pakistan
* Alan J. Perlis, compilers, Turing Award (1966)
* Frank Rosenblatt, invented an artificial intelligence program called "Perceptrons" (1960)
* Radia Perlman, inventor of the Spanning Tree Protocol
* Azriel Rosenfeld, image analysis
* Michael Rothman, UEFI
* Ben Shneiderman, human-computer interaction, information visualization
* Abraham Silberschatz, databases, operating systems
* Herbert A. Simon, cognitive and computer scientist; Turing Award (1975)
* Abraham Sinkov, cryptanalyst; NSA Hall of Honor (1999)
* Gustave Solomon, mathematician and electrical engineer; one of the founders of the algebraic theory of error detection and correction
* Ray Solomonoff, algorithmic information theory
* Richard Stallman, designed the GNU operating system, founder of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
* Andrew S. Tanenbaum, American-Dutch computer scientist; creator of MINIX
* Warren Teitelman, autocorrect, Undo/Redo, Interlisp
* Larry Tesler, developed the idea of cut, copy, and paste
* Jeffrey Ullman, compilers, theory of computation, data-structures, databases, awarded Knuth Prize (2000)
* Peter J. Weinberger, contributed to the design of the AWK programming language (he is the "W" in AWK), and the FORTRAN compiler FORTRAN 77
* Joseph Weizenbaum, German-born computer scientist; developer of ELIZA; the Weizenbaum Award is named after him
* Norbert Wiener, cybernetics
* Terry Winograd, SHRDLU
* Jacob Wolfowitz, Polish-born information theorist
* Stephen Wolfram, British-American computer scientist; designer of the Wolfram Language
* Lotfi Zadeh, Azerbaijan SSR-born computer scientist; inventor of Fuzzy logic (Jewish mother, Azerbaijani father)