List of pioneers in computer science

This is a list of people who made transformative breakthroughs in the creation, development and imagining of what computers could do.

Pioneers

~ Items marked with a tilde are circa dates.

See also

• Computer Pioneer Award
• IEEE John von Neumann Medal
• Grace Murray Hopper Award
• History of computing
  • History of computing hardware
  • History of computing hardware (1960s–present)
  • History of software
• List of computer science awards
• List of computer scientists
• List of Internet pioneers
• List of people considered father or mother of a field § Computing
• The Man Who Invented the Computer (2010 book)
• List of Russian IT developers
• List of Women in Technology International Hall of Fame inductees
• Timeline of computing
• Turing Award
• Women in computing

References

Sources

• Hamming, Richard W. (1950). "Error detecting and error correcting codes" (PDF). Bell System Technical Journal. 29 (2): 147–160. doi:10.1002/j.1538-7305.1950.tb00463.x. MR 0035935. S2CID 61141773. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-05-25.
• Ling, San; Xing, Chaoping (2004). Coding Theory: a First Course. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-82191-9.
• Pless, Vera (1982). Introduction to the Theory of Error-Correcting Codes. New York: Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-08684-0.
• Morgan, Samuel P. (September 1998). "Richard Wesley Hamming (1915–1998)" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 45 (8): 972–977. ISSN 0002-9920. Retrieved 2014-08-30.

External links

• Internet pioneers

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