Coined computer pioneers
Below is a listing of computer pioneers that have been tagged as a Coined. Clicking on any of the below links will open the biography for that person.
![]() | Adrian Carmack One of the founders of iD Software. Category: Coined, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Bob Bemer Father of ASCII, escape character, backslash, and the curly bracket. Category: Coined, Father, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Brian Kernighan Canadian computer scientist who coined the term Unix and helped with the development of Unix, AWK, and AMPL. Category: Coined, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
![]() | Christopher Strachey British scientist known for CPL and Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages. Category: Coined, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
![]() | Dale Dougherty Founder, President, and CEO of Maker Media and founder of MAKE Magazine. Category: CEO, Coined, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
![]() | David Patterson American computer pioneer who coined and contributed to RISC. Category: Coined, Manager, President, Professor, and Writer |
![]() | Dennis Fong Entrepreneur and retired celebrity pro computer gamer. Category: Coined, Entrepreneur, Founder, Gamer, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Ed Roberts Father of the personal computer. Category: Coined, Father, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Edgar Codd English computer scientist and inventor of the relational model for database management. Category: Analyst, Coined, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
![]() | Edward Tufte American statistician and professor. Category: Coined, Manager, Professor, Twitter, and Writer |
![]() | Ethan Zuckerman American Internet activist, media scholar, blogger, and author. Category: Coined, Director, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
![]() | Fred Cohen Coined the term computer virus. Category: Coined, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Friedrich Bauer Computer scientist known for data structure that helped developed the programming languages ALGOL 58 and ALGOL 60. Category: Coined, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
![]() | Hermann Bottenbruch Co-author of the computer programming language ALGOL 58. Category: Coined, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
![]() | John Mccarthy American computer scientist who coined the term artificial intelligence (AI) and created Lisp. Category: Coined, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
![]() | John Scully Former CEO of Apple between 1977 and 1983. Category: CEO, Coined, Manager, President, and Writer |
![]() | Louis Pouzin Invented the datagram and designed an early packet communications network. Category: Coined, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Marc Benioff Chairman and CEO of Salesforce. Category: CEO, Chairman, Coined, Manager, President, and Writer |
![]() | Niklaus Wirth Computer scientist who programmed the Pascal language. Category: Coined, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
![]() | Oren Etzioni American entrepreneur, professor and CEO of the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence. Category: CEO, Coined, Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Professor, Twitter, and Writer |
![]() | Paul Brainerd Pioneer in the field of computer-aided editing, design, and publishing and co-founder of Aldus. Category: Coined, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Per Hansen Danish-American computer scientist known for concurrent programming theory. Category: Coined, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
![]() | Peter Neuman Computer science researcher who worked on the Multics operating system. Category: Coined, Founder, Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
![]() | Robert Metcalfe Founder of 3Com. Category: Coined, Founder, Hacker, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Solomon Golomb American engineer, mathematician, and professor known for his development of mathematical games. Category: Coined, Engineer, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, and Writer |
![]() | Ted Nelson American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information who coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia. Category: Coined, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Vern Paxson Professor of Computer Science at Berkeley and Internet researcher. Category: Coined, Manager, Professor, Researcher, and Writer |
![]() | Werner Buchholz American computer scientist who coined the term byte for a unit of digital information. Category: Coined, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
![]() | William Gibson Speculative fiction novelist who help create cyberpunk subgenre. Category: Coined, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
![]() | William Inmon American computer scientist often cited as the father of the data warehouse. Category: Coined, Father, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |