This article unexpectedly comes from India-based website TopYaps.com and was written by Digvijaya Singh. In brief, here are the 10 noted Jewish computer scientists (some still with us and some deceased):
Leonard Kleinrock: winner of the National Medal of Science for his contributions to packet switching and modern data networks; George Kameny: co-developer of the BASIC programming language; William F. Friedman: together with a colleague, cracked a Japanese cryptographic machine during World War II; Manuel Blum: winner of the Turing Award after he discovered the computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking; Hal Abelson: founder of the Free Software Foundation and the Creative Commons; Leonard Adleman (pictured above): “founding father” of DNA computing; John von Neumann: contributor to game theory, quantum mechanics, linear programming, statistics and set theory; Bob Kahn: co-founder of the Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
The final two on the list are Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, whom we’ve covered previously in this section of AmazingJews.
Source: TopYaps.com
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