Computer People - S
Below is a listing of computer pioneers, inventors, and other people who have contributed to the computer industry that have a first or last name beginning with the letter 'S'. Clicking on any of the below links will open a biography for that person.
![]() | S Scott Crump Pioneer of modern 3D printing technology. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Saadia Muzaffar Marketing, sales, and business executive and organizer of Startup Weekends. Category: Founder, Manager, President, Writer, and X |
![]() | Sabeer Bhatia Indian American who founded the Hotmail e-mail service. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Safra Catz Israeli-born American business executive at Oracle Corporation. Category: CEO, Female, Manager, President, and Writer |
![]() | Salman Khan American educator, entrepreneur, and founder of the Khan Academy. Category: Analyst, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
![]() | Sam Altman Former CEO of OpenAI and president of Y Combinator. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
![]() | Sam Schillace One of the founders of Writely, which was sold to Google for Google Docs. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
![]() | Samuel Caldwell American electrical engineer known for his pioneering work with early computers. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Samuel Hopkins First person granted U.S. patent. Category: Manager, President, and Writer |
![]() | Samuel Morland 17th century English academic, inventor, spy, diplomat, mathematician, and inventor of adding machines. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
![]() | Samuel Morse Inventor of Morse code. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Samuel Palmisano President and chief executive officer of IBM from 2000-2012. Category: Chairman, Manager, President, and Writer |
![]() | Samuel Soule Co-inventor of the first practical typewriter in 1969. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Samy Kamkar Computer security researcher known for creating Evercookie. Category: Founder, Manager, Researcher, Writer, and X |
![]() | Sander Kaasjager Dutch professional game player of the first person shooter game Painkiller. Category: Gamer, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Sandra Kurtzig Software management firm and former CEO of the ASK Group. Category: CEO, Female, Manager, Writer, and X |
![]() | Sandra Lerner Co-founder of Cisco Systems and founder of Urban Decay cosmetics. Category: Female, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Sarah Lane American television and Internet personality. Category: Female, Manager, Personality, Writer, and X |
![]() | Satoshi Nakamoto Creator of bitcoin. Category: Manager and Writer |
![]() | Satya Nadella Indian-American business executive and current CEO (chief executive officer) of Microsoft. Category: CEO, Manager, President, Writer, and X |
![]() | Saul Rosen Lead software designer for the world's first transistorized computer, the Philco TRANSAC S-2000. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
![]() | Savvas Chamberlain Inventor, scientist, and professor who invented silicon image sensors. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
![]() | Scott Cook Founder of Intuit in 1983, and currently chairman of the board of Intuit. Category: Chairman, Director, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Scott Fahlman First person to use a smiley emoticon. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
![]() | Scott Forstall Senior vice president of iOS Software at Apple Inc. Category: Director, Manager, President, and Writer |
![]() | Scott Guthrie Known for his work on ASP.NET. Category: Manager, President, Writer, and X |
![]() | Scott Mcnealy American businessman and co-founded computer technology company Sun Microsystems in 1982. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
![]() | Scott Mueller Author of books about personal computers and one of the most trusted authoritative hardware voices in the industry. Category: Manager, President, and Writer |
![]() | Sebastian Thrun Founder of Google X, home to projects like the Google self-driving car and Google Glass. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, Writer, and X |
![]() | Sellam Ismail Operator of VintageTech, a consultancy specializing in obsolete computers. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Semen Korsakov Russian government official, homeopath, and inventor known for his early involvement in information technology. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Semyon Korsakov Russian government official, homeopath, and inventor known for his early involvement in information technology. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Sergey Brin Co-founder of Google. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Sergio Verdu Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University who teaches and conducts research on Information Theory. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
![]() | Seymour Cray Founder of Cray. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
![]() | Seymour Papert MIT mathematician and educator and one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
![]() | Seymour Rubinstein PC software industry pioneer who helped develop WordStar, HelpDesk, Quattro Pro. Category: Director, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Shafi Goldwasser Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. Category: Female, Inventor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
![]() | Shawn Fanning Computer programmer and co-founder of Napster. Category: Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Manager, Programmer, Writer, and X |
![]() | Sheryl Sandberg American businesswoman and chief operating officer of Facebook. Category: Female, Manager, President, Writer, and X |
![]() | Shigeru Miyamoto Video game designer and producer known for many successful video game franchises, including Donkey Kong. Category: Manager, Writer, and X |
![]() | Shiraz Shivji African born electrical engineer and chief designer of the Atari ST computer. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Shuling Garver Engineering manager for Intel and the first franchisee for Engineering for Kids. Category: Manager and Writer |
![]() | Shyam Sankar Director of Forward Deployed Engineering at Palantir Technologies. Category: Director, Manager, Writer, and X |
![]() | Sidney Harman American business man who with Bernard Kardon made the first integrated hi-fi receiver and founded Harman Kardon. Category: Chairman, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Sidney Meier Canadian programmer and video game designer known for video game Civilization. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
![]() | Simon Phipps And open source advocate and founder of IBM's Java Technology Center. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, Programmer, Scientist, Writer, and X |
![]() | Simon Travaglia Author of BOFH (the Bastard Operator from Hell) series. Category: Analyst, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
![]() | Sky Dayton American entrepreneur, founder of EarthLink, co-founder of eCompanies and founder and chairman of Boingo. Category: Chairman, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
![]() | Solomon Golomb American engineer, mathematician, and professor known for his development of mathematical games. Category: Coined, Engineer, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, and Writer |
![]() | Sophia Bekele Business and corporate executive and Executive Director and Founder of DotConnectAfrica Trust. Category: CEO, Director, Female, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
![]() | Stanford Ovshinsky Pioneer of modern software development techniques. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Stanley Frankel American computer scientist who designed the LGP-30 single-user desk computer in 1956. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
![]() | Stanley Gill British computer scientist known for inventing the first computer subroutine. Category: Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
![]() | Stephanie Shirley British businesswoman and philanthropist who is best known for founding the software company F.I. Group. Category: Female, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
![]() | Stephen Cook American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician and one of the forefathers of computational complexity theory. Category: Father, Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
![]() | Stephen Dunwell American electrical engineer who led the engineering effort in developing IBM's STRETCH. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
![]() | Stephen Hawking British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author. Category: Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer |
![]() | Stephen Keckler Senior Director of Architecture Research at NVIDIA who's interested in technology-scalable architectures. Category: Director, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
![]() | Stephen Kleene American mathematician and co-founder of the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
![]() | Stephen Robertson British computer scientist known for work on information retrieval and inverse document frequency. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
![]() | Stephen Wilhite Creator of the GIF image format. Category: Manager and Writer |
![]() | Stephen Wolfram Founder of Wolfram|Alpha. Category: Founder, Manager, Scientist, Writer, and X |
![]() | Steve Ballmer CEO of Microsoft. Category: CEO, Manager, Writer, and X |
![]() | Steve Bristow Former VP of Engineering at Atari who helped design the Atari 2600. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Steve Capps Computer programmer and engineer known for his work on the Apple Inc. Macintosh computer and Newton OS during the 1980s and 1990s. Category: Engineer, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
![]() | Steve Case Co-founder of America Online (AOL). Category: CEO, Chairman, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
![]() | Steve Chen Co-founder of YouTube. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Steve Crocker Created the first FTC and help create the ARPANET protocols. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Steve Dorner American software engineer known for developing the Eudora e-mail client in 1988. Category: Director, Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Steve Garfield Videographer, video blogging pioneer and co-founder of New Mediacracy podcast. Category: Founder, Manager, Personality, Writer, and X |
![]() | Steve Gibson Computer enthusiast, software engineer and security researcher. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, Personality, Researcher, Writer, and X |
![]() | Steve Jobs Co-founder of and former CEO of the Apple company. Category: CEO, Director, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Steve Kirsch American computer scientist and entrepreneur known for inventing the optical mouse. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, Writer, and X |
![]() | Steve Mann Researcher and inventor known for his work on computational photography and wearable computing. Category: Editor, Father, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Researcher, Writer, and X |
![]() | Steve Mcconnell Author of software engineering textbooks including Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art. Category: Manager and Writer |
![]() | Steve Meretzky American computer game developer and interactive fiction writer. Category: Gamer, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Steve Russell Computer scientist who helped create Spacewar!, one of the earliest videogames. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
![]() | Steve Wolff One of the fathers of the Internet and developer of NSFNET. Category: Director, Father, Manager, President, Researcher, and Writer |
![]() | Steve Wozniak Co-founder of Apple and Father of the Apple computer. Category: CEO, Father, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Writer, and X |
![]() | Steven Bourne British computer scientist known for authoring the Bourne shell. Category: Manager, Mathematician, President, Scientist, and Writer |
![]() | Steven Coons Computer Graphics early pioneer, author, and former Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
![]() | Steven Punter Also known as Punter or Old Punter. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
![]() | Steven Sinofsky President of the Windows Division at Microsoft from July 2009 through his departure on November 12, 2012. Category: Manager, President, Writer, and X |
![]() | Stewart Brand American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. Category: Editor, Founder, Hacker, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Stewart Cheifet Television host and producer of Computer Chronicles. Category: Manager, Personality, Writer, and X |
![]() | Stu Galley American computer programmer and interactive fiction game author. Category: Editor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
![]() | Stuart Cheshire Senior Scientist at Apple Computer and author of Mac multi-player game Bolo who Pioneered Zeroconf networking. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, Writer, and X |
![]() | Stuart Feldman Creator of the computer program Make for UNIX systems and author of the first Fortran 77 compiler. Category: Manager, President, and Writer |
![]() | Stuart Moulthrop Author of hypertext fiction works Victory Garden. Category: Founder, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
![]() | Stuart Russell Innovator in the philosophy and practice of Artificial Intelligence. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
![]() | Sue Gardner Canadian journalist and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation (2007-2013). Category: Director, Female, Manager, Writer, and X |
![]() | Sugata Mitra Professor at Newcastle University in England known for his Hole in the Wall project. Category: Manager, Professor, Scientist, Writer, and X |
![]() | Susan Decker American business executive and former president of Yahoo! Inc. Category: Analyst, Director, Investor, Manager, President, Writer, and X |
![]() | Susan Dumais Principal Researcher in the CLUES (Context, Learning, and User Experience for Search) Group of Microsoft Research. Category: Female, Manager, Professor, Researcher, Writer, and X |
![]() | Susan Kare Artist and graphic designer who created many of the interface elements for the Apple Macintosh in the 1980s. Category: Director, Female, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Susan Wojcicki American businesswoman and CEO of YouTube. Category: CEO, Female, Manager, Writer, and X |
![]() | Sven Jaschan Self-confessed author of the NetSky and Sasser computer worm. Category: Convict, Hacker, Manager, and Writer |
![]() | Sviatoslav Pestov Creator of Factor, a scripting language for a video game which was later incorporated into Java. Category: Editor, Manager, and Writer |
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