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.

~ Items marked with a tilde are circa dates.

• 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

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• Ling, San; Xing, Chaoping (2004). Coding Theory: a First Course. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-82191-9.
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• Internet pioneers