Turing Award
Jewish recipients of the Turing Award documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 30% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.
24 documented recipients
Alan Perlis1966
First-ever Turing Award laureate (1966); pioneer of programming-language design and ALGOL
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Turing Award
Marvin Minsky1927
Co-founder of artificial intelligence; Turing Award laureate.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
John McCarthy1927
Coined 'artificial intelligence'; created LISP; Turing Award laureate.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
Herbert Simon1978
Social scientist of administrative decision-making and bounded rationality, and with Allen Newell a pioneer of artificial intelligence; Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 1978
Source: Wikipedia — Herbert A. Simon / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 1978
Michael Rabin1931
Introduced nondeterministic and randomized algorithms; Turing Award laureate.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
Richard Karp1935
Foundational work on NP-completeness; Turing Award laureate.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
Robert Tarjan1948
Pioneered graph and data-structure algorithms; Turing Award laureate.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
William Kahan1933
Architect of IEEE floating-point arithmetic; Turing Award laureate.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
Edward Feigenbaum1936
Father of expert systems and Turing Award laureate.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
Manuel Blum1995
Computational Complexity Theory
Source: Turing Award 1995
Amir Pnueli1996
Israeli Turing Award laureate (1996) who introduced temporal logic for verifying computer programs
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Turing Award
Adi Shamir2002
RSA Cryptography (Co-inventor)
Source: Turing Award 2002
Leonard Adleman1945
Co-invented RSA public-key cryptography and pioneered DNA computing.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
Vinton Cerf1943
Co-designed the TCP/IP protocols underpinning the Internet.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
Robert Kahn1974
Co-invented the TCP/IP protocols that run the Internet; Turing Award (2004)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
Barbara Liskov1939
Pioneered data abstraction; Turing Award laureate.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
Leslie Valiant1949
Created the PAC model of machine learning; Turing Award laureate.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
Judea Pearl2011
Artificial Intelligence and Bayesian Networks
Source: Turing Award 2011
Shafi Goldwasser2012
Cryptography and Complexity Theory
Source: Turing Award 2012
Leslie Lamport1941
Foundational work on distributed systems; Turing Award laureate.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
Martin Hellman1945
Co-invented public-key (Diffie-Hellman) cryptography.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
Yoshua Bengio1964
Pioneer of deep learning and Turing Award laureate.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
Jeffrey Ullman2020
Turing Award laureate (2020); wrote the foundational textbooks on compilers and databases; Knuth Prize (2000)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Turing Award
Avi Wigderson1956
Foundational work on complexity and randomness; Turing Award laureate.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science