Inventores e ingenieros judíos

Desde la memoria USB y la app Waze hasta el riego por goteo y dispositivos que salvan vidas: los inventores e ingenieros judíos han moldeado la tecnología cotidiana en todo el mundo. Cada ficha tiene fuentes.

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Aaron LevieAaron LevieCo-founder and CEO of Box (2005), the enterprise cloud pioneer he launched from his USC dorm at twenty. · 2005Aaron SwartzAaron SwartzCo-developer of RSS, co-owner of Reddit, arquitecto of Creative Commons licences; open-access activist · 2005Abe SilversteinAbe SilversteinNASA engineer who directed early space-flight development, planned Apollo/Ranger/Mariner/Surveyor/Voyager and named the Apollo program; director of NASA Lewis Research Center. · 1908Abraham LempelAbraham LempelCocreó the LZ family of data-compression algorithms. · 1936Abraham SinkovAbraham SinkovPionero U.S. Army cryptanalyst. · 1907Abraham WaldAbraham WaldFundó statistical decision and sequential analysis theory. · 1902Adele GoldbergAdele GoldbergInformáticoAdi ShamirAdi ShamirRSA Cryptography (Co-inventor) · 2002Alan HoffmanAlan HoffmanPionero de combinatorial optimization and linear programming duality; von Neumann Theory Prize (1992) · 1992Alan OppenheimAlan OppenheimInformáticoAlan PerlisAlan PerlisFirst-ever Premio Turing laureate (1966); pionero de programming-language design and ALGOL · 1966Albert BallinAlbert BallinDirector of HAPAG who built the world's largest shipping line and invented the modern pleasure cruise · 1891Albert KahnAlbert KahnArquitecto of Ford's Highland Park and River Rouge plants — the factories of the assembly line — and of industrial Detroit. · 1909Alex KarpAlex KarpCo-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies (2003), the data-analysis company serving Western defense and industry. · 2003Alexander KhinchinAlexander KhinchinCo-established the Wiener-Khinchin theorem in signal theory. · 1894Alfréd RényiAlfréd RényiContributions to information theory and probability. · 1921Alfred TarskiAlfred TarskiFoundational logician; theory of truth and decidability. · 1901Amir PnueliAmir PnueliIsraeli Premio Turing laureate (1996) who introduced temporal logic for verifying computer programs · 1996Amnon ShashuaAmnon ShashuaCofundó Mobileye, pionero camera-based driver-assistance and collision-avoidance systems. · 1999André CitroënAndré CitroënIndustrialist and engineer, fundador de the Citroën automobile company; fue pionero de mass car production in Europe. · 1919Andrei BroderAndrei BroderInventó MinHash deduplication powering web search; Kanellakis Award (2012, 2020) · 2012Andrew TanenbaumAndrew TanenbaumCreó the MINIX operating system. · 1944Andrew ViterbiAndrew ViterbiInventó the Viterbi decoding algorithm. · 1935Anna KarlinAnna KarlinTheorist of online and randomized algorithms for web caching; Kanellakis Award (2020) · 2020Arthur AshkinArthur AshkinFísico at Bell Labs que inventó optical tweezers and applied them to living cells; Premio Nobel de Física 2018 · 1922Arye KohaviArye KohaviInventó the Watergen atmospheric water generator that extracts drinking water from air. · 2009Assaf RappaportAssaf RappaportIsraeli co-founder and chief executive of Wiz, the cloud security company Google bought for about 32 billion dollars. · 1983Avi WigdersonAvi WigdersonFoundational work on complexity and randomness; Premio Turing laureate. · 1956Avrim BlumAvrim BlumFoundational theorist of machine learning; Kanellakis Award (2021) · 2021Azriel RosenfeldAzriel RosenfeldInformáticoBarbara LiskovBarbara LiskovFue pionero de data abstraction; Premio Turing laureate. · 1939Barry DillerBarry DillerInventó the made-for-television movie and the miniseries at ABC, ran Paramount, and founded the Fox Broadcasting Company in 1986 — America's fourth network. · 1986Basil HirschowitzBasil HirschowitzGastroenterologist que inventó the fiberoptic endoscope. · 1925Béla JuleszBéla JuleszVision scientist que inventó random-dot stereograms · 1928Benjamin RubinBenjamin RubinMicrobiólogo que inventó the bifurcated needle used to eradicate smallpox · 1917Bernard LownBernard LownCo-inventor of the defibrillator; cofundó IPPNW (Premio Nobel de la Paz 1985) · 1980Boaz LevyBoaz LevyAerospace engineer who rose from the Arrow missile-defence programme (chief engineer 1999, project head 2003-2006) to president and CEO of Israel Aerospace Industries (2020-2026) and chairman of its… · 2020Boris TrakhtenbrotBoris TrakhtenbrotInformáticoBradley EfronBradley EfronEstadística; inventó the bootstrap resampling method · 1938Bruce SchneierBruce SchneierInformáticoCarmel MyersCarmel MyersBorn in San Francisco, California, actriz and entertainer Carmel Myers acted in over seventy films, was an early television talk-show host, dirigió a production company that packaged radio and… · 1900Chaim Zelig SlonimskiChaim Zelig SlonimskiPionero de science in Hebrew, inventor of a calculating machine and founder of Ha-Tsefirah · 1862Charles KelmanCharles KelmanInventó phacoemulsification, transforming cataract surgery · 1930Cornelius LanczosCornelius LanczosDevised Krylov-subspace methods and early Fast Fourier Transform work. · 1893Corrado BohmCorrado BohmInformáticoCraig NewmarkCraig NewmarkFundó Craigslist in 1995 as an email list of San Francisco events, and kept it free — which reshaped classified advertising and the newspapers that lived on it. · 1995Cynthia DworkCynthia DworkCo-inventor of differential privacy, the standard for protecting personal data; Premio Gödel (2017), Knuth Prize (2020) · 2006Cyrus DermanCyrus DermanDeveloper of Markov decision processes for sequential decisions; von Neumann Theory Prize (2002) · 2002Dan BonehDan BonehIsraeli-born pioneer of pairing-based cryptography securing the modern web; Premio Gödel (2013) · 2013Dan BricklinDan BricklinCoinventó VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet. · 1951Daniel GoldinDaniel GoldinNinth and longest-serving NASA Administrator (1992-2001); conocido por the 'faster, better, cheaper' program approach. · 1940Daniel GuggenheimDaniel GuggenheimIndustrialist-philanthropist que creó the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics (1926), financing early American aviation research and university aeronautics schools. · 1856Daniel LewinDaniel LewinCofundó Akamai Technologies with Tom Leighton in 1998 on the algorithms (consistent hashing) he developed at MIT to spread web content across distributed servers; National Inventors Hall of Fame… · 1998Daniel RamotDaniel RamotIsraeli co-founder and CEO of Via, whose technology powers public transit in more than 35 countries. · 2012Danny CohenDanny CohenFue pionero de real-time internetworking and voice-over-IP. · 1937Daphne KollerDaphne KollerInformáticoDario AmodeiDario AmodeiInformáticoDavid AtlasDavid AtlasMeteorólogo que inventó and developed weather radar and Doppler weather radar · 1924David ChaumDavid ChaumPionero de digital cash and cryptographic privacy protocols. · 1955David GelernterDavid GelernterInformáticoDavid HarelDavid HarelInformáticoDavid KlenermanDavid KlenermanQuímico who co-invented next-generation DNA sequencing (the technology behind Illumina/Solexa). · 1959David MintzDavid MintzInventó Tofutti (1981), the first commercial non-dairy tofu ice cream · 1981David ParnasDavid ParnasInformáticoDavid PelegDavid PelegFundador de israelí the locality theory of distributed computing (Weizmann Institute); Premio Dijkstra (2008, 2026) · 2008David SacksDavid SacksFounding COO of PayPal and founder of Yammer, the workplace social network sold to Microsoft for $1.2 billion. · 2008David SarnoffDavid SarnoffBroadcasting pioneer que fundó NBC and led RCA · 1926David ZuckermanDavid ZuckermanExpert in randomness extractors and derandomization; Premio Gödel (2025) · 2025Dean KamenDean KamenInventó the Segway personal transporter and the first wearable insulin pump. · 2001Dennis GaborDennis GaborHolography · 1947Derek de Solla PriceDerek de Solla PriceInformáticoDonald GlaserDonald GlaserFísico; inventó the bubble chamber (1952), Premio Nobel de Física 1960; later a pioneer of biotechnology (Cetus) and of vision neuroscience · 1926Dorit AharonovDorit AharonovInformáticoDouglas LenatDouglas LenatInformáticoDov MoranDov MoranIngeniero israelí and entrepreneur que inventó the USB flash drive (DiskOnKey, M-Systems, patent filed April 1999). · 1999Dylan FieldDylan FieldCofundó Figma with Evan Wallace in 2012, the collaborative design tool that runs in the web browser and lets many people work on the same file at once · 2012Edmund RumplerEdmund RumplerAutomobile and aircraft designer whose Tropfenwagen (1921) brought aircraft aerodynamics to the car. · 1921Eduardo SontagEduardo SontagInformáticoEdward FeigenbaumEdward FeigenbaumFather of expert systems and Premio Turing laureate. · 1936Edward FileneEdward FileneBoston retailer, inventor of the Automatic Bargain Basement, and father of the American credit-union movement. · 1908Edward FredkinEdward FredkinPionero de reversible computing; devised the Fredkin gate. · 1934Edward OttEdward OttChaos theorist and co-inventor of chaos control; Richardson Medal (2017) · 1941Edwin LandEdwin LandPolaroid Camera · 1947Egon BalasEgon BalasHolocaust survivor que fundó disjunctive programming in integer optimization; von Neumann Theory Prize (1995) · 1995Eli BihamEli BihamInformáticoEli HarariEli HarariIsraeli-American physicist que fundó SanDisk in 1988 and invented the floating-gate memory cell and system flash architecture behind memory cards, USB sticks and solid-state drives · 1988Elie MetchnikoffElie MetchnikoffDescubrió phagocytosis and cellular immunity; Nobel 1908 (NOT the inventor of yogurt; he popularized the probiotic/lactic-acid longevity theory) · 1908Eliezer YudkowskyEliezer YudkowskyAI-safety researcher; fundó the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, coined the friendly-AI research programme · 2000Emil PostEmil PostFue pionero de the theory of computation and recursive functions. · 1897Emil RathenauEmil RathenauFundador de AEG, who brought Edison's electric light to Germany and built Berlin's first power station · 1883Emile BerlinerEmile BerlinerGramophone · 1887Ephraim HertzanoEphraim HertzanoInventó Rummikub, which won the Spiel des Jahres in 1980 and is sold in dozens of countries · 1950Eric BenhamouEric BenhamouCEO of 3Com and chairman of Palm · 1955Erich von StroheimErich von StroheimSilent-era titan ('Greed') and actor ('Sunset Blvd.'); born to a Jewish family in Vienna despite his invented aristocratic persona · 1885Ernest CourantErnest CourantCoinventó strong focusing, the basis of modern particle accelerators; Fermi Award (1986); son of Richard Courant · 1986Ernst GräfenbergErnst GräfenbergGynaecologist who devised the first practical intrauterine device, the Gräfenberg ring · 1929Eugene GarfieldEugene GarfieldCreó citation indexing and the journal impact factor. · 1925Éva TardosÉva TardosHungarian-American founder of algorithmic game theory; Premio Gödel (2012), Knuth Prize (2023) · 2012Florian SchneiderFlorian SchneiderCofundador de Kraftwerk, the Düsseldorf group that invented electronic pop, grandson of the Jewish industrialist Justus Meyerhof · 1974Frank HeartFrank HeartInformáticoFrank RosenblattFrank RosenblattInventó the perceptron, a foundation of neural networks. · 1928Fred SchneiderFred SchneiderFormalized safety and liveness in concurrent systems; Premio Dijkstra (2018) · 2018Gabriel LippmannGabriel LippmannInventó interference method of color photography; Nobel Physics 1908 · 1908George DantzigGeorge DantzigDesarrolló the simplex algorithm for linear programming. · 1914George LowGeorge LowNASA engineer who steered the Apollo Moon program; Medalla Nacional de Ciencia (1983) · 1969George NemhauserGeorge NemhauserLeading figure of integer programming and its applications; von Neumann Theory Prize (2012) · 2012Georges CharpakGeorges CharpakFísico; inventó the multiwire proportional chamber particle detector, Premio Nobel 1992 · 1924Gerald SussmanGerald SussmanInformáticoGerhard NeumannGerhard NeumannGE Aircraft Engine chief/VP (1963-1980); drove jet-engine innovations including the variable-stator compressor (J79) and high-bypass turbofans (TF39, CF6, CFM56). · 1917Gil SchweidGil SchweidInformáticoGordon PlotkinGordon PlotkinInformáticoGrzegorz RozenbergGrzegorz RozenbergInformáticoGustav BuckyGustav BuckyRadiologist que inventó the Bucky grid, greatly improving the clarity of X-ray images. · 1880Hagit AttiyaHagit AttiyaIsraeli authority on shared-memory distributed computing (Technion); Premio Dijkstra (2011) · 2011Hans BerlinerHans BerlinerInformáticoHans GoldschmidtHans GoldschmidtQuímico que inventó the thermite (aluminothermic) process · 1861Hans MotzHans MotzFísico; inventó the undulator, precursor of the free-electron laser · 1909Harold AbelsonHarold AbelsonInformáticoHarold KushnerHarold KushnerInformáticoHarold von BraunhutHarold von BraunhutCreó Sea-Monkeys and X-Ray Specs, holding 195 patents for mail-order novelties. · 1957Harry GuggenheimHarry GuggenheimAviator and philanthropist; first president of the Guggenheim aeronautics fund and financial backer of Robert Goddard's pioneering rocketry experiments. · 1890Hedy LamarrHedy LamarrSalto de frecuencia (Wi-Fi/Bluetooth) · 1942Henry SamueliHenry SamueliCofundador de the semiconductor company Broadcom and electrical-engineering professor; son of Polish Jewish Holocaust survivors. · 1954Herbert ScarfHerbert ScarfDevised the first algorithm for computing economic equilibria; von Neumann Theory Prize (1983) · 1983Herbert ZeigerHerbert ZeigerFísico; co-inventor of the maser · 1925Herman GoldstineHerman GoldstineCo-architect of the ENIAC, the first electronic computer; Medalla Nacional de Ciencia (1983) · 1983Herman LukoffHerman LukoffInformáticoHertha AyrtonHertha AyrtonElectrical engineer and mathematician; first woman elected to the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Hughes Medal 1906 for her work on the electric arc and on sand ripples · 1906Hilary PutnamHilary PutnamContributions to computability and mathematical logic. · 1926Howard BrombergHoward BrombergOne of the principal designers of COBOL. · 1929Hugo KrawczykHugo KrawczykArgentine-Israeli co-inventor of HMAC, the authentication securing most internet traffic; Kanellakis Award (2024) · 2024Hymen LipmanHymen LipmanPatented the first pencil with an attached eraser (1858) and started the first US envelope company. · 1858I.J. GoodI.J. GoodEarly work on the Fast Fourier Transform and Bayesian methods. · 1916Ian SchragerIan SchragerCofundó Studio 54 with Steve Rubell in 1977, then invented the boutique hotel with Morgans in 1984 and created Marriott's Edition brand. · 1984Ilya SutskeverIlya SutskeverCocreó foundational deep-learning and GPT models. · 1986Irving GrossIrving GrossInventó the walkie-talkie, pager and CB radio. · 1918Irwin JacobsIrwin JacobsCofundó Qualcomm and pioneered CDMA wireless communications. · 1933Itzhak BentovItzhak BentovInventor que desarrolló the steerable cardiac catheter used in angiography · 1923Jacob AppelbaumJacob AppelbaumCriptógrafo and core Tor developer; journalism on the Snowden documents · 2013Jacob W. DavisJacob W. DavisInventó the use of copper rivets to reinforce trouser stress points, the innovation that created modern blue jeans (1873 patent with Levi Strauss). · 1873Jacob WolfowitzJacob WolfowitzContributions to information and statistical decision theory. · 1910Jacob ZivJacob ZivCocreó the LZ family of data-compression algorithms. · 1931Jean IchbiahJean IchbiahChief designer of the Ada programming language. · 1940Jean SammetJean SammetCOBOL designer; creó the FORMAC computer-algebra system. · 1928Jeffrey HoffsteinJeffrey HoffsteinInformáticoJeremy StoppelmanJeremy StoppelmanCo-founder and CEO of Yelp (2004), the review platform that put every restaurant's reputation in your pocket. · 2004Jerome F. LedererJerome F. LedererFounder and first director of the Flight Safety Foundation; 'father of aviation safety' and later head of NASA manned-spaceflight safety. · 1902Jerome WiesnerJerome WiesnerInformáticoJoel EngelJoel EngelCodesarrolló the cellular telephone network architecture. · 1936John G. KemenyJohn G. KemenyCoinventó the BASIC programming language. · 1926John HeartfieldJohn HeartfieldInventeur du photomontage politique, dont les couvertures de l'AIZ (1930-1938) restent la satire visuelle la plus puissante jamais dirigée contre Hitler et le nazisme · 1932John KlensinJohn KlensinInformáticoJohn McCarthyJohn McCarthyCoined 'artificial intelligence'; creó LISP; Premio Turing laureate. · 1927John MonashJohn MonashIngénieur civil pionnier du béton armé en Australie, commandant du Corps australien en 1918 (Hamel, Amiens, ligne Hindenburg), fondateur de la Commission d'électricité du Victoria ; figure sur le… · 1918Jon KleinbergJon KleinbergPionero de network analysis; inventó the HITS link-ranking algorithm for web search; Nevanlinna Prize (2006) · 2006Jonathan RothbergJonathan RothbergInventor of high-speed next-generation DNA sequencing (454 sequencing) and semiconductor sequencing. · 1963Jordan MechnerJordan MechnerCreó Karateka and Prince of Persia, pionero cinematic animation in video games · 1989Josef GanzJosef GanzCar designer and Motor-Kritik editor whose small-car prototypes prefigured the Volkswagen Beetle; erased and exiled by the Nazis. · 1931Josef Popper-LynkeusJosef Popper-LynkeusIngénieur-inventeur et penseur social viennois, théoricien du « devoir général de subsistance » (revenu minimum garanti en nature, 1912), précurseur reconnu de Freud sur le rêve et ami d'Einstein · 1912Joseph FriedmanJoseph FriedmanInventó the bendy (flexible) drinking straw (patented 1937) after watching his little daughter struggle with a straight straw; fundó the Flex-Straw Company · 1937Joseph HalpernJoseph HalpernPionero de reasoning about knowledge in distributed systems; Premio Gödel (1997) · 1997Joseph SilvermanJoseph SilvermanCoinventó the NTRU cryptosystem. · 1955Joseph StraussJoseph StraussChief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge (1937) and revolutionizer of the bascule drawbridge; his safety net saved 19 workers' lives. · 1937Joseph WeizenbaumJoseph WeizenbaumELIZA - Early Natural Language Processing · 1966Judea PearlJudea PearlArtificial Intelligence and Bayesian Networks · 2011Judith ResnikJudith ResnikElectrical engineer and NASA astronaut, first Jewish American in space; died in the Challenger disaster · 1984Julia GarnerJulia GarnerActriz: Ruth Langmore in Ozark — three Primetime Premio Emmys and a Golden Globe — and Anna Delvey in Inventing Anna · 2019Julian BussgangJulian BussgangInformáticoJulius Edgar LilienfeldJulius Edgar LilienfeldPatented the field-effect transistor concept in the 1920s, decades before Bell Labs · 1925Kenneth AppelKenneth AppelInformáticoKenneth PerlinKenneth PerlinInformáticoKobbi NissimKobbi NissimIsraeli co-inventor of differential privacy; Premio Gödel (2017) · 2017Laszlo BiroLaszlo BiroInventó the modern ballpoint pen (the 'biro'), patented in the late 1930s. · 1899Laurence WolseyLaurence WolseyAuthority on integer programming theory and practice; von Neumann Theory Prize (2012) · 2012Lawrence FogelLawrence FogelPionero de evolutionary computation. · 1928Lazăr EdeleanuLazăr EdeleanuQuímico, first to synthesize amphetamine and inventor of the Edeleanu process · 1861Lenore BlumLenore BlumInformáticoLeo GerstenzangLeo GerstenzangInventó the cotton swab (Q-tips) in 1923, after watching his wife wrap cotton around a toothpick to clean their baby. · 1923Leo HirshfieldLeo HirshfieldInventó the Tootsie Roll (1896), the individually-wrapped chewy chocolate candy named after his daughter 'Tootsie.' · 1896Leo MarksLeo MarksWWII cryptographer que desarrolló one-time pad ciphers. · 1920Leo SternbachLeo SternbachQuímico que inventó the benzodiazepines, including Librium and Valium. · 1908Leon HenkinLeon HenkinInformáticoLeonard AdlemanLeonard AdlemanCoinventó RSA public-key cryptography and pioneered DNA computing. · 1945Leonard HerzenbergLeonard HerzenbergGenetista que inventó the fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS), transforming cell biology. · 1931Leonard KleinrockLeonard KleinrockPacket-Switched Networks (Internet Foundation) · 1961Leonid KantorovichLeonid KantorovichFundó linear programming; Premio Nobel in economics. · 1912Leonid LevinLeonid LevinCodescubrió NP-completeness (Cook-Levin theorem). · 1948Leopold MannesLeopold MannesCoinventó Kodachrome (1935) with Leopold Godowsky Jr. — two concert musicians who did chemistry in hotel bathrooms between recitals; later president of the Mannes School of Music · 1935Leslie LamportLeslie LamportFoundational work on distributed systems; Premio Turing laureate. · 1941Leslie ValiantLeslie ValiantCreó the PAC model of machine learning; Premio Turing laureate. · 1949Lotfi ZadehLotfi ZadehInventó fuzzy logic and fuzzy set theory. · 1921Ludwig BörneLudwig BörneInventeur du journalisme politique allemand, auteur des Lettres de Paris (1832-1834), figure de la Jeune Allemagne et défenseur précoce de l'émancipation des juifs de Francfort · 1832Maida Herman SolomonMaida Herman SolomonProfessor of social economy Maida Solomon was recognized as a pioneer in the field, contributing to the “invention” of the field of psychiatric social work and overseeing its definition, its…Manfred ClynesManfred ClynesNeurophysiologist and inventor who coined the term 'cyborg' · 1925Manuel BlumManuel BlumComputational Complexity Theory · 1995Mária TelkesMária TelkesPionero de solar energy; diseñó the heat-storage system of the Dover Sun House, the first house heated entirely by the sun, and a solar still that saved lives at sea · 1948Mark PincusMark PincusFundador de Zynga (2007), whose FarmVille taught a billion people to play games with their friends. · 2007Mark PinskerMark PinskerMajor contributions to information theory. · 1925Marsha IvinsMarsha IvinsAerospace engineer and NASA astronaut, veteran of five Space Shuttle missions · 1990Marshall RosenbluthMarshall RosenbluthCocreó the Metropolis Monte Carlo algorithm. · 1927Martin CooperMartin CooperDirigió the Motorola team that built and demonstrated the first handheld cellular mobile phone (1973). · 1973Martin DavisMartin DavisFoundational work in computability and mathematical logic. · 1928Martin HellmanMartin HellmanCoinventó public-key (Diffie-Hellman) cryptography. · 1945Marvin GlassMarvin GlassDiseñador de juguetes whose studio created Operation, Mouse Trap, Lite-Brite, Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots and Ants in the Pants. · 1960sMarvin MinskyMarvin MinskyCofundador de artificial intelligence; Premio Turing laureate. · 1927Mary MossMary MossDespite living with her parents for much of her life, Mary Moss lived a vivid existence through the characters she investigated as a journalist and the ones she invented in her fiction. · 1864Max FleischerMax FleischerPionero animator que creó Betty Boop, inventó the rotoscope, and brought Popeye and Superman to the screen. · 1930Max NewmanMax NewmanDirigió the design of the Colossus code-breaking computer. · 1897Merav BahatMerav BahatCo-founder and chief executive of the Israeli cloud-security company Dazz (2021), sold to Wiz in 2024 for about 450 million dollars; earlier head of Microsoft's global cloud security business · 2021Micha SharirMicha SharirPionero de israelí computational geometry; Knuth Prize laureate (2025) · 2025Michael RabinMichael RabinIntrodujo nondeterministic and randomized algorithms; Premio Turing laureate. · 1931Michael SipserMichael SipserInformáticoMichal Braverman-BlumenstykMichal Braverman-BlumenstykFundador de Microsoft's cybersecurity centre in Israel (2013) and first woman to head the Microsoft Israel research and development centre (2020-2026), also chief technology officer of its security… · 2020Mikhail EisensteinMikhail EisensteinArchitecte de l'Art nouveau de Riga : ses immeubles de la rue Alberta font de la ville la plus grande concentration de façades Art nouveau d'Europe, inscrite au patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO · 1903Mikhail GurevichMikhail GurevichSoviet aircraft designer, cofundador de the Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG) bureau — the 'G' in MiG; diseñó the MiG-1/MiG-3 fighters and early Soviet jets through the MiG-25. · 1893Mitch KaporMitch KaporCreador de Lotus 1-2-3, the spreadsheet that put the PC in every office; cofundador de the Electronic Frontier Foundation and first chair of Mozilla. · 1983Moni NaorMoni NaorCriptógrafo israelí (Weizmann Institute); Premio Gödel (2014) · 2014Moshe ArensMoshe ArensAeronautical engineer who built Israel Aircraft Industries' engineering capability, later Defence Minister and Foreign Minister · 1962Moshe VardiMoshe VardiIsraeli-American pioneer of logic in computer science; Premio Gödel (2000), Knuth Prize (2021) · 2000Nati LinialNati LinialIsraeli theorist of locality in distributed graph algorithms; Premio Dijkstra (2013) · 2013Naum ShorNaum ShorCodesarrolló the ellipsoid method for convex optimization. · 1937Neil ImmermanNeil ImmermanDemostró the Immerman-Szelepcsényi theorem; fundador de descriptive complexity; Premio Gödel (1995) · 1995Nir ShavitNir ShavitIsraeli expert in multiprocessor computing; Premio Gödel (2004) · 2004Noam NisanNoam NisanPionero de israelí algorithmic game theory and complexity; Premio Gödel (2012), Knuth Prize (2016) · 2012Noga AlonNoga AlonIsraeli combinatorialist; Premio Gödel (2005), Knuth Prize (2022) · 2005Norbert WienerNorbert WienerFundó cybernetics and statistical communication theory. · 1894Norman AbramsonNorman AbramsonCreó ALOHAnet, the first wireless packet-switched network and the ancestor of Ethernet and Wi-Fi · 1971Oded GoldreichOded GoldreichCriptógrafo israelí who laid the foundations of modern cryptography; Knuth Prize (2017) · 2017Oded RegevOded RegevInventor israelí of Learning With Errors, the basis of post-quantum cryptography; Premio Gödel (2018) · 2018Paul BaranPaul BaranCoinventó packet switching, a foundation of the Internet. · 1926Paul BenioffPaul BenioffProposed the first quantum-mechanical model of a computer. · 1930Pavel PevznerPavel PevznerPionero de the genome-assembly algorithms behind modern DNA sequencing; Kanellakis Award (2018) · 2018Pedro NunesPedro NunesCosmographe en chef du Portugal, inventeur du nonius — ancêtre du vernier — et découvreur de la loxodromie, la courbe que suit un navire à cap constant, fondement de la navigation moderne · 1537Peter EliasPeter EliasInventó convolutional error-correcting codes. · 1923Peter SwerlingPeter SwerlingCodesarrolló early optimal filtering and estimation theory. · 1929Peter WeinbergerPeter WeinbergerInformáticoPhil SpectorPhil SpectorProductor discográfico que inventó the 'Wall of Sound' ('Be My Baby', 'River Deep — Mountain High'); shaped the sound of 1960s pop · 1963Philip WolfePhilip WolfeCocreó the Frank-Wolfe algorithm of nonlinear optimization; von Neumann Theory Prize (1992) · 1992Philippe KahnPhilippe KahnConstruyó and demonstrated the first camera phone that instantly shared photos (1997). · 1997Radia PerlmanRadia PerlmanInventó the spanning-tree protocol enabling modern Ethernet. · 1951Ralph H. BaerRalph H. BaerInventó the home video game console (the 'Brown Box'/Magnavox Odyssey, 1972) and the electronic memory game Simon (1978). · 1972Raymond KurzweilRaymond KurzweilInventó omni-font OCR and text-to-speech systems. · 1948Reuven RubinsteinReuven RubinsteinInformáticoRichard BellmanRichard BellmanInventó dynamic programming. · 1920Richard KarpRichard KarpFoundational work on NP-completeness; Premio Turing laureate. · 1935Richard LeiblerRichard LeiblerCodesarrolló the Kullback-Leibler information divergence. · 1914Richard StallmanRichard StallmanInformáticoRobert AdlerRobert AdlerCoinventó the wireless television remote control (Zenith Space Command, 1956). Austrian-Jewish émigré physicist. · 1956Robert FanoRobert FanoPionero de information theory and data compression. · 1917Robert FischellRobert FischellFísico and prolific inventor of implantable medical devices, including cardiac and neurological implants. · 1929Robert FrankstonRobert FrankstonCoinventó VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet. · 1949Robert KahnRobert KahnCoinventó the TCP/IP protocols that run the Internet; Premio Turing (2004) · 1974Robert KronfeldRobert KronfeldAustrian gliding champion and sailplane designer; first pilot to fly a glider across the English Channel (1931), held world distance and altitude records. · 1904Robert MosesRobert MosesUrbaniste de New York (parcs, ponts, autoroutes), figure majeure et très contestée · 1934Robert ShostakRobert ShostakCo-formulated the Byzantine Generals problem of fault-tolerant computing; Premio Dijkstra (2005) · 2005Robert TarjanRobert TarjanFue pionero de graph and data-structure algorithms; Premio Turing laureate. · 1948Roland MorenoRoland MorenoInventor of the smart card (carte a puce) · 1974Rolf LandauerRolf LandauerEstableció the thermodynamics of computation (Landauer's principle). · 1927Ronald FaginRonald FaginFundador de finite model theory (Fagin's theorem) and database theory; Premio Gödel (2014) · 2014Rosalyn YalowRosalyn YalowDesarrolló radioimmunoassay with Solomon Berson, a way of measuring minute amounts of hormones in the blood, which they chose not to patent; Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina 1977 · 1977Sam AltmanSam AltmanCEO and co-founder of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT; former president of Y Combinator. · 2015Samson AbramskySamson AbramskyInformáticoSamuel BlumSamuel BlumCoinventó the ultraviolet excimer laser (IBM, 1981), the basis of LASIK eye surgery; National Inventors Hall of Fame. · 1981Samuel von BaschSamuel von BaschMédico que inventó the sphygmomanometer for non-invasive blood pressure measurement. · 1837Scott AaronsonScott AaronsonComputational complexity theorist; quantum computing, Quantum Computing Since Democritus, the Complexity Zoo · 2013Semyon LavochkinSemyon LavochkinSoviet aircraft designer, fundador de the Lavochkin bureau; diseñó the La-5 and La-7, among the best Soviet WWII fighters. · 1900Seymour PapertSeymour PapertCocreó the Logo language and constructionist learning. · 1928Shafi GoldwasserShafi GoldwasserCryptography and Complexity Theory · 2012Sheldon WeinbaumSheldon WeinbaumBioengineer of cellular fluid mechanics; Medalla Nacional de Ciencia (2023) · 2023Shimon UllmanShimon UllmanPionero de israelí computational vision (Weizmann Institute); Rumelhart Prize (2008) · 2008Sidney JacobsonSidney JacobsonFundó the Sid Tool Company in Manhattan in 1941, which became MSC Industrial Direct, an industrial tool distributor that pioneered discount catalogs of imported cutting tools (1964) and computerized… · 1941Siegfried MarcusSiegfried MarcusInventor who built the first petrol-powered vehicle (Vienna, 1870); the Nazis erased his name from the record because he was Jewish. · 1870Simcha BlassSimcha BlassSistemas modernos de riego por goteo · 1959Simon RamoSimon RamoFather of the US intercontinental ballistic missile; cofundó TRW; Medalla Nacional de Ciencia (1979) · 1979Solomon GolombSolomon GolombDevised pseudorandom sequence generation used in communications. · 1932Solomon KullbackSolomon KullbackCodesarrolló the Kullback-Leibler information divergence. · 1907Solomon MarcusSolomon MarcusInformáticoStanford R. OvshinskyStanford R. OvshinskyInventó the nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) battery and pioneered amorphous-silicon devices. · 1982Stanley MazorStanley MazorCo-inventor of the Intel 4004, the first microprocessor; Kyoto Prize (1997) · 1997Stanley N. CohenStanley N. CohenGenetista who co-invented recombinant DNA technology using plasmids, founding genetic engineering · 1935Stephen GrossbergStephen GrossbergPionero de neural network theory. · 1939Stephen UngerStephen UngerFue pionero de parallel and cellular computing architectures. · 1931Stephen WarshallStephen WarshallInformáticoStephen WiesnerStephen WiesnerFundó quantum cryptography and conjugate coding. · 1942Stephen WolframStephen WolframCreó Mathematica and the Wolfram Language. · 1959Steve CrockerSteve CrockerCreó the RFC series and helped develop early Internet protocols. · 1944Steven RudichSteven RudichComplexity theorist behind the 'natural proofs' barrier; Premio Gödel (2007) · 2007Tal RabinTal RabinCriptógrafo israelí of secure multiparty computation; Premio Dijkstra (2023) · 2023Talmon MarcoTalmon MarcoFundador de israelí Viber, of the ride-hailing service Juno and of the green-hydrogen company H2Pro. · 2010Terry WinogradTerry WinogradAI pioneer (SHRDLU natural-language program); Stanford professor who advised Larry Page during the creation of Google's PageRank · 1971Thomas G. StembergThomas G. StembergFundó Staples with Leo Kahn in 1986 and invented the office-supply superstore; the first store opened in Brighton, Massachusetts. · 1986Uziel GalUziel GalGerman-born Israeli firearms designer que desarrolló the Uzi submachine gun · 1950Victor GruenVictor GruenModern Enclosed Shopping Mall · 1956Vinton CerfVinton CerfCodiseñó the TCP/IP protocols underpinning the Internet. · 1943Walter MunkWalter MunkPhysical oceanographer who co-invented ocean acoustic tomography and advanced ocean and tidal science · 1917Willem EinthovenWillem EinthovenInventeur de l'électrocardiogramme, prix Nobel de médecine 1924 · 1903William CooperWilliam CooperCocreador de data envelopment analysis and goal programming; von Neumann Theory Prize (1982) · 1982William FriedmanWilliam FriedmanFundador de modern statistical cryptanalysis; dirigió the US Army team that broke Japan's 'unbreakable' PURPLE cipher in 1940 · 1891William KahanWilliam KahanArquitecto of IEEE floating-point arithmetic; Premio Turing laureate. · 1933William PressWilliam PressInformáticoYechezkel BarenholzYechezkel BarenholzCoinventó Doxil (PEGylated liposomal doxorubicin), the first FDA-approved nano-drug (1995), a widely used cancer chemotherapy. · 1995Yoav FreundYoav FreundIsraeli co-inventor of AdaBoost, a cornerstone of machine learning; Premio Gödel (2003) · 2003Yoshua BengioYoshua BengioPionero de deep learning and Premio Turing laureate. · 1964Yossi MatiasYossi MatiasCocreador de israelí streaming algorithms; Premio Gödel (2005); longtime head of Google's Israel R&D center · 2005Aaron IsmachInventor of the jet injector gun used in mass vaccination campaigns · 1922Aaron WynerInformáticoAbraham AbuchowskiBioquímico que inventó PEGylation, the modification of proteins with polyethylene glycol to improve drugs. · 1949Abraham CharnesCofundador de applied linear programming and data envelopment analysis; von Neumann Theory Prize (1982) · 1982Abu al-Munajja ibn Sha'yaFatimid Jewish administrator who built the great irrigation canal that still bore his name, the Bahr Abu al-Munajja · 1112Adele GoldstineInformáticoAdin FalkoffCodiseñó and implemented the APL programming language. · 1921Alexander ShapiroAuthority on stochastic programming under uncertainty; von Neumann Theory Prize (2021) · 2021Alexandre HorowitzPhilips engineer que inventó the Philishave rotary electric shaver (1939), used by hundreds of millions of men. · 1939Alexey ChervonenkisCocreó VC theory underlying statistical learning. · 1938Allan BorodinInformáticoAlon ItaiInformático israelí (Technion); Premio Dijkstra (2016) for symmetry breaking in distributed systems · 2016Ami LuttwakIsraeli co-founder and chief technology officer of Wiz, and co-founder of Adallom before it.Amiel FeinsteinInformáticoAmir RonenCofundador de israelí algorithmic mechanism design; Premio Gödel (2012) · 2012Amnon LotemIsraeli co-author of the optimal aggregation algorithms for databases; Premio Gödel (2014) · 2014Amos FiatIsraeli co-inventor of the Fiat-Shamir digital-signature technique; Kanellakis Award (2016) · 2016Amos Joel Jr.Inventó automatic call handoff, enabling cellular telephony. · 1918Amos KormanInformático israelí bridging distributed computing and biology; Premio Dijkstra (2026) · 2026Amotz Bar-NoyInformático israelí of distributed and mobile computing; Premio Dijkstra (2011) · 2011Arkadi NemirovskiCodesarrolló the ellipsoid and interior-point optimization methods. · 1947Avishai AbrahamiCo-founder and chief executive of Wix, the platform on which more than 180 million people in some 190 countries have built websites without writing code. · 2006Avraham Levy (CarCool)Empresario israelí que inventó the accordion cardboard car sunshade (1970) and patented CarCool in the US (1980) · 1970Barney ReiffenInformáticoBaruch AwerbuchPionero de israelí distributed network algorithms; Premio Dijkstra (2008) · 2008Ben RichSecond director of Lockheed's Skunk Works (1975-1991), 'father of stealth'; dirigió development of the F-117 Nighthawk and worked on the SR-71, U-2 and F-22. · 1925Berish StrauchA pioneer of microsurgery who performed one of the earliest toe-to-thumb transplants and invented the first inflatable penile prosthesis and the Strauch Clamp. · 1933Bernard GoldInformáticoBowen AlpernCo-authored 'Defining Liveness', the formal basis of program correctness; Premio Dijkstra (2018) · 2018Calvin GottliebInformáticoCarl EngelmanInformáticoCarl WunschPhysical oceanographer who co-invented ocean acoustic tomography and advanced ocean circulation studies · 1941Charles LazarusFundó Toys "R" Us and invented the toy supermarket, which reshaped how toys are sold · 1948Charles P. GinsburgDirigió the team that invented the first practical videotape recorder (Ampex) · 1920Charles RackoffCo-inventor of zero-knowledge proofs, a pillar of modern cryptography; Premio Gödel (1993) · 1993Dan TouitouIsraeli co-inventor of software transactional memory; Premio Dijkstra (2012) · 2012Daniel FreedmanCo-inventor of supergravity; Dirac Medal (1993), Breakthrough Prize (2019) · 1993Daniel SleatorCoinventó splay trees and amortized analysis of algorithms; Kanellakis Award (1999) · 1999Daniel SlotnickDiseñó the Illiac IV, an early parallel supercomputer. · 1931Daniel SpielmanBreakthroughs in coding theory and algorithm analysis. · 1970Danny DolevPionero de israelí Byzantine fault tolerance (Hebrew University); Premio Dijkstra (2011) · 2011David SchaeferInformáticoDavid SlepianInformáticoDean LeitersdorfInformático israelí que cofundó Decart with Moshe Shalev in 2023; its models generate video in real time and make AI run several times faster on existing chips · 2023Donald GoldfarbCo-author of the BFGS optimization method used across science and machine learning; von Neumann Theory Prize (2017) · 2017Dov GabbayInformáticoEddy GoldfarbInventó 800+ toys including the wind-up chattering 'Yakity-Yak Talking Teeth,' KerPlunk, Battling Tops and Stompers. · 1949Edward E. DavidInformáticoEli GafniIsraeli-American theorist of asynchronous computability; Premio Dijkstra (2017) · 2017Eli UpfalIsraeli authority on randomized algorithms; Kanellakis Award (2020) · 2020Elias SnitzerFísico; inventó the fiber laser and fiber amplifier · 1925Elizabeth BorowskyCodesarrolló the topological theory of set consensus; Premio Dijkstra (2017) · 2017Ernst SpiegelNeurólogo who co-invented human stereotactic neurosurgery. · 1895Evelyn BerezinDiseñó an early computerized word processor and reservation systems. · 1925Francis NarinInformáticoFrank ProschanFundador de mathematical reliability theory; von Neumann Theory Prize (1991) · 1991Fred JelinekInformáticoGabriel PinskiInformáticoGeorge LernerInventó Mr. Potato Head (developed 1949, launched by Hasbro 1952). · 1952Gerard SaltonInformáticoGiora KaplanCo-founder and chief technology officer of Wix; the platform's early architecture was his. · 2006Gustave SolomonCoinventó Reed-Solomon error-correcting codes. · 1930Hanan SametAuthority on spatial data structures (quadtrees) behind digital maps; Kanellakis Award (2011) · 2011Henry OrensteinBrought Transformers to the West and held over 100 toy patents; also invented the hole-card camera that made televised poker watchable · 1984Henry PollakInformáticoHoward YudkinInformáticoIrene Caroline Diner KoenigsbergerA distinguished chemist credited with discovering the molecular structure of rubber, Irene Caroline Koenigsberger refused to patent her work, making her discovery available to all. · 1896Irvin StiglitzInformáticoJack WolfInformáticoJacob ben Machir ibn Tibbon (Profatius)Astrónomo, médico and translator; inventó the 'quadrans novus' astronomical instrument and compiled astronomical tables used by Copernicus and others · c. 1236 CEJános KőrnerInformáticoJeffrey UllmanPremio Turing laureate (2020); escribió the foundational textbooks on compilers and databases; Knuth Prize (2000) · 2020Jerome H. LemelsonHeld foundational patents in machine vision, bar-code reading, and automated warehousing. · 1954Joel MosesCodesarrolló the Macsyma computer-algebra system. · 1941Jonathan SachsCocreó the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet. · 1947Joseph ben PhinehasBanquier de cour du calife al-Muqtadir à partir de 911-912 avec son associé Aaron ben Amram : les deux hommes inventent la lettre de change et le découvert souverain, aux origines de la banque · 912Joseph TraubInformáticoJulius BlankFairchild Semiconductor co-founder — one of the 'traitorous eight' who left Shockley and built the machine that built Silicon Valley. · 1957Klára Dán von NeumannOne of the first computer programmers; escribió and ran the code for the Monte Carlo method on ENIAC and MANIAC I · 1948Lance FortnowInformáticoLawrence RabinerInformáticoLeonard PinchukBiomedical engineer, inventor of biomedical polymers and vascular stents · 1954Leopold Godowsky Jr.Coinventó Kodachrome (1935), the first successful color film for the masses — with fellow musician Leopold Mannes, nicknamed 'God and Man' at Kodak; son of pianist Leopold Godowsky; also a concert… · 1935Leslie GreengardCoinventó the fast multipole method. · 1958Liah KorInformático israelí; Premio Dijkstra (2026) · 2026Lucien NeustadtInformáticoManfred KochenInformáticoMartin ReimanPionero de heavy-traffic queueing theory; von Neumann Theory Prize (2016) · 2016Marvin SimonInformáticoMatthew FranklinCoinventó identity-based encryption with Dan Boneh; Premio Gödel (2013) · 2013Micha KaufmanCofundó Fiverr in 2010 and has been its chief executive since the first day; the marketplace made a piece of skilled work as easy to buy as an object. · 2010Michael Ben-OrInventor israelí of randomized asynchronous consensus; Premio Dijkstra (2015, 2023) · 2015Michael MitzenmacherAnalyzed balanced allocations and Bloom filters used across the internet; Kanellakis Award (2020) · 2020Michael SaksComplexity theorist; Premio Gödel (2004) for the topological analysis of asynchronous computability · 2004Michel MirowskiInventó the automatic implantable cardiac defibrillator · 1924Mischa SchwartzInformático