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== W ==
Eiiti Wada – ALGOL N, IFIP WG 2.1 member, Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) X 0208, 0212, Happy Hacking Keyboard
David Wagner – security, cryptography
David Waltz
James Z. Wang
Steve Ward
Manfred K. Warmuth – computational learning theory
David H. D. Warren – AI, logic programming, Prolog, Warren Abstract Machine (WAM)
Kevin Warwick – artificial intelligence
Jan Weglarz
Philip Wadler – functional programming, Haskell, Monad, Java, logic
Peter Wegner – object-oriented programming, interaction (computer science)
Joseph Henry Wegstein – ALGOL 58, ALGOL 60, IFIP WG 2.1 member, data processing technical standards, fingerprint analysis
Peter J. Weinberger – programming language design, the 'w' in AWK
Mark Weiser – ubiquitous computing
Joseph Weizenbaum – artificial intelligence, ELIZA
David Wheeler – EDSAC, subroutines
Franklin H. Westervelt – use of computers in engineering education, conversational use of computers, Michigan Terminal System (MTS), ARPANET, distance learning
Steve Whittaker – human computer interaction, computer support for cooperative work, social media
Jennifer Widom – nontraditional data management
Gio Wiederhold – database management systems
Norbert Wiener – Cybernetics
Adriaan van Wijngaarden – Dutch pioneer; ARRA, ALGOL, IFIP WG 2.1 member
Mary Allen Wilkes – LINC developer, assembler-linker designer
Maurice Vincent Wilkes – microprogramming, EDSAC
Yorick Wilks – computational linguistics, artificial intelligence
James H. Wilkinson – numerical analysis
Sophie Wilson – ARM architecture
Shmuel Winograd – Coppersmith–Winograd algorithm
Terry Winograd – artificial intelligence, SHRDLU
Patrick Winston – artificial intelligence
Niklaus Wirth – ALGOL W, IFIP WG 2.1 member, Pascal, Modula, Oberon
Neil Wiseman – computer graphics
Dennis E. Wisnosky – Integrated Computer-Aided Manufacturing (ICAM), IDEF
Stephen Wolfram – Mathematica
Mike Woodger – Pilot ACE, ALGOL 60, Ada (programming language)
Philip Woodward – ambiguity function, sinc function, comb operator, rep operator, ALGOL 68-R
Beatrice Helen Worsley – wrote the first PhD dissertation involving modern computers; was one of the people who wrote Transcode
Steve Wozniak – engineered first generation personal computers at Apple Computer
Jie Wu – computer networks
William Wulf – BLISS system programming language + optimizing compiler, Hydra operating system, Tartan Laboratories

== Y ==
Mihalis Yannakakis
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
John Yen
Nobuo Yoneda – Yoneda lemma, Yoneda product, ALGOL, IFIP WG 2.1 member
Edward Yourdon – Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method
Moti Yung

== Z ==
Lotfi Zadeh – fuzzy logic
Hans Zantema – termination analysis
Arif Zaman – pseudo-random number generator
Stanley Zdonik — database management systems
Hussein Zedan – formal methods and real-time systems
Shlomo Zilberstein – artificial intelligence, anytime algorithms, automated planning, and decentralized POMDPs
Jill Zimmerman – James M. Beall Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Goucher College
Mark Zuckerberg – cofounder of Facebook and Meta Platforms
Konrad Zuse – German pioneer of hardware and software

== See also ==

== References ==

== External links ==

CiteSeer list of the most cited authors in computer science
Computer scientists with h-index >= 40