List of Computer Scientists

Charles Babbage (1791–1871) – invented first mechanical computer
Charles Bachman
Roland Carl Backhouse – mathematics of program construction
John Backus – FORTRAN, Backus–Naur form
David A. Bader
Anthony James Barr – SAS System
Jean Bartik (1924–2011) – one of the first computer programmers, on ENIAC(1946), one of first Vacuum tube computers, back when "programming" involved using cables, dials, and switches to physically rewire the machine; worked with John Mauchly toward BINAC(1949), EDVAC(1949), UNIVAC(1951) to develop early "Stored program" computers
Andrew Barto
Rudolf Bayer – B-tree
James C. Beatty, Jr. – compiler optimization, super-computing
Gordon Bell (born 1931) – computer designer DEC VAX, author: Computer Structures
Steven M. Bellovin – network security
Tim Berners-Lee – World Wide Web
Daniel J. Bernstein – qmail, software as protected speech
Peter Bernus
Dines Bjørner – Vienna Development Method (VDM), RAISE
Gerrit Blaauw – one of the principal designers of the IBM System 360 line of computers
David Blei
Manuel Blum – cryptography
Barry Boehm – software engineering economics, spiral development
Grady Booch – Unified Modeling Language, Object Management Group
George Boole – Boolean logic
Bert Bos – Cascading Style Sheets
Jonathan Bowen – Z notation, formal methods
Stephen R. Bourne – Bourne shell, portable ALGOL 68C compiler
Robert S. Boyer – string searching, ACL2 theorem prover
Julian C. Bradfield – logic and concurrency, Expressivity of the mu-calculus
Jack E. Bresenham – early computer-graphics contributions, including Bresenham's algorithm
David J. Brown – unified memory architecture, binary compatibility
Per Brinch Hansen (surname "Brinch Hansen") – concurrency
Sjaak Brinkkemper – methodology of product software development
Fred Brooks – System 360, OS/360, The Mythical Man-Month, No Silver Bullet
Rod Brooks
Michael Butler – Event-B