List of Computer Scientists - D

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  • Ole-Johan Dahl – Simula
  • Ajantha Dahanayake – Meta-CASE theory and implementation, Computer aided method Engineering
  • Andries van Dam – computer graphics, hypertext
  • Christopher J. Date – proponent of database relational model
  • Erik Demaine – computational origami
  • Tom DeMarco
  • Richard DeMillo – computer security, software engineering, educational technology
  • Dorothy E. Denning – computer security
  • Peter J. Denning – identified the use of an operating system's working set and balance set, President of ACM
  • Michael Dertouzos – Director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) from 1974 to 2001
  • Alexander Dewdney
  • Vinod Dham – P5 Pentium processor
  • Jan Dietz (1945 -ι) – information systems theory and "Design & Engineering Methodology for Organizations"
  • Whitfield Diffie (1944-χ) – Public key cryptography, Diffie–Hellman key exchange,
  • Edsger Dijkstra – algorithms, Goto considered harmful, semaphore (programming)
  • Jack Dongarra – linear algebra high performance computing
  • Marco Dorigo – ant colony optimization
  • Paul Dourish – human computer interaction
  • Charles Stark Draper (1901–1987) – designer: Apollo Guidance Computer, "Father of inertial navigation", MIT Professor.
  • Susan Dumais – Information Retrieval
  • Adam Dunkels – Protothreads
  • Alan Dix – literally wrote the book on HCI Human–computer interaction

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