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- Philip Wadler – functional programming
- David Wagner – security, cryptography
- Marilyn A. Walker – natural language processing, spoken dialogue systems, intelligent virtual agents
- Larry Wall (born 1954) – inventor of Perl programming language, study of language structure
- David Waltz
- James Z. Wang
- Manfred K. Warmuth – computational learning theory
- David H. D. Warren – AI, logic programming, Prolog, the 'W' in WAM
- Kevin Warwick – artificial intelligence
- Jan Weglarz
- Jie Wu – computer networks
- Peter Wegner – object-oriented programming, interaction (computer science)
- Peter J. Weinberger – programming language design, the 'w' in AWK
- Mark Weiser – ubiquitous computing
- Daniel J. Weitzner – Office of Science and Technology, USA
- Joseph Weizenbaum – artificial intelligence, ELIZA
- Franklin H. Westervelt – use of computers in engineering education, conversational use of computers, MTS, ARPANET, distance learning
- Steve Whittaker – Human Computer Interaction, Computer Support for Cooperative Work, Social Media
- Jennifer Widom – nontraditional data management
- Janyce Wiebe – subjectivity, natural language processing, automatic summarization,
- Gio Wiederhold – database management systems
- Adriaan van Wijngaarden – Dutch pioneer; ARRA, ALGOL
- 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
- Glynn Winskel – concurrenty theory event structures
- Niklaus Wirth – Pascal, Modula, Oberon (programming language)
- Dennis E. Wisnosky – Integrated Computer-Aided Manufacturing (ICAM), IDEF
- Stephen Wolfram – Mathematica
- William Wulf – compilers
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