Alexander L. Wolf, Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder, His research interests are in the discovery of principles and development of technologies to support the engineering of large, complex software systems. His papers are in the areas of configuration management, software architecture, distributed systems, networking, and security.

Douglas C. Schmidt Distributed computing, patterns, middleware.

Allen Holub  Software architect, programmer, educator, and author specializing in object-oriented design and languages (including Java and C++).

Craig Larman, Author of Applying UML and Patterns (introduction to OO A/D).

Doug Lee  Author of "Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Patterns", and ..., Professor of Computer Science, State University of New York at Oswego.

Peter Coad Business Strategist, Model Builder, and Thought Leader: Now formulates long-term competitive strategies for Borland, the father of Together, previously CEO and president of TogetherSoft.

Refactory, a consortium of object-oriented experts dedicated to helping organizations succeed with objects.

Ralph E. Johnson, a professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, co-author of the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Design, winner of the 1994 Software Productivity Award, one of the leading pattern experts, and an expert on software reuse and object-oriented design.

Steve Hartley  Author of "Concurrent Programming: The Java Programming Language", Professor of  Drexel University's Mathematics and Computer Science Department, in Philadelphia, PA.
 

Bernd Brügge, Professor of computer science with a chair for Applied Software Engineering at the Technische Universität München and adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Author of OO Software Engineering.

Ian Sommerville, Author, academıc and consultant

Karl Wiegers, Principal Consultant at Process Impact, has written three books and several dozen articles on many aspects of software engineering, software management, and software process improvement.

Leszek Maciaszek  Author of Practical Software Engineering, Requirements Analysis and System Design

Mehmet Akşit, Head of the Software Engineering chair and the leader of the Twente Research and Education on Software Engineering (TRESE) Group.

Pankaj Jalote, Professor at an Indian University, software engineering, particularly software quality, software process improvement, metrics, statistical methods for SPI, software architecture, and fault tolerance and reliability, has books

Steve McConnell, Steve McConnell is CEO and Chief Software Engineer at Construx Software (his company) where he writes books and articles, teaches classes, and oversees Construx’s software engineering practices.

Timothy Lethbrid, Prof., University of Ottowa, Author of OOSE book. His papers

Tuncer Ören, Modelling and Simulation, Agent-Directed Simulation, Cognitive Simulation, Reliability and Quality Ethics in Simulation
 

Andrew S. Tanenbaum Author of several important books and Professor.

Douglas Comer  Author of "Networks and Internets", "Operating Systems (Xinu)", ..., Purdue, Professor.

Henning Schulzrinne, Internet real-time and multimedia services and protocols, ubiquitous computing, mobile systems, quality of service, modeling and analysis of computer-communication networks, operating systems, network security.

Jim Kurose, The author of the book "Computer Networking, a top down approach featuring the Internet". Has many outstanding teacher awards for computer networking. Research interests include network protocols and architecture, network measurement, sensor networks, multimedia communication, and modeling and performance evaluation.

Leonard Kleinrock, Professor  Inventor of the Internet Technology.

Randy H. Katz, Profesor, University of California, Berkeley, Network Computing, Communications-oriented Service Architectures.

Raj Jain a Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Nayna Networks, Inc - a next generation telecommunications systems company in San Jose, CA. Until August 2002, he was also a Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, where he is now an Adjunct Professor.

S. Kalyanaraman, Dept. of ECSE , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, audio and video lectures on networking, experimental networking

W. Richard Stevens  Author of several important network books. His books is a must for computer science!

William Stallings Author of several important books.
 

I. F. Akyıldız, Ken Byers Distinguished Chair Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Director of Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory.

John Krum, Researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, work in the Adaptive Systems & Interaction Group on techniques for measuring a person's location and for using location data in a way that benefits the user.

Victor Bahl, Senior Researcher and Manager of the Networking Research Group.
 

Seymour Cray, In memory of Seymour Cray, A Seymour Cray Perspective (Gordon Bell ),  Interview 1995, In Honor of Seymour Cray, Cray Research, father of the supercomputer, the world’s best known computer designer, supercomputer architect, Thomas Edison of the supercomputing industry. One who works at every level of integration from circuits to application software. He excelled at five P’s: packaging, plumbing, parallelism, programming and understanding the problems or apps. Circuitry, packaging, plumbing (the flow of heat and bits), architecture, parallelism, and programming of the compilers to exploit parallelism… and the problems themselves.

David A. Patterson, Professor in Computer Science at UC Berkeley, author of Computer Organization & Desing, ... (classical text books in computer architecture).

Barry B. Brey Author of microprocessors' books and senior professor.
 

Bruce Eckel Author, Java, C++, Python, Patterns with Java books, you can download his books!

Cay Horstmann, written many books on Java, C++, and object-oriented development, is the series editor for Core Books at Prentice-Hall. Cay was VP and CTO of an Internet startup company. He is now a computer science professor at San Jose State University.

Deitel, Deitel Authors of Java, C/C++/C#, ... books.

Çetin Kaya Koç

Kemal Bıçakçı
 

Abdullah Atalar

Edward A. Lee, Professor, Chair of Electrical Engineering, and Associate Chair of EECS University of California at Berkeley Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.

Levent Onural
 

Alan Kay, One of the inventors of the Smalltalk programming language and one of the fathers of the idea of Object Oriented Programming. He is the conceiver of the laptop computer and the architect of the modern windowing GUI. Alan Kay's most frequently quoted statement is "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

Bill Gates, Chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation. Bill Gates Speech at Harvard     Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together

Bill Joy, Co-founder, chief scientist of Sun. He led Sun's technical strategy from the founding of the company in 1982 until September, 2003. While at Sun, Bill was a key designer of Sun technologies, including Solaris, SPARC, chip architectures and pipelines, and Java. Joy has been in on every innovative idea since Sun was founded. In 1995 he installed the first city-wide WiFi network. Bill has more than 40 patents. Before co-founding Sun, Bill designed and wrote Berkeley UNIX, the first open source operating system with built-in TCP/IP, making it the backbone of the Internet. Bill's many contributions were recognized in a Fortune cover story which called him the "Edison of the Internet." His presentation at MIT, 2005.

B. Stroustrup Designer and original implementer of the C++ programming language, Author of the standard reference "The C++ Programming Language".

Donald E. Knuth Perhaps the most famous computer scientist. Author of The Art of Computer Programming and the TeX typesetting system.  His lectures.

Erol Gelenbe

Gordon Bell, Senior researcher in Microsoft's Media Presence Research Group. He is putting all of his atom- and electron-based bits in his local Cyberspace, called MyLifeBits. This includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owns (e.g. CDs).

Steve Jobs, Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc, and was the CEO of Pixar Animation Studios until it was acquired by the Walt Disney Company in 2006. He also found NEXT company. Steve Jobs' Stanford Commencement Speech 2005    all about Steve   Some of Steve Jobs' most famous performances LIVE
 

Oktay Sinanoğlu, Turkish genius, the most famous and influential Turkish scientist, youngest professor (age 26) in the history of the Yale University, the warrior of Turkish Language and Culture since 1960's, ...

Ray Kurzweil, Author, scientist, inventor and futurist

Stephen Wolfram Scientist, Entrepreneur, and Creator of Mathematica.