• Alan Perlis (1966)
• Marvin Minsky (1969)
• John McCarthy ¹ (1971)
• Herbert Simon ² (1975)
• Michael Rabin (1976)
• Richard Karp (1985)
• Robert Tarjan ³ (1986)
  
• William Kahan (1989)
• Edward Feigenbaum (1994)
• Manuel Blum (1995)
  
• Amir Pnueli (1996)
• Adi Shamir (2002)
• Leonard Adleman (2002)
• Robert Kahn (2004)
  

NOTES
1. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father.  See, e.g., The OMNI Interviews, edited by Pamela Weintraub (Ticknor&Fields, New York, 1984, p. 260) ; also Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists, by Dennis Shasha and Cathy Lazere (Copernicus/Springer-Verlag, New York, 1995, p. 23).
2. Jewish father, mother of partial Jewish ancestry; see Models of My Life, by Herbert A. Simon (BasicBooks, New York, 1991, pp. 3, 17, 112, 262).
3. Son of Dr. George Tarjan, 112th President of the American Psychiatric Association, who "was raised in an intellectual, liberal Jewish family" in Hungary, where his parents and younger brother Endre perished in the Holocaust; see obituary in the American Journal of Psychiatry (150:5, May 1993, pp. 691-694).

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