List of University of California, Berkeley alumni
Name Degree ( s ) Prize year Reason ( prize citation ) Additional notability
Leonard Adleman B.A . 1968 , Ph.D. 1976 , 2002 for the ingenious contribution for making public-key cryptography useful in practice co-author of the RSA encryption algorithm for computer security
Douglas C. Engelbart B.Eng . 1952 , Ph.D. 1955 1997 for an inspiring vision of the future of interactive computing and the invention of key technologies to help realize this vision inventor of the computer mouse ; recipient of the National Medal of Technology in 2000 , pioneer in hypertext and networked computers
Shafi Goldwasser M.S . 1981 , Ph.D. 1983 2012 for transformative work that laid the complexity-theoretic foundations for the science of cryptography and in the process pioneered new methods for efficient verification of mathematical proofs in complexity theory professor of computer science and the mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science ; , recipient of two Gödel Prizes ( 1993 , for the development of interactive proof systems and 2001 for the PCP theorem and its applications to hardness of approximation ) ; RSA Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT
Jim Gray B.S . 1966 , Ph.D. 1969 2001 for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation
Butler Lampson Ph.D. 1967 1992 for contributions to the development of distributed , personal computing environments and the technology for their implementation : workstations , networks , operating systems , programming systems , displays , security and document publishing founding member of Xerox PARC , major contributor to the development of the personal computer
Barbara Liskov B.A . 1961 2008 for contributions to practical and theoretical foundations of programming language and system design , especially related to data abstraction , fault tolerance , and distributed computing first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in Computer Science ( in 1968 at Stanford ) , creator of CLU , professor at MIT
Silvio Micali Ph.D. 1982 2012 for transformative work that laid the complexity-theoretic foundations for the science of cryptography and in the process pioneered new methods for efficient verification of mathematical proofs in complexity theory ; recipient of the Gödel Prize in 1993 for the development of interactive proof systems Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT
Dana Scott B.S . 1954 1976 for the joint paper ( with Rabin ) Finite Automata and Their Decision Problem , which introduced the idea of nondeterministic machines , which has proved to be an enormously valuable concept . Their ( Scott & Rabin ) classic paper has been a continuous source of inspiration for subsequent work in this field former Associate Professor of Math at UC Berkeley , professor emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University
Charles P. Thacker B.A . 1967 2009 for the pioneering design and realization of the first modern personal computer - the Alto at Xerox PARC - and seminal inventions and contributions to local area networks ( including the Ethernet ) , multiprocessor workstations , snooping cache coherence protocols , and tablet personal computers Microsoft Technical Fellow , chief designer of the Alto computer at Xerox PARC , co-inventor of Ethernet , recipient of the IEEE John von Neumann Medal in 2007 , recipient of the Draper Prize in 2004
Ken Thompson B.S . 1965 , M.S . 1966 1983 for the development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system co-creator of the Unix operating system
Niklaus Wirth Ph.D. 1967 1984 for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages , EULER , ALGOL-W , MODULA and Pascal creator of the Pascal programming language
Turing Award laureates
The Turing Award is considered to be the `` Nobel Prize '' of computer science .
This page lists notable alumni and students of the University of California, Berkeley. Alumni who also served as faculty are listed in bold font, with degree and year. Notable faculty members are in the article List of UC Berkeley faculty.