John McCarthy: An MIT graduate, he coined the term artificial intelligence and pioneered early AI research.
Grace Hopper: A Yale and Harvard alumna, her work on COBOL laid the foundation for modern programming languages.
Alan Turing: Although not an Ivy League graduate, his impact on computer science from Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study is undeniable, with his Turing machine concept shaping modern computing.
Barbara Liskov: An MIT alumna, her groundbreaking work in programming languages and software engineering earned her the Turing Award.
Yann LeCun: A Yale graduate, his contributions to convolutional neural networks significantly advanced computer vision and deep learning.
Stephen Wolfram: A Caltech and Princeton alumnus, his development of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha transformed computational knowledge.
Judea Pearl: A Rutgers alumnus, his Bayesian networks and work in causal reasoning earned him the Turing Award for AI and philosophy.
Fei-Fei Li: A Princeton and Caltech graduate, her leadership in ImageNet revolutionized image recognition and spurred AI education.