These people are famous computer scientists:
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955),[1] also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
Lamport was the winner of the 2013 Turing Award for imposing clear, well-defined coherence on the seemingly chaotic behavior of distributed computing systems, in which several autonomous computers communicate with each other by passing messages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Lamport
His research interests include complexity theory, parallel algorithms, graph theory, cryptography, and distributed computing. Wigderson received the Abel Prize in 2021 for his work in theoretical computer science. He also received the 2023 Turing Award for his contributions to the understanding of randomness in the theory of computation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_Wigderson
Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist, and a pioneer of artificial neural networks and deep learning. Bengio received the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing", together with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, for their foundational work on deep learning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshua_Bengio
Virginia Vassilevska Williams (née Virginia Panayotova Vassilevska)[1] is a theoretical computer scientist and mathematician known for her research in computational complexity theory and algorithms.
She is notable for her breakthrough results in fast matrix multiplication, for her work on dynamic algorithms, and for helping to develop the field of fine-grained complexity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Vassilevska_Williams
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Take for instance this dude:
Richard Ryan Williams, known as Ryan Williams (born 1979), is an American theoretical computer scientist working in computational complexity theory and algorithms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Williams_(computer_scientist)
Wait...WHAT?
What the hell does a "computer scientist" actually do?
This question sounds simple. But the answer is not simple at all. Please explain. Thanks.
A lot of very different things. A degree in computer science basically just means you work with computers. I was a CompSci major in college with a specialization in Networking, which means I mostly dealt with stuff regarding networks: running cables, setting up subnets, getting Mac to play nicely with literally any other kind of OS on a network, setting up switches, making wall jacks for Ethernet, etc etc. Programmers are also CompSci majors (typically). I think game development still falls under it, broadly? I know it did when I was in college. It's like asking "What do mathematicians do?" The answer is math, like how the compsci answer is "Computers"