Specialist joysticks, classed as an assistive technology pointing device, are used to replace the computer mouse for people with fairly severe physical disabilities.

* Specialist Chip Gizmo — Camp Swampy's resident computer geek, was named by a write-in contest in 2002.

The " Specialist " was the first DIY computer which was published in a magazine other than Radio ; it was published in Modelist-Konstructor, a DIY magazine which was not exclusively focused on electronics.

The computer was named the Specialist, and the magazine detailing its specifications was published in 1987, although it was developed by one hobbyist two years earlier.

* Specialist military applications ( computer programs )

Mission Specialist Cleave used a portable laptop computer to operate and monitor the Fluids Experiment Apparatus

* Specialist Soloman ( formerly known as 110 ), computer specialist.

* Specialist services – produce data to support the production of accurate firing data ;

* Chief Specialist Officer or CSO – VP-level corporate officer responsible for a specific function or area at corporate level

* 1985 – STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery completes its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.

* 1986 – Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as a Mission Specialist.

* June 24 – STS-51-G: Space Shuttle Discovery completes its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.

* Lymphoma Association – Specialist UK charity providing free information and support to patients, their families, friends and carers

Babbitt said his own title for the article was " The Composer as Specialist " ( as it was later published several times, including in Babbitt 2003, 48 – 54 ), and " The editor, without my knowledge and — therefore — my consent or assent, replaced my title by the more ' provocative ' one: ' Who Cares if You Listen?

* Instances of Use of United States Forces Abroad, 1798 – 1993 by Ellen C. Collier, Specialist in U. S. Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division

Gregory Bruce Jarvis ( August 24, 1944 – January 28, 1986 ) was an American engineer who died during the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where he was serving as Payload Specialist.

* 1975 – 1979: Specialist at the Finance Ministry of the Estonian SSR

* Military Engineer – Command, Communications and Information Systems Specialist

* Military Engineer – Resources Specialist

* IUCN / SSC Cat Specialist Group – Cat Species Information: Flat-headed Cat

* DI Guide – The Digital Intermediate Guide – By Phil Green, DI Specialist & Colourist.

* Shoshana Johnson – U. S. Army Specialist, former Iraq POW

* Anteater, Sloth & Armadillo Specialist Group – Giant anteater

* Mark Hall Specialist Sports College – Sports College

* St Mark's Catholic School – Business & Enterprise Specialist ( Also has a sixth form as part of the school )

* Stewards Academy – Science Specialist

Payette visited the space station again in 2009 as a Mission Specialist aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour during mission STS-127 from July 15 – 31, 2009, and was the Flight Engineer and lead robotic operator during the mission.

The Russian higher education framework was basically incompatible with the Process: the generic " lowest " degree in all universities since Soviet era is the Specialist which can be obtained after completing 5 – 6 years of studies.

He was a Gravity Specialist and Co-Chief Scientist and eventually Associate Director at Lamont Geological Observatory ( now known as Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory ), director of the Marine Science Institute Geophysical Laboratory at Galveston, Texas, from 1975 – 79, vice-president of Society of Exploration Geophysicists ( 1978 – 79 ), and principal investigator of the drilling program on the Blake plateau region off Jacksonville, Florida, in 1965.

* Ada Lovelace ( 1815 – 1852 ), the first computer programmer

In human – computer interaction, computer accessibility ( also known as Accessible computing ) refers to the accessibility of a computer system to all people, regardless of disability or severity of impairment.

* Atlas Computer ( Manchester ) ( 1962 – 1971 ), an early computer built at the University of Manchester

* Douglas Engelbart, as an internet pioneer, the inventor of the computer mouse, in human – computer interaction, committed, vocal proponent of the development and use of computers and networks to help cope with the world ’ s increasingly urgent and complex problems

* 1926 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist ( d. 2002 )

* 1943 – Jon Postel, American computer scientist ( d. 1998 )

* 1963 – Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker and author

* 1925 – David A. Huffman, American computer scientist, developed the Huffman coding ( d. 1999 )

* 1927 – Marvin Minsky, American computer scientist

* Program analysis ( computer science ) – the process of automatically analyzing the behavior of computer programs

* Semantic analysis ( computer science ) – a pass by a compiler that adds semantical information to the parse tree and performs certain checks

* Static code analysis – the analysis of computer software that is performed without actually executing programs built from that

* Finite element analysis – a computer simulation technique used in engineering analysis

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( ; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954 ), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.

Category: Human – computer interaction researchers

* 1951 – Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician and computer scientist

* 1973 – Sergey Brin, Russian-American computer scientist and businessman, co-founded of Google

* 1923 – Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist ( d. 2003 )

* 1982 – YTCracker, American DJ and computer hacker

* 2000 – Phil Katz, American computer programmer, co-creator of zip file format ( b. 1962 )

* Atanasoff – Berry Computer, an early electronic digital computer