Anthony "Tony" Gervin Oettinger (March 29, 1929 in Nuremberg, Germany – July 26, 2022) was a German-born American linguist and computer scientist best known for his work on information resources policy.

He served as a consultant to the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and the National Security Council and NASA’s Apollo moon-landing program.

summa cum laude in 1951, having studied Spanish and French literature, Russian, economics and mathematics.

[2] Also as a junior he started working with Howard Aiken in the Computation Laboratory and acquired an interest in machine translation.

One of the Program's overarching themes was that of convergence of computing and communications, which he dubbed "compunications," a term he claims was actually coined by his wife.

He served on the Research Advisory Board of the Committee for Economic Development (1975-1979) He was appointed by the White House as a consultant to the National Security Council from 1975 to 1981.

He was also named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) “for pioneering contributions to machine language translation, to information retrieval, and to the use of computers in education.” He was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for leadership "in the establishment of the national communications and information resources policy."

He was presented with a commendation from President Gerald Ford for his service as a consultant to the National Security Council.