Nikola Tesla

A major contributor to the birth of commercial electricity and revolutionary developer in the field of electromagnetism, Tesla was an inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer who is best known for his...

Thomas Siebel

Founder of Siebel Systems and pioneer of customer relationship management (CRM), Siebel revolutionized sales by developing software to automate sales and customer service activities. He graduated from the University of Illinois at...

Jesse James Garrett

Publisher of the diagram "The Elements of User Experience," a foundational model of user-centered design, Garrett is a user experience designer and co-founder of Adaptive Path, a user experience strategy and design...

Anita Borg

Developer of a patented method for generating complete address traces for analyzing and designing high-speed memory systems, and of MECCA, an email and Web-based system for communicating in virtual communities, Borg was...

Karen Banks

Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013 as a "Global Connector," Banks is a British computer networking pioneer recognized for expanding internet access to underserved communities worldwide. In the 1990s,...

Peter Kogge

Designer of the Space Shuttle I/O processor — one of the first multithreaded computers and the first to fly in space — Kogge is a computer engineer and 1993 IBM Fellow who...

Markus Neteler

Honored with the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS) in recognition of his commitment to GRASS project coordination, Neteler has served as coordinator of the GRASS (Geographic...

Nicholas (Nick) M. Donofrio

Leader of IBM's technology and innovation strategies, Donofrio served as Executive Vice President of Innovation and Technology at IBM from 1997 until his retirement in October 2008. Born in Beacon, New York,...

Stephanie Shirley

Founder of F International, a software company initially employing only women, Shirley built her vision that software could provide an outlet for the skills and creative ability of housebound women into a...

Dimitri P. Bertsekas

Known for his fourteen textbooks and monographs in theoretical and algorithmic optimization and control, and in applied probability, Bertsekas is an applied mathematician and computer scientist who has served as a professor...

Jaan Tallinn

Co-developer of Skype and FastTrack/Kazaa, Tallinn holds the world's record for the largest number of software downloads at almost 500 million. An Estonian programmer, he is widely celebrated for writing the peer-to-peer...

Ralph L. Palmer

Developer of the IBM 604 Electronic Calculator, Palmer graduated with a B.S. in electrical engineering from Union College in Schenectady in 1931. He joined IBM as an engineer in 1932. It was here...

David E. Culler

Inventor of the TinyOS operating system, Culler is a computer scientist who has served as Chair of Computer Science and Associate Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of...

Howard Hathaway Aiken

Pioneer in computing and original concept designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer, Aiken transformed early computing with his vision of electro-mechanical calculation. Howard studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and later obtained...

Lawrence (Larry) A. Welke

Publisher of the first publications dedicated to the software industry, Welke is also remembered as a co-founder of the Software Industry Association section of ADAPSO (known today as the Information Technology Association...

Amir Pnueli

Pioneer of temporal logic in computing science, Pnueli made a major breakthrough in the verification and certification of concurrent and reactive systems with his landmark 1977 paper "The Temporal Logic of Programs,"...

Andy Hertzfeld

Key member of the original Apple Macintosh development team, Hertzfeld graduated from Brown University with a Computer Science degree in 1975 and attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. In...

Per Brinch Hansen

A noted pioneer of concurrent programming and operating systems (kernels), Brinch Hansen coined the then-Danish word for computer: Datamat (English: datamaton). In the 1960s, Brinch Hansen worked at the Danish computer company...

Edson Hendricks

Developer of RSCS (later known as VNET), fundamental software that powered the world's largest network (or network of networks) prior to the Internet, Hendricks is an IBM computer scientist whose work directly...

L. John Doerr

Prominent venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in Silicon Valley, Doerr is an American investor based in Menlo Park, California.