Brent Hailpern

Recipient of IBM's Outstanding Innovation Award for his contributions to the IBM NetVista product, Hailpern worked on and managed various projects at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center relating to issues...

Fritz Joachim Weyl

Developer of the U.S. government Office of Naval Research (ONR) Computer in 1946, Weyl was a renowned mathematician who significantly contributed to research in mathematics during his lifetime and came to be...

Bob (Boe) Overton Evans

At IBM, Evans led the groundbreaking development of compatible computers that changed the industry. He persuaded IBM's chairman, Thomas J. Watson Jr., to discontinue the company's development of a hodgepodge of incompatible...

Glenn Ricart

Leader of the team that wrote the code for the first implementation of TCP/IP for the IBM PC, Ricart is recognized as an Internet pioneer who started using one of the original...

Grady Booch

Developer of the Unified Modeling Language, Booch got his first programming experience on a Fortran IV while in high school. Graduating from military academy in 1977, he worked as a software project...

Mark Papermaster

Overseer of the development of IBM's blade server technology, Papermaster has served as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in Sunnyvale, California. He previously served as...

Susie Wee

Founder of Cisco DevNet, Wee went on to serve as its Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer beginning in 2018. She established DevNet in 2014, and previously held the role of...

Ravi Arimilli

Chief Architect largely responsible for the development of the IBM POWER5, Arimilli has been named an IBM Fellow, the company's highest technical honor, in May 2001. One of the most prolific inventors...

Ken Coar

Co-creator of the Apache Incubator project, the gateway for open-source projects intended to become fully fledged Apache Software Foundation projects, Coar is recognized primarily for his participation in the creation of The...

Charles Geschke

Co-founder of Adobe Systems, Geschke transformed document production and launched the desktop publishing industry. Prior to co-founding Adobe, Geschke and Warnock worked at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Geschke had started there...

Matthew Feng-Chiang Miau

Pioneer of Taiwan's personal computer industry, Miau is an information industry veteran with decades of experience on both sides of the Pacific. He was born in Shantung (China), grew up and attended...

John (Jack) G. Herriot

Teacher of the first programming course at Stanford University, Herriot helped found the Computer Science Department and served as the first Director of the Stanford Computation Center, which later evolved to become...

William (Bill) Henry Gates

Founder of Microsoft, Gates is an American business magnate and philanthropist who co-founded the software company with Paul Allen. Gates has been consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and was the...

Ben Shneiderman

Known for experimentation on the use of flowcharts and information visualization in programming, Shneiderman conducted experiments in his earlier work on studying programmers which suggested that flowcharts were not helpful for writing,...

Jerome Namias

Instrumental in ensuring that computer-generated forecasts resembled the real atmosphere for the numerical forecasting project using the supercomputer ENIAC at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, Namias was a U.S. meteorologist...

Marc Canter

Founder of the company that became Macromedia, Canter has also served as CEO of Broadband Mechanics, which produced People Aggregator, a social networking tool with source available (but not under an open...

Ling Liu

Head of the Distributed Data Intensive Systems Lab (DiSL) research group at Georgia Institute of Technology, Liu is known for producing a number of open-source software systems, including WebCQ, XWRAPElite, PeerCrawl, GTMobSIM,...

George Martin Scalise

Winner of the semiconductor industry's highest honor, the Robert N. Noyce Award, Scalise is recognized as a defender of the semiconductor industry against attacks by foreign competitors, helping the United States maintain...

Ravi Sandhu

Inventor of 29 security technology patents and leader of multiple teams conducting research on many aspects of cyber security, Sandhu has served as Executive Director of the Institute for Cyber Security at...

Richard P. Gabriel

Co-designer of Common Lisp (CL), Gabriel is an American computer scientist known for his work related to the Lisp programming language in computing. His best known work is a 1990 essay, "Lisp:...