Robert William Bemer

Best known as "The Father of ASCII," Bemer made foundational contributions to computing through his work on COBOL and the ASCII character codeset. Bemer began his career as an aerodynamicist at Douglas Aircraft...

Wally Feurzeig

Inventor of the LOGO programming language, Feurzeig was also a well-known researcher in Artificial Intelligence.

Barbara Grant

Vice president and General Manager of the Data Storage Division of Removable Media Storage Solutions at IBM, Grant held that role as part of a 21-year career with the company spanning a...

Alain Glavieux

Co-inventor of turbo codes, Glavieux was a French professor of electrical engineering at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Bretagne. He was the coinventor with Claude Berrou and Punya Thitimajshima of a...

Patrick Carl Fischer

His work on the mathematical foundations of database query languages became central to the databases now used by major web servers worldwide. Fischer was an American computer scientist and noted researcher in...

Edward (Ed) R. McCracken

Instrumental in putting the IMAGE database on every HP 3000, McCracken is recognized as a key figure in turning that system into a successful commercial platform. He later served as Chief Executive...

John Buxton

Pioneer of computer simulation, Buxton gained world renown for his fundamental scientific contributions to computer simulation, programming language design, and software implementation technology. He was founding professor of computer science at both...

Hong-Jiang Zhang

A leader in establishing Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) into a world-class basic research center in computer science, Zhang has been a prominent researcher in media computing, more specifically in video and image...

James Henry Wakelin, Jr.

Involved with B.F. Goodrich's first use of modern computers, Wakelin was a United States physicist, oceanographer, and businessman who served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research and Development) from 1959 to...

Fernanda Bertini Viégas

Co-creator of Many Eyes, the ground-breaking open public data visualization and analysis platform, Viégas is a Brazilian-born scientist and computational designer whose work focuses on the social, collaborative, and artistic aspects of...

Kang-Won Lee

Collaborator on wireless networks, mobile computing, network management, and policy technologies research, Lee has been a Research Staff Member at IBM since 2000 and led the Wireless Networking Group at Watson from...

Michael Hatzakis

Co-developer of electron beam lithography, PMMA resist, and the "lift off" process, Hatzakis has been a researcher with IBM Research at Yorktown Heights, New York since 1961, serving as a manager of...

Jeffrey R Yost

Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Yost has also served as Associate Director of the Charles Babbage Institute from 1998 onward. Yost authored The Computer Industry (Greenwood Press, 2005) and...

Paul Thelen

Founder of the largest portal for downloadable games in the world, Thelen built Big Fish Games into a platform distributing in excess of 1.5 million games per day. After graduating from the University...

Sudha Murthy

Founder-Chairperson of the Infosys Foundation, Murty built the non-profit charitable organization into a vehicle for wide-ranging social impact across India. She founded several orphanages, supported rural development efforts, and championed a movement...

Irwin Mark Jacobs

Pioneer of the OmniTRACS system, one of the world's most technologically advanced two-way mobile satellite communications and tracking systems, Jacobs is also co-founder and former Chairman of Qualcomm Incorporated, an American global...

Gerald D. Cohen

CEO and founder of Information Builders, Cohen started an early enterprise database software company.

James T. Russell

Inventor of the concept of optical digital recording and playback, Russell joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of Battelle Memorial Institute in Richland in 1965. There, that same year, he developed the...

Charles Kuen Kao

Pioneer in the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications, Kao is known as the "Godfather of Broadband," "Father of Fiber Optics," and "Father of Fiber Optic Communications." He was jointly...

C. Michael Armstrong

Responsible for the development and manufacture of minicomputers, personal computers, and software at IBM, Armstrong is a business executive who also led Hughes Aircraft, AT&T, and Comcast as Chairman and CEO. Born in...