Werner Zorn

One of the fathers of networking in Germany, Zorn oversaw the first email link between Germany and the US CSNET in August 1984 and the spread of CSNET in Germany, while serving...

Moshe Yanai

Leader of the development of the EMC Symmetrix enterprise storage array, the flagship product of EMC Corporation in the 1990s, Yanai is considered one of the most influential contributors in the history...

David Ferrucci

Leader of the team that developed IBM's Watson computer system, Ferrucci served as the principal investigator who in 2007–2011 led a team of 25 IBM and academic researchers and engineers to create...

John F. Shoch

Contributor to the development of computer networking — particularly the PARC Universal Protocol (PUP), an important predecessor of TCP/IP — Shoch attended Stanford, where he earned a B.A. in political science (1971);...

John T. Draper

Author of EasyWriter, the first word processor for the Apple II, Draper is also recognized as a famous former hacker. While Draper was driving around his Volkswagen Microbus to test a pirate radio...

Steven (Steve) N. Goldstein

Co-creator of GLORIAD, a dedicated-wavelength ring around the globe to support computationally-intensive research, Goldstein served as an International Networking Coordinator at the National Science Foundation from 1989 to 2003, functioning as a...

Kanianthra Mani Chandy

Co-proposer of a new solution to the Dining Philosophers problem, Chandy is recognized for his contributions to concurrent algorithm design and distributed computing. Along with J. Misra, he proposed the solution in...

Peter Goddard

A mathematical physicist who helped establish a permanent Archives Center at the IAS, Goddard is known for his contributions to string theory and conformal field theory, including the no-ghost theorem (proved together...

Dan Magenheimer

Writer of the first PA-RISC simulator, remote debugger, and object-code emulator for the 16-bit HP3000, Magenheimer began at HP as a member of the Processor Architecture Team that developed PA-RISC, where he...

Donn B. Parker

A 2008 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Parker was a leading information security researcher and consultant. He received many awards in the information security field. He lectured at conferences, seminars,...

Larry Cohn

Experienced in creating businesses focused on implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, Cohn has spent over twenty-five years helping organizations integrate varied systems and enable seamless transactions and production. He holds a...

Charles Simonyi

Overseer of Microsoft's flagship Office applications Word and Excel, Simonyi also directed development of Excel's predecessor Multiplan. In 1981, he applied directly to Bill Gates for a job at Microsoft. With Multiplan,...

Nathaniel S. Borenstein

One of the original designers of the MIME protocol for formatting multimedia Internet electronic mail, Borenstein has served as Chief Scientist at email management company Mimecast and founded NetPOS.com and First Virtual...

Laura Niklason

Internationally recognized for pioneering work in vascular and lung tissue engineering, Niklason became the Nicholas M. Greene Professor of Anesthesiology and Biomedical Engineering at Yale University. She is also co-founder, chief executive...

Joseph Weizenbaum

Creator of ELIZA, the pioneering natural language processing program that prompted his growing skepticism about artificial intelligence, Weizenbaum died March 5, 2008 in Berlin. He was 85. Joseph Weizenbaum was born on January...

Robin Milner

A Turing Award-winning pioneer of theoretical computer science, Milner shaped the formal understanding of computation through foundational contributions. He developed Calculus of Communicating Systems (CCS), a landmark formalism for modeling concurrent processes,...

Samuel Reid Warren, Jr.

Supervisor of the EDVAC project at the Moore School, Warren spent the bulk of his career at the University of Pennsylvania. Born in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, he was the...

Aviel (Avi) David Rubin

Leader of the research team that successfully cracked the security code of Texas Instruments' RFID chip, Rubin is an American computer programmer and scientist with expertise in systems and networking security. He...

Eric S. Yuan

Founder and CEO of Zoom Video Communications, Yuan is a Chinese-American billionaire businessman who owns approximately 22% of the company. After earning his master's degree, Yuan lived in Beijing and attended a...

John Russell Patrick

An influential force behind IBM's early adoption of the Internet and World Wide Web, Patrick led the team that created IBM's intranet and the IBM.com website. He was born in Salem, New...