Ahti Heinla

Co-developer of Skype, Heinla is an Estonian programmer and entrepreneur who served as Lead Architect on the project alongside Priit Kasesalu and Jaan Tallinn. They had also originally developed Kazaa, which started...

Balaram Sinharoy

Chief architect of IBM's POWER7 processor, on which the Watson computer runs, Sinharoy has been named an IBM Fellow, the company's highest technical distinction. Well-known as one of the world's top processor...

Maxine Fassberg

Named one of the "10 most powerful women in tech" by CNN in 2010, Fassberg spent 33 years rising through key positions at Intel, ultimately serving as general manager and CEO of...

Warren Weaver

Writer of the memorandum "Translation" (July 1949), said to be probably the single most influential publication in the early days of machine translation, Weaver was an American scientist, mathematician, and science administrator...

Andrew Hinchley

Recognized as one of the 25 founders of the Internet, Hinchley was formally honored at a ceremony at Stanford University. He has worked on the sharing and exchange of clinical information in...

Dov (Bentchkowsky) Frohman

Inventor of the erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM), which eventually led to today's flash memory technology, Frohman is an Israeli electrical engineer and business executive, a former Vice President of Intel...

Eugene Wong

Instrumental in building an Internet backbone for Asia and a pioneering contributor to relational database management, Wong has also inaugurated major initiatives in microsystems, information technology, nanotechnology, service-sector engineering, and biotechnology. Wong received...

Blaise Pascal

Inventor of the Pascaline, a mechanical calculator capable of addition and subtraction, Pascal built twenty of these machines over the following ten years after constructing the first in 1642 following three years...

Mark E. Dean

Co-developer of the ISA systems bus that enables multiple devices such as modems and printers to be connected to personal computers, Dean is an American inventor and computer engineer whose work is...

John Henry Patterson

Founder of the National Cash Register Company, Patterson was also famous for hiring and later firing Thomas Watson Sr., who went on to become General Manager, then President, of CTR — later...

Neil Bartlett

Key contributor to IBM's risk analytics business, Bartlett has served as an IBM Fellow, Chief Technology Officer, and Head of Development for the Risk Analytics division of IBM. His innovative work in...

Joseph Hardin

Leader of the Comprehensive Collaborative Framework (CHEF) project, which developed an open source framework and tools for course management systems, workgroup support, and support of online research, Hardin has served as Director...

Jennifer Rexford

Noted for research in internet routing, network measurement and management, Rexford has served as a Professor in the Computer Science department at Princeton University. From 1996–2004, she was a member of the...

Martin A. Goetz

Software pioneer and holder of the first software patent, Goetz played a foundational role in defining software as a standalone commercial product. In the early 1960s, the status of software as a standalone...

Carol Shaw

Best known for creating River Raid (1982), the vertically scrolling shooter for the Atari 2600 released through Activision, Shaw is regarded as a pioneering figure in video game design. She joined Atari,...

Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Co-founder of Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys—the two largest companies in Electronic Design Automation (EDA)—Sangiovanni-Vincentelli is a world-renowned authority on integrated circuit and system design who has been instrumental in bringing EDA...

R. Blair Smith

Head of the IBM project that developed the first airline reservation system (SABRE) for American Airlines, R. Blair Smith also served as Manager of Market Analysis and field testing for all proposed...

Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier

Best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations, Fourier left an unfinished work on determinate equations which was edited by Claude-Louis...

Kevin A. Stoodley

Conceiver and developer of the Testarossa dynamic compilation infrastructure, which along with the J9 JVM project became the basis for all of IBM's Java language implementations, Stoodley has served as Chief Technical...

Susan Hares

Co-author of the BGP specification — the protocol considered industry-wide to be the most important on the Internet — Hares is an internationally recognized leader in commercialized advanced networking technologies and products...