William (Bill) John Poduska, Sr.

Founder of Apollo Computer, one of the first creators of graphical workstations in the 1980s, Poduska is an American engineer, entrepreneur, and independent business consultant. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, he graduated from...

Albert S. Hoagland

Early designer of random access disk storage, Hoagland played a key role in magnetic head design and recording for the Random Access Method of Accounting and Control (RAMAC) disk drive, the first...

Annie Easley

A significant contributor to the early development of NASA's rocket technologies, Easley spent decades as a NASA engineer whose work in programming, energy-conversion, and shuttle launches helped address the agency's need for...

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,...

Bobby Murphy

Co-founder of Snapchat, Murphy is a Filipino-American billionaire businessman who also serves as the platform's Chief Technology Officer (CTO). He co-founded Snapchat with Evan Spiegel and Reggie Brown while they were students...

Eleanor Francis Helin

Principal investigator of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program, Helin was one of the most prolific discoverers of minor planets in the history of astronomy. Over her career, she...

Charlie Catlett

Member of the original team that deployed and managed the NSFNet to promote advanced research and education networking, Catlett attended the University of Illinois initially majoring in Electrical Engineering. But after his...

Oliver Selfridge

An innovator in early computer science and artificial intelligence, Selfridge helped shape the foundations of machine learning and AI. Credited with coining the term "intelligent agents" for software programs capable of observing and...

John Sanguinetti

Principal architect of VCS, the Verilog Compiled Simulator, Sanguinetti has been a major contributor to the resurgence in the use of Verilog in the design community. Born and raised in Maryland, he...

Nestor Burtnyk

Father of the multimillion-dollar computer animation industry, Burtnyk pioneered animation technology that transformed the field. Born in Ethelbert, Manitoba to Ukrainian immigrants, he began Canada's first major computer graphics research project in...

Andrew F. Kay

Inventor of the digital voltmeter, Kay created an instrument used for measuring electrical potential difference between two points in an electric circuit. He was President and CEO of Kaypro Computers, a personal...

Jacob Bernoulli

Known for numerous mathematical landmarks including Bernoulli Numbers and the Bernoulli Differential Equation, Bernoulli became familiar with calculus through a correspondence with Gottfried Leibniz, then collaborated with his brother Johann on various...

Andrew (Andy) Stephen Grove

One of the earliest employees of Intel Corporation, Grove ultimately played key leadership roles in its success.

Jan Aleksander Rajchman

Conceiver of the first read-only memory and developer of the selectively addressable storage tube, Rajchman was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. Although he was born in London, he received the...

Clive Marles Sinclair

Developer of the first mass-market UK home computer for under £100, Sinclair was a British entrepreneur and inventor responsible for the ZX80, ZX81, and ZX Spectrum computers, as well as the slim-line...

Pratap Pattnaik

Chief architect and scientist for defining, designing, and implementing the key research technologies that influenced IBM's server design in high-performance computing, Pattnaik has served as an IBM Fellow at the IBM Thomas...

Albert Hosmer Bowker

Instrumental in the formation of the Stanford University Computer Science department, Bowker was an American educator who shaped academic computing at a pivotal moment. Born in Winchendon, Mass., he grew up in...

Nathan Rochester

Designer of the IBM 701, the first general-purpose, mass-produced computer, Rochester was also the writer of the first symbolic assembler and a founding participant in the field of artificial intelligence. Nathan Rochester received...

Venu Govindaraju

Co-developer of handwriting recognition at the core of the first handwritten address interpretation system used by the US Postal Service, Govindaraju is an Indian-American computer scientist and educator whose primary contributions are...

Robert H. High, Jr.

Pioneer in the field of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), High positioned IBM as a leader in delivering critical technologies to its clients. He has served as an IBM Fellow—the highest honor a...