Gary Price

Founder of ResourceShelf.com and originator of Price's List of Lists, "a database of ranked listings of companies, people and resources freely available on the Internet," Price is an American librarian based near...

David Patrick Reed

Designer of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Reed is an American computer scientist known for significant contributions to computer networking, including the design and construction of Internet protocols, distributed data storage, and...

Rama Chellappa

Pioneer researcher in image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition, Chellappa has served as a Minta Martin Professor of Engineering (from 2005) and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and...

Jack B. Dennis

A pioneer of time-sharing and hacker culture, Dennis is a computer scientist whose research group owned the PDP-1 at MIT — the machine that later became famous in computer science history as...

Jean Paul Jacob

Involved in IBM steel mills projects that developed high-level simulations for NASA, Jacob also created the first IBM Scientific Center of South America in Brazil and the Institute for Software Engineering. A...

Borje Langefors

Pioneer of the first theoretical approach to systems development practices, Langefors was the first computer scientist to develop a coherent model of the development of computer-based information systems in the early 1960s....

Carol A. Jones

Responsible for delivering the first releases of WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Studio, Jones is recognized as a visionary and technical leader for WebSphere Portal, driving the initiative across IBM. She was...

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...

Peter A. Cunningham

Founder of INPUT, the leading provider of government market intelligence, Cunningham has also served as a founder and board member of the IT History Society. As Chairman of INPUT's board of directors, Peter...

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...

Peter Andreas Thiel

Co-founder of PayPal, Thiel is a German-born American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager. He co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin, and later, Elon Musk, and has served as its CEO. He...

Mark Eugene Russinovich

Co-developer of the website sysinternals.com, Russinovich wrote and published dozens of popular Windows administration and diagnostic utilities including Autoruns, Filemon, and RootkitRevealer. He has served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Microsoft...

Theodor (Ted) Holm Nelson

Inventor of hypertext and hypermedia, Nelson coined both terms in 1963 and published them in 1965. An American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology, he is also credited with the first...

Charlie Bass

Co-founder of Ungermann-Bass (UB), the first large networking company independent of any computer manufacturer, Bass helped commercialize Ethernet, oversaw a successful IPO, and then saw the company purchased by Tandem Computers. In...

Helen Greiner

Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for leadership in the design, development, and application of practical robots, Greiner is an American engineer and businesswoman best known as a co-founder...

Daniel C. Edelstein

Leading expert in copper chip wiring technologies, Edelstein served as Chief Architect and driving force behind IBM's copper chip wiring technologies, first announced in 1997. These were devised to increase the speed...

Jane Lubchenco

Named Nature's first Newsmaker of the Year in 2010, Jane Lubchenco was an American environmental scientist and marine ecologist whose work spanned biodiversity, climate change, and the sustainable use of oceans. From 2009...

Stanley (Stan) T. Myers

Former President and CEO of SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International), Myers served in that role from 1996 until stepping back from executive leadership in 2011. On January 11, 2012, he was...

David Michael Ungar

Co-creator of the Self programming language, Ungar developed the prototype-based, object-oriented language with Randall Smith in 1986 while working at Xerox PARC. He described himself as "an out-of-the-box thinker who enjoys the...

Jay T. Last

Member of the so-called "traitorous eight" that founded Silicon Valley, Last was born in Butler, Pennsylvania. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Optics from the University of Rochester in 1951 and his...