William (Bill) James Dally

Co-builder of the J-Machine and the M-Machine — parallel machines emphasizing low overhead synchronization and communication — Dally has served as Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Research at NVIDIA, an...

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...

Patrice Lyons

Analyzer of a wide range of legal and regulatory issues relating to the development of the Internet, Lyons has served as Corporate Counsel to Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), where she...

Robert B. Palmer

Member of the founding team at Mostek, where he pioneered the use of ion implantation technology for the manufacture of MOS circuits, Palmer is also known as the last Chairman and Chief...

Dorr Eugene Felt

Inventor of the Comptometer, the first commercially successful key-driven mechanical calculator, Felt built his first prototype during the US Thanksgiving holidays of 1884. Because of his limited amount of money, he used...

Paul Brainerd

Founder of Aldus Software and creator of the term "desktop publishing," Brainerd saw an opportunity to merge his publishing and computer experience with Apple's computer and printer. Through Jonathan Seybold, Brainerd met with...

Patrick Cousot

Co-inventor of Abstract Interpretation, a theory of sound approximation of mathematical structures, Cousot developed this influential technique in formal methods together with his wife Radhia in 1975. In the 2000s, he worked...

Robert Cailliau

Co-developer of the World Wide Web, Cailliau is a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who, together with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, helped bring the web into existence. Born in Tongeren, Belgium, he...

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...

Clifford Alan Pickover

Member of the team that worked on design-automation workstations and developed code for IBM's IntelliStation, Pickover is an American author, editor, inventor, and columnist in the fields of science, mathematics, and science...

Melendy Lovett

One of the original founders of High-Tech High Heels (HTHH), Lovett worked to improve math and science education for girls in middle and high schools through that nonprofit organization, serving as its...

Kathleen (Kathe) Spracklen

Co-programmer of the Chafitz ARB Sargon 2.5, the first commercial dedicated chess computer with an Auto Response Board, Spracklen is an American mathematician, computer scientist, and microcomputer chess pioneer. Born in Grand Rapids,...

John C. Hollar

CEO of the Computer History Museum, Hollar directed the Museum's strategic planning and operations and has been responsible for leading it toward its goal of being the world's leading institution capturing the...

Peter Naur

Contributor to the creation of the ALGOL 60 programming language, Naur won the 2005 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his work on defining it. In particular, his role as editor of the...

Charles Geschke

Co-founder of Adobe Systems, Geschke transformed document production and launched the desktop publishing industry. Prior to co-founding Adobe, Geschke and Warnock worked at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Geschke had started there...

Steven W. Hunter

Systems Architect for Systems x and BladeCenter products at IBM, Hunter was named an IBM Fellow in 2011—the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM can achieve. He has served...

I. Bernard Cohen

The first American to receive a Ph.D. in history of science, Cohen was a distinguished historian of science at Harvard who also wrote about early computer history there. He was a Harvard...

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...

Victor R. Basili

Recognized for measuring, evaluating, and improving the software development process, Basili has served as an Emeritus Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, both at...

Brian Jack Copeland

Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing, an extensive online archive on the computing pioneer Alan Turing, Copeland is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch,...