Nancy Jane Hafkin

A pioneer and innovator in networking, development information, and electronic communications in Africa, Hafkin spurred the Pan African Development Information System (PADIS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) from...

Joseph (J. C. R.) Carl Licklider

Pioneer who led the development that led to ARPANet, Licklider was known simply as J.C.R. or "Lick" and was an American computer scientist considered one of the most important figures in computer...

Ethel Cox Marden

Participant in the creation of the first computer languages, Marden went to work for the National Bureau of Standards after World War II, serving as a mathematician and administrator. She served as...

Saul Rosen

Chief software designer for the world's first transistorized computer, the Philco TRANSAC S-2000, Rosen left a significant mark on early computing history. Born in Port Chester, NY, Rosen was elected to Phi Beta...

Adriaan van Wijngaarden

One of the founding fathers of informatica (computer science) and designer of ALGOL, van Wijngaarden was a pioneering figure in the history of computing. Adriaan's education was in mechanical engineering, for which...

Jules I. Schwartz

Author of JOVIAL, the first computer software designed for use by the military, Schwartz composed this high-order programming language in 1959 for use in the electronics of military aircraft. Born in Philadelphia, PA,...

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...

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...

Hans Peter Anvin

Distinguished computer programmer, Anvin is a Swedish programmer who has distinguished himself through contributions to Free and open source software projects. Anvin originated SYSLINUX, klibc, Linux Assigned Names and Numbers Authority (LANANA),...

William Wang

Founder and CEO of Vizio, Inc., Wang was born and raised in Taiwan, moved to Hawaii, United States at the age of 13 and then to California at the age of 14....

Paul Levine

Producer of Telco central office-based voice mail, Levine has served as an Instructor at the Boston University School of Management and a member of the ITEC faculty, and as a Venture Partner...

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...

Gene Howard Golub

Co-publisher of an algorithm with William Kahan in 1970 that made the computation of the singular value decomposition (SVD) feasible and that is still used today, Golub was one of the preeminent...

Andrew (Tridge) Tridgell

Co-inventor of the rsync algorithm, a highly efficient file transfer and synchronization tool, Tridgell is also best known as the author of and contributor to the Samba file server. He is recognized...

Trevor Mudge

Proposer of Razor, a circuit technique that allows robust operation at very low voltages in processor pipelines based on dynamic detection and correction of circuit timing errors, Mudge has been a University...

Murray Turoff

A founding father of computer-mediated communication and designer of EMISARI, Turoff was also a retired Distinguished Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). While the term has traditionally referred to those...

William Bill English

A key contributor to the development of the computer mouse, English worked alongside Douglas Engelbart at SRI International's Augmentation Research Center. He served in the US Navy until the late 1950s, including...

George Ciprian Necula

Known for his influential Ph.D. thesis first describing proof-carrying code, Necula completed his doctorate at Carnegie Mellon University under programming languages researcher Peter Lee. Originally from Baia Mare, Romania, he attended the...

Wen Tsing Chow

Inventor and fundamental patent holder of programmable read-only memory (PROM), Chow was a Chinese-born American missile guidance scientist and digital computer pioneer. He was born in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China, near the...

Michael Shrayer

Inventor of the Electric Pencil, the first word processor for home computers, Shrayer launched an unexpected and lucrative new business from what began as a personal project. In 1975, Shrayer was "semi-retired" from...