Steven (Steve) Paul Jobs

Co-founder and CEO of Apple, Jobs was an American business magnate who also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios. He became a member of the board of The Walt...

David G. Arscott

Founder board member of the IT History Society and Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Arscott spent his entire professional career investing in private and public technology companies. In 1968, he joined the group...

Krste Asanović

Leader of the SCALE group, investigating advanced architectures for energy-efficient high-performance computing, Asanović's breakthrough innovations in memory management and parallel processor design are highly influential within the field. Asanović has served as an...

Yngvar Lundh

Developer of a new form of distributed, digital PBXs called hub technology, Lundh was a Norwegian engineer and scientist also known for bringing the Internet to Norway and developing some of the...

Jean David Ichbiah

Chief designer of the Ada programming language, Ichbiah was a French-born computer scientist who led the design of Ada (from 1977–1983), a general-purpose, strongly typed programming language with certified validated compilers. At...

Thomas M. Cover

Known for developing the relationship between information theory and statistics, Cover served as past President of the IEEE Information Theory Society and was a Fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics and...

Philip Don Estridge

Known as "the father of the IBM PC," Estridge led development of the original IBM Personal Computer. His decisions dramatically changed the computer industry, resulting in a vast increase in the number...

Dave Cochran

Co-developer of the HP 35 Pocket Scientific Calculator, Cochran spent 25 years at Hewlett-Packard, starting as a part-time Test Technician in 1956 and departing as a celebrated HP Engineer in 1981. Between...

Ruzena Bajcsy

Founding director of the University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception (GRASP) Laboratory, Bajcsy is an American engineer and computer scientist specializing in robotics. She also served as head of...

Gordon Matthews

Founder of ECS Communications (later VMX), one of the first companies to pioneer the commercialization of voicemail for corporate use, Matthews was an American inventor and businessman. He also invented systems to...

Samuel Reid Warren, Jr.

Supervisor of the EDVAC project at the Moore School, Warren spent the bulk of his career at the University of Pennsylvania. Born in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, he was the...

Michael (Mike) J. Karels

Key contributor to the history of BSD UNIX, Karels was an American software engineer who graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. He went on...

Marvin L. Stein

One of the founding faculty members of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota, Stein served as its Director from 1958 to 1970. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he entered...

Krishnendu (Krish) Chakrabarty

Pioneer researcher on the design automation and testing of complex chips with application to microfluidic biochips, Chakrabarty has served as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University in Durham,...

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...

Nobuo Mii

Leader of a team that built the first television system in Kyushu, Japan, Mii accomplished this feat in 1949 as manager of his high school Wireless Communications Club, mainly using electronic parts...

Henryk Zygalski

Designer of the "perforated sheets," also known as "Zygalski sheets," a manual device for finding Enigma settings, Zygalski was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma ciphers before...

Lars Wirzenius

Co-founder of the Linux Documentation Project, Wirzenius has been programming computers since 1984. He worked on Linux documentation, including the Linux System Administrator's Guide, and was the co-moderator of the comp.os.linux.announce newsgroup....

Lois Haibt

The only female member of the ten-person team that invented FORTRAN, Haibt is an American computer scientist perhaps most famous for her role in creating the first successful high-level programming language. She...

Chandu Thota

A widely recognized expert in mapping, geo-spatial applications, and scalable web services, Thota is a software entrepreneur notable for starting a service called Dealmap, which launched DealExchange to help publishers and local...