Elaine Surick Oran

Considered a world authority on numerical methods for large-scale simulation of physical systems, Oran pioneered computational technology to solve complex reactive flow problems. Her work unified concepts from science, mathematics, engineering, and...

Marcia Neugebauer

Among the first researchers to yield direct measurements of the solar wind, Neugebauer made foundational contributions to space physics, including work that shed light on the solar wind's physics and its interaction...

Yoelle Maarek

The first engineering hire of Google Israel, Maarek established the company's development center in Haifa in 2006 and led the team that launched Google Suggest worldwide on the Google homepage in 2008....

John Vincent Atanasoff

Inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer, Atanasoff was raised by his parents in Brewster, Florida. At the age of nine he learned to use a slide rule, followed shortly by...

Evelyn Boyd Granville

Part of the IBM team responsible for formulating orbit computations and computer procedures for NASA's Projects Vanguard and Mercury, Granville was also one of the first African-American women to receive a Ph.D....

Elizabeth M. Belding

Founder and Director of the Mobility Management and Networking (MOMENT) Laboratory, Belding has served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and as...

Anita Borg

Developer of a patented method for generating complete address traces for analyzing and designing high-speed memory systems, and of MECCA, an email and Web-based system for communicating in virtual communities, Borg was...

Paul A. Strassmann

Developer of new methods for evaluating the productivity of computer investments, Strassmann is a Czechoslovakian-born American engineer and business management theorist. He is also noted for his 47-minute 2005 lecture, "Information Management...

Conrad (Conny) Palm

Contributor to teletraffic engineering and queueing theory, Palm also led the project that developed the first Swedish computer, the BARK. He enrolled at the School of Electrical Engineering at the Royal Institute...

Willem (Wim) Roelandts

Born in Lennik, Belgium, he holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rijks Hogere Technische School in Anderlecht, Belgium in 1965. He began his career with Hewlett Packard in Belgium in 1967....

Randy Bush

Founder of the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), an NSF-supported pro bono effort to help develop and deploy networking technology in projects throughout the world, Bush has worked with the computer industry...

Leonard Bosack

Pioneer of commercialization of routing technology and co-founder of Cisco Systems, Bosack received the Computer Entrepreneur Award in 2009 for pioneering and advancing the commercialization of routing technology and the profound changes...

Chieko Asakawa

Co-developer of IBM software and applications that significantly improve web accessibility for the visually impaired by automatically converting text and icons on the screen to voice, Asakawa is a member of the...

Patrick Joseph McGovern

Founder of Computerworld and the International Data Group (IDG), McGovern built one of the world's largest technology media companies, with subsidiaries in technology publishing, research, event management, and venture capital. McGovern was born...

Paolo A. Gargini

Developer of the building blocks of HMOS III and CHMOS III technologies used in the 1980s for the 80286 and the 80386 processors, Gargini has served as Director of Technology Strategy and...

Johannes Georg Bednorz

Co-discoverer, with K. Alex Müller, of high-temperature superconductivity in ceramics, Bednorz shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics for this breakthrough. He was born in Neuenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany to elementary-school teacher...

D. (Jim) James Guzy, Sr.

An Angel Investor of numerous computer corporations, Guzy has served as an Intel Board member for 38 years. He has been a Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of SRC Computers, LLC...

Robert (Bob) E. Lorenzini

Co-designer and developer of a crystal growing furnace, Lorenzini joined Rheem Semiconductor in 1960, the first spin-off from Fairchild Semiconductor, where he was involved in the design and development of that furnace....

Anders Hejlsberg

Co-designer of Turbo Pascal, Delphi, and C#, Hejlsberg is a Danish software engineer who has shaped several of the most widely used programming languages and development tools in the history of commercial...

Rowland Hanson

Creator of Microsoft's highly acclaimed branding strategy and the name "Windows," Hanson has served as Vice President of Corporate Communications at Microsoft and went on to become CEO of The HMC Company...