Alexander Graham Bell

Inventor of the first practical telephone, Bell was also an eminent scientist, engineer, and innovator whose later work made groundbreaking contributions to optical telecommunications, hydrofoils, and aeronautics. Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had...

Charles P. Thacker

Pioneer in computer design and realization of the Alto, one of the first modern personal computers, Thacker received his B.S. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967 and then...

Albert S. Hoagland

Early designer of random access disk storage, Hoagland played a key role in magnetic head design and recording for the Random Access Method of Accounting and Control (RAMAC) disk drive, the first...

Michael Gleicher

Recognized for developing better ways to synthesize human motions to make animated characters that are better able to communicate, Gleicher has served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at...

Ray Harishankar

Significant contributor to IBM's leadership position in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), reusable asset-based development approaches leveraging SOA, and in the creation of highly reusable IT assets, Harishankar has served as an IBM...

Ed Colligan

Leader of the marketing campaign that launched the Palm family of PDAs and smartphones, Colligan later served as president and CEO of both Handspring and Palm, Inc. He also worked at the private...

L. (Bill) William Krause

General Manager of the HP General Systems Division responsible for the HP 250 small business computers, Krause spent 14 years at Hewlett-Packard Company from 1967 to 1981 in various marketing and general...

William Gordon Welchman

One of four signatories to an influential letter delivered personally to Winston Churchill in October 1941 asking for more resources for the code-breaking work at Bletchley Park, and teacher of the first...

Kay Brossard Magleby

Architect of HP's first minicomputer and leader of the team that led HP into the computer industry, Magleby was born in Rigby, Idaho and raised in Pocatello, where he graduated from Pocatello...

Ken Howery

Co-founder of PayPal, Howery is an American investor who graduated from Stanford University in 1998 with a B.A. degree in Economics. That same year, he co-founded PayPal with Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek,...

Fredrik Rosing Bull

Known for his works on improved punched card machines, Bull was an information technology pioneer. In 1907 he finished his studies in civil engineering at the Technical School of Kristiania (Kristiania Tekniske...

George Joseph Laurer

Developer of the Universal Product Code (UPC), Laurer created the pattern of stripes that brought supermarkets into the digital age. A 36-year veteran of the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), he developed...

Jim Garrett

Pioneer of the Internet banking industry and online marketing financial services, Garrett founded Kudzu Interactive in 2004 and developed the web-based ordering platform that became the restaurant industry's standard for online, mobile,...

Jeffrey Skoll

The first employee and first President of internet auction firm eBay, Skoll is a Canadian-born engineer and internet entrepreneur living in Los Angeles, California, with an estimated net worth of $US 3.2...

Fernando (Corby) J. Corbato

Pioneer in the development of general-purpose, large-scale, time-sharing and resource-sharing computer systems, Corbató received the ACM Turing Award in 1990 for these foundational contributions. Fernando (Corby) J. Corbató was born on July 1,...

Cheryl L. Shavers

Appointed Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology in the Clinton Administration, Shavers served in that role from 1999 to 2001, representing one of the most senior positions in U.S. technology policy. Her...

Evan Thomas Spiegel

Co-founder and CEO of the mobile application Snapchat, Spiegel launched the platform alongside Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown while they were all students at Stanford University. Snapchat started as a project for...

Mamoru Hosaka

A pioneer of seminal computer research and development in Japan, Hosaka was born in 1920 and graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1942, majoring in aeronautical engineering. After 1946, he belonged...

Li-Shiuan Peh

Developer and builder of self-regulating power-aware interconnection networks that trade off power and performance automatically, Peh is recognized for work that would reconcile the design goals of high-performance and low-power usage. Li-Shiuan Peh...

Jennifer Granholm

The first woman to serve as both Attorney General and Governor of Michigan, Granholm held those offices from 1999 to 2003 and 2003 to 2011, respectively, and later served as the 16th...