Reona (Leo) Esaki

Inventor of the Esaki tunnel diode, the first quantum electron device, Esaki shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson for his discovery of the...

Nicholas (Nick) M. Donofrio

Leader of IBM's technology and innovation strategies, Donofrio served as Executive Vice President of Innovation and Technology at IBM from 1997 until his retirement in October 2008. Born in Beacon, New York,...

Eunice E. Santos

A leading expert and researcher in the areas of large-scale distributed processing, computational modeling, complex adaptive systems, and human modeling with applications to the biological, physical, and social sciences, Santos has served...

Martha Lane Fox

Co-founder of Lastminute.com and the British Government's first Champion for Digital Inclusion, Lane Fox studied ancient and modern history at Magdalen College, Oxford, having previously attended Oxford High School and Westminster School....

Regina Honu

Founder of Soronko Academy, the first coding and human-centered design school for children and young adults in West Africa, Honu was a Ghanaian social entrepreneur and software developer who also established Soronko...

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

Creator of the ALGOL programming language, Dijkstra was one of the most influential members of computing science's founding generation. Among the domains in which his scientific contributions are fundamental are algorithm design,...

John H. Crawford

Chief architect of the Intel 80386 and Intel 80486 microprocessors, Crawford is an American computer software engineer and the holder of 23 patents. He received his Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree from...

Barry Leiba

Developer of Ultimail, an early integrated multimedia e-mail system created with his team at IBM Research, Leiba is a computer scientist and software researcher. His work focused for many years on electronic...

Nikolay Brusentsov

Co-creator of Setun, the only modern electronic ternary computer, Brusentsov built the machine in the late 1950s at Moscow State University in the Soviet Union. It had notable advantages over the binary...

Richard F. Clippinger

Co-developer of numeric methods for solving ordinary and partial differential equations on the ENIAC, EDVAC, and ORDVAC computers, Clippinger was a computing laboratory staff member at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, who...

Michael Woodger

Co-author of the ALGOL 60 report, a milestone in the history of programming languages, Woodger has been a British computer scientist and Emeritus Professor at the School of Computing Science, Newcastle University,...

Laura Haas

Best known for her work on the Starburst query processor, from which DB2 UDB was developed, Haas became a 2009 IBM Fellow and has served as Director of Computer Science at IBM...

Thomas Siebel

Founder of Siebel Systems and pioneer of customer relationship management (CRM), Siebel revolutionized sales by developing software to automate sales and customer service activities. He graduated from the University of Illinois at...

Bruce Eckel

Author of "Thinking in Java" and "Thinking in C++", Eckel has written numerous books and articles about computer programming. He has also given frequent lectures and seminars for computer programmers. His best...

Richard Phillips Feynman

Nobel Prize winner in Physics (1965), Feynman made landmark contributions to quantum electrodynamics, the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well...

Karen Spärck Jones

Pioneer of inverse document frequency (IDF) weighting in information retrieval, Spärck Jones introduced a concept now used in most search engines today. A British computer scientist, she was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England...

Armando Fox

Co-founder of the Berkeley RAD Lab and co-designer of the Intel Pentium Pro microprocessor, Fox has served as an Adjunct Associate Professor at UC Berkeley. Prior to that he joined Stanford as...

Fred Moore

Instrumental in providing worldwide product leadership for storage systems for open systems and mainframes, Moore has served as StorageTek's chief strategist and spokesman worldwide for over ten years and is credited with...

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace

Known as the "World's First Computer Programmer," Lovelace wrote notes on Charles Babbage's analytical engine that include what is recognized as the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine. An...

Alan Kotok

Co-developer of what is sometimes called the first video game (Spacewar!), Kotok was also part of the team that wrote the Kotok-McCarthy program which took part in the first chess match between...