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...

David J. Kuck

Developer of the Parafrase compiler system (1977), the first testbed for automatic vectorization and related program transformations, Kuck is one of the most influential figures in parallel computing. His influence spans a...

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg

Co-founder of Facebook, Zuckerberg is an American entrepreneur best known for creating the popular social networking site. He co-founded Facebook with fellow classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while attending...

David E. Culler

Inventor of the TinyOS operating system, Culler is a computer scientist who has served as Chair of Computer Science and Associate Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of...

Alan B. Fowler

Researcher of statistical fluctuations in small semiconductor systems, Fowler is an American physicist born in Denver, Colorado. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a B.S. degree in 1951, an M.S. degree...

Donald Ervin Knuth

Author of the landmark series *The Art of Computer Programming*, Knuth is renowned for his contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages. He has served as Professor...

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...

Tamiko Thiel

Visual designer of the Thinking Machines Corp. Connection Machine (CM-1, CM-2), Thiel holds a B.S. from Stanford in general engineering/product design and also an M.S. from MIT in mechanical engineering. She has also...

Yevgeny Valentinovich Kaspersky

Co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, producer of antivirus software and computer security products, Kaspersky is recognized as a leading figure in information security. Kaspersky graduated from the Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science,...

Einar (Stef) A. Stefferud

One of the original designers of the MIME protocol for sending multimedia Internet electronic mail, Stefferud made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly in the areas of IETF...

Robert Clay Prim

Co-developer of Prim's algorithm for finding a minimum spanning tree in a weighted graph, Prim made foundational contributions to computer network design. An American mathematician and computer scientist, he was born in...

John Maurice McClean Pinkerton

Co-designer of England's first business computer, the LEO computer, Pinkerton was a pioneering British computer designer who worked alongside David Caminer to produce the machine for J. Lyons and Co in 1951....

Stanley (Stan) Phillips Frankel

Designer of the CONAC computer, Frankel was an American computer scientist born in Los Angeles who attended graduate school at the University of Rochester, received his PhD in physics from the University...

Glen Jacob Culler

Developer of the Culler-Fried Online System, one of the first interactive computer systems in the mid-1960s era, Culler was also an important early innovator in the development of the Internet. He joined...

Ruchi Sanghvi

The first female engineer hired by Facebook, Sanghvi later founded her own company, Cove, in 2011, alongside two co-founders. Dropbox acquired Cove in 2012, and Sanghvi joined Dropbox as VP of Operations,...

Boris N Malinovsky

Designer of early Soviet computers and control systems, Malinovsky worked with noted Russian computer pioneer Lebedev in the design of early Soviet computers. In 1955–1958, he designed a specialized computer for ground-based...

Samuel J. Palmisano

CEO of IBM, one of the world's largest technology companies, Palmisano has served as the company's chief executive officer, president, and chairman. He served as CEO from March 2002 and was elected...

Glenford (Glen) Myers

Leader of the team that developed the advanced computer system "SWARD" (Software Oriented Architecture), built and successfully operated in 1980, Myers is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and author. He founded two...

Frank Moss

Involved in advanced development projects in the areas of networking and distributed computing, Moss is a researcher, technology and biotechnology entrepreneur, academician, and author born in Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended the...

Ralph Ungermann

Co-founder of Ungermann-Bass (UB), the first large networking company independent of any computer manufacturer, Ungermann was considered to be a founding father of the data communications industry. He was often described as...