Enrico Fermi

Inventor of the FERMIAC, an analog computer that used the Monte Carlo Method to study neutron transport through fissionable materials, Fermi was an Italian-born, naturalized American physicist particularly known for his work...

Norman H. Nie

Co-inventor of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), Nie transformed how researchers analyze data. An American social scientist, university professor, inventor, and pioneering technology entrepreneur, he was born in St....

Gladys West

Recognized for her contributions to mathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth, West was an African American mathematician whose work on satellite geodesy models was later incorporated into the Global Positioning...

Laurie Williams

Foremost co-researcher in agile software development and in the security of healthcare IT applications, Williams has served as a Professor in the Computer Science Department of the College of Engineering at North...

Jack Howlett

Director of the Atlas Computer Laboratory, Howlett led a laboratory created to provide a service to researchers across the United Kingdom with a need for large-scale computing power, and played a key...

J. Noel Chiappa

Member of the TCP/IP Working Group which started the Internet project, Chiappa was instrumental in developing an early ring-based local area network and gateway. He has worked as an independent researcher in...

Michael T. Goodrich

Pioneer and research leader on efficient parallel and distributed solutions, Goodrich has served as a Chancellor's Professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science of the Donald Bren School of Information...

Adin D. Falkoff

Collaborator on the design, development, and usage of the APL programming language, Falkoff was predominantly known for his work on APL and related systems for IBM. Born in New Jersey, he received...

Meg Whitman

Longtime chief executive of eBay and Hewlett Packard, Whitman held senior business leadership positions at some of the most prominent companies in American technology and media, including The Walt Disney Company and...

Leonid Anatolievich Levin

Co-discoverer of the Cook-Levin Theorem, Levin is noted for his work in randomness computing, algorithmic complexity, and intractability. This NP-completeness theorem was a basis for one of the seven "Millennium Math Problems"...

Frederik Nebeker

Researcher of the influence of the computer on meteorology, Nebeker has served as the long-time Senior Research Historian at the IEEE History Center at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. A native...

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...

Peter J. Bentley

Developer of the iPhone application iStethoscope and pioneer of Digital Biology, Bentley is a British author and computer scientist based at University College London. He has served as a Reader and College...

Matthias Ettrich

Founder of the LyX project, an open source document processor popular among technical authors and scientists for its advanced mathematical modes, Ettrich is a German computer scientist and software engineer known for...

Anant Jhingran

Considered to be the world technology leader in the field of information management, Jhingran has had a distinguished career with highly demonstrated impact on industrial practice and future technology and business directions....

Mary Lou Soffa

Developer of software tools for debugging and testing programs to eliminate or reduce false alarms and improve operating efficiency, Soffa is an American computer scientist also noted for her research on compilers,...

Dave Boggs

Co-inventor of Ethernet and developer of early Internet protocol prototypes, Boggs helped shape the foundations of modern computer networking. David graduated from Princeton University, and as a young graduate worked at Xerox PARC,...

John Maxwell Cohn

An innovator in design automation for both analog and digital custom integrated circuits, Cohn has served as Chief Scientist of Design Automation in the Systems and Technology Group at IBM, Burlington, Vermont....

Fei-Fei Li

Best known for establishing ImageNet, the dataset that enabled rapid advances in computer vision in the 2010s, Li is a professor of computer science at Stanford University whose research spans artificial intelligence,...

Douglas B. Lenat

Prominent in artificial intelligence and machine learning research, Lenat was best known for the Cyc project, an attempt to build the basis of a general artificial intelligence by manually representing knowledge in...