Jay N. Goldberg

Purchaser of Money Management Systems, Inc. (MMS) in 1986, Goldberg acquired the firm — which sold software and services to banks and broker-dealers for securities trading activities — from Ziff-Davis, later selling...

C. Michael Armstrong

Responsible for the development and manufacture of minicomputers, personal computers, and software at IBM, Armstrong is a business executive who also led Hughes Aircraft, AT&T, and Comcast as Chairman and CEO. Born in...

Hector de Jesus Ruiz

Former CEO and executive chairman of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), Ruiz led the semiconductor company through a period of major transformation. Hector de Jesus Ruiz was born in Piedras Negras, Mexico, a...

James (Jimmy) Treybig

Founder of Tandem Computers, a pioneering Silicon Valley manufacturer of fault-tolerant computer systems, Treybig built a company that served the growing number of transaction processing customers who used them for ATMs, banks,...

Mark Papermaster

Overseer of the development of IBM's blade server technology, Papermaster has served as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in Sunnyvale, California. He previously served as...

John Perry Barlow

Co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Barlow was an American poet, essayist, cyber-libertarian political activist, and former lyricist for the Grateful Dead. He was a retired Wyoming cattle rancher who was associated...

Fred J Baker

Active in the networking and communications industry, Baker chaired a number of IETF working groups, including Bridge MIB, DS1/DS3 MIB, ISDN MIB, PPP Extensions, IEPREP, and IPv6 Operations. He served on the...

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Former CEO of IBM, Gerstner is largely credited with turning around IBM's fortunes. He was chairman of the board and chief executive officer of IBM from April 1993 until 2002, when he retired...

Jacob (Jack) Goldman

Creator of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Goldman established one of the most influential research institutions in the history of modern computing. An American physicist and former Chief Scientist, Chief Technical...

John P. Morgridge

Former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Cisco Systems, Morgridge is an American businessman from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin who attended Wauwatosa East High School. He received his Bachelor's Degree in...

James (Jim) T. Healy

A career leader in building success for U.S.-based and international companies in the semiconductor space, Healy has served as General Manager of Sony LSI Design Inc., a provider of turnkey services for...

Kun-Yao (K.Y.) Lee

Founder of BenQ Corporation, the No. 2 manufacturer of flat-panel computer displays, Lee is also recognized for growing the company to 40 times its former size and building BenQ products into a...

Robert B. Palmer

Member of the founding team at Mostek, where he pioneered the use of ion implantation technology for the manufacture of MOS circuits, Palmer is also known as the last Chairman and Chief...

Joe Schoendorf

Board member for industry pioneers such as Authorware/Macromedia, Schoendorf has been active in high-technology industries for 45 years. He holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and has served on...

H. Berry Cash

Co-founder of Mostek Corporation, which was instrumental in founding the DRAM market, Cash has had over 35 years of experience building successful businesses in the technology industry. He is one of the...

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....

Winifred (Mitchell) Baker

Instrumental in the creation of the Mozilla Foundation, Baker has served as Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation and Chairperson and former Chief Executive Officer of the Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the...

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...

Chad Meredith Hurley

Co-founder and former CEO of the popular video sharing website YouTube, Hurley is also known for co-founding MixBit. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0's "50 People Who Matter...

Tsugio Makimoto

A leader in Japan's semiconductor industry, Makimoto is sometimes called "Mr. Semiconductor" in Japan. He participated in the controversy over the trade conflict in the semiconductor industry between Japan and the US...