Walter Houser Brattain

Co-inventor of the transistor, along with William Shockley and John Bardeen, Brattain made one of the most consequential contributions to modern electronics. Brattain's employment at Bell Laboratories in the years before World War...

Ravi Sandhu

Inventor of 29 security technology patents and leader of multiple teams conducting research on many aspects of cyber security, Sandhu has served as Executive Director of the Institute for Cyber Security at...

Doulgas Rayner Hartree

English mathematician and physicist, Hartree was most famous for the development of numerical analysis and its application to the Hartree-Fock equations of atomic physics and the construction of the meccano differential analyzer.

Abraham (Abe) Peled

Innovator of the first Internet ISP and e-commerce sites in Israel, Peled is an Israeli businessman born in Romania with over 40 years of accomplishments in the digital TV industry. He graduated...

Donald Valentine

Referred to as the "grandfather of Silicon Valley venture capital," Valentine was an American venture capitalist who concentrated mainly on technology companies in the United States. Valentine grew up in the Bronx,...

Nicholas (Nick) DeWolf

Designer of more than 300 semiconductor and other test systems, including the J259, the world's first computer-operated integrated circuit tester, DeWolf co-founded Teradyne, a Boston, Massachusetts-based manufacturer of automatic test equipment, in...

Marvin Lee Minsky

Co-founder of MIT's AI laboratory and a towering figure in artificial intelligence, Minsky was an American cognitive scientist and author of several texts on AI and philosophy.

Oliver William Standingford

Responsible for the implementation of LEO I, the first computer used for commercial business applications, Standingford was a senior manager at J. Lyons and Co. who oversaw its procurement alongside Raymond Thompson. Born...

Erich Bloch

Pioneering developer of the IBM System/360, which helped revolutionize the data processing industry, Bloch is recognized for contributions that earned him the first National Technology Medal from U.S. President Ronald Reagan. On...

Keith Uncapher

Pioneer of packet switching and MOSIS, Uncapher spread the ideas that later evolved into the Internet. Under his leadership, ISI provided support for emerging DARPA programs in Information Technology. There, Uncapher assembled...

Donald Michael Ludlow

Principal designer and developer of the Input-Output Supervisor (IOS) component of OS/360, Ludlow made significant contributions to IBM's landmark operating system. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Ludlow grew up in Melvindale. He earned a...

Frances Spence (née Bilas)

One of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer, Spence was born Frances Bilas in Philadelphia in 1922. She attended Temple University but then was awarded a scholarship to Chestnut Hill College,...

Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum

Developer of groundbreaking techniques in cartography and co-founder of Numerix, Feigenbaum was also a mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants. He was...

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...

Thomas (Tom) M. Bradicich

Leader and prime mover behind IBM's xSeries architectures, Bradicich is a 2006 IBM Fellow—the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM can achieve. He has served as Vice President of...

Larry Smarr

Advocate for a high-speed network linking the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications — which became the NSFnet, one of the significant predecessors of today's Internet — Smarr...

Harry Max Markowitz

Co-developer of SIMSCRIPT, the first simulation programming language, Markowitz also received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990 while a professor of finance at Baruch College of the City University...

Steven B. Lipner

Responsible for defining, supporting, and applying Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) process, Lipner has had forty years' experience in cybersecurity and has been named as inventor on twelve U.S. patents and two...

Michael (Mike) A. McNeilly

Holder of the first patent for infrared deposition of silicon and other materials — a breakthrough that revolutionized deposition quality and produced slip-free, dislocation-free epi — McNeilly is a Silicon Valley pioneer...

David Harold Bailey

Writer of the computer program that enabled the discovery of the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula for computing digits of pi, Bailey is a mathematician and computer scientist. He received his B.S. degree in Mathematics...