Charles (Chuck) Lewis Seitz

Co-developer of the first multicomputer, the Cosmic Cube, and deviser of the key programming and packet-routing techniques for second-generation multicomputers, Seitz is a prolific architect and designer of innovative computing and communication...

John George Kemeny

Co-developer of the BASIC programming language, Kemeny transformed computing by making it accessible to ordinary people. Kemeny entered Princeton University, where he studied mathematics and philosophy, but he took a year off during...

David Albert Huffman

Best known for his legendary Huffman code, a compression scheme for lossless variable length encoding, Huffman joined the faculty at MIT in 1953. He was awarded the Louis E. Levy Medal in...

James (Jim) F. Blinn

Creator of the pre-encounter animations for the Voyager project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Blinn is one of the founders of the computer graphics industry. He has spent his career expanding industry...

David M. Kelley

One of America's leading design innovators, Kelley is founder, Chairman, and managing partner of the design firm IDEO and a Professor at Stanford University. He has been recognized as one of America's...

Friedrich Ludwig Bauer

First to propose the widely used stack method of expression evaluation, Bauer patented the pushdown stack in 1957, a contribution that proved foundational to modern computing. He contributed to the definition of...

Marie desJardins

Researcher focused on understanding trust among agents in online communities, desJardins has led the Multi-Agent, Planning and Learning Lab (MAPLE) at UMBC, which focuses on developing A.I. solutions to real world problems....

David M. Young

Founder of the Center for Numerical Analysis at The University of Texas at Austin, Young was also known for establishing the Successive Overrelaxation (SOR) method. Professor Young's career and many contributions almost exactly...

Paul Alexander Desmond DeMaine

A leading figure in the early development of computer-based automatic indexing and information retrieval and one of the founders of academic computer science in the 1960s, DeMaine was born in South Africa...

Enid Mumford

A pioneer in early studies on the use of large-scale computing, Mumford demonstrated that the underlying cause of failed computer implementations was an inability to overcome human factors associated with the implementation...

Anthony Finkelstein

Recognized internationally for his contributions to software engineering and requirements engineering, Finkelstein graduated from the LSE with a Masters in systems, then went on to take a PhD at the Royal College...

Eugene Wong

Instrumental in building an Internet backbone for Asia and a pioneering contributor to relational database management, Wong has also inaugurated major initiatives in microsystems, information technology, nanotechnology, service-sector engineering, and biotechnology. Wong received...

Jerome (Jerry) Howard Saltzer

Contributor to the End-to-end principle in systems design — one of the important underlying principles governing the operation of the Internet — Saltzer is a computer scientist who made many notable contributions....

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...

R. Narasimhan

Often referred to as the Bhisma of Computer Science and Technology in India, Narasimhan made significant contributions to the development of computer science education, research, and technology in India in the early...

John Couch

One of the primary software architecture designers of the HP AMIGO/300 software environment — a precursor to the Xerox Alto and the Macintosh — Couch also served as Apple's first Vice President...

Clifford Ivar Nass

Co-creator of The Media Equation theory, which holds that people tend to treat computers and other media as if they were either real people or real places, Nass was a renowned authority...

Sajal K. Das

Pioneer in research on wireless sensor networks and pervasive and mobile computing, Das has served as the Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair Professor and chair of the Computer Science department at the...

Evelyn Boyd Granville

Part of the IBM team responsible for formulating orbit computations and computer procedures for NASA's Projects Vanguard and Mercury, Granville was also one of the first African-American women to receive a Ph.D....

Ben Shneiderman

Known for experimentation on the use of flowcharts and information visualization in programming, Shneiderman conducted experiments in his earlier work on studying programmers which suggested that flowcharts were not helpful for writing,...