James David Foley

Co-author of several widely-used textbooks in the field of computer graphics — with over 400,000 copies in print and translated into ten languages — Foley is a Professor and the Stephen Fleming...

Bruce D. Shriver

Worldwide lecturer in the design and implementation of computer hardware and software systems, Shriver has been a computer science academic, consultant, and entrepreneur in the area of high-performance computer systems, publishing extensively...

Borje Langefors

Pioneer of the first theoretical approach to systems development practices, Langefors was the first computer scientist to develop a coherent model of the development of computer-based information systems in the early 1960s....

David F. Redmiles

Author of over 100 research publications integrating the areas of software engineering, human-computer interaction, and computer-supported cooperative work, Redmiles has served as a Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University...

Kate Devlin

Founder of the UK's first sex tech hackathon, held in 2016 at Goldsmiths, University of London, Devlin is a Northern Irish computer scientist whose work sits at the intersection of human sexuality...

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...

Edwin (Ted) Joseph Selker

Developer of the TrackPoint pointing stick technology and designer of the ThinkPad 755CV notebook computer (which doubles as an LCD projector), Selker is an American computer scientist known for his user interface...

Yvonne Marie Andres

Among the earliest people to use the Internet to develop global e-learning opportunities for educators and students, Andrés founded the nonprofit Global SchoolNet in 1984, an international organization that facilitates collaborative educational...

Norbert Frištacký

Pioneer in digital computing and education at Slovak universities, Frištacký was one of the earliest to deploy and use digital computers at Slovak universities, and served as the first Rector of STU...

Maria Klawe

Known for her advocacy for women in STEM fields, Klawe served as the fifth president of Harvey Mudd College from 2006 to 2023. Prior to that role, she served as Dean of...

Jakob Nielsen

Founder of the "discount usability engineering" movement for fast and cheap improvements of user interfaces, Nielsen invented several usability methods, including heuristic evaluation — a usability inspection method for computer software that...

Steve McConnell

Named one of the three most influential people in the software industry by Software Development Magazine in 1998, alongside Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds, McConnell has worked on the TrueType project under...

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...

Werner Zorn

One of the fathers of networking in Germany, Zorn oversaw the first email link between Germany and the US CSNET in August 1984 and the spread of CSNET in Germany, while serving...

Anthony E. Siegman

Major contributor in the area of unstable resonators, lasers, and optics, Siegman was an electrical engineer and educator whose work on microwave masers and parametric devices evolved into a distinguished research and...

Barry W. Boehm

Known for his many contributions to software engineering, Boehm was an American software engineer and TRW Emeritus Professor of Software Engineering at the Computer Science Department of the University of Southern California.

James (Jim) Richard Goodman

Contributor to shared-memory multiprocessor system design, Goodman is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and has served as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Auckland in Auckland,...

Watts S. Humphrey

Father of Software Quality who headed the IBM software team that introduced the first software license, Humphrey was awarded the National Medal of Technology for his contributions to software engineering. He founded...

John W. Brackett

Co-founder of SofTech, a Boston-based software company, Brackett managed the company's software development projects for large commercial and government clients as Vice President of Software Production. Brackett received his B.S. degree from MIT...

Wally Feurzeig

Inventor of the LOGO programming language, Feurzeig was also a well-known researcher in Artificial Intelligence.