Russell Lincoln Ackoff

Recognized as the "Father of Operations Research" for helping establish one of the world's first Departments of Operations Research, Ackoff is also celebrated internationally as a pragmatic academic, systems thinker, and prolific...

Alexander (Sandy) Shafto Douglas

Creator of the first graphic computer game, Douglas made important contributions in mathematical computing, computer education, and man-machine interfaces. 'Sandy' Douglas worked on EDSAC and later the Ferranti Pegasus. As a graduate student...

Hartmut Esslinger

Creator of a design strategy that transformed Apple from a "Silicon Valley Start-Up" into a global brand, Esslinger is a German-American industrial designer and inventor known for co-founding Frogdesign, a global innovation...

Wally Feurzeig

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

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...

Daniel Paul Siewiorek

Designer or co-designer of nine multiprocessor systems and a key contributor to the dependability design of over two dozen commercial computing systems, Siewiorek has served as the Buhl University Professor of Electrical...

Jozef Gruska

A pioneer in the theory of quantum computing and organizing activities in the field, Gruska graduated in mathematics from Commenius University in Bratislava and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the...

Martha Sloan

The first woman to lead the IEEE Institute, Sloan served as IEEE president in 1993. She received a BSEE with great distinction, an MSEE, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. After two...

Lars Heide

Editor of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Heide is a noted international historian and associate professor at the Centre for Business History at the Copenhagen Business School.

Edward Rolf Tufte

Noted for his writings on information design and statistics, Tufte is an expert in the presentation of informational graphics such as charts and diagrams, and a fellow of the American Statistical Association....

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...

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 Buxton

Pioneer of computer simulation, Buxton gained world renown for his fundamental scientific contributions to computer simulation, programming language design, and software implementation technology. He was founding professor of computer science at both...

Dimitri P. Bertsekas

Known for his fourteen textbooks and monographs in theoretical and algorithmic optimization and control, and in applied probability, Bertsekas is an applied mathematician and computer scientist who has served as a professor...

Jean Paul Jacob

Involved in IBM steel mills projects that developed high-level simulations for NASA, Jacob also created the first IBM Scientific Center of South America in Brazil and the Institute for Software Engineering. A...

Andrew Donald Booth

Inventor of magnetic drum storage, Booth was a distinguished pioneer in the development of computers in the UK. Booth received a PhD from the University of Birmingham during the Second World War on...

Alex Morrow

Instrumental in establishing an international standard for the APL language and the ACIS 4.2 operating system for IBM's first workstations, Morrow has been recognized as both an IBM Fellow and a Lotus...

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...

Robert M. Price

Leader of Control Data's early strategic expansion into international operations and marketing, Price also drove the strategic move into information and systems integration services. He graduated from Duke University in 1952, and...

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...