Charlie Catlett

Member of the original team that deployed and managed the NSFNet to promote advanced research and education networking, Catlett attended the University of Illinois initially majoring in Electrical Engineering. But after his...

Dean Everett Wooldridge

Co-founder of the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation, which was awarded the prime contract for overall systems engineering and technical direction of the nation's Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Program, Wooldridge was a prominent engineer in...

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...

David Elieser Deutsch

David Deutsch laid the foundations of the quantum theory of computation, and subsequently made or participated in many of the most important advances in the field, including the discovery of the first...

William (Bill) Douglas Gropp

Co-creator of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) and the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation (PETSc), Gropp has served as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, holding...

Anatoliy A. Morozov

Chief Designer of the automated control system of the "Lviv" manufacturing project and the "RADA" system, Morozov is a cybernetics scientist, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Dr....

Thelma Estrin

One of the first to apply computer technology to healthcare and medical research, Estrin was a computer scientist and engineer who did pioneering work in the fields of expert systems and biomedical...

Kishor S. Trivedi

A leading international expert in reliability and performability evaluation of dependable systems, Trivedi has made seminal contributions to stochastic modeling formalisms and their efficient solution. He has held the Hudson Chair in...

Allen Newell

Pioneer in artificial intelligence, Newell made basic contributions to AI and the psychology of human cognition, for which he and Herbert Simon were awarded the ACM's A.M. Turing Award in 1975. He...

Guglielmo Marconi

Known as the father of long distance radio transmission, Marconi was an Italian inventor celebrated for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. Although he is often accredited as...

Sergio Verdu

Known for pioneering the field of multiuser detection, Verdú has served as the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he has taught and conducted research on Information Theory...

James Henry Wakelin, Jr.

Involved with B.F. Goodrich's first use of modern computers, Wakelin was a United States physicist, oceanographer, and businessman who served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research and Development) from 1959 to...

Charles Galton Darwin

Known for assisting Henry Moseley on X-ray diffraction, Darwin was an English physicist and the grandson of Charles Darwin who also served as Director of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) during the...

George W. Platzman

One of the founders of modern meteorology, Platzman helped formulate the first weather forecast by computer, carried out in 1950 on the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC). He pioneered the field...

Charles Henry Bennett

Co-discoverer of quantum cryptography and one of the founding fathers of modern quantum information theory, Bennett is a physicist, information theorist, and IBM Fellow at IBM Research. His work at IBM has...

Robert J. Harrison

Principal architect of the Northwest Computational Chemistry Software (NWChem), a computational chemistry code for massively parallel computers, Harrison is a distinguished expert in high-performance computing originally from Birmingham, England. He has served...

Donald (Don) M. Eigler

The first researcher to use a scanning tunneling microscope tip to arrange individual atoms on a surface, Eigler is noted for his achievements in nanotechnology. In September 1989, he famously spelled out...

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...

Alec N. Broers

Pioneer of nanotechnology, Broers developed the first man-made nanostructures in materials suitable for microelectronic circuits, opening up the possibility for the extreme miniaturization of electronic circuits. An Anglo-Australian electrical engineer, Broers was born...

C. Denis Mee

Founder of IBM's Magnetic Recording Institute (MRI), Mee is a key technologist and pioneer in the hard drive industry. He joined IBM in 1962 at Yorktown Heights, NY as a research staff...