Albert (Al) Vezza

Founder of Infocom, one of the earliest computer game companies, Vezza has also been recognized as one of the earliest Internet leaders. A computer science professor, he served as the Assistant Director...

Fei-Fei Li

Best known for establishing ImageNet, the dataset that enabled rapid advances in computer vision in the 2010s, Li is a professor of computer science at Stanford University whose research spans artificial intelligence,...

Richard O Mason

Developer of foundational concepts in IT and information ethics, Mason has served as Carr P. Collins Professor of Management Information Sciences at the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist...

Branimir Makanec

A pioneer of computer popularization in Croatia, Makanec established the Multimedia Center of the Zagreb University Referral Center (MMC). The MMC was an open-type computer center intended to be used for non-numerical...

Lillian F. Schwartz

Considered a pioneer of computer-mediated art, Lillian F. Schwartz was one of the first artists to base almost her entire body of work on computational media. Much of her groundbreaking work was...

Craig R. Barrett

Former CEO and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Barrett has been a leading advocate for improving education in the U.S. and around the world. He has also served as a vocal spokesman for...

Lucinda (Lucy) M. Sanders

Bell Labs Fellow and CEO and Co-founder of the National Center for Women and Information Technology, Sanders has worked to expand the talent pool in the computing field while building on a...

Richard (Rick) Thomas Watson

Co-leader of the Global Text Project, which provides free electronic textbooks for students in the developing world, Watson has held the J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Chair for Internet Strategy in the Department...

Peter G. Neumann

A leading specialist in computer security best known for the Provably Secure Operating System (PSOS), Neumann has also served as moderator of the RISKS Digest and founding editor of ACM Software Engineering...

John Aris

Part of the original team that built the LEO computer, Aris later served as Director of the National Computing Centre (NCC) 1985–90, where he championed the importance and the skills of computer...

Toru Takahashi

Writer of the first Japanese book on the Internet, Takahashi is sometimes known as the "Mother of the Internet" in Japan. He was instrumental in bringing the Internet to Japan and promoting...

Nicholas Negroponte

Pioneer in human-computer interaction research, Negroponte joined the faculty of MIT in 1966. For several years thereafter, he divided his teaching time between MIT and several visiting professorships at Yale, Michigan, and...

Ken Coar

Co-creator of the Apache Incubator project, the gateway for open-source projects intended to become fully fledged Apache Software Foundation projects, Coar is recognized primarily for his participation in the creation of The...

Mary Lou Soffa

Developer of software tools for debugging and testing programs to eliminate or reduce false alarms and improve operating efficiency, Soffa is an American computer scientist also noted for her research on compilers,...

Nancy Jane Hafkin

A pioneer and innovator in networking, development information, and electronic communications in Africa, Hafkin spurred the Pan African Development Information System (PADIS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) from...

Markus Neteler

Honored with the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS) in recognition of his commitment to GRASS project coordination, Neteler has served as coordinator of the GRASS (Geographic...

Douglas C. Engelbart

Inventor of the computer mouse and early computer pioneer, Engelbart is best known for his work as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs,...

Jesse James Garrett

Publisher of the diagram "The Elements of User Experience," a foundational model of user-centered design, Garrett is a user experience designer and co-founder of Adaptive Path, a user experience strategy and design...

Annie Easley

A significant contributor to the early development of NASA's rocket technologies, Easley spent decades as a NASA engineer whose work in programming, energy-conversion, and shuttle launches helped address the agency's need for...

Karen Spärck Jones

Pioneer of inverse document frequency (IDF) weighting in information retrieval, Spärck Jones introduced a concept now used in most search engines today. A British computer scientist, she was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England...