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...

Lee Felsenstein

Designer of the Osborne 1, the first mass-produced portable computer, Felsenstein is recognized for his work in reducing the costs of computer technologies to make them available to large markets. Lee had been...

Chieko Asakawa

Co-developer of IBM software and applications that significantly improve web accessibility for the visually impaired by automatically converting text and icons on the screen to voice, Asakawa is a member of the...

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...

Robert John Lansdown

A pioneer of the use of computers for architecture and other creative activities, and one of the founders of the Computer Arts Society, Lansdown was also a British computer graphics polymath and...

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...

Timothy (Tim) John Berners-Lee

Creator of the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee is a British engineer and computer scientist who made the first proposal for it in March 1989. On 25 December 1990, with the help of...

Kristen Nygaard

Co-inventor of SIMULA and pioneer of object-oriented programming, Nygaard was a computer scientist noted for his social agenda and work with the Norwegian Trade Unions. He was a systems developer and 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...

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...

Mochio Umeda

One of the most well-known commentators on IT and Web 2.0 issues in Japan, Umeda is also the author of the best-selling book "Web Shinkaron (Theory of Web Evolution)." He is a...

Danese Cooper

Known as the "Open Source Diva" for her work in the Open Source movement, Cooper has held many prominent leadership roles within the computer science sector. Cooper managed teams at Symantec and...

Patrice Lyons

Analyzer of a wide range of legal and regulatory issues relating to the development of the Internet, Lyons has served as Corporate Counsel to Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), where she...

David Lorge Parnas

Originator of the concept of information hiding in modular programming, Parnas is a Canadian early pioneer of software engineering whose work became a foundational element of object-oriented programming. He has also been...

Elon James Gasper

Holder of several patents relating to Lip Sync and other technology, Gasper is a former Senior VP at VizX Labs and co-founder of 1980s-era software company Bright Star Technology. Described by Ken...

Tim O'Reilly

Founder of O'Reilly Media, publisher of some of the most industry-standard books on information technology, O'Reilly launched the company in 1978, starting with the "Nutshell Handbooks" series on Linux, and later expanding...

Regina Honu

Founder of Soronko Academy, the first coding and human-centered design school for children and young adults in West Africa, Honu was a Ghanaian social entrepreneur and software developer who also established Soronko...

Bill Charles Norris

Founder of Control Data Corporation, Norris was the pioneering CEO of one of the most powerful and respected computer companies in the world. Norris was famous for taking on IBM in a...

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...

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...