Mary Lou Jepsen

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of One Laptop per Child, Jepsen helped shape one of the most recognized nonprofit computing initiatives of its era. She also served as Chief Architect of that...

Barry James Mailous

One of the editors of the original Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68, Mailous also served as a contributing editor to the Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68. In...

John Richard Patterson

Pioneer of computer dating outside America, Patterson was the first to use a computer to professionally match couples in the 1960s. He was the founder of Dateline Computer Dating.

Edward J. McCluskey

Pioneer of digital systems design and synthesis for over five decades, McCluskey is known for co-developing the Quine-McCluskey method of Boolean function minimization. Professor McCluskey worked on electronic switching systems at the Bell...

Donn B. Parker

A 2008 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Parker was a leading information security researcher and consultant. He received many awards in the information security field. He lectured at conferences, seminars,...

Tom Anderson

Founder of the social networking website MySpace, Anderson co-founded the site in 2003 with Chris DeWolfe. Anderson has served as president of MySpace, and later became a strategic adviser for the company....

Farida Bedwei

Co-founder of Logiciel, a Ghanaian fin-tech company, Bedwei is a software engineer known for her expertise in software architecture and the deployment of mobile services for banking applications. She built both mobile...

Gayatri Buragohain

Founder of Feminist Approach to Technology (FAT), an organization empowering women in India to learn, use, and create technology, Buragohain has worked to break the stereotype that women cannot be adept at...

Richard (Dick) G. Canning

Founder of the world-acclaimed technology newsletter EDP Analyzer, Canning published the monthly newsletter with subscribers in over 100 countries. Canning and his co-author retired in 1987 after 24 years of working together....

Herbert Freeman

Contributor to the field of automatic label placement, computer graphics, and machine vision, Freeman published numerous works on geometric patterns from '61 and co-founded, with Azriel Rosenfeld of the University of Maryland,...

Anne-Marie Kermarrec

Founder of Mediego, a startup focused on real-time online content personalization, Kermarrec was a French computer scientist and professor at EPFL in Switzerland. There she headed the Scalable Computing Systems Laboratory in...

John T. Draper

Author of EasyWriter, the first word processor for the Apple II, Draper is also recognized as a famous former hacker. While Draper was driving around his Volkswagen Microbus to test a pirate radio...

Alexander Graham Bell

Inventor of the first practical telephone, Bell was also an eminent scientist, engineer, and innovator whose later work made groundbreaking contributions to optical telecommunications, hydrofoils, and aeronautics. Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had...

Regis McKenna

Technology public relations legend for Intel, Apple, and dozens of other Silicon Valley firms, McKenna founded Regis McKenna, Inc. in 1970. McKenna retired from consulting in 2000 and concentrated his efforts on...

Dorcas Muthoni

Founder of OPENWORLD LTD at the age of 24, Muthoni was a Kenyan entrepreneur and computer scientist who established the software consulting company to advance technology's role in African society. Through her...

Helen Greiner

Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for leadership in the design, development, and application of practical robots, Greiner is an American engineer and businesswoman best known as a co-founder...

Charles M. Sporck

Former CEO of National Semiconductor, Sporck led one of the most influential semiconductor companies of its era.

Harlan E. Anderson

Co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), which at one time was the second largest computer company in the world, Anderson built a career spanning research, industry leadership, and philanthropy. Other notable entities...

Keith Uncapher

Pioneer of packet switching and MOSIS, Uncapher spread the ideas that later evolved into the Internet. Under his leadership, ISI provided support for emerging DARPA programs in Information Technology. There, Uncapher assembled...

Coraline Ada Ehmke

Creator of the Contributor Covenant and the Post-Meritocracy Manifesto, Ehmke was a leading advocate for codes of conduct in open source projects and communities. She founded the Organization for Ethical Source and...