Ernest (Lee) E. Keet

Founder of Turnkey Systems, Inc. (TSI) and founding director of both the Charles Babbage Foundation and the IT History Society, Keet helped launch one of the pioneering commercial software firms of the...

Stephen (Steve) Walker

Member of the team that developed ARPAnet, the breakthrough packet switching system that evolved into the Internet, Walker is an American engineer who is nationally recognized for his pioneering work on the...

Peter Andreas Thiel

Co-founder of PayPal, Thiel is a German-born American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager. He co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin, and later, Elon Musk, and has served as its CEO. He...

John R. Levine

Co-author of The Internet for Dummies (with Carol Baroudi and Margaret Levine Young), Levine is an Internet author and consultant specializing in email infrastructure, spam filtering, and software patents. Levine has chaired the...

David Filo

Co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang, Filo is an American businessman. His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side scripting software used to dynamically serve variable web pages,...

Shigeru (Steve) Nakayama

Key player in introducing U.S. semiconductor equipment technology to Japan, Nakayama has made lasting contributions to the international semiconductor industry. Born in Chicago, he grew up in Palo Alto, CA, where he attended...

Gerald D. Cohen

CEO and founder of Information Builders, Cohen started an early enterprise database software company.

Sellam Ismail

Founder of the Vintage Computer Festival and active in the preservation of information technology artifacts, Ismail has dedicated himself to salvaging countless artifacts of tech history. His prescience has led to the...

Anthony (Tony) M. Fadell

Developer of technologies including the Sony Magic Link, Motorola Envoy, and the Apple iPod, Fadell is a Lebanese American computer science engineer. He served as Senior Vice President of the iPod Division...

Bernard (Bernie) Goldstein

A leading mergers and acquisitions advisor in the software industry, Goldstein has enjoyed a remarkably diverse career during his more than four decades in the computer industry. He founded and ran many...

Paul Vincent Galvin

Co-founder of Motorola, Galvin helped establish one of the world's leading telecommunications companies. Founded as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation on September 25, 1928, Motorola became a leader in communications equipment. Galvin was born...

Pierre Morad Omidyar

Founder and chairman of eBay, Omidyar is a French-born Armenian-Iranian entrepreneur, philanthropist, and economist. Omidyar and his wife Pam are well-known philanthropists who founded Omidyar Network in 2004 in order to expand...

Cleve Barry Moler

Inventor of MATLAB, a numerical computing package, Moler is an American mathematician and computer programmer specializing in numerical analysis. In the mid to late 1970s, he was one of the authors of...

David Packard

Co-founder of Hewlett-Packard (1939), Packard served as president (1947–1964), CEO (1964–1968), and Chairman of the Board (1964–1968, 1972–1993). He served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1969–1971 during the Nixon administration. Packard...

Joseph (Joe) A. Piscopo

Founder of Pansophic Systems in 1969, Piscopo built the Lisle, Illinois software firm into a major enterprise before retiring as its Chairman and C.E.O. in 1987 after 18 years. Previously, he had...

Jonathan J. Rubinstein

Instrumental in the development of the iPod, Rubinstein is an American computer scientist and electrical engineer who played a central role in creating the portable music and video device first sold by...

David G. Arscott

Founder board member of the IT History Society and Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Arscott spent his entire professional career investing in private and public technology companies. In 1968, he joined the group...

Stephen (Steve) Gary Wozniak

Co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc. with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne, Wozniak is an American computer engineer whose inventions and machines are credited with contributing significantly to the personal computer revolution of...

Paul Baran

Co-inventor of packet-switched networks, Baran transformed the foundations of modern digital communications. He was born in Grodno (then Poland) and his family moved to Philadelphia in 1928. Baran did undergraduate work at...

Robert (Bob) Proebsting

Inventor of DRAM address multiplexing with the MK4096 4096 X 1 bit DRAM introduced in 1973, Proebsting co-founded Mostek in June 1969 and made one of the most significant contributions in DRAM...