Lawrence (Larry) G. Roberts

Developer of ARPANet and the Internet, Roberts served as chief scientist at the Advanced Research Projects Agency, where he and his team created packet switching and the ARPANet, which was the predecessor...

Burton J. Smith

Primary architect of the Denelcor Heterogeneous Element Processor (HEP), Smith was a pioneering computer architect who served as a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. He earned a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of...

Michael (Mike) Rubens Bloomberg

Founder and CEO of Bloomberg L.P., a global financial services, mass media, and software company, Bloomberg is an American businessman, author, politician, and philanthropist. His net worth is estimated at US$ 53.4...

Dave Smith

Known as the "Father of MIDI" for his role in developing the Musical Instrument Digital Interface, Smith pioneered many groundbreaking technologies in music. He was also responsible for the Prophet 5, the...

Laszlo (Les) A. Belady

Author of the most-cited paper in software over two decades, Belady's 1966 article on Virtual Memory Systems set a landmark acknowledged by the Citation Index Classic. A design engineer and veteran senior...

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...

Michael Leonidas Dertouzos

Instrumental in defining the World Wide Web Consortium and bringing it to MIT, Dertouzos served as a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer...

Reid Hoffman

Founder of LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network, Hoffman is sometimes called the "Oracle of Silicon Valley" for his track record of identifying transformative technology trends early. Hoffman was born on August 5,...

Stephen Warshall

Developer of the transitive closure algorithm known as Warshall's algorithm, Warshall made foundational contributions to graph analysis for finding shortest paths in a weighted graph. Born in New York City, Warshall went to...

Douglas Gene Carlston

Founder and CEO of Tawala Systems, which enables ordinary people to use the web more easily and effectively, Carlston launched the company in September 2005, based in San Rafael, California, and conceived...

Charles (Charlie) William Bachman

Pioneer of database technology, Bachman spent his entire career as an industrial researcher rather than in academia. Born in Manhattan, Kansas, in 1924, Bachman's father was a football coach and minor league baseball...

Sheldon (Shelly) Weinig

Founder of Materials Research Corporation (MRC), a global manufacturer and supplier of highly specialized semiconductor materials and equipment, Weinig set the pace for the semiconductor industry. Born in New York City, he...

Hewitt D. Crane

Developer of an eye-movement tracking device and pen-input device for computers, Crane was an American engineer best known for his pioneering work at SRI International on ERMA (Electronic Recording Machine, Accounting), for...

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...

Jaron Zepel Lanier

Pioneer of virtual reality, Lanier led the team in the late 1980s that developed the first implementations of multi-person virtual worlds using head-mounted displays. In mid-1997, he became a founding member of...

Abraham (Abe) Peled

Innovator of the first Internet ISP and e-commerce sites in Israel, Peled is an Israeli businessman born in Romania with over 40 years of accomplishments in the digital TV industry. He graduated...

Floyd (Earl) Kvamme

One of five founders of National Semiconductor in 1967, Kvamme went on to work at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and has served in science and technology policy on behalf of the...

Daniel Singer Bricklin

Co-creator of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program available for personal computers, Bricklin co-founded Software Arts, Inc. with Frankston in 1979 and began selling VisiCalc that same year. He was given a Grace...

Henry Ross Perot

Founder of Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in 1962, Perot built one of the most influential technology services companies in American history. He sold EDS to General Motors in 1984, and founded Perot...

Richard (Dick) John Egan

Member of the team that developed the Apollo Guidance Computer for the Apollo spacecraft that carried astronauts to the moon, Egan was also a prominent American businessman, political fundraiser, and former US...