Evan Sharp

Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Pinterest, Sharp designed the Pinterest grid for the initial product launch. Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool that skyrocketed in popularity due to its innovative concept...

Michael (Mike) Lazaridis

Founder of Research In Motion (RIM), Lazaridis co-created and manufactured the BlackBerry wireless handheld device. He has also served as chancellor of the University of Waterloo, and is an Officer of the...

Ralph Ungermann

Co-founder of Ungermann-Bass (UB), the first large networking company independent of any computer manufacturer, Ungermann was considered to be a founding father of the data communications industry. He was often described as...

Igor Aleksander

A pioneer in artificial intelligence and neural networks, Aleksander was born in Croatia, educated in Italy and South Africa, and completed a PhD at Queen Mary College, University of London. In 1984...

Peter James Denning

Pioneer of virtual memory systems and co-founder of CSNET, Denning is best known for discovering the locality principle and designing the working set model for program behavior. He took an early interest in...

Mikhail Donskoy

Lead developer of Kaissa, the world champion chess computer, Donskoy was a Soviet and Russian computer scientist. In 1970, he graduated from Moscow State University and joined the Institute of Control Sciences...

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...

Gerald D. Cohen

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

David H. Crocker

Co-worker on RFC 822, the first standard to describe the syntax of a domain name, Crocker has forty years of work experience in the Internet industry, including early work with DARPA and...

William H. Davidow

Computer industry executive, author, and venture capitalist, Davidow has been active in high-technology for more than 30 years. He has continued as an active advisor to MDV. Davidow is the author of...

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...

An Wang

Inventor and co-founder of Wang Laboratories, Wang transformed business computing through pioneering work in calculators, word processors, and minicomputers. Wang founded Wang Laboratories in June 1951 as a sole proprietorship. By 1970...

Sonja Bernhardt

Founder and Inaugural President of Women in Technology (WiT) in Queensland in 1997, Bernhardt was a prominent Australian figure in efforts to bring more women and girls into technology careers. She also...

John William Mauchly

Co-inventor of ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, Mauchly worked alongside J. Presper Eckert to design EDVAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States....

Jerry D. Hutcheson

Researcher of several types of semiconductor devices, Hutcheson joined the electronics industry in 1959 and advanced through a succession of research and manufacturing posts in several companies that involved him with the...

Rolf Skår

Researcher on the second minicomputer in the world based on integrated circuits, Skår was also a co-founder of Norsk Data and served as CEO of the Norwegian Space Centre from 1997 to...

Susan Estrada

Founder of CERFnet, one of the original regional IP networks, Estrada is recognized as an Internet pioneer and named a "thinking nerd" by colleagues, with a deep interest in emerging broadband technologies...

Martin M. Wattenberg

Co-creator of IBM's Many Eyes, a ground-breaking public visualization platform and experiment in open, public data visualization and analysis, Wattenberg is an American scientist and artist known for his work with data...

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...

Charles Eric Leiserson

Inventor of the fat-tree interconnection network, a hardware-universal interconnection network used in many supercomputers, Leiserson is also a pioneer developer of VLSI theory. He designed the fat-tree for the Connection Machine CM5,...