Florian Brody

Co-inventor of Voyager's Expanded Books, the first electronic books to be read on a laptop, Brody is an international marketing executive and digital media specialist with over 25 years of experience. He...

Frederic Alois Friedel

Co-founder of the chess database company ChessBase, Friedel is a German graduate linguist, science, chess, and computer chess journalist. He co-founded ChessBase in 1986 with game database developer Matthias Wöllenweber. He studied...

Sky Dylan Dayton

Founder of EarthLink, co-founder of eCompanies, and founder of Boingo Wireless, Dayton is an American entrepreneur. He was born in New York City, and soon after, the family moved to Los Angeles....

Danny Cohen

Developer of the first real-time visual flight simulator on a general purpose computer, Cohen later adapted it to run over the ARPANET. Born in Israel, he was also well known for coining...

Gaylord (Glenn) G. Henry

Lead architect of the IBM System/32, IBM System/38 (forerunner of AS/400), and RT/PC (forerunner of Power systems), Henry is also co-founder and President of Centaur Technologies, Inc., and has played an integral...

Monte M. Toole

Builder of the device testing lab at Fairchild Semiconductor, Toole went on to found Novellus Surface Integrity Group (aka GaSonics International Corporation) in March 1971, serving as its Chairman until April 1998,...

Matthias Ettrich

Founder of the LyX project, an open source document processor popular among technical authors and scientists for its advanced mathematical modes, Ettrich is a German computer scientist and software engineer known for...

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...

Bobby Murphy

Co-founder of Snapchat, Murphy is a Filipino-American billionaire businessman who also serves as the platform's Chief Technology Officer (CTO). He co-founded Snapchat with Evan Spiegel and Reggie Brown while they were students...

Robert (Bob) Alan Iannucci

Led Nokia's Research Center (NRC) labs and lablets to deliver fundamental contributions to the worldwide Long Term Evolution for 3G (LTE) standard, Iannucci is a computer scientist who has served as Director...

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...

Kenneth Ross

Founder of Ross Systems and serial technology CEO, Ross has worked with more than 25 companies as a company founder, board member, venture capitalist, and consultant. He founded and served as CEO...

Harry Sello

Responsible for the transfer of silicon transistor technology to Societa Generale Semiconduttore in Italy, negotiating cultural and industrial boundaries, Sello is an American chemist born in Russia whose family emigrated to the...

Lester (Les) Donald Earnest

Developer of the "first pen-based computer system that reliably recognized cursive writing" and the first spell checker, Earnest began his career as a computer programmer in 1954 during a stint as a...

Phillip Walter Katz

Co-creator of the zip file format for data compression and author of PKZIP, a program for creating zip files which ran under DOS, Katz graduated from the Computer Science Engineering program at...

Shikoh Gitau

The first African to win the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, Gitau received that honor at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, recognized for her inventions and thesis work. A Kenyan...

Thomas Siebel

Founder of Siebel Systems and pioneer of customer relationship management (CRM), Siebel revolutionized sales by developing software to automate sales and customer service activities. He graduated from the University of Illinois at...

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...

Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp

Known for his work in information theory and combinatorial game theory, Berlekamp was one of the inventors of the Welch–Berlekamp and Berlekamp–Massey algorithms, which are used to implement Reed–Solomon error correction. While an...

Alvy Ray Smith, III

Co-founder of the animation studio Pixar and creator of the HSV color space, Smith is an American engineer and noted pioneer in computer graphics. In 1965, he received his Bachelor's Degree in...