Gary Harpst

Co-founder of Solomon Software and designer of its pioneering accounting products, Harpst grew up in Findlay, Ohio and graduated from Ohio State University with B.A. and M.B.A. degrees in Business and Computer...

Peter Karmanos, Jr.

Co-founder of Compuware, a worldwide leader in software technology, Karmanos launched the company in 1973 with two partners, Thomas Thewes and Allen Cutting. Born into a Greek immigrant family, he graduated from...

Megan Smith

Named in 2014 as the third U.S. Chief Technology Officer and the first woman to hold that position, Smith served as Assistant to the President under Barack Obama until January 2017, succeeding...

Jerry Yang

Co-founder of Yahoo!, Yang is a Chinese American entrepreneur who also served as the company's CEO (Chief Yahoo). Born in Taiwan in 1968, Yang immigrated to the United States with his family at...

Paul Brainerd

Founder of Aldus Software and creator of the term "desktop publishing," Brainerd saw an opportunity to merge his publishing and computer experience with Apple's computer and printer. Through Jonathan Seybold, Brainerd met with...

Douglas Donald Troxel

Developer of COMPAREX, an industry-standard mainframe product, Troxel founded SERENA Consulting in 1980 and grew it into a publicly traded software company without venture capital. Raised on a farm near Lake City, Iowa,...

Ravi Sandhu

Inventor of 29 security technology patents and leader of multiple teams conducting research on many aspects of cyber security, Sandhu has served as Executive Director of the Institute for Cyber Security at...

Steve Chen

Principal designer of the Cray X-MP and Cray Y-MP multiprocessor supercomputers, Chen is a computer engineering pioneer. He has served as founder and CEO of Galactic Computing, a developer of supercomputing blade...

Andy Hertzfeld

Key member of the original Apple Macintosh development team, Hertzfeld graduated from Brown University with a Computer Science degree in 1975 and attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. In...

Lynda Weinman

Founder of lynda.com, a pioneering online software training website, Weinman built the platform with her husband, Bruce Heavin, before LinkedIn acquired it in April 2015 for $1.5 billion. A self-taught computer specialist, Weinman...

Sam Harrell

Co-founder of SEMATECH, the partnership between the U.S. government and U.S.-based semiconductor manufacturers to regain competitiveness for the U.S. semiconductor industry, Harrell is a leading specialist in semiconductor and international trade and...

Gary Mokotoff

Pioneer of the computer software industry for the IBM 1401, Mokotoff is the co-creator of the 1401 Autocoder and sole author of SPS1 and SPS2. He joined IBM in 1959. From 1959 to...

Roger R. Schell

Regarded as the "father" of the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (the "Orange Book"), Schell is one of the foremost contributors to, and authorities on, "high assurance" computer security. He has served...

Raymond (Ray) Kurzweil

Inventor and developer of Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Text-To-Speech Synthesis, Speech Recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments, Kurzweil is an American author, inventor, and futurist. He grew up in the New York...

Joshua Schachter

Creator of Delicious, GeoURL, and co-creator of Memepool, Schachter holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He released the first version of Delicious (then called...

Reshma Saujani

Founder of Girls Who Code, a nonprofit working to increase the number of women in computer science and close the gender employment gap in that field, Saujani built a career spanning law,...

Barry (Pak-Lee) Lam

Founder and Chairman of Quanta Computer, the leading laptop producer worldwide, Lam is also a major patron of the arts and a leading philanthropist in the area of culture and education. In...

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...

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...

Charles R. Trimble

Developer of the Global Positioning System (GPS) for commercial and consumer applications, Trimble founded Trimble Navigation Limited (TNL) in 1978 along with two partners from Hewlett-Packard, initially operating from Los Altos, California....