Robert Norton Noyce

Founder of Intel and co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor, Noyce is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the invention of the integrated circuit or microchip. Nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley," he...

Srini Devadas

Co-inventor of silicon Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and co-founder of Verayo, a company focused on improving the security of computer hardware, Devadas has served as the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical...

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...

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...

William (Bill) L. Schrader

Co-founder of the world's first commercial Internet Service Provider, Schrader partnered with Martin L. Schoffstall to launch PSINet in 1989, initially funding the company using credit cards and by selling his family...

David E. Culler

Inventor of the TinyOS operating system, Culler is a computer scientist who has served as Chair of Computer Science and Associate Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of...

Joseph (Josh) A. Fisher

Creator of VLIW architectures, which allow programs to explicitly specify instructions to be executed in parallel for higher performance, Fisher is an American computer scientist also noted for his work on compiling...

Robert Kevin Rose

Co-founder of Digg and other Internet start-ups, Rose is recognized for his entrepreneurial work in online media. He first became an on-air talent and later served as a co-host on TechTV's show The...

Ken W. Kolence

Co-founder of Boole & Babbage, the first software product firm in Silicon Valley, Kolence is recognized as a software industry pioneer and computer executive. He received his Master's degree in Math, with...

James (Jim) M. McCoy

Co-founder and CEO of Maxtor, which became a leading disk drive manufacturer after pioneering the market for high-performance 5.25-inch disk drives, McCoy has built multiple billion-dollar international companies over four decades as...

Dimitri P. Bertsekas

Known for his fourteen textbooks and monographs in theoretical and algorithmic optimization and control, and in applied probability, Bertsekas is an applied mathematician and computer scientist who has served as a professor...

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...

Biz Stone

Co-founder of Twitter, Stone also served as its Creative Director and helped to create and launch Xanga, Blogger, Odeo, and Obvious. Stone published two books about blogging, including *Blogging: Genius Strategies for...

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...

Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou

CTO of PatternInsight, a spin-off from her research group that has deployed software quality and security solutions used by many large commercial companies, Zhou co-founded the startup in 2007. She received several grants...

Paul Maritz

Responsible for essentially all of Microsoft's desktop and server software — including such major initiatives as the development of Windows 95, Windows NT, and Internet Explorer — Maritz has served as a...

Edward (Ed) E. Iacobucci

Leader of the joint IBM-Microsoft design team that launched the modern era of multi-tasking personal computer operating systems, Iacobucci was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Dr. Guillermo and Costantina Iacobucci. His...

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...

Heinz G. Schwaertzel

Head of Central Research at Siemens AG in Munich, Schwaertzel has served as President of Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) from 1987–1991. He initiated DFKI (German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence) in Saarbrücken...

Andrew James Viterbi

Inventor of the Viterbi algorithm, used for decoding convolutionally encoded data and still widely used in cellular phones for error correcting codes, as well as for speech recognition, DNA analysis, and many...