Lucinda (Lucy) M. Sanders

Bell Labs Fellow and CEO and Co-founder of the National Center for Women and Information Technology, Sanders has worked to expand the talent pool in the computing field while building on a...

Raymond (Ray) M. Holt

Developer of the first microprocessor chip set for the US Navy F-14 Tomcat, Holt designed this groundbreaking chip set at Garrett AiResearch's Central Air Data Computer. He co-founded Microcomputer Associates, Incorporated with...

Charles (Chuck) H. Moore

Inventor of the Forth programming language, Moore is recognized as one of the most influential figures in programming language history. Born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, in 1938, Moore grew up in Flint,...

William (Bill) David Mensch, Jr.,

A central person in the creation of the Motorola 6800 and MOS Technology 6502 families of microprocessor chips, Mensch is also recognized as the sole IC design engineer of the 6820/21 PIA,...

Marcel Joseph Vogel

Inventor of the magnetic coating for the IBM 24" hard disk drive systems still in use, Vogel worked as a research scientist at the IBM San Jose Research Center for 27 years....

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...

Gary Morgenthaler

Builder of the high-speed interface for TYMCOM-10 and TYMNET network—"the Internet before the Internet"—Morgenthaler has a national reputation as a successful executive in the software industry and has emphasized investments in information...

Keith Uncapher

Pioneer of packet switching and MOSIS, Uncapher spread the ideas that later evolved into the Internet. Under his leadership, ISI provided support for emerging DARPA programs in Information Technology. There, Uncapher assembled...

Milo S. Medin

Helping to deliver the first large-scale residential broadband access service in partnership with major cable operators, Medin has been part of the Internet development community for more than 25 years. He has...

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...

Jack Yun Ma

Founder of one of the world's biggest B2B online marketplaces, Ma built Alibaba.com into an eBay for companies doing international trade. A Chinese entrepreneur and philanthropist, he also founded and served as...

Chandu Thota

A widely recognized expert in mapping, geo-spatial applications, and scalable web services, Thota is a software entrepreneur notable for starting a service called Dealmap, which launched DealExchange to help publishers and local...

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...

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...

Dorcas Muthoni

Founder of OPENWORLD LTD at the age of 24, Muthoni was a Kenyan entrepreneur and computer scientist who established the software consulting company to advance technology's role in African society. Through her...

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...

Matthew Feng-Chiang Miau

Pioneer of Taiwan's personal computer industry, Miau is an information industry veteran with decades of experience on both sides of the Pacific. He was born in Shantung (China), grew up and attended...

William Wang

Founder and CEO of Vizio, Inc., Wang was born and raised in Taiwan, moved to Hawaii, United States at the age of 13 and then to California at the age of 14....

Calvin Northrup Mooers

Known for his work in information retrieval and for the programming language TRAC, Mooers was a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended the University of Minnesota and received a bachelor's degree in...

John Theurer Diebold

An early champion of widespread use of computing and automated technology, Diebold helped shape how businesses understood and adopted automation. Diebold was born in Weehawken, New Jersey. He graduated from Swarthmore College in...