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...

Tim Westergren

Founder and CEO of Pandora, Westergren started the Music Genome Project, a mathematical algorithm to organize music. The idea was marketed by Pandora Media. Westergren, along with the other developers, patented the...

Stephanie Shirley

Founder of F International, a software company initially employing only women, Shirley built her vision that software could provide an outlet for the skills and creative ability of housebound women into a...

William Frederick Miller

Contributor to the development of the computer and its applications at Argonne, Miller served as Director of the Applied Mathematics Division at Argonne National Laboratory beginning in 1959, and later as President...

Evan Thomas Spiegel

Co-founder and CEO of the mobile application Snapchat, Spiegel launched the platform alongside Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown while they were all students at Stanford University. Snapchat started as a project for...

Cuthbert Corwin Hurd

Pioneer of IBM's development of general-purpose computers, Hurd made contributions that helped transform scientific computing. In 1947 Hurd worked for Union Carbide as a mathematician at the United States Atomic Energy Commission facility...

Fred Moore

Instrumental in providing worldwide product leadership for storage systems for open systems and mainframes, Moore has served as StorageTek's chief strategist and spokesman worldwide for over ten years and is credited with...

Kun-Yao (K.Y.) Lee

Founder of BenQ Corporation, the No. 2 manufacturer of flat-panel computer displays, Lee is also recognized for growing the company to 40 times its former size and building BenQ products into a...

Eugene (Gene) L. Delves

Co-founder of the organization known today as Accenture, Delves was one of five men whose 1954 efforts marked the first successful installation and use of a computer in the industry. In 1954,...

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...

David L. House

Silicon Valley entrepreneur and co-founder of the Computer History Museum, House has had a distinguished career spanning Intel, Nortel, and Brocade. House has served as a Brocade director from 2004 and as Chairman...

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...

Fernanda Bertini Viégas

Co-creator of Many Eyes, the ground-breaking open public data visualization and analysis platform, Viégas is a Brazilian-born scientist and computational designer whose work focuses on the social, collaborative, and artistic aspects of...

Sidney (Sid) K. Meier

Founder of Firaxis Games and creator of "Civilization," Meier has made landmark contributions to the video game industry. In 1982, along with Bill Stealy, he co-founded MicroProse, where the "Civilization" franchise first...

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...

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...

Sandra L. Kurtzig

The first woman to take a high-tech company public, Kurtzig founded ASK Computer Systems Inc. and developed Manman, an ERP program that ran on Hewlett-Packard minicomputers and helped manufacturing companies plan materials...

John Kenneth Ousterhout

Creator of the Tcl scripting language and the Tk platform-independent widget toolkit, Ousterhout has served as a professor of computer science at Stanford University and chairman of Electric Cloud, Inc. He founded...

Jose Luis Moreira da Encarnacao

Developer of the GKS Standard (Graphical Kernel System), Encarnação has made foundational contributions to computer graphics. He has served as Professor Emeritus of Technical University Darmstadt, and founded graphics research centers in...

Elon James Gasper

Holder of several patents relating to Lip Sync and other technology, Gasper is a former Senior VP at VizX Labs and co-founder of 1980s-era software company Bright Star Technology. Described by Ken...