Dennis C. Hayes

Dennis C. Hayes is best known as the co-founder of Hayes Microcomputer Products, whose modems helped millions connect to the Internet and whose modem commands became an industry standard. Hayes attended the Georgia...

Raymond (Ray) John Noorda

Founder and former CEO of Novell, Noorda was a U.S. computer businessman who served in that role between 1982 and 1994. He also served as chairman of Novell until he was replaced...

Richard Matthew Stallman

Founder of the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, Stallman also launched the free software movement and was the main author of the GNU General Public License for open...

Aaron Levie

Co-founder and CEO of BOX, Levie launched the company from his college dorm room with his friend and co-founder, Dylan Smith who is the CFO. He grew up in Seattle where he...

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...

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...

Isaac L Auerbach

Founder of Auerbach Associates and publisher of the influential Auerbach Reports on computer issues, Auerbach was a leading figure in the information processing industry. Isaac Auerbach earned a BS at Drexel University in...

Bradley Joseph Horowitz

Vice President of Streams, Photos and Sharing at Google and co-founder and CTO of Virage, Inc., Horowitz is an American entrepreneur and internet executive. He received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science...

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,...

Donna Dubinsky

A pioneer in the development of personal digital assistants (PDAs), Dubinsky served as CEO of Palm, Inc. and co-founded Handspring with Jeff Hawkins. She went on to co-found the brain research company...

Luke Nosek

Co-founder of PayPal and creator of the company's "instant transfer" product, Nosek is a Polish-born American entrepreneur. He received a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign....

Cheryl L. Shavers

Appointed Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology in the Clinton Administration, Shavers served in that role from 1999 to 2001, representing one of the most senior positions in U.S. technology policy. Her...

Charles Geschke

Co-founder of Adobe Systems, Geschke transformed document production and launched the desktop publishing industry. Prior to co-founding Adobe, Geschke and Warnock worked at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Geschke had started there...

Robert Marco Tomasulo

Inventor of the Tomasulo algorithm, a computer architecture hardware algorithm for dynamic scheduling of instructions that allows out-of-order execution, Tomasulo was the recipient of the 1997 Eckert–Mauchly Award, "for the ingenious Tomasulo...

Federico Faggin

Co-designer of the world's first microprocessor, Faggin is recognized as a foundational figure in modern computing. After obtaining his university degree, he worked at SGS Fairchild in Italy, where he developed SGS's...

Herbert Franz Mataré

Co-developer of the first functional "European" transistor, Mataré made his landmark contribution alongside Heinrich Welker in the vicinity of Paris in 1948, at the same time and independently from the Bell Labs...

Stephen Warshall

Developer of the transitive closure algorithm known as Warshall's algorithm, Warshall made foundational contributions to graph analysis for finding shortest paths in a weighted graph. Born in New York City, Warshall went to...

Douglas (Doug) Taylor Ross

Originator of the term CAD for computer-aided design and considered the father of Automatically Programmed Tools (APT), Ross was also the inventor of SADT, Structured Analysis and Design Technique. An American computer...

Robert (Bob) M. Frankston

Co-creator of VisiCalc and co-founder of Software Arts, Frankston received numerous honors and awards for his work. He has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1994) "for the...

Nobuo Mii

Leader of a team that built the first television system in Kyushu, Japan, Mii accomplished this feat in 1949 as manager of his high school Wireless Communications Club, mainly using electronic parts...