Jefferson (Jeff) Y. Han

Co-developer of "multi-touch sensing," Han is a research scientist at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences who helped create touch-screen interfaces able to recognize multiple points of contact. He also worked on...

Gwendowlyn K Bell

Founding President and Co-founder of The Computer Museum and Co-founder of the Computer History Museum, Bell has also served as President of the ACM.

Gordon Eubanks

Designer of CBASIC and CP/M tools, Eubanks is recognized as a microcomputer industry pioneer and one of the founding figures of the personal computer software era. While serving in the U.S. Navy, Eubanks...

Jef Raskin

Human-computer interface expert best known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple, Raskin first met Apple Computer's Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak following the debut of their Apple II personal computer at...

Howard Frank

Conductor of the original topological analysis for the ARPAnet, Frank evaluated the network's performance and reliability and studied how the technology could be applied to the larger world. Having earned his Ph.D....

Jimmy Donal Wales

Co-founder of Wikipedia, Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur who has helped transform how the world accesses information. Wales was born on August 7, 1966, in Huntsville, Alabama. He grew up in a...

Alvy Ray Smith, III

Co-founder of the animation studio Pixar and creator of the HSV color space, Smith is an American engineer and noted pioneer in computer graphics. In 1965, he received his Bachelor's Degree in...

Fred M. Gibbons

Co-founder and CEO of Software Publishing Corporation (SPC), best known for its pioneering Harvard Graphics business and presentation graphics program, Gibbons cofounded the Mountain View, California-based company in 1980 along with two...

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...

Michael Saul Dell

Founder and CEO of Dell Inc., Dell is an American business magnate who has been among the richest people in the world, with a net worth of US$13.5 billion in 2010.

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...

Fei-Fei Li

Best known for establishing ImageNet, the dataset that enabled rapid advances in computer vision in the 2010s, Li is a professor of computer science at Stanford University whose research spans artificial intelligence,...

Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov

Creator of Tetris, Pajitnov developed the iconic game with the help of Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov in 1985. The game, first available in the Soviet Union, appeared in the West in...

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....

Dan Fylstra

Founding Associate Editor of BYTE Magazine and co-developer and marketer of VisiCalc, the original spreadsheet program, Fylstra has been a pioneer of the computer industry since the 1970s. In 1978 he co-founded...

George Winthrop Fairchild

Chairman of IBM from its founding through 1924, Fairchild was a pivotal figure in the early history of the company. Primarily self-educated, he rose to prominence through his own effort and enterprise....

Lawrence (Larry) J. Schoenberg

His commitment to using digital tools in manuscript studies and to making his collection freely available online supported the work of many scholars. Co-founder and former CEO of AGS Computers, Inc., Schoenberg...

Stephen Wolfram

Chief designer of Mathematica and the Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine, Wolfram is a British scientist whose parents were Jewish refugees who emigrated from Westphalia, Germany, to England in 1933. He was...

Phillip Walter Katz

Co-creator of the zip file format for data compression and author of PKZIP, a program for creating zip files which ran under DOS, Katz graduated from the Computer Science Engineering program at...

Robert (Bob) Proebsting

Inventor of DRAM address multiplexing with the MK4096 4096 X 1 bit DRAM introduced in 1973, Proebsting co-founded Mostek in June 1969 and made one of the most significant contributions in DRAM...