Joy Buolamwini

Founder of the Algorithmic Justice League (AJL), Buolamwini founded an organization dedicated to challenging bias in decision-making software through art, advocacy, and research. Her work highlighted the social implications and harms of...

Michael (Mike) Rubens Bloomberg

Founder and CEO of Bloomberg L.P., a global financial services, mass media, and software company, Bloomberg is an American businessman, author, politician, and philanthropist. His net worth is estimated at US$ 53.4...

William (Bill) Nelson Joy

Founder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems, Joy co-founded the company in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy, Andy Bechtolsheim and Vaughan Pratt, and has served as chief scientist there until...

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...

Herbert Freeman

Contributor to the field of automatic label placement, computer graphics, and machine vision, Freeman published numerous works on geometric patterns from '61 and co-founded, with Azriel Rosenfeld of the University of Maryland,...

John Edward Warnock

Co-founder of Adobe Systems Inc., Warnock pioneered the development of graphics, publishing, Web, and electronic document technologies that revolutionized the field of publishing and visual communications. He served as President of Adobe...

Donn B. Parker

A 2008 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Parker was a leading information security researcher and consultant. He received many awards in the information security field. He lectured at conferences, seminars,...

Henry Ross Perot

Founder of Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in 1962, Perot built one of the most influential technology services companies in American history. He sold EDS to General Motors in 1984, and founded Perot...

Tom DeMarco

Known as one of the developers of Structured Analysis, DeMarco began his career at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1963, where he participated in the ESS-1 project to develop the first large-scale Electronic...

Lee E. McMahon

Contributor to early versions of the Unix operating system, including the sed stream editor, McMahon worked for Bell Labs from 1963 until 1989. McMahon was a computer scientist who graduated from St. Louis...

Eric S. Yuan

Founder and CEO of Zoom Video Communications, Yuan is a Chinese-American billionaire businessman who owns approximately 22% of the company. After earning his master's degree, Yuan lived in Beijing and attended a...

Yvonne Marie Andres

Among the earliest people to use the Internet to develop global e-learning opportunities for educators and students, Andrés founded the nonprofit Global SchoolNet in 1984, an international organization that facilitates collaborative educational...