Stan Veit

Founder of Computer Mart of New York, one of the first computer stores in the world, Veit played an important role in the early days of the personal computer industry in the...

Robert B. Palmer

Member of the founding team at Mostek, where he pioneered the use of ion implantation technology for the manufacture of MOS circuits, Palmer is also known as the last Chairman and Chief...

Steve Chen

Principal designer of the Cray X-MP and Cray Y-MP multiprocessor supercomputers, Chen is a computer engineering pioneer. He has served as founder and CEO of Galactic Computing, a developer of supercomputing blade...

Heinz Nixdorf

German computer entrepreneur, Nixdorf founded and led Nixdorf Computer AG. He developed and marketed low-end commercial computers mainly within Europe between 1965 and 1985. He had production facilities in Germany, Ireland, Spain,...

Charles R. Trimble

Developer of the Global Positioning System (GPS) for commercial and consumer applications, Trimble founded Trimble Navigation Limited (TNL) in 1978 along with two partners from Hewlett-Packard, initially operating from Los Altos, California....

Ravi Sandhu

Inventor of 29 security technology patents and leader of multiple teams conducting research on many aspects of cyber security, Sandhu has served as Executive Director of the Institute for Cyber Security at...

Coraline Ada Ehmke

Creator of the Contributor Covenant and the Post-Meritocracy Manifesto, Ehmke was a leading advocate for codes of conduct in open source projects and communities. She founded the Organization for Ethical Source and...

Steven (Steve) Shih Chen

Co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube, Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan. When he was eight years old, he and his family immigrated to the...

Bernard (Bernie) Goldstein

A leading mergers and acquisitions advisor in the software industry, Goldstein has enjoyed a remarkably diverse career during his more than four decades in the computer industry. He founded and ran many...

Andy Hertzfeld

Key member of the original Apple Macintosh development team, Hertzfeld graduated from Brown University with a Computer Science degree in 1975 and attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. In...

Joseph (Joe) A. Piscopo

Founder of Pansophic Systems in 1969, Piscopo built the Lisle, Illinois software firm into a major enterprise before retiring as its Chairman and C.E.O. in 1987 after 18 years. Previously, he had...

David Neil Laurence Levy

Developer of the Chess module for the TI-99/4A Home Computer Project in collaboration with Texas Instruments, Levy is a Scottish International Master of chess, a businessman noted for his involvement with computer...

Theodor (Ted) Holm Nelson

Inventor of hypertext and hypermedia, Nelson coined both terms in 1963 and published them in 1965. An American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology, he is also credited with the first...

Charles Ingerham Peddle

Main designer of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor, the KIM-1 SBC, and the Commodore PET personal computer, Peddle was an American electrical engineer. Born in Bangor, Maine, he worked in a radio...

Nathaniel S. Borenstein

One of the original designers of the MIME protocol for formatting multimedia Internet electronic mail, Borenstein has served as Chief Scientist at email management company Mimecast and founded NetPOS.com and First Virtual...

Timothy (Tim) John Berners-Lee

Creator of the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee is a British engineer and computer scientist who made the first proposal for it in March 1989. On 25 December 1990, with the help of...

Richard (Dick) Mandelbaum

Co-founder of NYSERNet, the first nongovernment Internet service provider (ISP), Mandelbaum started out as a Theoretical Mathematician and became a Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering. He has also served...

Jonathan (Jony) Paul Ive

Lead designer and conceptual mind behind many of Apple's most iconic products, including the iMac, MacBook Air, iPod, iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad, Ive is widely recognized as one of the most...

Richard (Dick) Hedger

Participant in the System 38 and AS/400 Operating System development management teams at IBM Rochester, Hedger brings over 40 years of experience in broad software development, software project management, quality management, and...

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...