Juan R. Rodriguez

Pioneer in the development of advanced computer data storage technologies across four decades, Rodriguez co-founded Storage Technology Corporation in 1969 along with three other IBM engineers: Jesse Awieda, Thomas S. Kavanagh, and...

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...

Michael (Mike) James Massimino

Researcher on human operator control of space robotics systems resulting in two patents, and developer of laptop computer displays to assist operators of the Space Shuttle remote manipulator system, Massimino is an...

Bijan Davari

Leader of the IBM research team that produced the first generation of high-performance, low-voltage CMOS logic characterizing modern computer chips, Davari's pioneering work in miniaturization of semiconductor devices changed the world of...

C. Denis Mee

Founder of IBM's Magnetic Recording Institute (MRI), Mee is a key technologist and pioneer in the hard drive industry. He joined IBM in 1962 at Yorktown Heights, NY as a research staff...

Stanley (Stan) Phillips Frankel

Designer of the CONAC computer, Frankel was an American computer scientist born in Los Angeles who attended graduate school at the University of Rochester, received his PhD in physics from the University...

Edson Hendricks

Developer of RSCS (later known as VNET), fundamental software that powered the world's largest network (or network of networks) prior to the Internet, Hendricks is an IBM computer scientist whose work directly...

William (Bill) Grant Moggridge

Designer of the Grid Compass Laptop and Palm handheld, Moggridge co-founded IDEO, where he focused on developing a process that could lead to innovative products. He felt products could be more "humane."

Sheldon (Shelly) Weinig

Founder of Materials Research Corporation (MRC), a global manufacturer and supplier of highly specialized semiconductor materials and equipment, Weinig set the pace for the semiconductor industry. Born in New York City, he...

Antonin Svoboda

Czech computer scientist and creator of fault-tolerant computer design, Svoboda was one of the most influential scientists in the 20th century. He was born in Prague in 1907. Attending a series of...

Steven W. Hunter

Systems Architect for Systems x and BladeCenter products at IBM, Hunter was named an IBM Fellow in 2011—the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM can achieve. He has served...

Dave Boggs

Co-inventor of Ethernet and developer of early Internet protocol prototypes, Boggs helped shape the foundations of modern computer networking. David graduated from Princeton University, and as a young graduate worked at Xerox PARC,...

William (Danny) Daniel Hillis

Co-founder of Thinking Machines Corporation, Hillis developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer he designed at MIT. He also co-founded the Long Now Foundation, Applied Minds, and Metaweb, and authored The Pattern...

Paul M. Horn

Pioneer in the use of copper and self-assembly in chip manufacturing and contributor to pervasive computing, Horn is an American computer scientist and solid state physicist. He spent 28 years with IBM...

Andreas (Andy) von Bechtolsheim

One of the earliest investors in Google, Bechtolsheim is a computer hardware scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Sun Microsystems. At Stanford University, Bechtolsheim had devised a powerful computer (which he called a workstation)...

George M. Galambos

Designer on the team that built the Interac network connecting bank machines around the world, Galambos is a computer engineer born in Budapest, Hungary. The result was an open system that allowed...

Dave Smith

Known as the "Father of MIDI" for his role in developing the Musical Instrument Digital Interface, Smith pioneered many groundbreaking technologies in music. He was also responsible for the Prophet 5, the...

George Joseph Laurer

Developer of the Universal Product Code (UPC), Laurer created the pattern of stripes that brought supermarkets into the digital age. A 36-year veteran of the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), he developed...

Maxine Fassberg

Named one of the "10 most powerful women in tech" by CNN in 2010, Fassberg spent 33 years rising through key positions at Intel, ultimately serving as general manager and CEO of...

Wallace John Eckert

A part of the creation of the research division of IBM, Eckert directed the Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau at Columbia University, which evolved into that division.