Jack St. Clair Kilby

Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 2000 for his invention of the integrated circuit, Kilby was also the inventor of the handheld calculator and thermal printer.

Arthur W. Astrin

Builder of the world's first DSP and hardware FFT processor with sufficient speed to allow OFDM modulation, Astrin is an American communications engineer who has worked for Apple Computer, Inc., IBM (where...

David Ferrucci

Leader of the team that developed IBM's Watson computer system, Ferrucci served as the principal investigator who in 2007–2011 led a team of 25 IBM and academic researchers and engineers to create...

Lydia E. Kavraki

Known for research in robotics, bioinformatics, and algorithms, Kavraki left Greece to pursue a PhD in computer science at Stanford University. Drawn to the human potential of robotics, Kavraki studied how robots—from...

Robin Keith Saxby

Guided ARM Holdings to worldwide dominance in embedded applications as its first CEO, Saxby built the Cambridge-based company into "a global giant" with offices round the world. Born in Derbyshire, in central England,...

Robert Norton Noyce

Founder of Intel and co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor, Noyce is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the invention of the integrated circuit or microchip. Nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley," he...

Arthur Walter Burks

Contributor to the design of the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, Burks served as a senior engineer on the project in the 1940s. Decades later, Burks and his wife Alice...

Robert B. Garner

Team member for the Xerox STAR 8010 Professional Workstation, including the first 10-mbps Ethernet NIC in 1981, Garner designed and managed compute, network, and storage systems in Silicon Valley in both product...

Hans-Joachim Queisser

Inventor of a high-power luminescent diode — an infrared light emitting diode (LED) that now forms the basis of almost every household remote control device — Queisser was a solid-state physicist also...

Jay Glenn Miner

Father of the Amiga computer, Miner left a major mark on the history of home computing. He started in the electronics industry with a number of designs in the medical world, including a...

Arimasa Naitoh

Popularly known as the "father" of the ThinkPad Notebook PC, Naitoh has served as Vice-President of Development for Lenovo's Notebook division. While at IBM's development facility in Yamato City, Japan, he worked...

Fred William Wenninger

Leader of the team that developed the Synchro-Rectro-Flash analog computer prototype at HP in the late 1960s, Wenninger also conducted early research for a new algebraic programming language that would eventually be...

Stephen Wolff

Credited with turning the Internet from a government project into something of scholarly and commercial interest for the rest of the world, Wolff is sometimes called one of the many fathers of...

Robert (Bob) E. Lorenzini

Co-designer and developer of a crystal growing furnace, Lorenzini joined Rheem Semiconductor in 1960, the first spin-off from Fairchild Semiconductor, where he was involved in the design and development of that furnace....

James (Jim) A. Brown

Inventor of the APL2 program product, Brown is one of the computing world's leading authorities on array technology. He spent nearly 30 years at the center of IBM's array technology efforts, serving...

William H. Bridge

Pioneer in the development and research of computers and computer technology in the GE DATANET, Bridge began his engineering career during the seminal years of digital computer technology. He joined the SEAC...

Nicholas (Nick) DeWolf

Designer of more than 300 semiconductor and other test systems, including the J259, the world's first computer-operated integrated circuit tester, DeWolf co-founded Teradyne, a Boston, Massachusetts-based manufacturer of automatic test equipment, in...

John (Jack) Mason Harker

Pioneer of the IBM 350 RAMAC disk storage unit — the world's first hard disk drive — Harker started as a member of the original team that developed the first disk storage...

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...

Jay W. Lathrop

Instrumental in the development of photolithography — critical in the first efforts to produce semiconductor integrated circuits — Lathrop is recognized as a pioneering figure in microminiaturization of solid-state circuits. Born in Bangor,...