Charles Eric Leiserson

Inventor of the fat-tree interconnection network, a hardware-universal interconnection network used in many supercomputers, Leiserson is also a pioneer developer of VLSI theory. He designed the fat-tree for the Connection Machine CM5,...

Yale Nance Patt

Introducer of the WOS module, the first complex logic gate implemented on a single piece of silicon, Patt is an American professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas...

Michael (Mike) Lazaridis

Founder of Research In Motion (RIM), Lazaridis co-created and manufactured the BlackBerry wireless handheld device. He has also served as chancellor of the University of Waterloo, and is an Officer of the...

Gordon Stanley Brown

Involved in the development of Whirlwind, the first all-digital computer, Brown also originated many of the concepts behind automatic-feedback control systems and the numerical control of machine tools. He was born in...

Glenford (Glen) Myers

Leader of the team that developed the advanced computer system "SWARD" (Software Oriented Architecture), built and successfully operated in 1980, Myers is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and author. He founded two...

Tsugio Makimoto

A leader in Japan's semiconductor industry, Makimoto is sometimes called "Mr. Semiconductor" in Japan. He participated in the controversy over the trade conflict in the semiconductor industry between Japan and the US...

Henry Edward Roberts

Designer of the first commercially successful personal computer, Roberts transformed computing in 1975. He founded Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) in 1970 to sell electronics kits to model rocketry hobbyists, but...

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...

Butler W. Lampson

Developer of the Berkeley Timesharing System for Scientific Data Systems' SDS 940 computer, Lampson was part of Project GENIE at UC Berkeley during the 1960s, where he and Peter Deutsch created that...

Eiichi Goto

Inventor of the parametron computer, Goto made foundational contributions to early computing in Japan. In 1954, when he was a graduate student of Professor Takahasi's Laboratory, Goto invented a majority logic element, the...

Charles (Chuck) Branscomb

Developer of the IBM 1401 Data Processing System and several other successful products, Branscomb spent 39 years at IBM, where he developed and managed successful products, including the IBM System/360 and several...

Jerrier A. Haddad

Charged with the complete technical and executive responsibility for the IBM 701 development and design program, Haddad led the effort that featured the first magnetic tape storage system. The technical responsibility included...

Philip Don Estridge

Known as "the father of the IBM PC," Estridge led development of the original IBM Personal Computer. His decisions dramatically changed the computer industry, resulting in a vast increase in the number...

Hewitt D. Crane

Developer of an eye-movement tracking device and pen-input device for computers, Crane was an American engineer best known for his pioneering work at SRI International on ERMA (Electronic Recording Machine, Accounting), for...

Michael Hatzakis

Co-developer of electron beam lithography, PMMA resist, and the "lift off" process, Hatzakis has been a researcher with IBM Research at Yorktown Heights, New York since 1961, serving as a manager of...

Gerald (Jerry) Anderson Lawson

Inventor of the video game cartridge and the Fairchild Channel F console, Lawson transformed how games were distributed and played. A lifelong engineer and tinkerer, he was born in 1940 and grew...

Justin Rattner

Visionary of the Department of Energy ASCI Red System, the first computer to sustain one trillion operations per second (one teraFLOPS) and the fastest computer in the world between 1996 and 2000,...

John Adrian Shepherd-Barron

Pioneer in the development of the cash machine (ATM), Shepherd-Barron joined De La Rue Instruments in the 1960s and in 1965 came up with the concept of a self-service machine that would...

C. Gordon Bell

Computer hardware designer of DEC's PDP machines and the VAX, Bell was a pioneering computer engineer and manager. An early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1960–1966, Bell designed several of...

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...