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...

Jim Hall

Considered the "father" of the LaserJet printer, Hall managed development of HP's first laser printer, the 2680A. Hall grew up on a farm near Halifax, Virginia. Listening to the shortwave bands, he discovered...

Martin (John) M. Atalla

Co-inventor of the MOSFET and considered the "Father of the PIN," Atalla distinguished himself as an engineer, innovator, entrepreneur, and visionary in the fields of semiconductor fabrication and computer data security. Born...

Gaylord (Glenn) G. Henry

Lead architect of the IBM System/32, IBM System/38 (forerunner of AS/400), and RT/PC (forerunner of Power systems), Henry is also co-founder and President of Centaur Technologies, Inc., and has played an integral...

Thomas (Tom) M. Bradicich

Leader and prime mover behind IBM's xSeries architectures, Bradicich is a 2006 IBM Fellow—the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM can achieve. He has served as Vice President of...

Bruce D. Shriver

Worldwide lecturer in the design and implementation of computer hardware and software systems, Shriver has been a computer science academic, consultant, and entrepreneur in the area of high-performance computer systems, publishing extensively...

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...

Stuart Parkin

Pioneer in the science and application of spintronic materials, Parkin has served as Manager of the Magnetoelectronics group at IBM Research, Almaden, in San Jose, California, and as a 1999 IBM Fellow...

James (Jim) Flanagan

Originator of auto-directive microphone arrays for teleconferencing and pioneer of digital computers for acoustic signal processing, Flanagan made foundational contributions to voice communications and electro-acoustic systems. He received his B.S.E.E. degree from...

Robert (Bob) C. Baron

Program Manager for the Mariner II (Venus) and the Mariner IV (Mars) onboard space computers, Baron spent over 25 years as an engineer, entrepreneur, and executive in the computer industry. A historian,...

Jay Wright Forrester

Founder of System Dynamics, Forrester was also a pioneer computer engineer and systems scientist whose invention of magnetic core memory transformed computing. Forrester was born on July 14, 1918, on a cattle ranch...

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...

Kurt Lehovec

Innovator of the concept of p-n junction isolation, Lehovec was one of the pioneers of the integrated circuit or microchip, which is used in virtually all electronic equipment today and has revolutionized...

André Trương Trọng Thi

Considered to be the "father of the personal computer," Trương Trọng Thi created the Micral microcomputer in 1973—two years before the debut of the famed Altair—based on an Intel 8008 processor, the...

David L. Harame

Lead developer of the world's first successful silicon germanium (SiGe) technology for analog and communications circuits, Harame has served as a Director at IBM, an IBM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and a...

Hans C. Pfeiffer

Inventor of PREVAIL, IBM's E-Beam Projection approach for Next Generation Lithography, Pfeiffer was a physicist best known for his contributions to the development of electron beam lithography (often abbreviated as e-beam lithography),...

Phaedon Avouris

Innovator of the potential for carbon nanotubes to compete with the long-established silicon transistor for important information technology applications, Avouris is a Greek chemical physicist who has served as an IBM Fellow...

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...

Clair D. Lake

Co-inventor of IBM's MARK I and co-developer of the first Type 1 Total Printing and Listing Tabulator, Lake was a prolific IBM inventor. In May 1939 he was assigned to serve as...

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...