Gordon Matthews

Founder of ECS Communications (later VMX), one of the first companies to pioneer the commercialization of voicemail for corporate use, Matthews was an American inventor and businessman. He also invented systems to...

Charles Edwin Molnar

Co-developer of one of the first minicomputers, the LINC (Laboratory Instrument Computer), Molnar made this contribution with Wesley A. Clark while a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in...

L.J. Sevin

A significant leader in the founding and growth of the U.S. high tech industry, Sevin co-founded Mostek Corporation in 1969 and later co-founded the venture capital firm Sevin Rosen Funds (SRF) with...

David Bradley

One of the twelve engineers who developed the original IBM PC, Bradley is known for creating the computer's ROM BIOS code. He is also the author of *Assembly Language Programming for the...

Giovanni Caselli

Inventor of the pantelegraph (a.k.a. Universal Telegraph or "all-purpose telegraph"), the predecessor of the modern fax machine, Caselli put the world's first practical operating facsimile machine ("fax") system into use. Pantèlègraph is...

Charles Kuen Kao

Pioneer in the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications, Kao is known as the "Godfather of Broadband," "Father of Fiber Optics," and "Father of Fiber Optic Communications." He was jointly...

Srini Devadas

Co-inventor of silicon Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and co-founder of Verayo, a company focused on improving the security of computer hardware, Devadas has served as the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical...

Edson (Ed) de Castro

Designer of the Data General Nova series of computers, de Castro was a computer engineer born in Plainfield, New Jersey, but his family moved to Newton, Massachusetts when he was six, and...

Donald (Don) Nielson

Supporter of the development of the first hand-held computer terminal, Nielson joined SRI in 1959 as a Research Engineer, taking on assignments in telecommunications technology while working on his Ph.D. at Stanford,...

Daniel Meyer

Founder of Southwest Technical Products Corporation (SWTPC), Meyer introduced kits for the AC-30 Cassette Interface data storage and the PR-40 printer. He was born in New Braunfels, Texas and raised in San...

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...

Cesar A. Gonzales

Co-inventor of patented still-frame and motion video compression techniques that IBM contributed to the JPEG and MPEG international standards, Gonzales played a central role in bringing about the worldwide leap into digital...

Michael J. Flynn

Proposer of Flynn's Taxonomy, a landmark classification of computer architectures developed in 1966, Flynn also served as Design Manager of prototype versions of the IBM 7090 and 7094/II. He joined IBM in...

Herman Hollerith

Inventor of the punched card, Hollerith was a German-American statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data. He was the...

James (Jim) M. Williams

Helped to found and expand Linear Technology, Williams was a talented analog circuit designer and technical author. He worked for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1968–1979), Philbrick, National Semiconductor (1979–1982), and Linear...

Walter Houser Brattain

Co-inventor of the transistor, along with William Shockley and John Bardeen, Brattain made one of the most consequential contributions to modern electronics. Brattain's employment at Bell Laboratories in the years before World War...

Alan Kotok

Co-developer of what is sometimes called the first video game (Spacewar!), Kotok was also part of the team that wrote the Kotok-McCarthy program which took part in the first chess match between...

Francis (Fran) O. Underwood

Chief Architect of the IBM 1401, known as the SPACE Machine, Underwood was an engineer, machine designer, and engineering trainer for IBM. Born in Omaha, NE, he came from a line of...

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...

Victor Mayer Amédée Mannheim

Inventor of the modern slide rule, Mannheim standardized the design that remained in common use until pocket calculators took over. After graduating from the École d'Application in Metz, Mannheim became an officer of...