Jonathan (Joe) Betts-LaCroix

Co-creator of the world's smallest Windows PC, Betts-LaCroix co-founded OQO Corporation, which the Guinness World Records credited with creating that device. He is also an American scientist and entrepreneur known for his...

Satoshi Matsuoka

Lead developer of the TSUBAME series of supercomputers — which included the 4th fastest in the world on the Top500 — Matsuoka has served as a Full Professor at the Global Scientific...

John L. Gustafson

Acclaimed for his work in High Performance Computing (HPC), Gustafson is most known for the invention of Gustafson's Law, introducing the first commercial computer cluster, measuring with QUIPS, and leading the reconstruction...

Alfred Grill

Primary inventor of the low-k and ultralow-k SiCOH and porous pSiCOH insulators that replaced silicon dioxide as interconnect dielectrics for improved chip performance, Grill is an expert in materials science and engineering...

Feng-hsiung Hsu

Architect and principal designer of IBM Deep Blue, the chess machine that defeated the World Chess Champion in 1997, Hsu is a computer scientist and author of Behind Deep Blue: Building the...

Robert B. Palmer

Member of the founding team at Mostek, where he pioneered the use of ion implantation technology for the manufacture of MOS circuits, Palmer is also known as the last Chairman and Chief...

Julius Blank

Co-developer of an inexpensive method for manufacturing silicon chips, building them from scratch beginning with the machinery for growing silicon crystals, Blank was a semiconductor pioneer and a member of the so-called...

Bert E. Forbes

Co-architect of the HP 3000 minicomputer and designer of HP's first 16-bit microprocessor, Forbes is an innovator, accomplished business executive, and visionary philanthropist whose passion for serving his profession and his community...

Robert Rivers Everett

Designer of Whirlwind — the first computer to operate in real time — Everett joined the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory in 1942 as a graduate student and in 1943 as a staff member....

Steve Mann

Pioneer in the development of wearable computers and reality mediators in research towards cybernetics, Mann has been one of the founding members of the Wearable Computers group in the Media Lab at...

Tak H. Ning

Co-inventor and developer of the polysilicon-emitter self-aligned bipolar transistor, which is the basis of all modern bipolar transistor technology, Ning has made foundational contributions to semiconductor device physics. He received his Ph.D....

Mark Papermaster

Overseer of the development of IBM's blade server technology, Papermaster has served as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in Sunnyvale, California. He previously served as...

Paul A. Moskowitz

Inventor of the Radio Frequency Circuit and Memory in thin flexible package that forms the basis for the design of today's RFID tags for the retail supply chain, Moskowitz has been awarded...

Richard (Dick) P. Case

Responsible for the engineering design of the IBM 1410 CPU and the IBM 7040–7044 processing systems, Case began his long and distinguished career at IBM in 1956 as a Technical Engineer. During his...

Emerson W. Pugh

Leader of IBM's development of a thin magnetic film memory array used in the top-performance IBM System/360 computer, Pugh also led research and development in magnetic bubbles and other memory technologies, and...

Craig Partridge

Designer of how Internet email is routed, Partridge has made notable contributions to internetworking, including working with Phil Karn on TCP round-trip time estimation and designing and building the world's fastest router...

George Robert Stibitz

Recognized as one of the fathers of the modern digital computer for his work with Bell Labs in the 1930s and 1940s, Stibitz completed a relay-based calculator in November 1937 he dubbed...

Adam Osborne

Creator of the first commercially successful portable computer, Osborne transformed personal computing in the early 1980s. Adam Osborne was born in Thailand in 1939 to British parents and spent much of his childhood...

John E. Kelly, III

Founder of IBM's Semiconductor Research and Development Center in 1996, Kelly set the pace in IBM's semiconductor technology development, unveiling back-end-of-the-line copper interconnect technology ahead of the industry and introducing the transition...

Danny Cohen

Developer of the first real-time visual flight simulator on a general purpose computer, Cohen later adapted it to run over the ARPANET. Born in Israel, he was also well known for coining...