Daniel Broido

Inventor of Marksensing and document reading devices, Broido worked for British Tabulating Machine Company Limited (BTM), and his inventions and patents were transferred to them. He became Senior Development Engineer on optical...

Amar Mukherjee

Pioneer in Switching Theory and the first to develop an algorithm for the minimization of EXOR-AND-type logic networks, Mukherjee was internationally recognized for his contributions to Hardware Algorithms for Non-numeric Computation, VLSI...

Dave Smith

Known as the "Father of MIDI" for his role in developing the Musical Instrument Digital Interface, Smith pioneered many groundbreaking technologies in music. He was also responsible for the Prophet 5, the...

Marcelli Wein

A member of the pioneer group that initiated Computer Graphics projects at the NRC, developing the use of interactive graphics systems and computer animation, Wein is an international leader in Computer Graphics...

Frederic Calland Williams

Pioneer of the first stored-program digital computer and inventor of the Williams–Kilburn tube memory device, Williams transformed the foundations of modern computing. In 1946, he was appointed as head of the Electrical...

Steven W. Hunter

Systems Architect for Systems x and BladeCenter products at IBM, Hunter was named an IBM Fellow in 2011—the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM can achieve. He has served...

Paul Eisler

Inventor of the printed circuit board, Eisler forfeited rights to his invention when he neglected to read the contract before signing it. In 1941 Paul was able to engage Henderson and Spalding,...

Clive Marles Sinclair

Developer of the first mass-market UK home computer for under £100, Sinclair was a British entrepreneur and inventor responsible for the ZX80, ZX81, and ZX Spectrum computers, as well as the slim-line...

F. Grant Saviers

Co-developer of a controller for DEC's first disk drive, Saviers joined DEC in 1968 and held several senior management positions over 24 years with the company. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he became interested...

Richard Lawrence Grimsdale

Designer and developer of the world's first transistorized computer, the Metrovick 950, Grimsdale was born in Australia, returned to England with his parents, and later studied electrical engineering at Manchester University, graduating...

Tadashi Watanabe

Chief designer of SX-2, the first supercomputer introduced by NEC in 1983, which boasted the world's fastest speed at that time, Watanabe is a Japanese computer engineer widely recognized as a pioneering...

Allan Alcorn

Designer of the video arcade game Pong, one of the earliest and most popular arcade video games, Alcorn is an American pioneering engineer and computer scientist born and raised in San Francisco,...

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...

Jerry M. Woodall

Inventor of the first commercially viable heterojunction material GaAlAs for red LEDs used in automobile brake lights, traffic lights, CD and DVD players, TV remote controls, and computer networks, Woodall is an...

Chen-Jung (Stan) Shih

Designer and developer of Taiwan's first desktop calculator, Shih is also recognized as the founder and former President of the Acer Group. Born in Lukang Township, Changhua County, Taiwan, he has been...

Ian Munro Ross

Co-inventor of epitaxy, used in silicon-based manufacturing processes for BJTs and modern CMOS and particularly important for compound semiconductors such as gallium arsenide, Ross was also an early pioneer in transistors who...

Jeffrey Chuan Chu

A core member of the engineering team that designed the first electronic computer, ENIAC, in 1946, Chu went on to become a leading figure in computing and a tireless advocate for modernizing...

Dov (Bentchkowsky) Frohman

Inventor of the erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM), which eventually led to today's flash memory technology, Frohman is an Israeli electrical engineer and business executive, a former Vice President of Intel...

Rolf William Landauer

A significant contributor in diverse areas of the thermodynamics of information processing, condensed matter physics, and the conductivity of disordered media, Landauer was a German-American physicist who made important contributions across these...

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...