Robert A. Henle

Co-developer of the IBM 608 transistor calculator, the first solid-state computing system in production, Henle contributed significantly to semiconductor technology. He was born in Virginia, Minnesota, entered the Navy in 1944, qualified...

Bob Blainey

Leader in breakthrough innovation in compiler technology, IBM's Java technology, and next-generation systems, Blainey has served as an IBM Fellow and the technical architect of the Hardware Acceleration Laboratory in IBM's Software...

Alan F. Shugart

A pioneer in managing programs and companies in the disk drive industry, Shugart made lasting contributions to the field over several decades. Al Shugart started at IBM in 1951 and over 18 years...

Charles R. Trimble

Developer of the Global Positioning System (GPS) for commercial and consumer applications, Trimble founded Trimble Navigation Limited (TNL) in 1978 along with two partners from Hewlett-Packard, initially operating from Los Altos, California....

Trevor Mudge

Proposer of Razor, a circuit technique that allows robust operation at very low voltages in processor pipelines based on dynamic detection and correction of circuit timing errors, Mudge has been a University...

Bashir Iskandarovich Rameyev

Holder of the first officially registered USSR patent in the field of electronic computers, Rameyev was a Soviet inventor and scientist and one of the founders of Soviet computing. He was the...

Jonathan J. Rubinstein

Instrumental in the development of the iPod, Rubinstein is an American computer scientist and electrical engineer who played a central role in creating the portable music and video device first sold by...

Trevor Pearcey

Creator of CSIRAC, one of the first stored program electronic computers in the world, Pearcey was an outstanding Australian ICT Pioneer. Most notably, he led the project team that built one of the...

J. Noel Chiappa

Member of the TCP/IP Working Group which started the Internet project, Chiappa was instrumental in developing an early ring-based local area network and gateway. He has worked as an independent researcher in...

Mary Lou Jepsen

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of One Laptop per Child, Jepsen helped shape one of the most recognized nonprofit computing initiatives of its era. She also served as Chief Architect of that...

Robert B. Garner

Team member for the Xerox STAR 8010 Professional Workstation, including the first 10-mbps Ethernet NIC in 1981, Garner designed and managed compute, network, and storage systems in Silicon Valley in both product...

Louis N. Ridenour

Co-patentee of an early hybrid optical-magnetic information storage system, Ridenour also served as Vice President of Lockheed and as an advisor to President Eisenhower. In 1941 he became the assistant director of...

Tze-Chiang (T. C.) Chen

Major contributor to CMOS miniaturization and DRAM devices with a profound impact on IBM's leadership in CMOS process technology and DRAM manufacturing, Chen has served as an IBM Fellow and the Vice...

Curt Herzstark

Designer and manufacturer of the Curta, one of the first mechanical pocket calculators, Herzstark was an Austrian engineer and inventor. Born in Vienna, the son of Marie and Samuel Jakob Herzstark, his...

Geoffrey William Arnold Dummer

The first person to conceptualize and build a prototype of the integrated circuit, commonly called the microchip, Dummer made this pioneering contribution in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He passed the...

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...

Bernard (Barney) M. Oliver

Co-developer of pulse-code modulation (PCM) and leader of the team that produced the first hand-held calculators at Hewlett-Packard, Oliver was a scientist who made contributions in many fields, including radar, television, and...

Frank P. Carrubba

One of the original designers of the Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) Architecture, Carrubba was named "Inventor of the Year" by the Intellectual Property Owners in Washington, D.C. in 1992. Prior to...

Peter Andreas Grunberg

Peter Andreas Grunberg discovered the Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) effect, which is the basis of all modern magnetic read/write heads. He received the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics for this groundbreaking contribution.

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...