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...

Jay T. Last

Member of the so-called "traitorous eight" that founded Silicon Valley, Last was born in Butler, Pennsylvania. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Optics from the University of Rochester in 1951 and his...

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...

Martha Sloan

The first woman to lead the IEEE Institute, Sloan served as IEEE president in 1993. She received a BSEE with great distinction, an MSEE, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. After two...

Ron C. Crane

Co-designer of 10M b/sec Ethernet and a driving force behind the IEEE 802.3 and 802.3u standards, Crane left a significant mark on the history of networking. Ron Crane had many technical accomplishments...

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...

Norbert Frištacký

Pioneer in digital computing and education at Slovak universities, Frištacký was one of the earliest to deploy and use digital computers at Slovak universities, and served as the first Rector of STU...

Hedwig (Hedy) Eva Maria Lamarr (née Kiesler)

Co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum and frequency hopping, Lamarr paved the way for today's wireless communications. An Austrian actress and inventor, Lamarr was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. She was a...

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...

Ivan Edward Sutherland

Pioneer of computer graphics and inventor of Sketchpad, Sutherland received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1988 for that invention, which became an early predecessor to the sort...

Arthur Walter Burks

Contributor to the design of the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, Burks served as a senior engineer on the project in the 1940s. Decades later, Burks and his wife Alice...

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...

Romuald W. Marczyński

Primary creator of the EMAL machine designs — Poland's first computers — Marczyński was a professor, mathematician, and pioneer of Polish technical computer science. He was one of the first in Poland...

Willis Alfred Adcock

Assisted with the invention of the silicon transistor and the integrated circuit, Adcock was a Canadian-American physical chemist, electrical engineer, and university professor who also worked on the first atomic bomb. He...

Jon Casey

A strategic and tactical innovator in semiconductor packaging and chip package interaction technologies, Casey became an IBM Fellow in 2013. He contributed to IBM's development of the industry's highest performing organic packaging...

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...

Alan Mathison Turing

The mathematical logician Alan Mathison Turing OBE (1912-1954) contributed to logic, mathematics, cryptanalysis, philosophy, mathematical biology, and formatively to computer science, Artificial Intelligence, cognitive science, and the computational study of biological growth. Turing...

Lewis Terman

Initiator of the first work in IBM on MOSFET memory, Terman was also involved in the program that led to the first IBM MOSFET memory product. Born in San Francisco, his father was...

Paul M. Horn

Pioneer in the use of copper and self-assembly in chip manufacturing and contributor to pervasive computing, Horn is an American computer scientist and solid state physicist. He spent 28 years with IBM...

John Maxwell Cohn

An innovator in design automation for both analog and digital custom integrated circuits, Cohn has served as Chief Scientist of Design Automation in the Systems and Technology Group at IBM, Burlington, Vermont....