Terry G. Johnson

Founder of Miniscribe in 1980, an early manufacturer of 5.25-inch and later 3.5-inch drives, Johnson was a pioneer in disk storage products. Born in Ogden, Utah, Johnson graduated from high school in 1953....

Joseph (Rod) Rodney Canion

Co-founder of Compaq Computer Corporation, Canion is a native of Houston who graduated from the University of Houston in 1966 and 1968 with Bachelor's and Master's degrees in electrical engineering with an...

Chintay Shih

A major player in the collective effort to build Taiwan's semiconductor industry from the ground up, Shih led the process technology team for the Industrial Technology Research Institute's (ITRI) RCA project that...

Meir (Manny) Lehman

Recognizer of the software evolution phenomenon and author of the eponymous Lehman's laws of software evolution, Lehman made foundational contributions to understanding how software changes over time. He served as a Professor...

John Blankenbaker

Designer and inventor of the Kenbak-1, considered by the Computer History Museum and the American Computer Museum to be the world's first "personal computer," Blankenbaker founded Kenbak Corporation in 1970, and the...

László Kozma

Designer of the first Hungarian digital computer, Kozma made lasting contributions to computing and electrical engineering. Due to the regulations of numerus clausus, his application to the Budapest University of Technology was rejected...

Fredrik Rosing Bull

Known for his works on improved punched card machines, Bull was an information technology pioneer. In 1907 he finished his studies in civil engineering at the Technical School of Kristiania (Kristiania Tekniske...

Steve Chen

Principal designer of the Cray X-MP and Cray Y-MP multiprocessor supercomputers, Chen is a computer engineering pioneer. He has served as founder and CEO of Galactic Computing, a developer of supercomputing blade...

Ralph L. Palmer

Developer of the IBM 604 Electronic Calculator, Palmer graduated with a B.S. in electrical engineering from Union College in Schenectady in 1931. He joined IBM as an engineer in 1932. It was here...

Margaret R. Fox

Member of the technical staff of the Electronic Computer Laboratory at the National Bureau of Standards, Fox graduated from Wisconsin State College in 1940 and joined the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1943,...

Dave Boggs

Co-inventor of Ethernet and developer of early Internet protocol prototypes, Boggs helped shape the foundations of modern computer networking. David graduated from Princeton University, and as a young graduate worked at Xerox PARC,...

David L. Mills

Inventor of the Network Time Protocol, the fuzzball router, and the Exterior Gateway Protocol, Mills was an American computer engineer and Internet pioneer. He earned his PhD in Computer and Communication Sciences...

Georgii P. Lopato

Noted developer of the Russian "Minsk" computers, Lopato contributed to the development of different generations of computers: "Minsk" computers, ES computers, personal computers, mobile computers, and the development on their basis of...

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...

Bijan Davari

Leader of the IBM research team that produced the first generation of high-performance, low-voltage CMOS logic characterizing modern computer chips, Davari's pioneering work in miniaturization of semiconductor devices changed the world of...

John Vincent Atanasoff

Inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer, Atanasoff was raised by his parents in Brewster, Florida. At the age of nine he learned to use a slide rule, followed shortly by...

Walter (Dave) David Sincoskie

Inventor of the Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN), Sincoskie also installed the first ethernet local area network at Bellcore and helped invent voice over IP technology. He co-authored the first specifications for...

Pratap Pattnaik

Chief architect and scientist for defining, designing, and implementing the key research technologies that influenced IBM's server design in high-performance computing, Pattnaik has served as an IBM Fellow at the IBM Thomas...

Sumit Ghosh

Researcher in computer architectures for next generation secure ATM network design and next generation IP router architecture to defeat next generation viruses, Ghosh has served as the Chair of the Computer Science...

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...