John (Jack) Clemens

Pioneer in the development of random access disk storage, Clemens was part of the IBM team that developed the RAMAC and is sometimes considered to be among those who "built" Silicon Valley....

Daniel Meyer

Founder of Southwest Technical Products Corporation (SWTPC), Meyer introduced kits for the AC-30 Cassette Interface data storage and the PR-40 printer. He was born in New Braunfels, Texas and raised in San...

Blaise Pascal

Inventor of the Pascaline, a mechanical calculator capable of addition and subtraction, Pascal built twenty of these machines over the following ten years after constructing the first in 1642 following three years...

Paolo A. Gargini

Developer of the building blocks of HMOS III and CHMOS III technologies used in the 1980s for the 80286 and the 80386 processors, Gargini has served as Director of Technology Strategy and...

Hans-Joachim Queisser

Inventor of a high-power luminescent diode — an infrared light emitting diode (LED) that now forms the basis of almost every household remote control device — Queisser was a solid-state physicist also...

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...

William H. Bridge

Pioneer in the development and research of computers and computer technology in the GE DATANET, Bridge began his engineering career during the seminal years of digital computer technology. He joined the SEAC...

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...

Arimasa Naitoh

Popularly known as the "father" of the ThinkPad Notebook PC, Naitoh has served as Vice-President of Development for Lenovo's Notebook division. While at IBM's development facility in Yamato City, Japan, he worked...

Ding-Yuan (DY) Yang

Led Winbond Electronics Corporation to emerge as one of the Asian IC industry's top innovators into the mid-1990s, Yang has been a central figure in Taiwan's semiconductor development. One of the founding...

Josep Torrellas

Leader of the Illinois Aggressive COMA Intelligent Memory project — selected as one of the "Eight Point-Design Studies" that DARPA, NSF, NSA, and NASA supported in a nationwide effort to accelerate the...

Ted Dabney

Co-founder of Syzygy and Atari, Dabney met Nolan Bushnell while working at Ampex, and the two jointly created Syzygy. Their first product, Computer Space, was manufactured and sold by Nutting Associates. Following...

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.

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...

Hiroshi Ito

Co-inventor of "Chemically Amplified Resists," Ito made seminal contributions to modern photolithography that greatly aided the production of more powerful chips at a lower cost and contributed substantially to worldwide economic growth. Ito...