Karl Ferdinand Braun

Inventor of the cathode-ray tube, Braun built the first such device in 1897 — known as the "Braun Tube" in German-speaking countries. During the development of radio, he also worked on wireless...

George Harry Heilmeier

Inventor of the LC-Display and pioneering contributor to liquid crystal displays, Heilmeier is inducted in the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, received his B.S. in Electrical...

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...

John Ambrose Fleming

Inventor of the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, Fleming transformed the foundations of modern electronics. After leaving the University of Nottingham in 1882, Fleming took up the post of "Electrician" to...

Joseph Marie Jacquard

Inventor of the earliest programmable loom, Jacquard transformed weaving with his automatic patterned-silk loom, though his early inventions operated poorly and were largely unsuccessful. In 1801, Jacquard exhibited his invention at the industrial...

Wen-mei Hwu

Noted for his work in CPU microarchitecture and compiler optimization, Hwu completed his Ph.D. research at the University of California, Berkeley under Yale Patt. Their CPU microarchitecture projects, HPS and HPSm, were...

Jeffrey (Jeff) Hawkins

Founder of Palm Computing and Handspring, Hawkins invented the Palm Pilot and the Treo. He subsequently turned to neuroscience full-time, founding the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience (formerly the Redwood Neuroscience Institute)...

Eiichi Goto

Inventor of the parametron computer, Goto made foundational contributions to early computing in Japan. In 1954, when he was a graduate student of Professor Takahasi's Laboratory, Goto invented a majority logic element, the...

William (Bill) John Poduska, Sr.

Founder of Apollo Computer, one of the first creators of graphical workstations in the 1980s, Poduska is an American engineer, entrepreneur, and independent business consultant. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, he graduated from...

Antoni Kilinski

A noted contributor to computer science in Poland, Kilinski played a pioneering role in the development of electronic computing and digital technology. In 1948 Antoni worked in the central institutions of the Polish...

Alec N. Broers

Pioneer of nanotechnology, Broers developed the first man-made nanostructures in materials suitable for microelectronic circuits, opening up the possibility for the extreme miniaturization of electronic circuits. An Anglo-Australian electrical engineer, Broers was born...

Alfred Grill

Primary inventor of the low-k and ultralow-k SiCOH and porous pSiCOH insulators that replaced silicon dioxide as interconnect dielectrics for improved chip performance, Grill is an expert in materials science and engineering...

Juan R. Rodriguez

Pioneer in the development of advanced computer data storage technologies across four decades, Rodriguez co-founded Storage Technology Corporation in 1969 along with three other IBM engineers: Jesse Awieda, Thomas S. Kavanagh, and...

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...

Barry (Pak-Lee) Lam

Founder and Chairman of Quanta Computer, the leading laptop producer worldwide, Lam is also a major patron of the arts and a leading philanthropist in the area of culture and education. In...

Wesley Allison Clark

One of the main participants, along with Charles Molnar, in the creation of the LINC laboratory computer — the first mini-computer and one of the inspirations for the personal computer — Clark...

Francois Gernelle

Co-developer of the Micral N, the earliest commercial, non-kit personal computer based on a microprocessor, Gernelle created the machine alongside André Truong Trong Thi for the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique...

Anthony (Tony) Edgar Sale

Leader of the team that reconstructed the code-breaking Colossus Computer at Bletchley Park, Sale is known for his indefatigable energy in doing the impossible—reconstructing a complex machine when its original and all...

John H. Crawford

Chief architect of the Intel 80386 and Intel 80486 microprocessors, Crawford is an American computer software engineer and the holder of 23 patents. He received his Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree from...

Hans Peter Luhn

Creator of the Luhn algorithm and KWIC (Key Words In Context) indexing, Luhn was a computer scientist for IBM whose work is in wide use today. The Luhn algorithm, or Luhn formula,...