James (Jim) M. Williams

Helped to found and expand Linear Technology, Williams was a talented analog circuit designer and technical author. He worked for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1968–1979), Philbrick, National Semiconductor (1979–1982), and Linear...

Raymond (Ray) M. Holt

Developer of the first microprocessor chip set for the US Navy F-14 Tomcat, Holt designed this groundbreaking chip set at Garrett AiResearch's Central Air Data Computer. He co-founded Microcomputer Associates, Incorporated with...

Moshe Yanai

Leader of the development of the EMC Symmetrix enterprise storage array, the flagship product of EMC Corporation in the 1990s, Yanai is considered one of the most influential contributors in the history...

Fujio Masuoka

Inventor of flash memory, Masuoka has carved out a path to a new era whereby consumers are able to carry videos, music, books and data with them wherever they go. Born in...

William H. Davidow

Computer industry executive, author, and venture capitalist, Davidow has been active in high-technology for more than 30 years. He has continued as an active advisor to MDV. Davidow is the author of...

William (Bill) David Mensch, Jr.,

A central person in the creation of the Motorola 6800 and MOS Technology 6502 families of microprocessor chips, Mensch is also recognized as the sole IC design engineer of the 6820/21 PIA,...

Reiner W. Hartenstein

Pioneer of hardware description languages and reconfigurable computing, Hartenstein is known for the successful hardware design language KARL and its graphical companion language ABL, as well as for configware/software co-compilation techniques. Hartenstein received...

Jerry M. Woodall

Inventor of the first commercially viable heterojunction material GaAlAs for red LEDs used in automobile brake lights, traffic lights, CD and DVD players, TV remote controls, and computer networks, Woodall is an...

James (Jim) A. Brown

Inventor of the APL2 program product, Brown is one of the computing world's leading authorities on array technology. He spent nearly 30 years at the center of IBM's array technology efforts, serving...

Larry Smarr

Advocate for a high-speed network linking the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications — which became the NSFnet, one of the significant predecessors of today's Internet — Smarr...

Dov (Bentchkowsky) Frohman

Inventor of the erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM), which eventually led to today's flash memory technology, Frohman is an Israeli electrical engineer and business executive, a former Vice President of Intel...

James (Jim) A. Kahle

Key designer for the RIOS processor that launched the RS/6000 family of workstations and servers, Kahle has also served as Chief Architect and Director of Technology at the Center for Cell Technology...

Leo F. Slattery

Designer of memory capacity for mainframe computers, Slattery was one of the earliest members of Control Data Corporation (CDC). Born and raised in St. Paul, MN, he graduated from Cretin High School in...

Joseph (Josh) A. Fisher

Creator of VLIW architectures, which allow programs to explicitly specify instructions to be executed in parallel for higher performance, Fisher is an American computer scientist also noted for his work on compiling...

Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe

Leader of the team that developed atomic force microscopes (AFMs) into fully hardened instruments usable both within IBM and beyond, Wickramasinghe is a distinguished pioneer in the invention and practical uses of...

Michael Hatzakis

Co-developer of electron beam lithography, PMMA resist, and the "lift off" process, Hatzakis has been a researcher with IBM Research at Yorktown Heights, New York since 1961, serving as a manager of...

Ralph Ernest Meagher

Co-creator of the ILLIAC series, culminating with the ILLIAC IV supercomputer, the largest and fastest in the world, Meagher completed his physics degree at the University of Illinois in 1949. He had...

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...

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...

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...