William (Bill) Douglas Gropp

Co-creator of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) and the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation (PETSc), Gropp has served as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, holding...

Martin P. Nally

Leader of the architecture, design, and development of WebSphere Studio, which evolved into Rational Application Developer, Nally was named an IBM Fellow in 2007 and has served as Vice President and Chief...

Donald Ervin Knuth

Author of the landmark series *The Art of Computer Programming*, Knuth is renowned for his contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages. He has served as Professor...

Mitchell David Kapor

Founder of Lotus Development Corporation and designer of Lotus 1-2-3, Kapor co-founded the company in 1982 with Jonathan Sachs, who was responsible for technical architecture and implementation. He served as the President...

David Patrick Reed

Designer of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Reed is an American computer scientist known for significant contributions to computer networking, including the design and construction of Internet protocols, distributed data storage, and...

Brewster Kahle

Founder of the Internet Archive and creator of WAIS and Alexa Internet, Kahle has been a pioneering force in digital access and preservation. He was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity....

David Neil Cutler, Sr.

Developer of several operating systems including RSX-11M, VMS, VAXELN, and Windows NT, Cutler is a pioneering software engineer. Cutler's software career started at a small company he founded called Agrippa-Ord, located in Monument...

Shigeru Miyamoto

Lead game designer for Nintendo since its inception in 1974, Miyamoto was born and raised in the Kyoto Prefecture, where the natural surroundings inspired much of his later work. He is mainly...

Hugh Darwen

Chief architect on Business System 12, a database management system that faithfully embraced the principles of the relational model, Darwen has been recognized as a significant figure in the history of the...

Randy Pausch

Noted professor of computing, Pausch was a co-founder of Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center and founder of the Alice software project. Randy Pausch was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up...

Daniel Karrenberg

Pioneer of the Internet in Europe, Karrenberg is a computer scientist who has focused on inventing, designing, and implementing Internet-related systems, especially those that collect and analyze data about the Internet itself....

Muffy Calder

Chief Scientific Advisor to the Scottish Government from 2012 to 2015, Calder was a Canadian-born British computer scientist and Professor of Formal Methods at the University of Glasgow. She also served as...

Qiang Yang

Leader of research teams that won the 2004 and 2005 ACM KDDCUP international competitions on data mining, Yang has served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at...

Harlan B. Mills

Pioneer in automata theory and structured programming, Mills transformed software development through his advocacy of mathematical and statistical principles in software engineering. In 1969, Mills was asked to write a program creating...

Oliver Selfridge

An innovator in early computer science and artificial intelligence, Selfridge helped shape the foundations of machine learning and AI. Credited with coining the term "intelligent agents" for software programs capable of observing and...

Glen Jacob Culler

Developer of the Culler-Fried Online System, one of the first interactive computer systems in the mid-1960s era, Culler was also an important early innovator in the development of the Internet. He joined...

W. (Rick) Richards Adrion

Founder of the Applied Computing Systems Institute of Massachusetts, Adrion has served as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He served as PI for an NSF REU Site,...

Frederick Jelinek

Pioneer of speech recognition, Jelinek was a Czech-American researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing, well known for his oft-quoted statement, "Every time I fire a linguist, the...

David F. Redmiles

Author of over 100 research publications integrating the areas of software engineering, human-computer interaction, and computer-supported cooperative work, Redmiles has served as a Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University...

Marshall T. Rose

A network protocol and software engineer who contributed extensively to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Rose has played a central role in shaping the Internet and network applications. His work on...