Robert Cailliau

Co-developer of the World Wide Web, Cailliau is a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who, together with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, helped bring the web into existence. Born in Tongeren, Belgium, he...

Eunice E. Santos

A leading expert and researcher in the areas of large-scale distributed processing, computational modeling, complex adaptive systems, and human modeling with applications to the biological, physical, and social sciences, Santos has served...

Robert Elliott Kahn

Co-inventor of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), Kahn is sometimes called one of the fathers of the Internet. Kahn was born on December 23, 1938, in Brooklyn, New...

Azriel Rosenfeld

A leading researcher in the field of computer image analysis — encompassing computer or machine vision and medical imaging — Rosenfeld was a tenured Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Center...

Don Coppersmith

Co-designer of the Data Encryption Standard (DES), Coppersmith is one of the world's leading researchers in cryptography. He was part of the IBM team that developed DES. Used in financial and Internet...

Klára (Klari) Dán Von Neumann

Writer of the code used on the MANIAC machine developed by John Von Neumann and Julian Bigelow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Klára Dán Von Neumann was also a pioneer computer...

John Kenneth Ousterhout

Creator of the Tcl scripting language and the Tk platform-independent widget toolkit, Ousterhout has served as a professor of computer science at Stanford University and chairman of Electric Cloud, Inc. He founded...

Diana Marculescu

Pioneer in energy-aware computing, Marculescu developed novel power management techniques to improve the performance delivered per unit of energy consumed for computer hardware and software. She received her Dipl. Ing. degree in...

Glenn Ricart

Leader of the team that wrote the code for the first implementation of TCP/IP for the IBM PC, Ricart is recognized as an Internet pioneer who started using one of the original...

Roger Sippl

Co-developer of the relational database Informix (INFORMation on unIX) and co-founder of Relational Database Systems (RDS), Sippl earned a B.S. in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. He and...

Radhia Cousot

Co-inventor of Abstract Interpretation, Cousot was a French computer scientist who, together with her husband Patrick, developed an influential technique in formal methods based on three main ideas. 1) Any reasoning/proof/static analysis...

Werner L. Frank

Co-founder of Informatics General Corporation, one of the first viable software companies, Frank is a pioneering figure and longtime contributor to the United States and international computer industry. Born in the small...

Balakrishnan Prabhakaran

Known for his work in 3D video, animations, and deformable 3D models — a form of multimedia data widely used in entertainment and medical fields — Prabhakaran has served as a Professor...

Eric J. Bina

Co-creator of Mosaic and co-founder of Netscape, Bina authored the first version of Mosaic in 1993 along with Marc Andreessen while working as a programmer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications...

Edward Albert Feigenbaum

Known as the "father of expert systems," Feigenbaum is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence. Feigenbaum completed his undergraduate degree, and a Ph.D., at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now...

W. Bruce Croft

A leading contributor to research in information retrieval and the theoretical development and practical use of Bayesian inference networks and language modelling for retrieval, Croft has served as a distinguished Professor in...

Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou

CTO of PatternInsight, a spin-off from her research group that has deployed software quality and security solutions used by many large commercial companies, Zhou co-founded the startup in 2007. She received several grants...

Tamara (Tammy) G. Kolda

Developer of the MATLAB Tensor Toolbox, Kolda has served as a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the Informatics and Systems Assessments department at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California. Her...

Alan Cox

Maintainer of the Linux kernel's network stack, Cox later became a maintainer of the production version of the kernel itself, one of the most critical roles in Linux development.

Charles (Charlie) A. Zraket

Designer of the hardware and software system for the Whirlwind computer that permitted the machine to accept real-time inputs, Zraket made a truly groundbreaking contribution at that time. A pioneer in the...