Evelyn Boyd Granville

Part of the IBM team responsible for formulating orbit computations and computer procedures for NASA's Projects Vanguard and Mercury, Granville was also one of the first African-American women to receive a Ph.D....

Kang-Won Lee

Collaborator on wireless networks, mobile computing, network management, and policy technologies research, Lee has been a Research Staff Member at IBM since 2000 and led the Wireless Networking Group at Watson from...

Charles F. Goldfarb

Known as the "father" of SGML and "grandfather" of HTML and the World Wide Web, Goldfarb co-invented the concept of markup languages. He was a graduate of Columbia College and held a...

Anthony James Barr

In 1962-63, Tony Barr, as a physics graduate student, wrote a general analysis of variance program and a multiple regression program to run on the IBM1410 computer. These programs were used...

Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr.

Manager of the development of OS/360, Brooks was also known for writing candidly about the process in his seminal book *The Mythical Man-Month*. "It is a very humbling experience to make a...

Paul Brainerd

Founder of Aldus Software and creator of the term "desktop publishing," Brainerd saw an opportunity to merge his publishing and computer experience with Apple's computer and printer. Through Jonathan Seybold, Brainerd met with...

Bill Hilf

Leader of product planning, product management and technical product management for Microsoft's Cloud computing platform, Windows Azure, Hilf has also served as a Senior Vice President at Hewlett-Packard for the HP Helion...

Barry W. Boehm

Known for his many contributions to software engineering, Boehm was an American software engineer and TRW Emeritus Professor of Software Engineering at the Computer Science Department of the University of Southern California.

Eduardo (Ed) T. Kahan

Developer of the IBM Architecture Description Standard (ADS), used by the IBM WW technical community, Kahan has served as a certified consultant and an active member of the IBM Academy of Technology....

Frank van Ham

Designer of interactive information visualizations and one of the main researchers behind IBM's Many Eyes project, van Ham has more than a decade of experience in designing and deploying interactive information visualizations....

Wolfgang Roesner

Architect of the verification tools and methodologies used across all IBM systems, Roesner is a senior technical staff member in IBM's verification tools development group in Austin, Texas. His accomplishments in the...

Seymour Papert

One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence and an inventor of the Logo programming language, Papert was among the most influential thinkers in education and computing. At MIT, he created the Epistemology...

Barry James Mailous

One of the editors of the original Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68, Mailous also served as a contributing editor to the Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68. In...

Michael John Muuss

Author of the freeware network tool Ping, Muuss was a senior scientist specializing in geometric solid modeling, ray-tracing, MIMD architectures, and digital computer networks at the United States Army Research Laboratory at...

Laurie Williams

Foremost co-researcher in agile software development and in the security of healthcare IT applications, Williams has served as a Professor in the Computer Science Department of the College of Engineering at North...

Mark Eugene Russinovich

Co-developer of the website sysinternals.com, Russinovich wrote and published dozens of popular Windows administration and diagnostic utilities including Autoruns, Filemon, and RootkitRevealer. He has served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Microsoft...

Charles (Charlie) William Bachman

Pioneer of database technology, Bachman spent his entire career as an industrial researcher rather than in academia. Born in Manhattan, Kansas, in 1924, Bachman's father was a football coach and minor league baseball...

David (Dave) Dana Clark

Chief Protocol Architect in the development of the Internet, Clark is an American computer scientist. He graduated from Swarthmore College, southwest of Philadelphia, in 1966. In 1968, he received his Master's and...

Jeff De Luca

Primary architect of Feature Driven Development (FDD), De Luca created this lightweight methodology for developing computer software with reduced management overhead, time and money circa 1999. He is a global information technology...

Amarnath Gupta

Creator of the first domain knowledge-based mediation for scientific databases — a patented achievement — Gupta is also a pioneer in applying the latest information systems research in biomedicine, and has advanced...