Mikhail Donskoy

Lead developer of Kaissa, the world champion chess computer, Donskoy was a Soviet and Russian computer scientist. In 1970, he graduated from Moscow State University and joined the Institute of Control Sciences...

Ivar Hjalmar Jacobson

Known as a major contributor to UML, Objectory, RUP, and aspect-oriented development, Jacobson has shaped modern software engineering practice. After university, he started working at Ericsson until April 1987, when he started...

Max Rafael Levchin

Co-developer of PayPal and co-creator of the Gausebeck-Levchin test, one of the first commercial implementations of a CAPTCHA, Levchin is a Ukrainian-born American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur widely known as one...

Eric S. Raymond

Programmer and public figurehead for the open source movement, Raymond has maintained projects including the fetchmail mail retrieval agent and gpsd. Other contributions include Emacs editing modes and portions of libraries like...

Mary Tsingou

One of the first programmers on the MANIAC computer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Tsingou is best known for coding the celebrated computer experiment conducted with Enrico Fermi, John Pasta, and Stanislaw...

Stanley Gill

Co-inventor of the first computer subroutine, Gill was a British computer scientist who shared that achievement with Maurice Wilkes and David Wheeler. Gill was born in Worthing, West Sussex, England, educated at...

Nicholas (Nick) Shelness

Contributor to Lotus' e-mail and collaboration products including Notes, Domino and cc:Mail, Shelness is a world-class expert on messaging and groupware. A 1999 IBM Fellow — the highest honor a scientist, engineer,...

Farida Bedwei

Co-founder of Logiciel, a Ghanaian fin-tech company, Bedwei is a software engineer known for her expertise in software architecture and the deployment of mobile services for banking applications. She built both mobile...

Jennifer Rexford

Noted for research in internet routing, network measurement and management, Rexford has served as a Professor in the Computer Science department at Princeton University. From 1996–2004, she was a member of the...

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...

Shashi Phoha

Shaper of new research directions in computational sciences to enable dependable distributed automation of multiple interacting devices, Phoha developed real-time data driven sensor fusion and self-organization algorithms for secure wireless sensor networks...

Betty Jean Bartik (née Jennings)

One of the original six programmers of the ENIAC computer, Betty Jean Jennings (later known as Jean Bartik) helped lay the groundwork for modern computing during a pioneering era in the field....

Robert W. Floyd

Having a clear influence on methodologies for the creation of efficient and reliable software, Floyd made lasting contributions to computer science across several areas. His contributions included the design of Floyd's algorithm,...

Alexey Andreevich Lyapunov

One of the founders of cybernetics and a computer pioneer in Russia, Lyapunov made foundational contributions to the development of computing and cybernetics in the Soviet Union. In 1928, Lyapunov enrolled in Moscow...

Terry Allen Winograd

Developer of SHRDLU, an early natural language understanding computer program, Winograd is known within the philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence fields for his work on natural language. He wrote SHRDLU as...

Lucinda (Lucy) M. Sanders

Bell Labs Fellow and CEO and Co-founder of the National Center for Women and Information Technology, Sanders has worked to expand the talent pool in the computing field while building on a...

Curt L. Cotner

Designer and developer of many key features of DB2 for z/OS, Cotner has served as an IBM Fellow and VP/CTO for IBM Data Management. In that role, he held technical and management...

Daniel L. Murphy

Creator of Text Editor and Corrector (TECO), later implemented on most PDP computers, Murphy is an American computer scientist. He attended MIT from 1961 and graduated in 1965. In 1962 he created...

Jean E. Sammet

Developer of FORMAC, the first widely used computer language for symbolic manipulation of mathematical formulas, Sammet spent 27 years at IBM where she created it. She received her B.A. in Math from Mount...

Fred M. Gibbons

Co-founder and CEO of Software Publishing Corporation (SPC), best known for its pioneering Harvard Graphics business and presentation graphics program, Gibbons cofounded the Mountain View, California-based company in 1980 along with two...