Luciano Lenzini

Director of the initiative which led to the operation of the first Internet node in Italy, Lenzini has served as a Full Professor at the Information Engineering Department of the University of...

Angel Angelov

Founder of the Institute of Engineering Cybernetics and Robotics in Bulgaria, Angelov is recognized for pioneering computer science applications to particle accelerators and broader industrial control systems. Microprocessor-based control and pattern recognition...

John Sanguinetti

Principal architect of VCS, the Verilog Compiled Simulator, Sanguinetti has been a major contributor to the resurgence in the use of Verilog in the design community. Born and raised in Maryland, he...

Nathan Rochester

Designer of the IBM 701, the first general-purpose, mass-produced computer, Rochester was also the writer of the first symbolic assembler and a founding participant in the field of artificial intelligence. Nathan Rochester received...

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...

Matthew (Matt) David Welsh

Co-founder of the Linux Documentation Project, Welsh is a computer scientist and software engineer. He has also served as the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University School of Engineering...

Richard D. Greenblatt

Co-founder of the hacker community and the main implementer of Maclisp on the PDP-6, Greenblatt is also known for writing Mac Hack, the first computer program to play tournament-level chess and the...

J. Noel Chiappa

Member of the TCP/IP Working Group which started the Internet project, Chiappa was instrumental in developing an early ring-based local area network and gateway. He has worked as an independent researcher in...

Miguel de Icaza

Starter of the GNOME project with Federico Mena in August 1997, de Icaza aimed to create a completely free desktop environment and component model for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Earlier,...

David Nahamoo

Developer of algorithms that contributed to IBM's leadership in automatic speech recognition, Nahamoo's work includes contributions that resulted in the company's highly successful deployment of ViaVoice. He has served as the Speech...

Gary Mokotoff

Pioneer of the computer software industry for the IBM 1401, Mokotoff is the co-creator of the 1401 Autocoder and sole author of SPS1 and SPS2. He joined IBM in 1959. From 1959 to...

Ben Shneiderman

Known for experimentation on the use of flowcharts and information visualization in programming, Shneiderman conducted experiments in his earlier work on studying programmers which suggested that flowcharts were not helpful for writing,...

Roger Hui

Co-developer of the J programming language, Hui collaborated with Ken Iverson in the early 1990s on an advanced continuation of an APL-like language which they called J. The improvements not only were...

John Cocke

Considered by many to be the father of RISC architecture, Cocke was an American computer scientist recognized for his large contributions to computer architecture and optimizing compiler design. John Cocke was born on...

Robert L. Patrick

Designer of the first operating system — a non-stop multi-user batch processing operating system for the IBM 704 — Patrick entered the computer field in 1955. While at Convair, in Ft. Worth,...

Marsha J. Berger

Pioneer of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) and Cartesian mesh finite difference methods for numerical PDEs, Berger's block-structured AMR approach, beginning with her thesis, is now considered one of the seminal ideas in...

Ralph E. Griswold

Co-creator of SNOBOL and pioneer in string processing languages, Griswold made lasting contributions to non-numerical computation. He worked for Bell Labs in 1962, where he studied ideas for non-numerical computation. SNOBOL was...

Judea Pearl

A pioneer of the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks, Pearl is an Israeli American computer scientist and philosopher. His work demonstrated empirical success in numerous applications...

Richard Wesley Hamming

Known for his work on numerical methods, automatic coding systems, and error-detecting and error-correcting codes, Hamming was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer science and telecommunications. Hamming's contributions...

Aart J. de Geus

One of the world's leading experts on logic synthesis and simulation, de Geus is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Synopsys Inc., a fellow of IEEE, and Phil Kaufman Award winner. He...