Shikoh Gitau

The first African to win the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, Gitau received that honor at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, recognized for her inventions and thesis work. A Kenyan...

Stephen Robertson

Contributor to the Microsoft search engine Bing, Robertson is a British computer scientist well known for his work on information retrieval. After completing his undergraduate degree in mathematics at Cambridge University, he...

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...

Marlyn Meltzer (née Wescoff)

One of the original programmers of the ENIAC, the world's first electronic computer, Meltzer was selected for this role in 1945. A graduate of Temple University in 1942, she was hired by...

Kenneth (Ken) R. Jacobs

Known as "Dr. DBA" to thousands of Oracle database administrators, Jacobs has been a prominent spokesperson for Oracle and an advocate inside the company for customers' interests. Jacobs joined Oracle in July 1981...

Herb Sutter

A prominent C++ expert, Sutter is also a book author and a columnist for Dr. Dobb's Journal. He joined Microsoft in 2002 as a platform evangelist for Visual C++ .NET, rising to...

Vern Paxson

Author of the flex lexical analyzer and the Bro intrusion detection system, Paxson has served as Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also worked as...

Ramakrishnan Srikant

Key architect for IBM Intelligent Miner, Srikant contributed the association rules and sequential patterns modules to the product. Dr. Srikant has served as a Principal Research Scientist at Google. He previously managed the...

Edson Hendricks

Developer of RSCS (later known as VNET), fundamental software that powered the world's largest network (or network of networks) prior to the Internet, Hendricks is an IBM computer scientist whose work directly...

Dana L. Ulery

The first woman engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ulery is an American computer scientist and pioneer in scientific computing applications. She began her career in 1961, designing and developing algorithms...

Kathleen (Kay) McNulty Mauchly Antonelli

One of the six original programmers of the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, Antonelli helped lay the foundations of modern computing. Kathleen (Kay) McNulty was born on February 12, 1921, in...

David M. Young

Founder of the Center for Numerical Analysis at The University of Texas at Austin, Young was also known for establishing the Successive Overrelaxation (SOR) method. Professor Young's career and many contributions almost exactly...

Guido van Rossum

Creator of the Python programming language, van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer. In the Python community, Van Rossum is known as a "Benevolent Dictator for Life" (BDFL), meaning that he oversees the...

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...

Robert Jay Creasy

Project leader of the first full virtualization hypervisor, the IBM CP-40, Creasy later saw his work develop into IBM's highly successful line of mainframe VM operating systems — a family of IBM...

R. Narasimhan

Often referred to as the Bhisma of Computer Science and Technology in India, Narasimhan made significant contributions to the development of computer science education, research, and technology in India in the early...

Mary Kenneth Keller

The first woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science in the United States, Keller was also among the first people of any gender to receive such a doctorate. Her degree was...

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...

Patrick Henry Winston

Researcher in machine learning and human intelligence, Winston was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He served as Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997,...

Marie desJardins

Researcher focused on understanding trust among agents in online communities, desJardins has led the Multi-Agent, Planning and Learning Lab (MAPLE) at UMBC, which focuses on developing A.I. solutions to real world problems....