Aleksandr Semenovich Kronrod

Known for the Gauss–Kronrod quadrature formula, which he published in 1964, Kronrod was a Soviet mathematician and computer scientist. Earlier in his career, his computations informed theoretical physics. He was also known...

Ravi Sandhu

Inventor of 29 security technology patents and leader of multiple teams conducting research on many aspects of cyber security, Sandhu has served as Executive Director of the Institute for Cyber Security at...

Peter J. Bentley

Developer of the iPhone application iStethoscope and pioneer of Digital Biology, Bentley is a British author and computer scientist based at University College London. He has served as a Reader and College...

Robert J. Harrison

Principal architect of the Northwest Computational Chemistry Software (NWChem), a computational chemistry code for massively parallel computers, Harrison is a distinguished expert in high-performance computing originally from Birmingham, England. He has served...

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...

Murray Campbell

Member of the teams that developed chess machines HiTech and Deep Blue, Campbell is a Canadian computer scientist who has served as a Senior Manager in the Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences...

James (Jim) F. Blinn

Creator of the pre-encounter animations for the Voyager project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Blinn is one of the founders of the computer graphics industry. He has spent his career expanding industry...

Wietse Zweitze Venema

Writer of the Postfix email system and TCP Wrapper, Venema is a Dutch programmer and physicist recognized as an authority on Internet security. Postfix is a free and open-source mail transfer agent...

Monroe (Monty) Newborn

Co-author of the computer chess program Ostrich, which competed in five world championships through the 1970s and 1980s and nearly won in 1974, Newborn has also served as Chairman and principal organizer...

David R. Karger

Developer of the fastest minimum spanning tree algorithm to date, Karger is also known for Karger's algorithm, a Monte Carlo method to compute the minimum cut of a connected graph. His work...

Robert William Bemer

Best known as "The Father of ASCII," Bemer made foundational contributions to computing through his work on COBOL and the ASCII character codeset. Bemer began his career as an aerodynamicist at Douglas Aircraft...

Donald Watts Davies

Co-inventor of packet switching and originator of the term, Davies was a British computer scientist who developed this foundational concept alongside Paul Baran in the US. Davies was born in Treorchy, Wales, in...

Anthony A. Storey

Prime mover in creating the Enterprise Java Beans industry specification that brought Java into the server environment, Storey has also been a widely recognized expert in online transaction processing and the vital...

Watts S. Humphrey

Father of Software Quality who headed the IBM software team that introduced the first software license, Humphrey was awarded the National Medal of Technology for his contributions to software engineering. He founded...

John C. Klensin

Co-creator of the Network Startup Resource Center, helping dozens of countries to establish connections with the Internet, Klensin's career has included 30 years as a Principal Research Scientist at MIT, a stint...

Peter C. Patton

Responsible for the development of the Intranet and Internet programs at the University of Pennsylvania, Patton has had over 50 years of experience in the computer industry, with involvement in computer hardware...

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

Creator of the ALGOL programming language, Dijkstra was one of the most influential members of computing science's founding generation. Among the domains in which his scientific contributions are fundamental are algorithm design,...

Patricia G. Selinger

Pioneer in relational database management and inventor of cost-based query optimization, Selinger is a world-renowned American computer scientist and IBM Fellow whose technique has been adopted by nearly all relational database vendors...

Herbert Alexander Simon

One of the most influential social scientists of the twentieth century, Simon was an American political scientist, economist, and psychologist whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, computer science, public...

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...