David Gelernter

Made seminal contributions to the field of parallel computation, specifically the tuple space coordination model as embodied by the Linda programming system (named for Linda Lovelace, an actress in the porn movie...

Icer Addis

Author of the NESticle, Genecyst, and Callus emulators, Addis is considered a legendary figure in the emulation scene. He co-founded Bloodlust Software with his friend Ethan Petty. Working independently under the Bloodlust...

Kim Polese

Named to Time magazine's list of "The 25 Most Influential Americans" early in her career in 1997, Polese built a long record of leadership in Silicon Valley technology and entrepreneurship. An advocate of...

Jose Luis Moreira da Encarnacao

Developer of the GKS Standard (Graphical Kernel System), Encarnação has made foundational contributions to computer graphics. He has served as Professor Emeritus of Technical University Darmstadt, and founded graphics research centers in...

Sergey Mikhailovich Brin

Co-founder of Google, Inc., the world's largest Internet company based on its search engine and online advertising technology, Brin built the company alongside Larry Page. Together with Page, they are often referred...

Van Jacobson

One of the primary contributors to the TCP/IP protocol stack — the technological foundation of today's Internet — Jacobson is renowned for his pioneering achievements in network performance and scaling. He joined...

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...

Jesse James Garrett

Publisher of the diagram "The Elements of User Experience," a foundational model of user-centered design, Garrett is a user experience designer and co-founder of Adaptive Path, a user experience strategy and design...

Grace M. Hopper

Grace Hopper was a computer programming pioneer and U.S. Navy rear admiral best known for her work on early compilers and for helping develop and promote COBOL, a programming language for business...

Shawn Fanning

Developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer filesharing platforms

Robert E. Cook

Founder of VM Software (later renamed Systems Center), a provider of software utilities for IBM's VM operating system, Cook built his first company into a firm listed on both the Nasdaq and...

Vinton (Vint) Gray Cerf

Known as a "father of the Internet," Cerf is an American computer scientist whose contributions have been recognized with the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom,...

Irene Greif

Inventor of the Version Manager — consistently designated by analysts as the most significant group-enabling feature in spreadsheets — Greif is an American computer scientist and a founder of the field of...

Phill Gross

Leader of the development of MCI Corporation's first national network, Gross co-founded the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and was instrumental in defining and shaping the way in which the IETF standards...

Steven R. Hetzler

Initiator and namer of iSCSI within IBM Research, Hetzler is recognized for his role in developing an Internet Protocol (IP)-based storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities. He initiated work on...

Jason McGee

Lead architect on the team that developed the original WebSphere Application Server in 1998, McGee has been instrumental in establishing IBM as the leader in cloud technologies, Java-based application server middleware, and...

Steven B. Lipner

Responsible for defining, supporting, and applying Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) process, Lipner has had forty years' experience in cybersecurity and has been named as inventor on twelve U.S. patents and two...

Shashi Shekhar

Major contributor to data engineering and database systems, including the Connectivity-Clustered Access Method (CCAM), a new storage and access method for spatial networks, Shekhar is a McKnight Distinguished University Professor at the...

James (Jim) J. Thomas

Considered by many computer scientists to be a visionary and inspiring research and development (R&D) leader in the field of visualization and computer graphics, Thomas was internationally recognized for his contributions to...

Gordon Eubanks

Designer of CBASIC and CP/M tools, Eubanks is recognized as a microcomputer industry pioneer and one of the founding figures of the personal computer software era. While serving in the U.S. Navy, Eubanks...