Michael (Mike) A. Kaczmarski

Co-creator of the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager product family and leader of the redesign of the TotalStorage Productivity Center, Kaczmarski is an acknowledged IBM expert in storage management. Part of the IBM...

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...

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...

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....

Eduardo (Ed) T. Kahan

Developer of the IBM Architecture Description Standard (ADS), used by the IBM WW technical community, Kahan has served as a certified consultant and an active member of the IBM Academy of Technology....

Katherine (Kathy) Anne Yelick

Co-inventor of Unified Parallel C (UPC), a programming language extension designed for high-performance computing on large-scale parallel machines, Yelick is an internationally recognized expert in high performance computing. Yelick has served as a...

Abraham Lempel

One of the fathers of the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms, Lempel studied at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and received B.Sc. in 1963, M.Sc. in 1965, and D.Sc....

Harlan B. Mills

Pioneer in automata theory and structured programming, Mills transformed software development through his advocacy of mathematical and statistical principles in software engineering. In 1969, Mills was asked to write a program creating...

Ramesh Chandra Jain

Developer of some of the early visual information retrieval systems, Jain is also the founder of IEEE Multimedia and the company Virage. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree from Nagpur University, Nagpur,...

Adin D. Falkoff

Collaborator on the design, development, and usage of the APL programming language, Falkoff was predominantly known for his work on APL and related systems for IBM. Born in New Jersey, he received...

Charles Antony Richard Hoare

Developer of Quicksort, one of the world's most widely used sorting algorithms, Hoare also developed Hoare logic for verifying program correctness, and the formal language Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) to specify the...

Marshall T. Rose

A network protocol and software engineer who contributed extensively to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Rose has played a central role in shaping the Internet and network applications. His work on...

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...

Georgy Adelson-Velsky

Co-inventor of the AVL tree and head developer of the Kaissa chess computer, Adelson-Velsky made foundational contributions to both computer science and computer chess. In 1962, Georgy and E.M. Landis published a...

Charles F. Goldfarb

Known as the "father" of SGML and "grandfather" of HTML and the World Wide Web, Goldfarb co-invented the concept of markup languages. He was a graduate of Columbia College and held a...

Martin A. Goetz

Software pioneer and holder of the first software patent, Goetz played a foundational role in defining software as a standalone commercial product. In the early 1960s, the status of software as a standalone...

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,...

Joel McCormack

Key software designer at NCR, McCormack designed the NCR Corporation version of the p-code machine, a kind of stack machine popular in the 1970s as the preferred way to implement new computing...

Donald Lester Bitzer

Co-inventor of the Plasma Display and sometimes called the "father of PLATO" (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations), the first generalized computer-assisted instruction system, Bitzer was an American electrical engineer and computer...

Barry Schrager

Co-designer and developer of early commercial computer security software products, Schrager is recognized as one of the people who started the concept of data security when he founded and became the first...