Peter M. Schnell

Founder of Software AG, Schnell established the company in 1969. He developed the ADABAS Data Management System and the NATURAL Fourth Generation Language, which became foundational contributions to enterprise software. In 1992,...

Paul Maritz

Responsible for essentially all of Microsoft's desktop and server software — including such major initiatives as the development of Windows 95, Windows NT, and Internet Explorer — Maritz has served as a...

Bruce Lindsay

Participant in the development of System R (the first Relational DBMS prototype) and R* (a distributed RDBMS), Lindsay is a recognized expert on many aspects of relational database technology, including distributed DBMS,...

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...

Edward Albert Feigenbaum

Known as the "father of expert systems," Feigenbaum is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence. Feigenbaum completed his undergraduate degree, and a Ph.D., at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now...

Norman H. Nie

Co-inventor of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), Nie transformed how researchers analyze data. An American social scientist, university professor, inventor, and pioneering technology entrepreneur, he was born in St....

Lillian F. Schwartz

Considered a pioneer of computer-mediated art, Lillian F. Schwartz was one of the first artists to base almost her entire body of work on computational media. Much of her groundbreaking work was...

Charlie Catlett

Member of the original team that deployed and managed the NSFNet to promote advanced research and education networking, Catlett attended the University of Illinois initially majoring in Electrical Engineering. But after his...

Randy Bush

Founder of the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), an NSF-supported pro bono effort to help develop and deploy networking technology in projects throughout the world, Bush has worked with the computer industry...

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...

Alexander (Sandy) Shafto Douglas

Creator of the first graphic computer game, Douglas made important contributions in mathematical computing, computer education, and man-machine interfaces. 'Sandy' Douglas worked on EDSAC and later the Ferranti Pegasus. As a graduate student...

Jonathan Bruce Postel

A significant contributor to the development of the Internet, Postel was involved in early work on the ARPANET while at UCLA. He later moved to the Information Sciences Institute at the University...

John Thomas Stasko, III

Renowned for extensive research in information visualization and visual analytics, as well as software visualization and algorithm animation, Stasko has served as a Professor in and the Associate Chair of the School...

Robert C. Pike

A member of the Unix team at Bell Labs, Pike was involved in the creation of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems, as well as the Limbo programming...

Donald Peter Greenberg

Pioneer developer of software that influenced many architectural software (CAAD) products still in use today, Greenberg also initiated the first computer-aided architectural design studio in the United States in 1984. An internationally...

Robert Elliott Kahn

Co-inventor of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), Kahn is sometimes called one of the fathers of the Internet. Kahn was born on December 23, 1938, in Brooklyn, New...

Walter F. Bauer

Pioneer in the use of electronic computers and founder of Informatics General Corporation, Bauer distinguished himself as a research digital computer engineer. During World War II, he served as a weather officer...

Jack B. Dennis

A pioneer of time-sharing and hacker culture, Dennis is a computer scientist whose research group owned the PDP-1 at MIT — the machine that later became famous in computer science history as...

Martin Richards

Creator of the BCPL programming language, Richards is a computer scientist whose work has had lasting influence on modern programming. In 1959 he came to Cambridge to read Mathematics, followed by the...

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...