Satoshi Matsuoka

Lead developer of the TSUBAME series of supercomputers — which included the 4th fastest in the world on the Top500 — Matsuoka has served as a Full Professor at the Global Scientific...

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...

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...

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...

Ernest (Lee) E. Keet

Founder of Turnkey Systems, Inc. (TSI) and founding director of both the Charles Babbage Foundation and the IT History Society, Keet helped launch one of the pioneering commercial software firms of the...

Janet Emerson Bashen

Regarded as the first African American woman to obtain a web-based software patent, Bashen earned that distinction through her invention of LinkLine, a web-based EEO software application designed to assist with equal...

Gerald D. Cohen

CEO and founder of Information Builders, Cohen started an early enterprise database software company.

Lawrence Moser Breed

Creator of the first computer animation language and system, Breed built it as an undergraduate at Stanford University in 1961 and used it at Stanford football half-times to coordinate images produced by...

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...

Muffy Calder

Chief Scientific Advisor to the Scottish Government from 2012 to 2015, Calder was a Canadian-born British computer scientist and Professor of Formal Methods at the University of Glasgow. She also served as...

Daniel Singer Bricklin

Co-creator of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program available for personal computers, Bricklin co-founded Software Arts, Inc. with Frankston in 1979 and began selling VisiCalc that same year. He was given a Grace...

Eric S. Raymond

Programmer and public figurehead for the open source movement, Raymond has maintained projects including the fetchmail mail retrieval agent and gpsd. Other contributions include Emacs editing modes and portions of libraries like...

Brian Keith Reid

Known for developing the Scribe word processing system and pioneering the use of descriptive markup, Reid earned his B.S. in physics from the University of Maryland, College Park, and then worked in...

Myron Krueger

Considered one of the first generation virtual reality and augmented reality researchers, Krueger is an American computer artist who developed early interactive works. While earning a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the...

Anders Hejlsberg

Co-designer of Turbo Pascal, Delphi, and C#, Hejlsberg is a Danish software engineer who has shaped several of the most widely used programming languages and development tools in the history of commercial...

Pieter Van den Abeele

Founder of the PowerPC version of Gentoo Linux, Van den Abeele spearheaded the Gentoo architectures and platforms effort together with Daniel Robbins. He received a scholarship from Apple Computer for founding Gentoo...

Carlo Heinrich Séquin

Pioneer in computer processor design, Séquin is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked with computer graphics, geometric modelling, and on the development of computer...

Igor L. Markov

Leader of the effort on the Hardware tree during the 2011 redesign of the ACM Computing Classification System, Markov has served as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at...

Mary Beth Rosson

Co-developer of the task-artifact framework for design, an "action science" approach to human-computer interaction (HCI), Rosson has served as Associate Dean of Information Sciences and Technology and Professor at the Penn State...

Cesar A. Gonzales

Co-inventor of patented still-frame and motion video compression techniques that IBM contributed to the JPEG and MPEG international standards, Gonzales played a central role in bringing about the worldwide leap into digital...