Thomas J. Misa

Noted IT historian and director of the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI), Misa specializes in the interactions of technology and modern culture. His undergraduate degree was from M.I.T. (1981) and his Ph.D. from...

Herbert Bruderer

Historian of computing, technology, and science, Bruderer has served as a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) and the University of Zurich. He...

Richard (Dick) G. Canning

Founder of the world-acclaimed technology newsletter EDP Analyzer, Canning published the monthly newsletter with subscribers in over 100 countries. Canning and his co-author retired in 1987 after 24 years of working together....

Neal Town Stephenson

Writer of the non-fiction essay "In The Beginning Was The Command Line" — examining the histories of and relationships between DOS, Windows, Linux, and BeOS — Stephenson is an American author known...

Leonard J. Shustek

Founder of the Computer History Museum, Shustek co-founded Nestar Systems Inc., an early producer of networked client-server computer systems, in 1979. In 1986, Dr. Shustek co-founded Network General Corporation, a manufacturer of...

Peter Goddard

A mathematical physicist who helped establish a permanent Archives Center at the IAS, Goddard is known for his contributions to string theory and conformal field theory, including the no-ghost theorem (proved together...

Alice Rowe Burks

One of 75 females employed as a "woman computer" performing mathematical calculations before electronic computers became commercially available, and co-publisher of the definitive Who Invented the Computer? in 2003, Burks was also...

Michael S. Tomczyk

Best known for his role in the development and marketing of the Commodore VIC-20, the first microcomputer to sell one million units, Tomczyk is also recognized as an early pioneer in telecomputing....

Brian Randell

Developer of a compiler for the English Electric KDF9, an early stack machine, Randell is a British computer scientist and Emeritus Professor at the School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, U.K. He...

Herman Heine Goldstine

One of the original developers of the ENIAC, Goldstine left the University of Michigan, where he was a professor, in July 1942 to enlist in the Army after the United States entered...

I. Bernard Cohen

The first American to receive a Ph.D. in history of science, Cohen was a distinguished historian of science at Harvard who also wrote about early computer history there. He was a Harvard...

Frederik Nebeker

Researcher of the influence of the computer on meteorology, Nebeker has served as the long-time Senior Research Historian at the IEEE History Center at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. A native...

Peter Bird

Head of Lyons Computer Services, an early information service company in England, Bird rose to be a director of that organisation. He was born in 1934 in north London, the second son...

Leslie Berlin

Author and noted IT historian, Berlin has served as Project Historian for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University. She wrote *The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of...

Michael Woodger

Co-author of the ALGOL 60 report, a milestone in the history of programming languages, Woodger has been a British computer scientist and Emeritus Professor at the School of Computing Science, Newcastle University,...

Alexander Ivanovich Mikhailov

Co-founder of the Vserosiisky Institut Nauchnoi I Tekhnicheskoy Informatsii (VINITI) and co-author of the concept of Informatics, Mikhailov was a pioneering figure in the study and dissemination of scientific information. He graduated...

Sellam Ismail

Founder of the Vintage Computer Festival and active in the preservation of information technology artifacts, Ismail has dedicated himself to salvaging countless artifacts of tech history. His prescience has led to the...

Donald (Don) Nielson

Supporter of the development of the first hand-held computer terminal, Nielson joined SRI in 1959 as a Research Engineer, taking on assignments in telecommunications technology while working on his Ph.D. at Stanford,...

Gwendowlyn K Bell

Founding President and Co-founder of The Computer Museum and Co-founder of the Computer History Museum, Bell has also served as President of the ACM.

Michael R Williams

A pioneer in the history of computing who is — unusually — a computer scientist himself, Williams has published books and articles, taught, curated museum exhibits, and promoted professional activity in the...