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...

Stan Veit

Founder of Computer Mart of New York, one of the first computer stores in the world, Veit played an important role in the early days of the personal computer industry in the...

Erwin Tomash

Early pioneer of computer equipment peripherals and co-developer of the ERA 1103 (UNIVAC Scientific), Tomash was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, and graduated from the University of Minnesota with an...

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...

Boris N Malinovsky

Designer of early Soviet computers and control systems, Malinovsky worked with noted Russian computer pioneer Lebedev in the design of early Soviet computers. In 1955–1958, he designed a specialized computer for ground-based...

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...

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...

David C. Walden

A member of the small team of engineers that developed the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, Walden is recognized as one of the first Internet programmers. After three years at MIT...

Burton (Burt) Grad

Founder of the Software History Center, Grad has been working on computer software since 1954, when he wrote the first production and inventory control programs for the General Electric Company's installation of...

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...

Elizabeth (Jake) Jocelyn Feinler

Leader of the group that became the overall naming authority of the Internet, Feinler directed the Network Information Systems Center at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) from 1972 until 1989. Her group...

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,...

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,...

Thomas Parke Hughes

Co-founder of the Society for the History of Technology, Hughes was an American historian of technology and an emeritus Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a visiting...

Robert B. Garner

Team member for the Xerox STAR 8010 Professional Workstation, including the first 10-mbps Ethernet NIC in 1981, Garner designed and managed compute, network, and storage systems in Silicon Valley in both product...

Albert S. Hoagland

Early designer of random access disk storage, Hoagland played a key role in magnetic head design and recording for the Random Access Method of Accounting and Control (RAMAC) disk drive, the first...

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...

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...

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...

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...