Henry Lowood

Curator of History of Science & Technology Collections and Film & Media Collections at Stanford University Libraries, Lowood has served in this role as a leading steward of science and technology heritage.

Arthur L. Norberg

Former Director of the Charles Babbage Institute, Norberg is a noted author and historian of information technology.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Emerson W. Pugh

Leader of IBM's development of a thin magnetic film memory array used in the top-performance IBM System/360 computer, Pugh also led research and development in magnetic bubbles and other memory technologies, and...

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...

Jeffrey R Yost

Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Yost has also served as Associate Director of the Charles Babbage Institute from 1998 onward. Yost authored The Computer Industry (Greenwood Press, 2005) and...

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...