Nolan K. Bushnell

Founder of Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain, Bushnell is considered one of the founding fathers of the video game industry. He has been inducted into the Video...

Barry M. Leiner

Instrumental in establishing the Internet Activities Board (IAB), which led the effort to set technical standards for the Internet, Leiner was a government scientist and Program Manager at the U. S. Defense...

Charles M. Sporck

Former CEO of National Semiconductor, Sporck led one of the most influential semiconductor companies of its era.

Lewis Terman

Initiator of the first work in IBM on MOSFET memory, Terman was also involved in the program that led to the first IBM MOSFET memory product. Born in San Francisco, his father was...

Bruce D. Shriver

Worldwide lecturer in the design and implementation of computer hardware and software systems, Shriver has been a computer science academic, consultant, and entrepreneur in the area of high-performance computer systems, publishing extensively...

Sam Harrell

Co-founder of SEMATECH, the partnership between the U.S. government and U.S.-based semiconductor manufacturers to regain competitiveness for the U.S. semiconductor industry, Harrell is a leading specialist in semiconductor and international trade and...

Ramesh Chandra Jain

Developer of some of the early visual information retrieval systems, Jain is also the founder of IEEE Multimedia and the company Virage. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree from Nagpur University, Nagpur,...

Gene Howard Golub

Co-publisher of an algorithm with William Kahan in 1970 that made the computation of the singular value decomposition (SVD) feasible and that is still used today, Golub was one of the preeminent...

Lawrence (Larry) A. Welke

Publisher of the first publications dedicated to the software industry, Welke is also remembered as a co-founder of the Software Industry Association section of ADAPSO (known today as the Information Technology Association...

John E. Kelly, III

Founder of IBM's Semiconductor Research and Development Center in 1996, Kelly set the pace in IBM's semiconductor technology development, unveiling back-end-of-the-line copper interconnect technology ahead of the industry and introducing the transition...

Elise Gerich

Principal Investigator for NSFNET's T3 Backbone Project and the Routing Arbiter Project, Gerich is a 21-year veteran of Internet networking who has served as the Vice President of IANA at ICANN. The...

Sam Ruby

Co-developer and principal maintainer of the Feed Validator — a tool used to check the validity of HTML, CSS, XML documents, and RSS feeds — Ruby has made significant contributions to web...

Nils John Nilsson

One of the founding researchers in the discipline of Artificial Intelligence, Nilsson was particularly famous for his contributions to search, planning, knowledge representation, and robotics. He was the first Kumagai Professor of...

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...

Patrice Lyons

Analyzer of a wide range of legal and regulatory issues relating to the development of the Internet, Lyons has served as Corporate Counsel to Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), where she...

Patrick Carl Fischer

His work on the mathematical foundations of database query languages became central to the databases now used by major web servers worldwide. Fischer was an American computer scientist and noted researcher in...

Karen Spärck Jones

Pioneer of inverse document frequency (IDF) weighting in information retrieval, Spärck Jones introduced a concept now used in most search engines today. A British computer scientist, she was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England...

Bernard Galler

American mathematician and computer scientist at the University of Michigan, Galler was involved in the development of large-scale operating systems and computer languages, including the MAD programming language and the Michigan Terminal...

Lawrence J. Shoenberg

Noted for serving as head of three sections of ADAPSO—Software Products, Professional Services, and Information Systems Integration—Shoenberg also spent 20 years on the ADAPSO board and served a term as its chair....

Lawrence (Larry) J. Schoenberg

His commitment to using digital tools in manuscript studies and to making his collection freely available online supported the work of many scholars. Co-founder and former CEO of AGS Computers, Inc., Schoenberg...