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...

Joseph (Joe) Frederick Traub

Co-pioneer of information-based computational complexity, Traub was the Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He held positions at Bell Laboratories,...

Martha Sloan

The first woman to lead the IEEE Institute, Sloan served as IEEE president in 1993. She received a BSEE with great distinction, an MSEE, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. After two...

Daniel Paul Siewiorek

Designer or co-designer of nine multiprocessor systems and a key contributor to the dependability design of over two dozen commercial computing systems, Siewiorek has served as the Buhl University Professor of Electrical...

Stephanie Shirley

Founder of F International, a software company initially employing only women, Shirley built her vision that software could provide an outlet for the skills and creative ability of housebound women into a...

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...

Vipin Kumar

Developer of the isoefficiency metric for evaluating the scalability of parallel algorithms, Kumar holds the William Norris Endowed Chair in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota,...

Hermann Kopetz

Chief architect of the Time-Triggered Protocol and the Time-Triggered Architecture (TTA), Kopetz has spent over twenty-five years developing a computing infrastructure for the design and implementation of dependable distributed embedded systems. He...

Stanley Gill

Co-inventor of the first computer subroutine, Gill was a British computer scientist who shared that achievement with Maurice Wilkes and David Wheeler. Gill was born in Worthing, West Sussex, England, educated at...

Lawrence (Larry) H. Landweber

Creator of THEORYNET, an electronic mail system serving over 100 researchers in computer science, Landweber is also best known for founding the Computer Science Network (CSNET) project in 1979, which later developed...

Josep Torrellas

Leader of the Illinois Aggressive COMA Intelligent Memory project — selected as one of the "Eight Point-Design Studies" that DARPA, NSF, NSA, and NASA supported in a nationwide effort to accelerate the...

Lawrence (Larry) A. Rowe

Founding director of the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center (BMRC), Rowe is a computer scientist who served as a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley from...

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...

George Dyson

Author of Turing's Cathedral (2012), described as "a creation myth of the digital universe," Dyson is an author and historian of technology whose publications broadly cover the evolution of technology in relation...

Hong-Jiang Zhang

A leader in establishing Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) into a world-class basic research center in computer science, Zhang has been a prominent researcher in media computing, more specifically in video and image...

Samuel Reid Warren, Jr.

Supervisor of the EDVAC project at the Moore School, Warren spent the bulk of his career at the University of Pennsylvania. Born in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, he was the...

Frederic (Ted) Withington

Founder board member of the IT History Society and Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Withington began his career as a programmer at NSA in 1953. Over the years he worked for computer makers...

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...

Carl Machover

Inducted into the FAMLI Computer Graphics Hall of Fame, Machover is recognized as a computer graphics pioneer and graphics "evangelist." He has served as president of Machover Associates Corp (MAC), a computer graphics...

Katherine L. Morse

Developer of a compiler and operating system kernel for a neural network subprocessor, Morse has worked continually in computing since taking her first paid programming job at age 17, the summer after...