Jonathan Bruce Postel

A significant contributor to the development of the Internet, Postel was involved in early work on the ARPANET while at UCLA. He later moved to the Information Sciences Institute at the University...

William Aspray

Noted IT historian and professor of computer sciences, Aspray has served in senior management positions with the Charles Babbage Institute, Computing Research Association, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He...

Isaac L Auerbach

Founder of Auerbach Associates and publisher of the influential Auerbach Reports on computer issues, Auerbach was a leading figure in the information processing industry. Isaac Auerbach earned a BS at Drexel University in...

Susan L. Graham

Co-builder of the Berkeley Pascal system and the widely used program profiling tool Gprof, Graham is an American computer scientist who has served as the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the Computer...

Jean E. Sammet

Developer of FORMAC, the first widely used computer language for symbolic manipulation of mathematical formulas, Sammet spent 27 years at IBM where she created it. She received her B.A. in Math from Mount...

Richard (Rick) L. Crandall

Founder of Comshare, Inc., a pioneer of computer timesharing and decision support software, Crandall is recognized as a pioneer in the Software Services Industry. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering, a...

Bruce Gilchrist

Co-inventor of a fast adder incorporating a speed-up technique for asynchronous adders — a design later used in the Philco TRANSAC S-2000 (1957), the first commercial transistorized computer — Gilchrist also served...

Brenda L. Dietrich

Leader of the emerging technologies team in the IBM Watson group, Dietrich has brought a business perspective to projects at the forefront of applied mathematics. She has served as Vice President of...

James W. Cortada

Noted IT historian and author, Cortada is also the founder and a board member of the IT History Society. Cortada joined IBM in 1974 as a salesman, and held a variety of sales...

David Neil Laurence Levy

Developer of the Chess module for the TI-99/4A Home Computer Project in collaboration with Texas Instruments, Levy is a Scottish International Master of chess, a businessman noted for his involvement with computer...

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...

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...

Cleve Barry Moler

Inventor of MATLAB, a numerical computing package, Moler is an American mathematician and computer programmer specializing in numerical analysis. In the mid to late 1970s, he was one of the authors of...

Vinton (Vint) Gray Cerf

Known as a "father of the Internet," Cerf is an American computer scientist whose contributions have been recognized with the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom,...

Peter James Denning

Pioneer of virtual memory systems and co-founder of CSNET, Denning is best known for discovering the locality principle and designing the working set model for program behavior. He took an early interest in...

Gideon Gartner

Founder of Gartner Group (now Gartner, Inc.), Gartner built one of the most influential IT research and advisory firms in the world. IT "advisory" firms are distinct from consultancies, in that they provide...

Wesley W. Chu

Pioneer researcher in file allocation and directory design for distributed databases, Chu's work aided the design and development of domain name servers and current cloud computing systems. He has served as a...

Brewster Kahle

Founder of the Internet Archive and creator of WAIS and Alexa Internet, Kahle has been a pioneering force in digital access and preservation. He was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity....

Maxwell (Max) Herman Alexander Newman

Head of the department that built the world's first electronic stored-program digital computer, Newman was a British mathematician and codebreaker born in Chelsea, London, England. He attended Goodrich Road School, then City...

Ronald (Ron) Lewis Graham

Credited by the American Mathematical Society as "one of the principal architects of the rapid development worldwide of discrete mathematics in recent years," Graham was also a leading figure in scheduling theory,...