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...

Robert John Lansdown

A pioneer of the use of computers for architecture and other creative activities, and one of the founders of the Computer Arts Society, Lansdown was also a British computer graphics polymath and...

Fritz Joachim Weyl

Developer of the U.S. government Office of Naval Research (ONR) Computer in 1946, Weyl was a renowned mathematician who significantly contributed to research in mathematics during his lifetime and came to be...

Margaret R. Fox

Member of the technical staff of the Electronic Computer Laboratory at the National Bureau of Standards, Fox graduated from Wisconsin State College in 1940 and joined the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1943,...

A.J. Han Vinck

Recipient of the IEEE ISPLC2006 Achievement award for his contributions to Power Line Communications, Vinck has also held a chair for Digital Communications at the Institute for Experimental Mathematics at the University...

Adele Goldberg

Co-developer of the programming language Smalltalk-80 and various concepts related to object-oriented programming, Goldberg conducted this work as a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the 1970s. She...

George Glaser

President of AFIPS and active leader across many professional organizations, Glaser was noted for his service to the information technology profession as a whole, through his leadership, enthusiastic support, and tireless work...

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...

Robin Keith Saxby

Guided ARM Holdings to worldwide dominance in embedded applications as its first CEO, Saxby built the Cambridge-based company into "a global giant" with offices round the world. Born in Derbyshire, in central England,...

Brent Hailpern

Recipient of IBM's Outstanding Innovation Award for his contributions to the IBM NetVista product, Hailpern worked on and managed various projects at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center relating to issues...

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...

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...

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...

Robert (Bob) M. Frankston

Co-creator of VisiCalc and co-founder of Software Arts, Frankston received numerous honors and awards for his work. He has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1994) "for the...

Heinz Zemanek

Austrian computer pioneer who built the first European all-transistor computer in 1955, Zemanek went on to found the IBM Laboratory Vienna in 1961. The IBM Laboratory Vienna (later known colloquially as the Vienna...

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....