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....

Doris L. Carver

Researcher of system reengineering, software requirements methodologies, and formal model transformations, Carver directed the Software Engineering Laboratory at LSU, where she published over 80 technical papers and received funding from NSF, NASA,...

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...

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...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

Albert W. Tucker

Developer of the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions, a basic result in non-linear programming, Tucker was a Canadian-born American mathematician who also made important contributions in topology and game theory. Born in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada,...

Steven B. Lipner

Responsible for defining, supporting, and applying Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) process, Lipner has had forty years' experience in cybersecurity and has been named as inventor on twelve U.S. patents and two...

Reiner W. Hartenstein

Pioneer of hardware description languages and reconfigurable computing, Hartenstein is known for the successful hardware design language KARL and its graphical companion language ABL, as well as for configware/software co-compilation techniques. Hartenstein received...

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...

Glenn Ricart

Leader of the team that wrote the code for the first implementation of TCP/IP for the IBM PC, Ricart is recognized as an Internet pioneer who started using one of the original...

L. John Rankine

Recognized for advancing international standardization in information technology, Rankine received the Steinmetz Medal in 1997 for this achievement. A graduate of the University of Glasgow with the engineering qualifications of B.Sc. (Eng),...

Maurice Vincent Wilkes

Designer and builder of EDSAC, the first fully productive stored-program electronic computer, Wilkes transformed the foundations of modern computing. Wilkes designed and constructed EDSAC at Cambridge University as the first fully productive stored-program...

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...

Daniel D. McCracken

Author of "A Guide to Fortran Programming" (Wiley, 1961) and its successors — the standard textbooks on that language for over two decades — McCracken was one of computing's most prolific educators....

Eiichi Goto

Inventor of the parametron computer, Goto made foundational contributions to early computing in Japan. In 1954, when he was a graduate student of Professor Takahasi's Laboratory, Goto invented a majority logic element, the...

Elaine J. Weyuker

Leading researcher on rigorous software testing, including industrial evaluations of the comparative effectiveness and costs of such testing methods, Weyuker is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow (since 2003), and an AT&T...

Paranandi V. S. Rao

Pioneer in speech recognition research, Rao was an active researcher in Computer Science from 1955 onward and made many contributions to the area of computer synthesis and recognition of human speech. Professor Rao...