Rolf Skår

Researcher on the second minicomputer in the world based on integrated circuits, Skår was also a co-founder of Norsk Data and served as CEO of the Norwegian Space Centre from 1997 to...

Patrick Henry Winston

Researcher in machine learning and human intelligence, Winston was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He served as Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997,...

Coraline Ada Ehmke

Creator of the Contributor Covenant and the Post-Meritocracy Manifesto, Ehmke was a leading advocate for codes of conduct in open source projects and communities. She founded the Organization for Ethical Source and...

Pierre Morad Omidyar

Founder and chairman of eBay, Omidyar is a French-born Armenian-Iranian entrepreneur, philanthropist, and economist. Omidyar and his wife Pam are well-known philanthropists who founded Omidyar Network in 2004 in order to expand...

Nathan Rochester

Designer of the IBM 701, the first general-purpose, mass-produced computer, Rochester was also the writer of the first symbolic assembler and a founding participant in the field of artificial intelligence. Nathan Rochester received...

Stan Veit

Founder of Computer Mart of New York, one of the first computer stores in the world, Veit played an important role in the early days of the personal computer industry in the...

Sean Parker

Co-founder of Napster and the first President of Facebook, Parker is an American entrepreneur who also co-founded Plaxo, Causes, and Airtime. As of March 2012, his net worth was estimated to be...

Gene Frantz

Known as the "father of DSP," Frantz is a recognized leader in Digital Signal Processing technology both within Texas Instruments and throughout the industry. His experience started most notably with the launch of...

Wei Yen

Major contributor to the Cydra-5 mini-supercomputer, Yen is a software developer and entrepreneur who has been involved with several companies, including as chairman and founder of AiLive. He and his brother David...

Elaine Surick Oran

Considered a world authority on numerical methods for large-scale simulation of physical systems, Oran pioneered computational technology to solve complex reactive flow problems. Her work unified concepts from science, mathematics, engineering, and...

Nestor Burtnyk

Father of the multimillion-dollar computer animation industry, Burtnyk pioneered animation technology that transformed the field. Born in Ethelbert, Manitoba to Ukrainian immigrants, he began Canada's first major computer graphics research project in...

Azriel Rosenfeld

A leading researcher in the field of computer image analysis — encompassing computer or machine vision and medical imaging — Rosenfeld was a tenured Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Center...

Howard (Ward) G. Cunningham

Programmer and inventor of the wiki, Cunningham started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the website of his software consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham (commonly known by its domain...

Thomas M. Cover

Known for developing the relationship between information theory and statistics, Cover served as past President of the IEEE Information Theory Society and was a Fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics and...

C. Denis Mee

Founder of IBM's Magnetic Recording Institute (MRI), Mee is a key technologist and pioneer in the hard drive industry. He joined IBM in 1962 at Yorktown Heights, NY as a research staff...

Allan Marquand

Builder of a mechanical logical machine that is still extant, Marquand is described as having created "…mills into which the premises are fed and which turn out the conclusions by the revolution...

Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe

Leader of the team that developed atomic force microscopes (AFMs) into fully hardened instruments usable both within IBM and beyond, Wickramasinghe is a distinguished pioneer in the invention and practical uses of...

Corrado Böhm

Known for his contributions to the theory of structured programming, constructive mathematics, combinatory logic, lambda-calculus, and the semantics and implementation of functional programming languages, Böhm was a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus...

Eva Tardos

Recipient of the Fulkerson Prize (1988), the Dantzig Prize (2006), and the IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2019), Tardos is known as a Hungarian mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of...

Peter Harris

Builder of a product that takes existing COBOL programs and produces structured system charts and supporting documentation for program maintenance, Harris also founded ADPAC, a leading software provider to corporations worldwide. While he...