Randy Bush

Founder of the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), an NSF-supported pro bono effort to help develop and deploy networking technology in projects throughout the world, Bush has worked with the computer industry...

Joe Schoendorf

Board member for industry pioneers such as Authorware/Macromedia, Schoendorf has been active in high-technology industries for 45 years. He holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and has served on...

Tom van Vleck

Co-author of the first email program for the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS), one of the first time-sharing operating systems, van Vleck is an American computer software engineer. He worked at MIT on...

Raymond Samuel Tomlinson

Creator of email, Tomlinson implemented the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to the ARPANet in 1971. Email had previously been sent on other networks such...

Steven R. Hofstein

Co-producer of the first working MOS integrated circuit, Hofstein is a well-known scientist with over 40 patents whose inventions have been chronicled by publications that include the New York Times, Newsweek, Business...

David Andrew Patterson

One of the innovators of Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks (RAID), Patterson is an American computer pioneer and academic. A native of Evergreen Park, Illinois, he attended UCLA, receiving his B.A. in...

Bruce Eckel

Author of "Thinking in Java" and "Thinking in C++", Eckel has written numerous books and articles about computer programming. He has also given frequent lectures and seminars for computer programmers. His best...

Sophie Wilson

Primary designer of the ARM microprocessor, Wilson is a British computer scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). She was born in Leeds, England, and was educated at the University of...

Werner Michael Blumenthal

Chairman and CEO of Unisys, the American global information technology company, Blumenthal is recognized as a leading figure in both the technology industry and public service. He was born in Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Germany,...

Jeffrey (Jeff) Scott Raikes

Senior executive at Microsoft and CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Raikes is credited with driving much of Microsoft's early work in business applications. He joined Microsoft in 1981 as...

Joseph (Rod) Rodney Canion

Co-founder of Compaq Computer Corporation, Canion is a native of Houston who graduated from the University of Houston in 1966 and 1968 with Bachelor's and Master's degrees in electrical engineering with an...

Anthony E. Siegman

Major contributor in the area of unstable resonators, lasers, and optics, Siegman was an electrical engineer and educator whose work on microwave masers and parametric devices evolved into a distinguished research and...

Eric S. Raymond

Programmer and public figurehead for the open source movement, Raymond has maintained projects including the fetchmail mail retrieval agent and gpsd. Other contributions include Emacs editing modes and portions of libraries like...

Elisha Gray

Best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876, Gray is considered by some writers to be the true inventor of the variable resistance telephone, despite losing out to Alexander...

John Murphy

Lead development engineer on ARCNET, the first commercial networking system, Murphy has served as a principal engineer and entrepreneur in the networking industry. ARCNET was originally developed in 1976 to connect groups...

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...

Irving Stoy Reed

Co-inventor of the Reed-Solomon error-detecting and correcting codes, Reed made many contributions to areas of electrical engineering including radar, signal processing, and image processing. He was part of the team that built...

Walter (Jerry) Jeremiah Sanders III

Co-founder and long-time CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Sanders helped establish one of America's most prominent semiconductor manufacturers.

Reshma Saujani

Founder of Girls Who Code, a nonprofit working to increase the number of women in computer science and close the gender employment gap in that field, Saujani built a career spanning law,...

Richard O Mason

Developer of foundational concepts in IT and information ethics, Mason has served as Carr P. Collins Professor of Management Information Sciences at the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist...