William (Bill) Thomas Tutte

A foundational figure in combinatorics and graph theory, Tutte performed significant work in fields with many applications in computer science, and is credited with helping create graph theory in its modern form....

Aaron Hillel Swartz

Co-developer of RSS, Creative Commons, web.py, and Reddit, Swartz was an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer, and Internet activist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Susan and Robert...

Eleanor Francis Helin

Principal investigator of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program, Helin was one of the most prolific discoverers of minor planets in the history of astronomy. Over her career, she...

Aaron F. Bobick

Expert in using computer vision techniques to recognize people, Bobick's research has been reported by the BBC News and ABC News. His research has been in the field of Artificial Intelligence and...

Dudley Allen Buck

Inventor of the cryotron, a superconductive computer component operated in liquid helium at a temperature near absolute zero, Buck is best known for this breakthrough in the size of electronic computer elements....

James (J.H.) Hardy Wilkinson

A prominent researcher in numerical analysis to facilitate the use of the high-speed digital computer, Wilkinson received the Turing Award in 1970 "for his research in numerical analysis to facilitate the use...

Fred J Baker

Active in the networking and communications industry, Baker chaired a number of IETF working groups, including Bridge MIB, DS1/DS3 MIB, ISDN MIB, PPP Extensions, IEPREP, and IPv6 Operations. He served on the...

Thomas E. Osborne

Developer of the architecture for the HP9100A, an early computer, Osborne joined Hewlett-Packard in 1965 as a consultant with that responsibility. Prior to joining HP, he had designed data processing equipment, then...

Susan T. Dumais

Researcher whose work at Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies) into the vocabulary problem in information retrieval led to the invention of Latent Semantic Indexing, Dumais has served as a Principal Researcher in the...

David (Dave) A. Duffield

Co-founder of PeopleSoft, where PeopleSoft V1 (late 1980s) was the first fully integrated, robust client–server HRMS application suite, Duffield is an American businessman in the software industry. He has also served as...

Albert Einstein

1921 Nobel Prize winner in Physics for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect, Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution...

Michael (Mike) A. McNeilly

Holder of the first patent for infrared deposition of silicon and other materials — a breakthrough that revolutionized deposition quality and produced slip-free, dislocation-free epi — McNeilly is a Silicon Valley pioneer...

Edward Fredkin

A pioneer of reversible computing and cellular automata, Fredkin was also an early pioneer of digital physics, later using the term digital philosophy (DP) to describe his work. While Konrad Zuse's book,...

David L. Harame

Lead developer of the world's first successful silicon germanium (SiGe) technology for analog and communications circuits, Harame has served as a Director at IBM, an IBM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and a...

David F. Redmiles

Author of over 100 research publications integrating the areas of software engineering, human-computer interaction, and computer-supported cooperative work, Redmiles has served as a Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University...

Rama Chellappa

Pioneer researcher in image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition, Chellappa has served as a Minta Martin Professor of Engineering (from 2005) and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and...

Michael Franz

Pioneer in mobile code and dynamic compilation, Franz led the Secure Systems and Languages Laboratory at the University of California, Irvine — one of the top research teams on dynamic compilation, virtual...

Stephen Robertson

Contributor to the Microsoft search engine Bing, Robertson is a British computer scientist well known for his work on information retrieval. After completing his undergraduate degree in mathematics at Cambridge University, he...

Samuel Morland

Credited with early developments in relation to computing, hydraulics and steam power, Morland was a notable English academic, diplomat, spy, inventor and mathematician of the 17th century. He was educated at Winchester...

Tyrone Grandison

Leader of the IBM team that pioneered research in Relational Database Privacy, Grandison demonstrated that privacy protection was possible at the database level and that both security and privacy controls can exist...