David E. Liddle

Leader of the development of the groundbreaking Xerox Star computer system, Liddle is credited with establishing the precedent-setting design for graphical user interfaces. He arrived at Xerox PARC in time to help with...

Charbel Farhat

Leader of the development of the Finite Element Tearing and Interconnecting (FETI) method for the scalable solution of large-scale systems of equations on massively parallel processors, Farhat is the Vivian Church Hoff...

Andrew Mason

Developer of Groupon, a website that sells deals to local businesses, Mason grew up in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, and graduated from Mt. Lebanon High School in 1999. He...

Carol Shaw

Best known for creating River Raid (1982), the vertically scrolling shooter for the Atari 2600 released through Activision, Shaw is regarded as a pioneering figure in video game design. She joined Atari,...

James Herbert Pomerene

Co-inventor and developer of the IAS machine and IBM 7030 and Harvest computers, Pomerene joined the Electronic Computer Project at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey under the...

Ralph E. Griswold

Co-creator of SNOBOL and pioneer in string processing languages, Griswold made lasting contributions to non-numerical computation. He worked for Bell Labs in 1962, where he studied ideas for non-numerical computation. SNOBOL was...

David Yang

Founder and chairman of ABBYY, Yang was born in 1968 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, to a Chinese father and Armenian mother, both physicists. He spent his first 17 years in Armenia before...

Anil K. Jain

Internationally recognized for contributions to pattern recognition, computer vision, and biometric recognition, Jain has served as a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Michigan State University...

David (Kitping) K. Lam

Co-inventor of a plasma-produced solid lubricant patented under the title "Fluorine Plasma Synthesis for Carbon Monofluoride," Lam is also the founder of Lam Research Corporation. He has served as Chairman of Multibeam...

Cuthbert Corwin Hurd

Pioneer of IBM's development of general-purpose computers, Hurd made contributions that helped transform scientific computing. In 1947 Hurd worked for Union Carbide as a mathematician at the United States Atomic Energy Commission facility...

Jeffrey (Jeff) M. Nick

Major role player in setting technical direction for EMC Corporation's M&A activities in the areas of Cloud computing, software-defined data center, and data analytics, Nick has served as Senior Vice President and...

Victor M. Glushkov

Founding father of information technology in the Soviet Union and one of the founders of Cybernetics, Glushkov made significant contributions to the theory of automata. Victor was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR, in...

Alan Mathison Turing

The mathematical logician Alan Mathison Turing OBE (1912-1954) contributed to logic, mathematics, cryptanalysis, philosophy, mathematical biology, and formatively to computer science, Artificial Intelligence, cognitive science, and the computational study of biological growth. Turing...

Gladys West

Recognized for her contributions to mathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth, West was an African American mathematician whose work on satellite geodesy models was later incorporated into the Global Positioning...

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...

Curt L. Cotner

Designer and developer of many key features of DB2 for z/OS, Cotner has served as an IBM Fellow and VP/CTO for IBM Data Management. In that role, he held technical and management...

Farida Bedwei

Co-founder of Logiciel, a Ghanaian fin-tech company, Bedwei is a software engineer known for her expertise in software architecture and the deployment of mobile services for banking applications. She built both mobile...

Gregg M. Townsend

Implementer of noteworthy aspects of the Icon runtime system and developer of the Arizona webcam, Townsend worked at the University of Arizona for a total of 36 years, retiring in 2009, but...

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...

Ramesh Chandra Jain

Developer of some of the early visual information retrieval systems, Jain is also the founder of IEEE Multimedia and the company Virage. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree from Nagpur University, Nagpur,...