Oliver Selfridge

An innovator in early computer science and artificial intelligence, Selfridge helped shape the foundations of machine learning and AI. Credited with coining the term "intelligent agents" for software programs capable of observing and...

Daniel Meyer

Founder of Southwest Technical Products Corporation (SWTPC), Meyer introduced kits for the AC-30 Cassette Interface data storage and the PR-40 printer. He was born in New Braunfels, Texas and raised in San...

Christopher (Chris) R. Johnson

Founder of the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) research group, which grew into the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI Institute), Johnson has served as a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at...

Regina Honu

Founder of Soronko Academy, the first coding and human-centered design school for children and young adults in West Africa, Honu was a Ghanaian social entrepreneur and software developer who also established Soronko...

Phil Farrand

Creator of Finale, an award-winning, high-end desktop publishing music notation software package, Farrand is an American computer programmer, consultant, webmaster, and author. He is also known for his Nitpicker's Guides, in which...

William Oughtred

Credited as the inventor of the slide rule in 1622, Oughtred was the first to use two logarithmic scales sliding by one another to perform direct multiplication and division. Oughtred also introduced the...

Maxwell (Max) Herman Alexander Newman

Head of the department that built the world's first electronic stored-program digital computer, Newman was a British mathematician and codebreaker born in Chelsea, London, England. He attended Goodrich Road School, then City...

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...

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...

Marshall T. Rose

A network protocol and software engineer who contributed extensively to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Rose has played a central role in shaping the Internet and network applications. His work on...

Tan Tin Wee

Founder of the multilingual Internet domain name system (IDN), Tan is recognized as a key mover in the internationalisation of the Internet domain naming system, allowing online addresses to accommodate more than...

Mark Eugene Russinovich

Co-developer of the website sysinternals.com, Russinovich wrote and published dozens of popular Windows administration and diagnostic utilities including Autoruns, Filemon, and RootkitRevealer. He has served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Microsoft...

Martin A. Goetz

Software pioneer and holder of the first software patent, Goetz played a foundational role in defining software as a standalone commercial product. In the early 1960s, the status of software as a standalone...

Yoky Matsuoka

A 2007 MacArthur Fellow, Matsuoka founded Yohana, an independent subsidiary of Panasonic, and co-founded Google X. Her research at the University of Washington combined neuroscience and robotics, a field she termed neurobotics,...

Peter Karmanos, Jr.

Co-founder of Compuware, a worldwide leader in software technology, Karmanos launched the company in 1973 with two partners, Thomas Thewes and Allen Cutting. Born into a Greek immigrant family, he graduated from...

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...

Charles Eric Leiserson

Inventor of the fat-tree interconnection network, a hardware-universal interconnection network used in many supercomputers, Leiserson is also a pioneer developer of VLSI theory. He designed the fat-tree for the Connection Machine CM5,...

Susan Kare

Creator of many of the interface elements for the Apple Macintosh, Kare is an artist and graphic designer whose iconic work includes the Lasso, the Grabber, and the Paint Bucket icons, and...

Daniel Karrenberg

Pioneer of the Internet in Europe, Karrenberg is a computer scientist who has focused on inventing, designing, and implementing Internet-related systems, especially those that collect and analyze data about the Internet itself....

Enrico Fermi

Inventor of the FERMIAC, an analog computer that used the Monte Carlo Method to study neutron transport through fissionable materials, Fermi was an Italian-born, naturalized American physicist particularly known for his work...