Per Brinch Hansen

A noted pioneer of concurrent programming and operating systems (kernels), Brinch Hansen coined the then-Danish word for computer: Datamat (English: datamaton). In the 1960s, Brinch Hansen worked at the Danish computer company...

Richard Lawrence Garwin

Co-developer of laser printers and touchscreen monitors for IBM in the 1970s, Garwin was an American physicist and IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New...

Gordon Kidd Teal

Developer of the first silicon transistor, Teal transformed the semiconductor industry. Born in South Dallas, Texas, he was Valedictorian at the Bryan Street High School in Dallas, Texas. He earned his undergraduate...

Steve Newberry

CEO of LAM Research, a leader in the manufacturing of semiconductors, Newberry has served in that role at the forefront of the semiconductor industry.

Matthias Ettrich

Founder of the LyX project, an open source document processor popular among technical authors and scientists for its advanced mathematical modes, Ettrich is a German computer scientist and software engineer known for...

Dean Eric Eastman

World-renowned expert on the electronic properties of materials and spectroscopy, Eastman is an American solid-state physicist and IBM manager. He conducted important research in the field of condensed matter physics, surface science,...

Abraham Lempel

One of the fathers of the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms, Lempel studied at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and received B.Sc. in 1963, M.Sc. in 1965, and D.Sc....

Martin P. Nally

Leader of the architecture, design, and development of WebSphere Studio, which evolved into Rational Application Developer, Nally was named an IBM Fellow in 2007 and has served as Vice President and Chief...

Joel McCormack

Key software designer at NCR, McCormack designed the NCR Corporation version of the p-code machine, a kind of stack machine popular in the 1970s as the preferred way to implement new computing...

Burton J. Smith

Primary architect of the Denelcor Heterogeneous Element Processor (HEP), Smith was a pioneering computer architect who served as a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. He earned a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of...

Renato Recio

Founding engineer and author of several IO and Network industry standards that have dramatically simplified the way virtualized data centers operate, Recio is a 2011 IBM Fellow—the highest honor a scientist, engineer,...

Paul Levine

Producer of Telco central office-based voice mail, Levine has served as an Instructor at the Boston University School of Management and a member of the ITEC faculty, and as a Venture Partner...

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...

Ray Harishankar

Significant contributor to IBM's leadership position in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), reusable asset-based development approaches leveraging SOA, and in the creation of highly reusable IT assets, Harishankar has served as an IBM...

Stephen Cole Kleene

American mathematician who helped lay the foundations for theoretical computer science, Kleene was best known as a founder of the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory. One of many distinguished...

Peter Norton

Creator of Norton Utilities, Norton is recognized as a pioneer in DOS-based utilities software. Before discovering microcomputers, Norton spent a dozen years working on mainframes and minicomputers for companies including Boeing and Jet...

Clifford Hugh Dowker

Developer of the Dowker notation, a simple way of describing knots suitable for computers, Dowker was a topologist also known for his contributions in point-set topology, category theory, sheaf theory, and knot...

Charles Geschke

Co-founder of Adobe Systems, Geschke transformed document production and launched the desktop publishing industry. Prior to co-founding Adobe, Geschke and Warnock worked at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Geschke had started there...

William (Bill) Millard

Considered the "father" of modern computer retailing, Millard founded IMS Associates, makers of the IMSAI series of computers, and the electronics retailer ComputerLand. Millard worked for IBM and, later, as the head...

Nicholas (Nick) M. Donofrio

Leader of IBM's technology and innovation strategies, Donofrio served as Executive Vice President of Innovation and Technology at IBM from 1997 until his retirement in October 2008. Born in Beacon, New York,...