John Ponzo

A pioneer in technology that promotes end-user interaction through mobility, Web programming, Web application middleware, and software tools, Ponzo has served as IBM's CTO and technical leader of Mobile First, a new...

Michael Saul Dell

Founder and CEO of Dell Inc., Dell is an American business magnate who has been among the richest people in the world, with a net worth of US$13.5 billion in 2010.

John W. Thompson

Chairman of Microsoft, Thompson is also a former vice-president at IBM and former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Symantec Corporation. Thompson has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Symantec...

Diane B. Greene

Co-founder and former CEO of VMware, Greene led the company through an IPO and to a $2B run-rate. Born in Rochester, New York, she was raised in Annapolis, Md. She received her...

Georgy Adelson-Velsky

Co-inventor of the AVL tree and head developer of the Kaissa chess computer, Adelson-Velsky made foundational contributions to both computer science and computer chess. In 1962, Georgy and E.M. Landis published a...

Joseph Smagorinsky

Among the earliest researchers who sought to exploit new methods of numerical weather prediction to extend forecasting past one or two days, Smagorinsky was also the first Director of the National Oceanic...

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...

Michelle Simmons

Named Australian of the Year in January 2018 for her work and dedication to quantum information science, Simmons is an Australian quantum physicist recognized for her foundational contributions to the field of...

Laura Haas

Best known for her work on the Starburst query processor, from which DB2 UDB was developed, Haas became a 2009 IBM Fellow and has served as Director of Computer Science at IBM...

Daniel D. McCracken

Author of "A Guide to Fortran Programming" (Wiley, 1961) and its successors — the standard textbooks on that language for over two decades — McCracken was one of computing's most prolific educators....

Julius Blank

Co-developer of an inexpensive method for manufacturing silicon chips, building them from scratch beginning with the machinery for growing silicon crystals, Blank was a semiconductor pioneer and a member of the so-called...

James H. Clark

Founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape, Clark is recognized as one of Silicon Valley's most prolific entrepreneurs. His research work in computer graphics led to the development of systems for fast rendering...

Charles (Garry) Garrett Betty

Instrumental in the success of the original IBM Personal Computer, Betty received the IBM President's Award in 1982 for his work on the original IBM PC. From 1996 until his death in...

Elmer C. Kubie

Co-founder of Computer Usage Company (CUC), the first independent company to market computer software, Kubie helped transform how software was developed and sold. He and John W. Sheldon founded CUC (1955–1986), sometimes...

Kirk Paul Lafler

Author of *PROC SQL: Beyond the Basics Using SAS* and a data scientist, Lafler is an educator, developer, programmer, and consultant. He teaches as a lecturer and adjunct professor at San Diego...

Steven (Steve) L. Scott

An expert in high performance computer architecture and interconnection networks, Scott has worked as a computer architect at Cray Research, Inc., Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI), and Cray, Inc., and has also served...

Michael Leonidas Dertouzos

Instrumental in defining the World Wide Web Consortium and bringing it to MIT, Dertouzos served as a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer...

John C. Dvorak

Technology columnist and broadcaster, Dvorak has covered the computing industry since the 1980s, when he became a mainstay of a variety of magazines. Dvorak has also served as Vice-President of Mevio (formerly PodShow)...

Van Jacobson

One of the primary contributors to the TCP/IP protocol stack — the technological foundation of today's Internet — Jacobson is renowned for his pioneering achievements in network performance and scaling. He joined...

Samuel Finley Breese Morse

Co-inventor of Morse code and contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system, Morse was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. After attending Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, he went on to Yale...