Leopold Kronecker

A contributor to the concept of continuity and the reconstruction of irrational numbers in real numbers, Kronecker was a German mathematician who worked on number theory and algebra. He was born in...

Lawrence (Larry) A. Rowe

Founding director of the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center (BMRC), Rowe is a computer scientist who served as a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley from...

Jules I. Schwartz

Author of JOVIAL, the first computer software designed for use by the military, Schwartz composed this high-order programming language in 1959 for use in the electronics of military aircraft. Born in Philadelphia, PA,...

Frances (Fran) Elizabeth Allen

Pioneer in optimizing compilers and the first woman to win the Turing Award, Allen was also the first female IBM Fellow. Allen was an expert in the field of optimizing compilers. As a...

Stephen (Steve) Walker

Member of the team that developed ARPAnet, the breakthrough packet switching system that evolved into the Internet, Walker is an American engineer who is nationally recognized for his pioneering work on the...

William (Velvel) Morton Kahan

One of the foremost experts on floating-point computations, Kahan is recognized for his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis and has dedicated himself to "making the world safe for numerical computations." Among his...

Raymond Samuel Tomlinson

Creator of email, Tomlinson implemented the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to the ARPANet in 1971. Email had previously been sent on other networks such...

Gary Mokotoff

Pioneer of the computer software industry for the IBM 1401, Mokotoff is the co-creator of the 1401 Autocoder and sole author of SPS1 and SPS2. He joined IBM in 1959. From 1959 to...

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,...

Marcelli Wein

A member of the pioneer group that initiated Computer Graphics projects at the NRC, developing the use of interactive graphics systems and computer animation, Wein is an international leader in Computer Graphics...

Daniel Singer Bricklin

Co-creator of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program available for personal computers, Bricklin co-founded Software Arts, Inc. with Frankston in 1979 and began selling VisiCalc that same year. He was given a Grace...

Werner Zorn

One of the fathers of networking in Germany, Zorn oversaw the first email link between Germany and the US CSNET in August 1984 and the spread of CSNET in Germany, while serving...

Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes

His experiments with electric oscillations contributed much to the development of wireless telegraphy. Bjerknes was a Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who did much to found the modern practice of weather forecasting. He...

Michael Gleicher

Recognized for developing better ways to synthesize human motions to make animated characters that are better able to communicate, Gleicher has served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at...

Elizabeth (Jake) Jocelyn Feinler

Leader of the group that became the overall naming authority of the Internet, Feinler directed the Network Information Systems Center at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) from 1972 until 1989. Her group...

Tze-Chiang (T. C.) Chen

Major contributor to CMOS miniaturization and DRAM devices with a profound impact on IBM's leadership in CMOS process technology and DRAM manufacturing, Chen has served as an IBM Fellow and the Vice...

David E. Culler

Inventor of the TinyOS operating system, Culler is a computer scientist who has served as Chair of Computer Science and Associate Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of...

Richard Lawrence Grimsdale

Designer and developer of the world's first transistorized computer, the Metrovick 950, Grimsdale was born in Australia, returned to England with his parents, and later studied electrical engineering at Manchester University, graduating...

Albert Hosmer Bowker

Instrumental in the formation of the Stanford University Computer Science department, Bowker was an American educator who shaped academic computing at a pivotal moment. Born in Winchendon, Mass., he grew up in...

T. Capers Jones

Associated with the function point model of cost estimation, Jones is a specialist in software engineering methodologies. He has also collected data on software quality, software risks, and software best practices. He...