John Vernon Pavlik

Originator of the concept of the Three Stages of Online News Content, which explains the source of online news content, Pavlik is an American academic and author who has published on new...

George Ciprian Necula

Known for his influential Ph.D. thesis first describing proof-carrying code, Necula completed his doctorate at Carnegie Mellon University under programming languages researcher Peter Lee. Originally from Baia Mare, Romania, he attended the...

Arnold Reitsakas

Responsible for the computer age in Estonia, Reitsakas started as a resident of Tallinn in 1952. He graduated from the 10th School of the Leningrad Institute of Communications in 1957. Reitsakas was...

John Adrian Shepherd-Barron

Pioneer in the development of the cash machine (ATM), Shepherd-Barron joined De La Rue Instruments in the 1960s and in 1965 came up with the concept of a self-service machine that would...

Paul Gardener Allen

Co-founder of Microsoft, Allen launched the company with Bill Gates in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1975, and began marketing a BASIC programming language interpreter. In 1980, after promising to deliver IBM a...

Yogen Dalal

Member of the original Star and Ethernet development teams at Xerox, Dalal is also a co-author of the TCP Specification, whose team's pioneering work on the design of the TCP protocol has...

Michael (Mike) James Massimino

Researcher on human operator control of space robotics systems resulting in two patents, and developer of laptop computer displays to assist operators of the Space Shuttle remote manipulator system, Massimino is an...

James Goodnight

CEO of SAS Institute, Goodnight co-founded the company and has remained active in developing its products. SAS Institute puts a quarter of its profits into research & development and develops business intelligence...

Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr.

Manager of the development of OS/360, Brooks was also known for writing candidly about the process in his seminal book *The Mythical Man-Month*. "It is a very humbling experience to make a...

Yoelle Maarek

The first engineering hire of Google Israel, Maarek established the company's development center in Haifa in 2006 and led the team that launched Google Suggest worldwide on the Google homepage in 2008....

Jack P. Ruina

Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) from 1961 to 1963, during which the idea of an information processing program was initiated, Ruina held a position that proved foundational to what...

Louis N. Ridenour

Co-patentee of an early hybrid optical-magnetic information storage system, Ridenour also served as Vice President of Lockheed and as an advisor to President Eisenhower. In 1941 he became the assistant director of...

Jonathan (Joe) Betts-LaCroix

Co-creator of the world's smallest Windows PC, Betts-LaCroix co-founded OQO Corporation, which the Guinness World Records credited with creating that device. He is also an American scientist and entrepreneur known for his...

Vinton (Vint) Gray Cerf

Known as a "father of the Internet," Cerf is an American computer scientist whose contributions have been recognized with the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom,...

Norbert Wiener

Founder of cybernetics, Wiener pioneered the study of stochastic and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems. Cybernetics, the field he founded, formalized the notion of...

Aaron Marcus

Pioneer in computer-based design, Marcus founded Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A) in 1982, one of the first independent, computer-based design firms in the world. An American user-interface and information-visualization designer, as well...

Gregory John Chaitin

One of the founders of algorithmic information theory and a key figure in metamathematics, Chaitin is an Argentine-American mathematician and computer scientist born in Argentina. Beginning in the late 1960s, he made...

Rudolf Hell

Inventor of the Hellschreiber, an early forerunner to the fax machine, Hell was a German engineer born in Eggmühl, Germany, who studied electrical engineering in Munich from 1919 to 1923. While there...

Morton (Mort) H. Meyerson

Founding Chief Executive of EDS, Meyerson began his business career in 1963 at Bell Helicopter. In 1966, he joined Electronic Data Systems, Inc. as a systems engineer trainee, ultimately becoming President and...

Christopher (Chris) A. Welty

One of the developers of Watson, the IBM artificially intelligent computer system that defeated the best players on the American game show Jeopardy!, Welty is an American computer scientist best known for...