Shikoh Gitau

The first African to win the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, Gitau received that honor at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, recognized for her inventions and thesis work. A Kenyan...

Philipp Matthäus Hahn

Designer of the first functional mechanical calculator, Hahn was born on 25th of November, 1739 in Scharnhausen, Esslingen, as the second of ten children in a family of a pastor. From 1749...

George Bernard Dantzig

Known for developing the simplex algorithm for solving linear programming problems, Dantzig was a major contributor in operations research, computer science, and statistics. He also worked with linear programming, some years after...

Evan Williams

Co-founder of Twitter, Williams also founded several other Internet companies, including Pyra Labs (creator of weblog-authoring software Blogger), and has served as CEO of Twitter.

Wayne D. Pickette

Conceptualized as the design for putting a computer on a chip, Pickette's work is arguably one of the greatest technological advances of the Twentieth Century. A self-taught childhood electronics prodigy, he recalled...

Paul V. Mockapetris

Inventor of the Domain Name System, Mockapetris is sometimes acknowledged, together with Jon Postel, as the creator of DNS. Mockapetris received his Bachelor's Degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute...

Amir Pnueli

Pioneer of temporal logic in computing science, Pnueli made a major breakthrough in the verification and certification of concurrent and reactive systems with his landmark 1977 paper "The Temporal Logic of Programs,"...

Jack St. Clair Kilby

Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 2000 for his invention of the integrated circuit, Kilby was also the inventor of the handheld calculator and thermal printer.

Sheryl Kara Sandberg

Chief Operating Officer of Facebook beginning in 2008, Sandberg was also the youngest woman on Fortune Magazine's "50 Most Powerful Women in Business" list in 2007. She had previously served as Vice...

David M. Kelley

One of America's leading design innovators, Kelley is founder, Chairman, and managing partner of the design firm IDEO and a Professor at Stanford University. He has been recognized as one of America's...

Vern Paxson

Author of the flex lexical analyzer and the Bro intrusion detection system, Paxson has served as Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also worked as...

Michael R Williams

A pioneer in the history of computing who is — unusually — a computer scientist himself, Williams has published books and articles, taught, curated museum exhibits, and promoted professional activity in the...

Edward Seidel

Co-founder of the Cactus Framework, an open-source, problem-solving environment designed for scientists and engineers, Seidel is a career computer scientist and physicist recognized for a number of awards for his work. His...

Steven B. Lipner

Responsible for defining, supporting, and applying Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) process, Lipner has had forty years' experience in cybersecurity and has been named as inventor on twelve U.S. patents and two...

Michael Stern Hart

Inventor of the electronic book (or e-book) and founder of Project Gutenberg, Hart made e-books freely available via the Internet. An American author and inventor, he attended the University of Illinois, graduating...

Kenneth (Ken) R. Jacobs

Known as "Dr. DBA" to thousands of Oracle database administrators, Jacobs has been a prominent spokesperson for Oracle and an advocate inside the company for customers' interests. Jacobs joined Oracle in July 1981...

Alfred Zalmon Spector

Responsible for IBM software product families such as CICS, WebSphere, and MQSeries, Spector is an American computer scientist and research manager. Spector received his Bachelor of Arts degree in applied Mathematics from Harvard...

D. (Jim) James Guzy, Sr.

An Angel Investor of numerous computer corporations, Guzy has served as an Intel Board member for 38 years. He has been a Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of SRC Computers, LLC...

Thomas John Watson, Jr.

CEO of IBM during its growth years from 1952 to 1971, Watson was the eldest son of Thomas J. Watson, IBM's first president. He was listed as one of TIME Magazine's 100...

Charlie Bass

Co-founder of Ungermann-Bass (UB), the first large networking company independent of any computer manufacturer, Bass helped commercialize Ethernet, oversaw a successful IPO, and then saw the company purchased by Tandem Computers. In...