Susan T. Dumais

Researcher whose work at Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies) into the vocabulary problem in information retrieval led to the invention of Latent Semantic Indexing, Dumais has served as a Principal Researcher in the...

William (Bill) Nelson Joy

Founder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems, Joy co-founded the company in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy, Andy Bechtolsheim and Vaughan Pratt, and has served as chief scientist there until...

Leonid Genrikhovich Khachiyan

Known for his Ellipsoid Algorithm for linear programming, Khachiyan proved the existence of an efficient way to solve linear programming problems thought to be intractable until that time. His 1979 breakthrough dealt...

Peter John Landin

One of the first to realize that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, Landin made contributions essential to the development of both functional programming and denotational semantics....

Michael (Mike) Lazaridis

Founder of Research In Motion (RIM), Lazaridis co-created and manufactured the BlackBerry wireless handheld device. He has also served as chancellor of the University of Waterloo, and is an Officer of the...

Charles Kuen Kao

Pioneer in the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications, Kao is known as the "Godfather of Broadband," "Father of Fiber Optics," and "Father of Fiber Optic Communications." He was jointly...

Bruce D. Shriver

Worldwide lecturer in the design and implementation of computer hardware and software systems, Shriver has been a computer science academic, consultant, and entrepreneur in the area of high-performance computer systems, publishing extensively...

Edmund Callis Berkeley

Author of the landmark 1949 book Giant Brains, or Machines That Think, Berkeley became famous for describing the principles behind computing machines and surveying the most prominent examples of the time, including...

Ruchir Puri

Leader of high performance design and methodology solutions for all of IBM's enterprise server and system chip designs, Puri has served as an IBM Fellow at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center,...

Christopher Curry

Co-founder of Acorn Computers, Curry has played a significant role in the early development of personal computing in Britain. In April 1966, Curry joined Sinclair Radionics, a company founded by Clive Sinclair in...

Cecil Wayne Ratliff

Creator of the Vulcan database program, Ratliff worked for the Martin Marietta Corporation from 1969 to 1982 in a progression of engineering and managerial positions. He was a member of the NASA...

John Koller

Director of Hardware Marketing at Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA), Koller has been responsible for the management and marketing of the PLAYSTATION 3, PSP (PlayStation Portable), PlayStation 2, PLAYSTATION Network marketing, and...

Jie Liu

Leader of Microsoft Research's Sensing and Energy Research Group (SERG), Liu has conducted fundamental and applied research in sensing and energy-efficient computing with applications in sensor networks, data centers, and mobile computing....

Donald Valentine

Referred to as the "grandfather of Silicon Valley venture capital," Valentine was an American venture capitalist who concentrated mainly on technology companies in the United States. Valentine grew up in the Bronx,...

Frank Moss

Involved in advanced development projects in the areas of networking and distributed computing, Moss is a researcher, technology and biotechnology entrepreneur, academician, and author born in Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended the...

Edson (Ed) de Castro

Designer of the Data General Nova series of computers, de Castro was a computer engineer born in Plainfield, New Jersey, but his family moved to Newton, Massachusetts when he was six, and...

Ralph J. Slutz

ENIAC physicist and computer pioneer, Slutz made critical contributions to two milestones of human computing history. He passed away on November 16, 2005, at Boulder Community Hospital, Colorado, USA, at age 88. Dr....

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...

Kang-Won Lee

Collaborator on wireless networks, mobile computing, network management, and policy technologies research, Lee has been a Research Staff Member at IBM since 2000 and led the Wireless Networking Group at Watson from...

Alvy Ray Smith, III

Co-founder of the animation studio Pixar and creator of the HSV color space, Smith is an American engineer and noted pioneer in computer graphics. In 1965, he received his Bachelor's Degree in...