Butler W. Lampson

Developer of the Berkeley Timesharing System for Scientific Data Systems' SDS 940 computer, Lampson was part of Project GENIE at UC Berkeley during the 1960s, where he and Peter Deutsch created that...

Victor Shoup

Co-developer of the Cramer–Shoup cryptosystem, the first efficient asymmetric encryption scheme proven to be secure against adaptive chosen ciphertext attack using standard cryptographic assumptions, Shoup is a computer scientist and mathematician. He...

Marian Croak

Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2022 for her work with voice over IP (VoIP), Croak is an African American engineer whose VoIP-related inventions have shaped modern communications. During...

Charles (Charlie) A. Zraket

Designer of the hardware and software system for the Whirlwind computer that permitted the machine to accept real-time inputs, Zraket made a truly groundbreaking contribution at that time. A pioneer in the...

Robin Keith Saxby

Guided ARM Holdings to worldwide dominance in embedded applications as its first CEO, Saxby built the Cambridge-based company into "a global giant" with offices round the world. Born in Derbyshire, in central England,...

Werner Almesberger

Writer of the code to support Differentiated Services on Linux, Almesberger was an Austrian free software computer programmer and open-source hardware designer mainly known as a hacker of the Linux kernel. Born...

Marcel Joseph Vogel

Inventor of the magnetic coating for the IBM 24" hard disk drive systems still in use, Vogel worked as a research scientist at the IBM San Jose Research Center for 27 years....

Thomas James Perkins

The first General Manager of HP's computer divisions who helped shepherd Hewlett-Packard's entry into the minicomputer business, Perkins was also one of the founders of the leading venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins...

David R. Millen

Director of a User Interface Design Group responsible for the user interface design of advanced business communications systems and exploratory prototype development of advanced speech applications and pen-based interfaces, Millen has also...

John Maurice McClean Pinkerton

Co-designer of England's first business computer, the LEO computer, Pinkerton was a pioneering British computer designer who worked alongside David Caminer to produce the machine for J. Lyons and Co in 1951....

Doulgas Rayner Hartree

English mathematician and physicist, Hartree was most famous for the development of numerical analysis and its application to the Hartree-Fock equations of atomic physics and the construction of the meccano differential analyzer.

David A. Hodges

Co-founder of Berkeley's Competitive Semiconductor Manufacturing Program, Hodges was a noted American electrical engineer and the Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor of Engineering Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley. He...

David H. Crocker

Co-worker on RFC 822, the first standard to describe the syntax of a domain name, Crocker has forty years of work experience in the Internet industry, including early work with DARPA and...

Robert L. Patrick

Designer of the first operating system — a non-stop multi-user batch processing operating system for the IBM 704 — Patrick entered the computer field in 1955. While at Convair, in Ft. Worth,...

Semen Nikolaevich Korsakov

Noted homeopath and early information technology inventor, Korsakov took part in the Napoleonic Wars with the Russian Army from 1812–1814. He later served as an official in the statistics department of the...

Wen-mei Hwu

Noted for his work in CPU microarchitecture and compiler optimization, Hwu completed his Ph.D. research at the University of California, Berkeley under Yale Patt. Their CPU microarchitecture projects, HPS and HPSm, were...

Sergy Brin

Co-founder of Google, Inc., the world's largest Internet company based on its search engine and online advertising technology, Brin built the company alongside Larry Page. Together with Page, they are often referred...

Dabbala (Rej) Rajagopal Reddy

Pioneer of large-scale artificial intelligence systems, Reddy is recognized for demonstrating the practical importance and potential commercial impact of AI technology. One of the early pioneers in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence,...

Ken W. Kolence

Co-founder of Boole & Babbage, the first software product firm in Silicon Valley, Kolence is recognized as a software industry pioneer and computer executive. He received his Master's degree in Math, with...

Clair D. Lake

Co-inventor of IBM's MARK I and co-developer of the first Type 1 Total Printing and Listing Tabulator, Lake was a prolific IBM inventor. In May 1939 he was assigned to serve as...