Edward J. McCluskey

Pioneer of digital systems design and synthesis for over five decades, McCluskey is known for co-developing the Quine-McCluskey method of Boolean function minimization. Professor McCluskey worked on electronic switching systems at the Bell...

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...

Daniel D. McCracken

Author of "A Guide to Fortran Programming" (Wiley, 1961) and its successors — the standard textbooks on that language for over two decades — McCracken was one of computing's most prolific educators....

Bradley Joseph Horowitz

Vice President of Streams, Photos and Sharing at Google and co-founder and CTO of Virage, Inc., Horowitz is an American entrepreneur and internet executive. He received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science...

Eugene (Gene) L. Delves

Co-founder of the organization known today as Accenture, Delves was one of five men whose 1954 efforts marked the first successful installation and use of a computer in the industry. In 1954,...

Jean David Ichbiah

Chief designer of the Ada programming language, Ichbiah was a French-born computer scientist who led the design of Ada (from 1977–1983), a general-purpose, strongly typed programming language with certified validated compilers. At...

Arthur Rock

A pioneering Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Rock was an early investor in major firms including Intel, Apple Computer, Scientific Data Systems, and Teledyne. Rock graduated with a Bachelor's degree in business administration from...

Jay Wright Forrester

Founder of System Dynamics, Forrester was also a pioneer computer engineer and systems scientist whose invention of magnetic core memory transformed computing. Forrester was born on July 14, 1918, on a cattle ranch...

Victor (Vic) Hayes

Known as the "Father of Wi-Fi," Hayes co-established and chaired the IEEE 802.11 Standards Working Group for Wireless Local Area Networks. Born in Surabaya, Dutch East Indies, he held a BSEE and...

Justin Rattner

Visionary of the Department of Energy ASCI Red System, the first computer to sustain one trillion operations per second (one teraFLOPS) and the fastest computer in the world between 1996 and 2000,...

Robert (Bob) J. Frankenberg

Leader of the revival of HP's personal computer unit, Frankenberg is an American computer engineer and business executive. He spent much of his career at Hewlett-Packard (HP), starting there in 1969. While...

Alan Cooper

Inventor of Visual Basic, Cooper is sometimes called "the father of Visual Basic," although much of the work on Visual Basic was done by Microsoft's internal development group. Cooper was the leading...

Daniel Henry Holms Ingalls, Jr.

Inventor of BitBlit, the general-purpose graphical operation underlying most bitmap graphics systems, Ingalls is a pioneer of object-oriented computer programming and the principal architect, designer, and implementor of five generations of Smalltalk...

Per Brinch Hansen

A noted pioneer of concurrent programming and operating systems (kernels), Brinch Hansen coined the then-Danish word for computer: Datamat (English: datamaton). In the 1960s, Brinch Hansen worked at the Danish computer company...

Richard E. Crandall

Developer of the irrational base discrete weighted transform, an important method of finding very large primes, Crandall made significant contributions to computational number theory. He served, at various times, as Chief Scientist...

Benjamin B. Bederson

One of the principal leaders in the field of human-computer interaction, Bederson has been recognized through his selection to the Association for Computing Machinery's CHI Academy, an honorary group of individuals who...

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...

Herbert Reuben Grosch

Formulator of Grosch's Law, the landmark aphorism about computer economy and speed, Grosch was one of the earliest and most colorful figures in computer science. Born in Canada, he moved to the United...

Martin David Davis

Known for his work on Hilbert's tenth problem and as co-inventor of the Davis-Putnam and DPLL algorithms, Davis is an American mathematician. Born in New York City, he grew up in the...

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...