Paul A. Strassmann

Developer of new methods for evaluating the productivity of computer investments, Strassmann is a Czechoslovakian-born American engineer and business management theorist. He is also noted for his 47-minute 2005 lecture, "Information Management...

Ron Johnson

Pioneer of the Apple Retail Stores and the Genius Bar, Johnson is an American businessman who served as Senior Vice President of Retail Operations at Apple Inc. from January 2000 to November...

Rajiv Gupta

Co-inventor and general manager of Hewlett Packard's E-speak project, Gupta also contributed as one of the developers of the IA-64 architecture. An IIT Kharagpur alumnus, Gupta received his Ph.D. in compiler optimization...

Harold (Bud) Lawson

Creator of the pointer variable in programming languages and contributor to PL/I, Lawson has been active in the field of computing since 1958 with broad international experience in industrial and academic environments....

Qiang Yang

Leader of research teams that won the 2004 and 2005 ACM KDDCUP international competitions on data mining, Yang has served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at...

Rama Chellappa

Pioneer researcher in image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition, Chellappa has served as a Minta Martin Professor of Engineering (from 2005) and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and...

Sophia Bekele

Founder and CEO of CBS International, a private California-based firm engaged in technology transfer to emerging economies, Bekele is a business executive and writer. She founded SbCommunications Network - SbCNet, in Ethiopia. In...

Lawrence (Larry) Joseph Ellison

Founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major enterprise software company, Ellison is an American entrepreneur. As of 2010, he was the sixth richest person in the world with a personal wealth...

Valentin Fyodorovich Turchin

Developer of the Refal programming language, the theory of metasystem transitions, and the notion of supercompilation, Turchin made foundational contributions to computer science and cybernetics. The philosophical core of Turchin's scientific work was...

Oleg Vishnepolsky

Author of IBM's S2 Spreadsheet and of TCP/IP stacks for OS/2 and IBM POS terminals, Vishnepolsky is one of the early Internet technologists, with a 20-plus year track record of technological advancements,...

Hans C. Pfeiffer

Inventor of PREVAIL, IBM's E-Beam Projection approach for Next Generation Lithography, Pfeiffer was a physicist best known for his contributions to the development of electron beam lithography (often abbreviated as e-beam lithography),...

Sally A. Fincher

Researcher known for working on several major computing education projects, such as the Bootstrapping Research in Computer Science Education series and the UK "Sharing Practice" project (http://www.sharingpractice.ac.uk), Fincher has served as Professor...

Frank van Ham

Designer of interactive information visualizations and one of the main researchers behind IBM's Many Eyes project, van Ham has more than a decade of experience in designing and deploying interactive information visualizations....

Werner Zorn

One of the fathers of networking in Germany, Zorn oversaw the first email link between Germany and the US CSNET in August 1984 and the spread of CSNET in Germany, while serving...

Kay Brossard Magleby

Architect of HP's first minicomputer and leader of the team that led HP into the computer industry, Magleby was born in Rigby, Idaho and raised in Pocatello, where he graduated from Pocatello...

Kevin OLeary

Co-developer of SoftKey International, a software publisher of software intended for home audiences, OLeary built the company from a $10,000 seed investment from his mother into a successful CD-ROM distributor. Born in Mount...

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...

Evelyn Boyd Granville

Part of the IBM team responsible for formulating orbit computations and computer procedures for NASA's Projects Vanguard and Mercury, Granville was also one of the first African-American women to receive a Ph.D....

Barry W. Boehm

Known for his many contributions to software engineering, Boehm was an American software engineer and TRW Emeritus Professor of Software Engineering at the Computer Science Department of the University of Southern California.

Robert William Bemer

Best known as "The Father of ASCII," Bemer made foundational contributions to computing through his work on COBOL and the ASCII character codeset. Bemer began his career as an aerodynamicist at Douglas Aircraft...