Elizabeth (Jake) Jocelyn Feinler

Leader of the group that became the overall naming authority of the Internet, Feinler directed the Network Information Systems Center at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) from 1972 until 1989. Her group...

Michael (Mike) James Massimino

Researcher on human operator control of space robotics systems resulting in two patents, and developer of laptop computer displays to assist operators of the Space Shuttle remote manipulator system, Massimino is an...

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...

Willem Louis van der Poel (aka William)

Designer of the ZEBRA computer, van der Poel was a pioneering Dutch computer scientist who also contributed to Algol 68 and co-built a Braille translator. In 1950 he obtained an engineering degree...

John Logie Baird

Inventor of the first publicly demonstrated television system, Baird was also credited with creating the world's first fully electronic colour television tube. Although Baird's electromechanical system was eventually displaced by purely electronic...

David (Dave) A. Duffield

Co-founder of PeopleSoft, where PeopleSoft V1 (late 1980s) was the first fully integrated, robust client–server HRMS application suite, Duffield is an American businessman in the software industry. He has also served as...

Erik Selberg

Creator of MetaCrawler, one of the first Web meta-search engines, Selberg is an American software developer. Selberg attended college at Carnegie Mellon University in 1989. In 1993, he graduated with a double...

Jack Haverty

Co-designer of the original email mechanism and co-creator of the initial Internet, Haverty studied at MIT and continued there as a staff member of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, where he...

William Reddington Hewlett

Co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Company, Hewlett was an engineer who built one of the world's most influential technology companies alongside David Packard. He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, but moved to Oak...

Theodor (Ted) Holm Nelson

Inventor of hypertext and hypermedia, Nelson coined both terms in 1963 and published them in 1965. An American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology, he is also credited with the first...

David R. Karger

Developer of the fastest minimum spanning tree algorithm to date, Karger is also known for Karger's algorithm, a Monte Carlo method to compute the minimum cut of a connected graph. His work...

Roger Michael Needham

Head of Cambridge University Computing Laboratory and designer of influential cryptography and security systems, Needham was a major figure in computer science. A Mathematics and Philosophy graduate from Cambridge University in the...

Morton (Mort) H. Meyerson

Founding Chief Executive of EDS, Meyerson began his business career in 1963 at Bell Helicopter. In 1966, he joined Electronic Data Systems, Inc. as a systems engineer trainee, ultimately becoming President and...

Stephen Arthur Cook

Known for profoundly advancing our understanding of the complexity of computation, Cook is an American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician who made major contributions to the fields of complexity theory and proof complexity....

Anthony James Barr

In 1962-63, Tony Barr, as a physics graduate student, wrote a general analysis of variance program and a multiple regression program to run on the IBM1410 computer. These programs were used...

Robert Endre Tarjan

Renowned for fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures, Tarjan is an American computer scientist. He discovered several important graph algorithms, including Tarjan's off-line least common ancestors...

Barry James Mailous

One of the editors of the original Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68, Mailous also served as a contributing editor to the Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68. In...

Francis (Frank) E. Hamilton

Responsible for the primary organization, design, and construction of the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Mark I) and the IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC), Hamilton was a pivotal figure in early computing....

Leonard Max Adleman

Co-inventor of the RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) cryptosystem, Adleman is a theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. RSA is in widespread use in...

Paul J. Severino

Designer of interface boards for the PDP-11 at Digital Equipment Corporation, Severino began his career there after receiving his B.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1969, subsequently serving as...