Myron Kayton

Designer and analyzer of some of the earliest multi-sensor navigation systems, Kayton has spent much of his career working for TRW, NASA, and Litton, followed by running his own practice for 18...

Marc Snir

Leader of the research group responsible for major contributions to the IBM SP scalable parallel system and to the IBM Blue Gene system, Snir is a parallel computing expert whose research and...

Russell Shoemaker Ohl

Developer of the modern solar cell and other important transistor breakthroughs, Ohl was a notable semiconductor researcher prior to the invention of the transistor. He patented the modern solar cell (US Patent...

Gwendowlyn K Bell

Founding President and Co-founder of The Computer Museum and Co-founder of the Computer History Museum, Bell has also served as President of the ACM.

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...

Ramon Llull

A pioneer of computation theory, Llull was a Majorcan writer and philosopher who wrote the first major work of Catalan literature. Recently-surfaced manuscripts show him to have anticipated, by several centuries, prominent...

Edward (Ned) W. Barnholt

Headed the Agilent spin-off from Hewlett-Packard in 1999, Barnholt served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board of Agilent Technologies until his retirement in 2005. Born in New York City,...

Valerie Landau

Developer of a multi-touch interface for chorded text entry, Landau filed two patents with her colleague and mentor Douglas Engelbart. Their most recent patent (filed April 2010) describes a multitouch interface for...

Vipin Kumar

Developer of the isoefficiency metric for evaluating the scalability of parallel algorithms, Kumar holds the William Norris Endowed Chair in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota,...

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...

Victor (Vic) Dale Poor

Co-creator of the architecture that was ultimately implemented in the first successful computer microprocessor, the Intel 8008, Poor was an engineer whose designs of hardware and software led to many innovations. At...

George F. Daly

Co-developer of the IBM 285 and 297 series accounting machines and co-inventor of the automatic multiplying machines known as Types 600 and 601, Daly was a pivotal figure in IBM's early engineering...

King-Sun Fu

A pioneer in the field of pattern recognition and machine intelligence, Fu is considered to be the "father of automatic pattern recognition," and was widely recognized for his extensive contributions to the...

Stanley (Stan) Phillips Frankel

Designer of the CONAC computer, Frankel was an American computer scientist born in Los Angeles who attended graduate school at the University of Rochester, received his PhD in physics from the University...

Florian Brody

Co-inventor of Voyager's Expanded Books, the first electronic books to be read on a laptop, Brody is an international marketing executive and digital media specialist with over 25 years of experience. He...

David J. Kuck

Developer of the Parafrase compiler system (1977), the first testbed for automatic vectorization and related program transformations, Kuck is one of the most influential figures in parallel computing. His influence spans a...

Daniel Teichroew

Pioneer of the ISDOS Project, Teichroew led a pioneering team which attempted to design and implement the Problem Statement Language (PSL) and Problem Statement Analyser (PSA) as a way of automating the...

L. John Rankine

Recognized for advancing international standardization in information technology, Rankine received the Steinmetz Medal in 1997 for this achievement. A graduate of the University of Glasgow with the engineering qualifications of B.Sc. (Eng),...

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...

Michael R Williams

A pioneer in the history of computing who is — unusually — a computer scientist himself, Williams has published books and articles, taught, curated museum exhibits, and promoted professional activity in the...