Peter Norton

Creator of Norton Utilities, Norton is recognized as a pioneer in DOS-based utilities software. Before discovering microcomputers, Norton spent a dozen years working on mainframes and minicomputers for companies including Boeing and Jet...

David Yang

Founder and chairman of ABBYY, Yang was born in 1968 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, to a Chinese father and Armenian mother, both physicists. He spent his first 17 years in Armenia before...

Hans Peter Anvin

Distinguished computer programmer, Anvin is a Swedish programmer who has distinguished himself through contributions to Free and open source software projects. Anvin originated SYSLINUX, klibc, Linux Assigned Names and Numbers Authority (LANANA),...

Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum

Author of MINIX, a clone of UNIX for the IBM PC, Tanenbaum wrote the operating system in 1987 to help students and others learn how an operating system worked. In the early 1990s,...

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.

Dan Warmenhoven

Under his leadership, NetApp grew from a start-up to a multibillion-dollar company and a recognized market leader in networked storage. Warmenhoven has served as Executive Chairman of NetApp Inc., as well as...

Walden (Wally) C. Rhines

Supervisor of the development of Texas Instruments' first speech synthesis devices, used in the iconic "Speak & Spell" toy, Rhines is also co-inventor of the GaN blue-violet light emitting diode, now important...

Stephen Wolff

Credited with turning the Internet from a government project into something of scholarly and commercial interest for the rest of the world, Wolff is sometimes called one of the many fathers of...

Chen-Jung (Stan) Shih

Designer and developer of Taiwan's first desktop calculator, Shih is also recognized as the founder and former President of the Acer Group. Born in Lukang Township, Changhua County, Taiwan, he has been...

Nolan Ira Gasser

Chief architect of the Music Genome Project and chief musicologist for Pandora Media, Inc., Gasser is an American composer, pianist, and musicologist whose proprietary musical analysis system underlies the popular Internet radio...

Katherine L. Morse

Developer of a compiler and operating system kernel for a neural network subprocessor, Morse has worked continually in computing since taking her first paid programming job at age 17, the summer after...

William (Bill) Nelson Joy

Founder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems, Joy co-founded the company in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy, Andy Bechtolsheim and Vaughan Pratt, and has served as chief scientist there until...

Randy Cartwright

Creator of Animation Timer, a stopwatch application for Apple iPhones, Cartwright is a veteran Disney animator and filmmaker. Born in Virginia, Cartwright graduated from UCLA in 1974, where he made his student animated...

Tadashi Watanabe

Chief designer of SX-2, the first supercomputer introduced by NEC in 1983, which boasted the world's fastest speed at that time, Watanabe is a Japanese computer engineer widely recognized as a pioneering...

Edward (Ed) E. Iacobucci

Leader of the joint IBM-Microsoft design team that launched the modern era of multi-tasking personal computer operating systems, Iacobucci was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Dr. Guillermo and Costantina Iacobucci. His...

Bernard Galler

American mathematician and computer scientist at the University of Michigan, Galler was involved in the development of large-scale operating systems and computer languages, including the MAD programming language and the Michigan Terminal...

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...

Richard Matthew Stallman

Founder of the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, Stallman also launched the free software movement and was the main author of the GNU General Public License for open...

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

Former CEO of IBM who oversaw the company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956, Watson developed IBM's renowned management style and corporate culture, and turned the company into one...

Robert Louis Nord

Developer of effective methods and practices for software architecture, Nord has served as a senior member of the technical staff at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). His areas of interest include software...