Bruce Lindsay

Participant in the development of System R (the first Relational DBMS prototype) and R* (a distributed RDBMS), Lindsay is a recognized expert on many aspects of relational database technology, including distributed DBMS,...

Fujio Masuoka

Inventor of flash memory, Masuoka has carved out a path to a new era whereby consumers are able to carry videos, music, books and data with them wherever they go. Born in...

Brendan Eich

Creator of the JavaScript scripting language, Eich is a computer programmer and chief technology officer of Mozilla Corporation. He worked with MicroUnity Systems Engineering writing microkernel and DSP code, and doing the...

James T. Pendergrass

Instrumental in establishing the naval cryptologic service's pioneering program to develop electronic digital computers, Pendergrass shaped the early development of computing in the U.S. Navy. Born in Bala Cynwyd, PA, he earned...

Lewis Terman

Initiator of the first work in IBM on MOSFET memory, Terman was also involved in the program that led to the first IBM MOSFET memory product. Born in San Francisco, his father was...

Kun-Yao (K.Y.) Lee

Founder of BenQ Corporation, the No. 2 manufacturer of flat-panel computer displays, Lee is also recognized for growing the company to 40 times its former size and building BenQ products into a...

Eric J. Bina

Co-creator of Mosaic and co-founder of Netscape, Bina authored the first version of Mosaic in 1993 along with Marc Andreessen while working as a programmer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications...

Heinrich Rohrer

Co-designer of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), Rohrer shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for this invention; the other half of the Prize was awarded to...

Maria Klawe

Known for her advocacy for women in STEM fields, Klawe served as the fifth president of Harvey Mudd College from 2006 to 2023. Prior to that role, she served as Dean of...

Frances Spence (née Bilas)

One of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer, Spence was born Frances Bilas in Philadelphia in 1922. She attended Temple University but then was awarded a scholarship to Chestnut Hill College,...

Victor Saul Miller

Co-inventor of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), Miller is an American mathematician at the Center for Communications Research (CCR) of the Institute for Defense Analyses in Princeton, New Jersey, US. He received his...

Bernard (Bernie) Goldstein

A leading mergers and acquisitions advisor in the software industry, Goldstein has enjoyed a remarkably diverse career during his more than four decades in the computer industry. He founded and ran many...

Ghavam Shahidi

Chief architect of silicon on insulator (SOI) complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) technology at IBM, Shahidi is an Iranian-American electrical engineer and IBM Fellow. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, all in...

Georgy Adelson-Velsky

Co-inventor of the AVL tree and head developer of the Kaissa chess computer, Adelson-Velsky made foundational contributions to both computer science and computer chess. In 1962, Georgy and E.M. Landis published a...

Victor M. Glushkov

Founding father of information technology in the Soviet Union and one of the founders of Cybernetics, Glushkov made significant contributions to the theory of automata. Victor was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR, in...

James A. Gosling

Credited as the inventor of the Java programming language, Gosling is best known as the father of Java.

Gary Kildall

Creator of CP/M, the first disk-based OS for microcomputers, Kildall built a precursor to MS-DOS. CP/M became a fertile ground for the development of application software for microcomputers that became precursors to...

Joseph (Joe) Frederick Traub

Co-pioneer of information-based computational complexity, Traub was the Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He held positions at Bell Laboratories,...

Butler W. Lampson

Developer of the Berkeley Timesharing System for Scientific Data Systems' SDS 940 computer, Lampson was part of Project GENIE at UC Berkeley during the 1960s, where he and Peter Deutsch created that...

Nikola Tesla

A major contributor to the birth of commercial electricity and revolutionary developer in the field of electromagnetism, Tesla was an inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer who is best known for his...