Claude Elwood Shannon

Developer of Information Theory, the basis for the design of communication systems and networks, Shannon also noted the importance of Boolean theory for the design of logic circuits whilst still a student...

Mateo Valero Cortés

Creator and Director of the European Center for Parallelism of Barcelona (CEPBA), Valero Cortés is a Spanish computer architect born in Alfamén, Aragon, Spain. He has served as the Director of the...

Jean Calvignac

Leader of the team responsible for the architecture of IBM network processors, Calvignac is a 1997 IBM Fellow. Network processors are an integrated circuit which has a feature set specifically targeted at...

Eunice E. Santos

A leading expert and researcher in the areas of large-scale distributed processing, computational modeling, complex adaptive systems, and human modeling with applications to the biological, physical, and social sciences, Santos has served...

Frank Moss

Involved in advanced development projects in the areas of networking and distributed computing, Moss is a researcher, technology and biotechnology entrepreneur, academician, and author born in Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended the...

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,...

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...

Ben Forta

Author of numerous technical books on ColdFusion, SQL, and Regular Expressions, Forta has also served as Senior Technical Evangelist for Adobe Systems, particularly ColdFusion and Flex, and has been the owner of...

Marcelli Wein

A member of the pioneer group that initiated Computer Graphics projects at the NRC, developing the use of interactive graphics systems and computer animation, Wein is an international leader in Computer Graphics...

Victor (Vic) Hayes

Known as the "Father of Wi-Fi," Hayes co-established and chaired the IEEE 802.11 Standards Working Group for Wireless Local Area Networks. Born in Surabaya, Dutch East Indies, he held a BSEE and...

Richard (Dick) Chao-Fan Chu

A prolific technical innovator in cooling technology, Chu's patents and publications were recognized outside of IBM as industry standards for the cooling of electronic equipment. Born in Beijing, China, he was the son...

Douglas B. Lenat

Prominent in artificial intelligence and machine learning research, Lenat was best known for the Cyc project, an attempt to build the basis of a general artificial intelligence by manually representing knowledge in...

Nestor Burtnyk

Father of the multimillion-dollar computer animation industry, Burtnyk pioneered animation technology that transformed the field. Born in Ethelbert, Manitoba to Ukrainian immigrants, he began Canada's first major computer graphics research project in...

Dudley Allen Buck

Inventor of the cryotron, a superconductive computer component operated in liquid helium at a temperature near absolute zero, Buck is best known for this breakthrough in the size of electronic computer elements....

Allan Alcorn

Designer of the video arcade game Pong, one of the earliest and most popular arcade video games, Alcorn is an American pioneering engineer and computer scientist born and raised in San Francisco,...

Christopher (Chris) R. Johnson

Founder of the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) research group, which grew into the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI Institute), Johnson has served as a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at...

Shmuel Winograd

Noted for proving major results in computational complexity and co-creating the Coppersmith–Winograd algorithm, Winograd was one of the most influential figures in the computational aspects of arithmetic. He proved several major results...

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,...

Gerald Estrin

Father of reconfigurable computing and variable structure computing, Estrin transformed how computational processes could be accelerated using variable configurations of specialized hardware modules. Estrin received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the...

William (Bill) Thomas Tutte

A foundational figure in combinatorics and graph theory, Tutte performed significant work in fields with many applications in computer science, and is credited with helping create graph theory in its modern form....