Howard Frank

Conductor of the original topological analysis for the ARPAnet, Frank evaluated the network's performance and reliability and studied how the technology could be applied to the larger world. Having earned his Ph.D....

Frederick Jelinek

Pioneer of speech recognition, Jelinek was a Czech-American researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing, well known for his oft-quoted statement, "Every time I fire a linguist, the...

R. Blair Smith

Head of the IBM project that developed the first airline reservation system (SABRE) for American Airlines, R. Blair Smith also served as Manager of Market Analysis and field testing for all proposed...

John Grist Brainerd

Leader of the ENIAC project, Brainerd was perhaps most famous for his work leading the development of the world's first large-scale electronic digital computer. During World War II, the differential analyzer at...

Jules I. Schwartz

Author of JOVIAL, the first computer software designed for use by the military, Schwartz composed this high-order programming language in 1959 for use in the electronics of military aircraft. Born in Philadelphia, PA,...

Myron Krueger

Considered one of the first generation virtual reality and augmented reality researchers, Krueger is an American computer artist who developed early interactive works. While earning a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the...

Roger Sippl

Co-developer of the relational database Informix (INFORMation on unIX) and co-founder of Relational Database Systems (RDS), Sippl earned a B.S. in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. He and...

Edmund Melson Clarke, Jr.

Developer of model checking, Clarke pioneered a method for formally verifying hardware and software designs. In his Ph.D. thesis he proved that certain programming language control structures did not have good Hoare...

Robert (Bob) P. Colwell

Leader of the development of Intel's Pentium 4 CPU, Colwell is also recognized as the chief IA-32 architect on the Pentium Pro, Pentium II, and Pentium III microprocessors. An electrical engineer and...

Werner Almesberger

Writer of the code to support Differentiated Services on Linux, Almesberger was an Austrian free software computer programmer and open-source hardware designer mainly known as a hacker of the Linux kernel. Born...

Phaedon Avouris

Innovator of the potential for carbon nanotubes to compete with the long-established silicon transistor for important information technology applications, Avouris is a Greek chemical physicist who has served as an IBM Fellow...

Edgar (Ted) Frank Codd

Inventor of the relational model for database management, Codd established the theoretical basis for relational databases while working for IBM. He made other valuable contributions to computer science, but the relational model,...

Morris Chang

Founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Chang is sometimes called the father of Taiwan's chip industry. TSMC pioneered the "dedicated silicon foundry" industry and became the largest silicon foundry in the...

Brent Hailpern

Recipient of IBM's Outstanding Innovation Award for his contributions to the IBM NetVista product, Hailpern worked on and managed various projects at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center relating to issues...

Alonzo Church

A major contributor to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science, Church is sometimes called the father of theoretical computer science. He is best known for the lambda calculus, the...

Wayne D. Pickette

Conceptualized as the design for putting a computer on a chip, Pickette's work is arguably one of the greatest technological advances of the Twentieth Century. A self-taught childhood electronics prodigy, he recalled...

Amar Mukherjee

Pioneer in Switching Theory and the first to develop an algorithm for the minimization of EXOR-AND-type logic networks, Mukherjee was internationally recognized for his contributions to Hardware Algorithms for Non-numeric Computation, VLSI...

David Tresman Caminer

Pioneer in bringing the LEO computer into active use for the UK catering enterprise J. Lyons and Company, Caminer took a leading role in developing the business applications and was in charge...

Philibert Maurice d'Ocagne

Pioneer of nomography — the systematization of graphical calculation methods using nomograms — d'Ocagne was a French engineer and mathematician whose scientific personality soon fell into oblivion, leaving only a few milestones...

Michael James Lighthill

Pioneer in aeroacoustics and developer of television and communications satellites, Lighthill was a British applied mathematician known for his pioneering work in fluid dynamics. He worked at the National Physical Laboratory, Trinity...