Daniel Meyer

Founder of Southwest Technical Products Corporation (SWTPC), Meyer introduced kits for the AC-30 Cassette Interface data storage and the PR-40 printer. He was born in New Braunfels, Texas and raised in San...

Barry Leiba

Developer of Ultimail, an early integrated multimedia e-mail system created with his team at IBM Research, Leiba is a computer scientist and software researcher. His work focused for many years on electronic...

Allessandro Volta

Inventor of the battery in 1800 and a remotely operated pistol that was a significant forerunner of the telegraph, Volta transformed the understanding of electricity. He was born in Como, Italy, and taught...

Paul M. Horn

Pioneer in the use of copper and self-assembly in chip manufacturing and contributor to pervasive computing, Horn is an American computer scientist and solid state physicist. He spent 28 years with IBM...

Estil Hoversten

Co-conceiver of the Internet Stream Protocol (ST), a connection-oriented complement to IPv4 notable for introducing the concepts of packetized voice, Hoversten has served as Senior Vice President of Hughes Network Systems, LLC...

Tim Paterson

Author of MS-DOS, Paterson is a software developer whose work shaped the foundation of personal computing. In 1978 he designed a schematic of Microsoft's Z-80 SoftCard, which had a Z80 CPU and ran...

Danny (Dan) Spracklen

Co-programmer of the Chafitz ARB Sargon 2.5, the first commercial dedicated chess computer with an Auto Response Board (ARB), Spracklen is an American computer scientist and microcomputer chess pioneer. Born in Decatur,...

Henry (Hank) Wallman

Co-builder of the Electronic Differential Analyser, an early example of an analog computer, Wallman also performed pioneering research in biomedical engineering combining video displays with X-ray imaging. An American mathematician known for...

James (Jim) T. Healy

A career leader in building success for U.S.-based and international companies in the semiconductor space, Healy has served as General Manager of Sony LSI Design Inc., a provider of turnkey services for...

Jeffrey R Yost

Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Yost has also served as Associate Director of the Charles Babbage Institute from 1998 onward. Yost authored The Computer Industry (Greenwood Press, 2005) and...

Semen Nikolaevich Korsakov

Noted homeopath and early information technology inventor, Korsakov took part in the Napoleonic Wars with the Russian Army from 1812–1814. He later served as an official in the statistics department of the...

Ramakrishnan Srikant

Key architect for IBM Intelligent Miner, Srikant contributed the association rules and sequential patterns modules to the product. Dr. Srikant has served as a Principal Research Scientist at Google. He previously managed the...

Robert Cailliau

Co-developer of the World Wide Web, Cailliau is a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who, together with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, helped bring the web into existence. Born in Tongeren, Belgium, he...

Curt L. Cotner

Designer and developer of many key features of DB2 for z/OS, Cotner has served as an IBM Fellow and VP/CTO for IBM Data Management. In that role, he held technical and management...

Mark P. McCahill

Developer of POPmail and Gopher, McCahill is an American programmer involved in developing and popularizing a number of Internet technologies from the late 1980s onward.

James W. Cortada

Noted IT historian and author, Cortada is also the founder and a board member of the IT History Society. Cortada joined IBM in 1974 as a salesman, and held a variety of sales...

Anant Jhingran

Considered to be the world technology leader in the field of information management, Jhingran has had a distinguished career with highly demonstrated impact on industrial practice and future technology and business directions....

Burton (Burt) Grad

Founder of the Software History Center, Grad has been working on computer software since 1954, when he wrote the first production and inventory control programs for the General Electric Company's installation of...

Nick D'Aloisio

Designer of Summly — a program aimed to solve perceived problems with the way news articles are presented on smartphones — D'Aloisio is a British-Australian entrepreneur, computer programmer, and designer who created...

Friedrich Ludwig Bauer

First to propose the widely used stack method of expression evaluation, Bauer patented the pushdown stack in 1957, a contribution that proved foundational to modern computing. He contributed to the definition of...