Evan Thomas Spiegel

Co-founder and CEO of the mobile application Snapchat, Spiegel launched the platform alongside Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown while they were all students at Stanford University. Snapchat started as a project for...

Francois Gernelle

Co-developer of the Micral N, the earliest commercial, non-kit personal computer based on a microprocessor, Gernelle created the machine alongside André Truong Trong Thi for the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique...

Robert (Bob) Cohn

Co-founder of Octel Communications, the company that commercialized voice mail and made it ubiquitous on cell phones, in companies, and on residential phones, Cohn established Octel with Peter Olson in 1982. Octel...

Morton (Mort) H. Meyerson

Founding Chief Executive of EDS, Meyerson began his business career in 1963 at Bell Helicopter. In 1966, he joined Electronic Data Systems, Inc. as a systems engineer trainee, ultimately becoming President and...

Danny Cohen

Developer of the first real-time visual flight simulator on a general purpose computer, Cohen later adapted it to run over the ARPANET. Born in Israel, he was also well known for coining...

Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Co-founder of Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys—the two largest companies in Electronic Design Automation (EDA)—Sangiovanni-Vincentelli is a world-renowned authority on integrated circuit and system design who has been instrumental in bringing EDA...

Jerry Yang

Co-founder of Yahoo!, Yang is a Chinese American entrepreneur who also served as the company's CEO (Chief Yahoo). Born in Taiwan in 1968, Yang immigrated to the United States with his family at...

Donald Valentine

Referred to as the "grandfather of Silicon Valley venture capital," Valentine was an American venture capitalist who concentrated mainly on technology companies in the United States. Valentine grew up in the Bronx,...

Helen Greiner

Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for leadership in the design, development, and application of practical robots, Greiner is an American engineer and businesswoman best known as a co-founder...

A.J. Han Vinck

Recipient of the IEEE ISPLC2006 Achievement award for his contributions to Power Line Communications, Vinck has also held a chair for Digital Communications at the Institute for Experimental Mathematics at the University...

Douglas Gene Carlston

Founder and CEO of Tawala Systems, which enables ordinary people to use the web more easily and effectively, Carlston launched the company in September 2005, based in San Rafael, California, and conceived...

Hans C. Pfeiffer

Inventor of PREVAIL, IBM's E-Beam Projection approach for Next Generation Lithography, Pfeiffer was a physicist best known for his contributions to the development of electron beam lithography (often abbreviated as e-beam lithography),...

Charles (Chuck) H. House

A Silicon Valley legend cited by the Smithsonian and the Computer History Museum as one of the top 200 Computer Wizards of America, House participated in creating twelve product lines at Hewlett-Packard...

Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III

Developer of the mathematical underpinnings of continuum mechanics, Truesdell transformed the study of elasticity, fluid dynamics, and related fields through work that began in the 1960s and continued for the rest of...

Charles (Charlie) William Bachman

Pioneer of database technology, Bachman spent his entire career as an industrial researcher rather than in academia. Born in Manhattan, Kansas, in 1924, Bachman's father was a football coach and minor league baseball...

John Impagliazzo

Noted IT historian, author, and Professor Emeritus of computing sciences at Hofstra University, Impagliazzo has supported educational computing activities for decades. His accomplishments include contributing to model computing and engineering curricula, publishing...

Ralph H. Baer

Known as the "father of video games" and inventor of the home video game console, Baer transformed interactive entertainment. In 1949, Baer went to work as chief engineer for a small electro-medical equipment...

Michael Mascagni

One of the first to use random number-based algorithms on the massively parallel Connection Machine at the Naval Research Lab in Washington, DC, Mascagni's family moved from Bologna, Italy to Lake Forest,...

Arthur Tatnall

Noted IT historian, author, and professor of computer sciences, Tatnall has served as an Associate Professor in the Victoria Graduate School of Business at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. He holds Bachelor's...

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...