Ding Wen Lim

Deemed the world's youngest iPhone developer at age 9, Lim is a programmer from Singapore responsible for the app Doodle Kids. Born September 21, 1999, he was thrust into the media spotlight...

David (Dave) J. Farber

Co-designer of the first electronic switching system (ESS-1) and the SNOBOL programming languages, Farber made major contributions to programming languages and computer networking. Farber held the position of Distinguished Career Professor of...

Steven (Steve) Shih Chen

Co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube, Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan. When he was eight years old, he and his family immigrated to the...

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...

Victor Shoup

Co-developer of the Cramer–Shoup cryptosystem, the first efficient asymmetric encryption scheme proven to be secure against adaptive chosen ciphertext attack using standard cryptographic assumptions, Shoup is a computer scientist and mathematician. He...

Dharma P. Agrawal

Leader of the University of Cincinnati - BlueTooth (UCBT) Bluetooth package, Agrawal was a communications scientist who specialized in wireless sensor networks. He served as the Ohio Board of Regents Distinguished Professor...

Eugene (Spaf) Howard Spafford

Co-developer of a number of "firsts" in computer security, Spafford is a leading computer security expert and historically significant Internet figure, renowned for first analyzing the Morris Worm and his prominent role...

Kang-Won Lee

Collaborator on wireless networks, mobile computing, network management, and policy technologies research, Lee has been a Research Staff Member at IBM since 2000 and led the Wireless Networking Group at Watson from...

David Bradley

One of the twelve engineers who developed the original IBM PC, Bradley is known for creating the computer's ROM BIOS code. He is also the author of *Assembly Language Programming for the...

Fernanda Bertini Viégas

Co-creator of Many Eyes, the ground-breaking open public data visualization and analysis platform, Viégas is a Brazilian-born scientist and computational designer whose work focuses on the social, collaborative, and artistic aspects of...

Lars Heide

Editor of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Heide is a noted international historian and associate professor at the Centre for Business History at the Copenhagen Business School.

Gene Myron Amdahl

Team leader in building IBM mainframes and founder of Amdahl Corporation, Amdahl was chiefly known for his work on mainframe computers at IBM and later his own companies. He was perhaps best...

Hans-Joachim Queisser

Inventor of a high-power luminescent diode — an infrared light emitting diode (LED) that now forms the basis of almost every household remote control device — Queisser was a solid-state physicist also...

Robert Norton Noyce

Founder of Intel and co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor, Noyce is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the invention of the integrated circuit or microchip. Nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley," he...

Emanuel Goldberg

Contributor of a wide range of theoretic and practical advances relating to light and media and inventor of a very early search engine, Goldberg was also the founding head of Zeiss Ikon,...

Don Hammond

Developer of time standards for space navigation, high-speed computer printers, and medical ultrasound technology, Hammond built a 50-year career on these and other significant contributions. While at HP from 1959 to 1987, Hammond...

Alan F. Shugart

A pioneer in managing programs and companies in the disk drive industry, Shugart made lasting contributions to the field over several decades. Al Shugart started at IBM in 1951 and over 18 years...

Henry Edward Roberts

Designer of the first commercially successful personal computer, Roberts transformed computing in 1975. He founded Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) in 1970 to sell electronics kits to model rocketry hobbyists, but...

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...

Thomas (Tom) M. Whitney

Leader of the team that invented the HP-35, the world's first handheld scientific electronic calculator, Whitney was also an early employee of Apple Computer. Thomas (Tom) M. Whitney graduated from Aurelia High...