Sophia Bekele

Founder and CEO of CBS International, a private California-based firm engaged in technology transfer to emerging economies, Bekele is a business executive and writer. She founded SbCommunications Network - SbCNet, in Ethiopia. In...

Jack P. Ruina

Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) from 1961 to 1963, during which the idea of an information processing program was initiated, Ruina held a position that proved foundational to what...

Bashir Iskandarovich Rameyev

Holder of the first officially registered USSR patent in the field of electronic computers, Rameyev was a Soviet inventor and scientist and one of the founders of Soviet computing. He was the...

W. Bruce Croft

A leading contributor to research in information retrieval and the theoretical development and practical use of Bayesian inference networks and language modelling for retrieval, Croft has served as a distinguished Professor in...

Daniel E. Cooke

Inventor of the SequenceL functional programming language, Cooke discovered the computational laws that led to its creation and implemented several early interpreters for the language. During his tenure at Texas Tech University,...

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...

Hartmut Esslinger

Creator of a design strategy that transformed Apple from a "Silicon Valley Start-Up" into a global brand, Esslinger is a German-American industrial designer and inventor known for co-founding Frogdesign, a global innovation...

Thomas (Tom) O. Stanley

Fundamental investigator of the CED concept that led to the development of the RCA VideoDisc system, Stanley has been recognized as "a visionary who, not only foresaw the CED videodisc system long...

Edward Albert Feigenbaum

Known as the "father of expert systems," Feigenbaum is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence. Feigenbaum completed his undergraduate degree, and a Ph.D., at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now...

Kenneth Eugene Iverson

Developer of the APL programming language in 1962, Iverson was a Canadian computer scientist noted for his contributions to mathematical notation and programming language theory. He was honored with the Turing Award...

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...

Robert (Bob) R. Maxfield

Co-founder of ROLM Corporation, Maxfield served as its Executive Vice-President and Director. ROLM (named after the initials of the last names of its founders) was co-founded with three other Rice graduates —...

Peter A. Franaszek

Known for his research in fragmentation-reduction algorithms, network theory, and magnetic recording, Franaszek has been a researcher at the IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. Dr....

John Rushby

Developer of the Prototype Verification System (PVS), a major impetus for the development of computer science, Rushby is a British computer scientist legendary in the field of formal methods and verification. He...

Oswald Veblen

Involved in overseeing the World War II work that produced the pioneering ENIAC electronic digital computer, Veblen was also an American mathematician, geometer, and topologist whose work found application in atomic physics...

Jack J. Dongarra

Co-developer of the LINPACK and LAPACK libraries, which have provided the benchmark for the world's 500 fastest computers since 1993, Dongarra has served as a University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in...

David (Dave) A. Duffield

Co-founder of PeopleSoft, where PeopleSoft V1 (late 1980s) was the first fully integrated, robust client–server HRMS application suite, Duffield is an American businessman in the software industry. He has also served as...

Shari Trewin

Developer of a keyboard configuration tool for individuals with motor impairments, Trewin is an HCI researcher at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York, whose long-standing research focus has been in...

Samuel Finley Breese Morse

Co-inventor of Morse code and contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system, Morse was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. After attending Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, he went on to Yale...

Klaus Schulten

Leader of the research group that developed NAMD and VMD—molecular dynamics and visualization software now used by many thousands of researchers worldwide—Schulten was a German American computational biophysicist and the Swanlund Professor...