Andrew Mason

Developer of Groupon, a website that sells deals to local businesses, Mason grew up in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, and graduated from Mt. Lebanon High School in 1999. He...

Edward Seidel

Co-founder of the Cactus Framework, an open-source, problem-solving environment designed for scientists and engineers, Seidel is a career computer scientist and physicist recognized for a number of awards for his work. His...

Matti Makkonen

Known as the father of SMS (Short Message Service) — i.e., text messaging — Makkonen was an engineer in the field of Mobile Communications. Born in Suomussalmi, Finland, he was employed (among...

Michael (Mike) Rubens Bloomberg

Founder and CEO of Bloomberg L.P., a global financial services, mass media, and software company, Bloomberg is an American businessman, author, politician, and philanthropist. His net worth is estimated at US$ 53.4...

Glenford (Glen) Myers

Leader of the team that developed the advanced computer system "SWARD" (Software Oriented Architecture), built and successfully operated in 1980, Myers is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and author. He founded two...

Harry Max Markowitz

Co-developer of SIMSCRIPT, the first simulation programming language, Markowitz also received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990 while a professor of finance at Baruch College of the City University...

Ruchi Sanghvi

The first female engineer hired by Facebook, Sanghvi later founded her own company, Cove, in 2011, alongside two co-founders. Dropbox acquired Cove in 2012, and Sanghvi joined Dropbox as VP of Operations,...

Norman A. Phillips

A major co-contributor to the prediction of weather and climate using numerical methods, Phillips was the first to show, with a simple General Circulation model, that weather prediction with numerical models was...

Kenneth Ross

Kenneth Ross wrote his first program on an IBM 1401 in 1962 and played Spacewar! on the PDP-1 as a student at MIT, where he earned his B.S. He later received his...

Ravi Arimilli

Chief Architect largely responsible for the development of the IBM POWER5, Arimilli has been named an IBM Fellow, the company's highest technical honor, in May 2001. One of the most prolific inventors...

Susie Wee

Founder of Cisco DevNet, Wee went on to serve as its Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer beginning in 2018. She established DevNet in 2014, and previously held the role of...

Igor Aleksander

A pioneer in artificial intelligence and neural networks, Aleksander was born in Croatia, educated in Italy and South Africa, and completed a PhD at Queen Mary College, University of London. In 1984...

Fernando (Corby) J. Corbato

Pioneer in the development of general-purpose, large-scale, time-sharing and resource-sharing computer systems, Corbató received the ACM Turing Award in 1990 for these foundational contributions. Fernando (Corby) J. Corbató was born on July 1,...

Solomon Lefschetz

Developer of the Lefschetz fixed point theorem, now a basic result of topology, Lefschetz did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential...

Michael J. Maples, Sr.

Advisor to Microsoft on strategic relationships and management initiatives, Maples is an Angel investor who has been active in the computer industry for more than 30 years, and is sometimes described as...

Mendel Rosenblum

Designer and builder of virtualization technology for commodity computing platforms, Rosenblum co-founded VMware in 1998 and served as its Chief Scientist for the company's first 10 years. He received his B.A. degree...

Richard D. Greenblatt

Co-founder of the hacker community and the main implementer of Maclisp on the PDP-6, Greenblatt is also known for writing Mac Hack, the first computer program to play tournament-level chess and the...

Patrice Lyons

Analyzer of a wide range of legal and regulatory issues relating to the development of the Internet, Lyons has served as Corporate Counsel to Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), where she...

Philip S. Yu

Holder of over 300 U.S. patents in data mining, database systems, Internet applications and technologies, Yu is recognized as an IBM Master Inventor and one of the most prolific inventors in computing....

John Theurer Diebold

An early champion of widespread use of computing and automated technology, Diebold helped shape how businesses understood and adopted automation. Diebold was born in Weehawken, New Jersey. He graduated from Swarthmore College in...