David Elliott Bell

Co-developer of the highly influential Bell-LaPadula security model, Bell is a mathematician and computer security pioneer. His management experience has ranged from line management up to executive and Board of Directors responsibilities....

Ahti Heinla

Co-developer of Skype, Heinla is an Estonian programmer and entrepreneur who served as Lead Architect on the project alongside Priit Kasesalu and Jaan Tallinn. They had also originally developed Kazaa, which started...

David Filo

Co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang, Filo is an American businessman. His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side scripting software used to dynamically serve variable web pages,...

Stanisław Marcin Ulam

Originator of the concept of the technological singularity, Ulam was also a renowned mathematician of Polish-Jewish origin who participated in America's Manhattan Project, originated the Teller–Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons, suggested the...

Bernard Meyerson

Founder and developer of IBM's highly successful Analog and Mixed Signal business, Meyerson has served across a series of science, engineering, and business leadership roles throughout his career at IBM. Born in New...

Andrew Chi-Chih Yao

A pioneer in the theory of computation, Yao is recognized for fundamental contributions including the complexity-based theory of pseudorandom number generation, cryptography, and communication complexity. Yao used the minimax theorem to prove...

Steven (Steve) Gibson

Creator of one of the first adware removal programs, OptOut, Gibson is an American software engineer and security researcher. Born in Dayton, Ohio, he began working on computers as a teenager, and...

Douglas B. Lenat

Prominent in artificial intelligence and machine learning research, Lenat was best known for the Cyc project, an attempt to build the basis of a general artificial intelligence by manually representing knowledge in...

Martin A. Goetz

Software pioneer and holder of the first software patent, Goetz played a foundational role in defining software as a standalone commercial product. In the early 1960s, the status of software as a standalone...

Burton J. Smith

Primary architect of the Denelcor Heterogeneous Element Processor (HEP), Smith was a pioneering computer architect who served as a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. He earned a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of...

David J. Kuck

Developer of the Parafrase compiler system (1977), the first testbed for automatic vectorization and related program transformations, Kuck is one of the most influential figures in parallel computing. His influence spans a...

Walter (Dave) David Sincoskie

Inventor of the Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN), Sincoskie also installed the first ethernet local area network at Bellcore and helped invent voice over IP technology. He co-authored the first specifications for...

Priit Kasesalu

Co-developer of Skype and head programmer for Kazaa Media Desktop, Kasesalu is a pioneering Estonian software developer. In 1986, he began his career as a programmer for a local hardware manufacturer with...

David Karp

Founder of the short-form blogging platform Tumblr, Karp is an American web developer and entrepreneur. According to Forbes, his net worth exceeded $200 million, and Tumblr was valued at $800 million. On...

Karl Ferdinand Braun

Inventor of the cathode-ray tube, Braun built the first such device in 1897 — known as the "Braun Tube" in German-speaking countries. During the development of radio, he also worked on wireless...

Roger Sippl

Co-developer of the relational database Informix (INFORMation on unIX) and co-founder of Relational Database Systems (RDS), Sippl earned a B.S. in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. He and...

Pieter Van den Abeele

Founder of the PowerPC version of Gentoo Linux, Van den Abeele spearheaded the Gentoo architectures and platforms effort together with Daniel Robbins. He received a scholarship from Apple Computer for founding Gentoo...

Victor Saul Miller

Co-inventor of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), Miller is an American mathematician at the Center for Communications Research (CCR) of the Institute for Defense Analyses in Princeton, New Jersey, US. He received his...

Janet Emerson Bashen

Regarded as the first African American woman to obtain a web-based software patent, Bashen earned that distinction through her invention of LinkLine, a web-based EEO software application designed to assist with equal...

Willem (Wim) Roelandts

Born in Lennik, Belgium, he holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rijks Hogere Technische School in Anderlecht, Belgium in 1965. He began his career with Hewlett Packard in Belgium in 1967....