Kesav Vithal Nori

One of the creators of the Pascal P4 compiler, Nori is well-known for this work done together with Nikolaus Wirth. He has served as Executive Director and Executive Vice President of Tata...

William H. Davidow

Computer industry executive, author, and venture capitalist, Davidow has been active in high-technology for more than 30 years. He has continued as an active advisor to MDV. Davidow is the author of...

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...

Timothy (Tim) D. Cook

CEO of Apple, Cook has led the company since succeeding Steve Jobs on August 24, 2011. He joined Apple in March 1998 as SVP of Worldwide Operations and also served as EVP...

Van Jacobson

One of the primary contributors to the TCP/IP protocol stack — the technological foundation of today's Internet — Jacobson is renowned for his pioneering achievements in network performance and scaling. He joined...

Aaron Marcus

Pioneer in computer-based design, Marcus founded Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A) in 1982, one of the first independent, computer-based design firms in the world. An American user-interface and information-visualization designer, as well...

Brewster Kahle

Founder of the Internet Archive and creator of WAIS and Alexa Internet, Kahle has been a pioneering force in digital access and preservation. He was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity....

Peter John Landin

One of the first to realize that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, Landin made contributions essential to the development of both functional programming and denotational semantics....

Mamoru Hosaka

A pioneer of seminal computer research and development in Japan, Hosaka was born in 1920 and graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1942, majoring in aeronautical engineering. After 1946, he belonged...

Edvard Georg Raphael Scheutz

Co-developer of the Scheutzian calculation engine that produced the first tables calculated and printed by machinery, Scheutz made pioneering contributions to mechanical computation alongside his father, Pehr George Scheutz. He began his...

Georg (Per) Pehr Scheutz

Co-developer of the Scheutzian calculation engine, which produced the first tables calculated and printed by machinery, Scheutz was a 19th-century Swedish lawyer, translator, and inventor. He studied law at Lund University, graduating...

Stephen Robertson

Contributor to the Microsoft search engine Bing, Robertson is a British computer scientist well known for his work on information retrieval. After completing his undergraduate degree in mathematics at Cambridge University, he...

Boris Artashesovich Babayan

Creator of early Soviet supercomputers, Babayan is notable as a pioneering figure in Soviet computing history. Babayan later pursued a career with Intel.

Mark N. Wegman

Co-inventor of Static Single Assignment (SSA) form, which is used in the analysis portion of most if not all modern optimizing compilers, Wegman is an American computer scientist known for his contributions...

Harry M. Yudenfriend

Developer of a roadmap enabling consistent data growth, performance improvements, enhanced resilience, continuous availability, increased scale, and improved efficiency at IBM, Yudenfriend was named an IBM Fellow in 2008 and has served...

Anthony James Barr

In 1962-63, Tony Barr, as a physics graduate student, wrote a general analysis of variance program and a multiple regression program to run on the IBM1410 computer. These programs were used...

Joseph (Joe) A. Piscopo

Founder of Pansophic Systems in 1969, Piscopo built the Lisle, Illinois software firm into a major enterprise before retiring as its Chairman and C.E.O. in 1987 after 18 years. Previously, he had...

Bruce D. Shriver

Worldwide lecturer in the design and implementation of computer hardware and software systems, Shriver has been a computer science academic, consultant, and entrepreneur in the area of high-performance computer systems, publishing extensively...

Dabbala (Rej) Rajagopal Reddy

Pioneer of large-scale artificial intelligence systems, Reddy is recognized for demonstrating the practical importance and potential commercial impact of AI technology. One of the early pioneers in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence,...

Roberto Tamassia

Pioneer in the field of graph drawing and major contributor to the design of graph and geometric algorithms, Tamassia has served as Plastech Professor of Computer Science at Brown University in Providence,...