Jean E. Sammet

Developer of FORMAC, the first widely used computer language for symbolic manipulation of mathematical formulas, Sammet spent 27 years at IBM where she created it. She received her B.A. in Math from Mount...

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...

Clair D. Lake

Co-inventor of IBM's MARK I and co-developer of the first Type 1 Total Printing and Listing Tabulator, Lake was a prolific IBM inventor. In May 1939 he was assigned to serve as...

Scott Cook

Founder of Intuit, Cook launched the financial software company in 1983; it today offers software and online products to help individuals and small companies manage their finances. He started his career at Procter...

Orna Berry

The first woman to serve as chief scientist and head of the industrial R&D operation of the Israeli Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labour, Berry took on that role in 1996. An...

Cyril J. Yansouni

Vice President and General Manager of the Personal Computer Group at Hewlett-Packard, Yansouni brings over 35 years of experience in the technology industry. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Mechanical...

Jay W. Lathrop

Instrumental in the development of photolithography — critical in the first efforts to produce semiconductor integrated circuits — Lathrop is recognized as a pioneering figure in microminiaturization of solid-state circuits. Born in Bangor,...

Benoît B. Mandelbrot

Discoverer of the Mandelbrot set of intricate, never-ending fractal shapes — said to be "one of the most astonishing discoveries in the entire history of mathematics" — Mandelbrot also developed a "theory...

Frances (Fran) Elizabeth Allen

Pioneer in optimizing compilers and the first woman to win the Turing Award, Allen was also the first female IBM Fellow. Allen was an expert in the field of optimizing compilers. As a...

John Paul Rodker Morrison

Inventor of flow-based programming (FBP), Morrison is a British-born Canadian computer programmer. FBP defines applications using the metaphor of a "data factory." It views an application not as a single, sequential process,...

Evangelos S. Eleftheriou

Pioneer in recording and communications techniques that established new standards of performance in hard disk drive technology, Eleftheriou has served as head of Storage Technologies at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland,...

Jim Hall

Considered the "father" of the LaserJet printer, Hall managed development of HP's first laser printer, the 2680A. Hall grew up on a farm near Halifax, Virginia. Listening to the shortwave bands, he discovered...

Marvin L. Stein

One of the founding faculty members of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota, Stein served as its Director from 1958 to 1970. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he entered...

Jie Liu

Leader of Microsoft Research's Sensing and Energy Research Group (SERG), Liu has conducted fundamental and applied research in sensing and energy-efficient computing with applications in sensor networks, data centers, and mobile computing....

Amar Mukherjee

Pioneer in Switching Theory and the first to develop an algorithm for the minimization of EXOR-AND-type logic networks, Mukherjee was internationally recognized for his contributions to Hardware Algorithms for Non-numeric Computation, VLSI...

John Cullinane

Founder of Cullinet, one of the first software companies to go public, Cullinane is recognized as the creator of the packaged software market. His company claimed many industry firsts: first packaged application, first...

Nobuo Mii

Leader of a team that built the first television system in Kyushu, Japan, Mii accomplished this feat in 1949 as manager of his high school Wireless Communications Club, mainly using electronic parts...

Lyman Chapin

Principal architect of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model and protocols, Chapin is widely recognized as a leader in the networking industry and the Internet community, having contributed to the development of...

Alexey Andreevich Lyapunov

One of the founders of cybernetics and a computer pioneer in Russia, Lyapunov made foundational contributions to the development of computing and cybernetics in the Soviet Union. In 1928, Lyapunov enrolled in Moscow...

Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp

Known for his work in information theory and combinatorial game theory, Berlekamp was one of the inventors of the Welch–Berlekamp and Berlekamp–Massey algorithms, which are used to implement Reed–Solomon error correction. While an...