Keith Uncapher

Pioneer of packet switching and MOSIS, Uncapher spread the ideas that later evolved into the Internet. Under his leadership, ISI provided support for emerging DARPA programs in Information Technology. There, Uncapher assembled...

Jesse James Garrett

Publisher of the diagram "The Elements of User Experience," a foundational model of user-centered design, Garrett is a user experience designer and co-founder of Adaptive Path, a user experience strategy and design...

James W. Cortada

Noted IT historian and author, Cortada is also the founder and a board member of the IT History Society. Cortada joined IBM in 1974 as a salesman, and held a variety of sales...

Vern Paxson

Author of the flex lexical analyzer and the Bro intrusion detection system, Paxson has served as Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also worked as...

Michael Leonidas Dertouzos

Instrumental in defining the World Wide Web Consortium and bringing it to MIT, Dertouzos served as a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer...

Wallace John Eckert

A part of the creation of the research division of IBM, Eckert directed the Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau at Columbia University, which evolved into that division.

Michael Shrayer

Inventor of the Electric Pencil, the first word processor for home computers, Shrayer launched an unexpected and lucrative new business from what began as a personal project. In 1975, Shrayer was "semi-retired" from...

Vinton (Vint) Gray Cerf

Known as a "father of the Internet," Cerf is an American computer scientist whose contributions have been recognized with the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom,...

Bertrand Meyer

Creator of the Eiffel programming language, Meyer has made foundational contributions to software engineering and object-oriented design. He received the equivalent of a bachelor's degree in engineering from the École polytechnique in...

David Andrew Patterson

One of the innovators of Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks (RAID), Patterson is an American computer pioneer and academic. A native of Evergreen Park, Illinois, he attended UCLA, receiving his B.A. in...

Richard Matthew Stallman

Founder of the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, Stallman also launched the free software movement and was the main author of the GNU General Public License for open...

Max Palevsky

Founder of Scientific Data Systems, Palevsky was a computer technology pioneer whose company became one of the most successful computer companies of the 1960s. Max Palevsky was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1924....

Gary Price

Founder of ResourceShelf.com and originator of Price's List of Lists, "a database of ranked listings of companies, people and resources freely available on the Internet," Price is an American librarian based near...

Yakov Rekhter

One of the leading architects and a major software developer of the NSFNET Backbone Phase II, Rekhter also co-designed the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the core routing protocol of the Internet. Rekhter joined...

Dave Hitz

Co-founder of NetApp, a worldwide major supplier of network-based storage systems for the computer industry, Hitz helped establish the company in 1992 along with James Lau and Michael Malcolm. The company began...

Conrad (Conny) Palm

Contributor to teletraffic engineering and queueing theory, Palm also led the project that developed the first Swedish computer, the BARK. He enrolled at the School of Electrical Engineering at the Royal Institute...

Michael R Williams

A pioneer in the history of computing who is — unusually — a computer scientist himself, Williams has published books and articles, taught, curated museum exhibits, and promoted professional activity in the...

Frederik Nebeker

Researcher of the influence of the computer on meteorology, Nebeker has served as the long-time Senior Research Historian at the IEEE History Center at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. A native...

Kenneth (Ken) R. Jacobs

Known as "Dr. DBA" to thousands of Oracle database administrators, Jacobs has been a prominent spokesperson for Oracle and an advocate inside the company for customers' interests. Jacobs joined Oracle in July 1981...

John Maurice McClean Pinkerton

Co-designer of England's first business computer, the LEO computer, Pinkerton was a pioneering British computer designer who worked alongside David Caminer to produce the machine for J. Lyons and Co in 1951....