Morton M. Astrahan

Developer of the SAGE air-defense computer and a pioneer in relational database systems, Astrahan joined IBM in 1949 and spent his entire professional career there—first at the Endicott Laboratory and then later...

James (Jim) Flanagan

Originator of auto-directive microphone arrays for teleconferencing and pioneer of digital computers for acoustic signal processing, Flanagan made foundational contributions to voice communications and electro-acoustic systems. He received his B.S.E.E. degree from...

Vincent (Yu-Cheng) Hsu

Lead developer of the DS8000, which launched in 2005 and remains a key part of IBM's storage portfolio, Hsu has served as an IBM Fellow and IBM's Chief Technology Officer for Disk...

Adele Goldberg

Co-developer of the programming language Smalltalk-80 and various concepts related to object-oriented programming, Goldberg conducted this work as a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the 1970s. She...

Joseph (J. C. R.) Carl Licklider

Pioneer who led the development that led to ARPANet, Licklider was known simply as J.C.R. or "Lick" and was an American computer scientist considered one of the most important figures in computer...

Thomas (Tom) M. Bradicich

Leader and prime mover behind IBM's xSeries architectures, Bradicich is a 2006 IBM Fellow—the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM can achieve. He has served as Vice President of...

Harvey G. Cragon

Designer and builder of the first digital computer with Integrated Circuits (IC) and the first TTL computer, Cragon is recognized as a pioneering American computer engineer. Born in Ruston, Louisiana, he studied...

Jimmy Donal Wales

Co-founder of Wikipedia, Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur who has helped transform how the world accesses information. Wales was born on August 7, 1966, in Huntsville, Alabama. He grew up in a...

Leonid Anatolievich Levin

Co-discoverer of the Cook-Levin Theorem, Levin is noted for his work in randomness computing, algorithmic complexity, and intractability. This NP-completeness theorem was a basis for one of the seven "Millennium Math Problems"...

Michael (Mike) James Massimino

Researcher on human operator control of space robotics systems resulting in two patents, and developer of laptop computer displays to assist operators of the Space Shuttle remote manipulator system, Massimino is an...

Elon James Gasper

Holder of several patents relating to Lip Sync and other technology, Gasper is a former Senior VP at VizX Labs and co-founder of 1980s-era software company Bright Star Technology. Described by Ken...

Krste Asanović

Leader of the SCALE group, investigating advanced architectures for energy-efficient high-performance computing, Asanović's breakthrough innovations in memory management and parallel processor design are highly influential within the field. Asanović has served as an...

Mary Lou Jepsen

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of One Laptop per Child, Jepsen helped shape one of the most recognized nonprofit computing initiatives of its era. She also served as Chief Architect of that...

Dario de Judicibus

Founder of the Reuse Shop, the first IBM group to create software libraries of building blocks that could be used to develop products, de Judicibus is a prolific inventor and pioneer in...

Howard (Ward) G. Cunningham

Programmer and inventor of the wiki, Cunningham started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the website of his software consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham (commonly known by its domain...

T. Capers Jones

Associated with the function point model of cost estimation, Jones is a specialist in software engineering methodologies. He has also collected data on software quality, software risks, and software best practices. He...

Balakrishnan Prabhakaran

Known for his work in 3D video, animations, and deformable 3D models — a form of multimedia data widely used in entertainment and medical fields — Prabhakaran has served as a Professor...

George Glaser

President of AFIPS and active leader across many professional organizations, Glaser was noted for his service to the information technology profession as a whole, through his leadership, enthusiastic support, and tireless work...

Robert Morris

Contributor to early versions of UNIX, Morris developed the math library, the program crypt, and the password encryption scheme used for user authentication. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and received a...

Gregory Bateson

A pioneer in extending systems theory and cybernetics to the social and behavioral sciences, Bateson had a natural ability to recognize order and pattern in the universe. In the 1940s he helped...