Lawrence (Larry) J. Schoenberg

His commitment to using digital tools in manuscript studies and to making his collection freely available online supported the work of many scholars. Co-founder and former CEO of AGS Computers, Inc., Schoenberg...

Susie Wee

Founder of Cisco DevNet, Wee went on to serve as its Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer beginning in 2018. She established DevNet in 2014, and previously held the role of...

Frederic Alois Friedel

Co-founder of the chess database company ChessBase, Friedel is a German graduate linguist, science, chess, and computer chess journalist. He co-founded ChessBase in 1986 with game database developer Matthias Wöllenweber. He studied...

Chien-Shiung Wu

Renowned for conducting the Wu experiment, which proved that parity is not conserved, Wu was a Chinese-American particle and experimental physicist whose work reshaped nuclear and particle physics. Her discovery led directly...

Grigore Constantin Moisil

Considered the father of computer science in Romania, Moisil made foundational contributions to automata theory, many-valued algebras, and mathematical logic. Grigore Moisil attended primary school in Bucharest, then high school in Vaslui and...

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...

John L. Gustafson

Acclaimed for his work in High Performance Computing (HPC), Gustafson is most known for the invention of Gustafson's Law, introducing the first commercial computer cluster, measuring with QUIPS, and leading the reconstruction...

Karlheinz Brandenburg

Inventor of the MP3 data format, Brandenburg developed the audio compression format together with other researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute at Erlangen. He has served as a Professor at the Technical University...

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...

William (Bill) Douglas Gropp

Co-creator of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) and the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation (PETSc), Gropp has served as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, holding...

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...

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...

Rama Chellappa

Pioneer researcher in image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition, Chellappa has served as a Minta Martin Professor of Engineering (from 2005) and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and...

Samuel Finley Breese Morse

Co-inventor of Morse code and contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system, Morse was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. After attending Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, he went on to Yale...

Sam Harrell

Co-founder of SEMATECH, the partnership between the U.S. government and U.S.-based semiconductor manufacturers to regain competitiveness for the U.S. semiconductor industry, Harrell is a leading specialist in semiconductor and international trade and...

Niels Ivar Bech

Leader of the group that formed Regnecentralen, the first Danish computer company, Bech shaped the course of Danish computing history. He led a group that started as an advisory board formed by...

David A. Forsyth

Inventor of important methods for recognizing objects and activities in images and video, Forsyth is a South African computer scientist and full Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His early...

Paul Castrucci

Leader of the team that invented and developed a major paradigm shift in computer storage, Castrucci's work set the stage for current computer memory technology. Born in St. Johnsville, New York on the...

Richard (Rich) Hilleman

Creator of the original Madden Football game for video game consoles, Hilleman is an American computer game and video game producer best known for his work at Electronic Arts. Apart from Madden,...

Anthony James Barr

Creator of the Statistical Analysis System (SAS) programming language, Barr conceived a database architecture for SAS inspired by the Formatted File System (FFS) he had worked on at the Pentagon. As a physics...