Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr.

Manager of the development of OS/360, Brooks was also known for writing candidly about the process in his seminal book *The Mythical Man-Month*. "It is a very humbling experience to make a...

David C. Walden

A member of the small team of engineers that developed the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, Walden is recognized as one of the first Internet programmers. After three years at MIT...

Radia Joy Perlman

Inventor of the spanning-tree protocol, which is fundamental to the operation of network bridges, Perlman is a software designer and network engineer sometimes referred to as the "Mother of the Internet," though...

Laurence (Larry) Spitters

Co-founder of Memorex, the first company to manufacture chromium dioxide cassettes in substantial volume, Spitters is an American industrialist in the field of magnetic recording media. He received a B.A. from Western...

Raymond (Ray) F. Boyce

Co-developer of SQL, the first commercially successful language for relational databases, Boyce's work established the standard for relational database query languages still in use today. He was also known for his research...

Sonja Bernhardt

Founder and Inaugural President of Women in Technology (WiT) in Queensland in 1997, Bernhardt was a prominent Australian figure in efforts to bring more women and girls into technology careers. She also...

Reid Hoffman

Founder of LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network, Hoffman is sometimes called the "Oracle of Silicon Valley" for his track record of identifying transformative technology trends early. Hoffman was born on August 5,...

Ivan Plander

Developer of the analog computer around 1958, Plander is a Slovak computer scientist who received his Ph.D. at the Technical University in Prague and his Habilitation (Dr.Sc.) in Computer Science at the...

Elaine Surick Oran

Considered a world authority on numerical methods for large-scale simulation of physical systems, Oran pioneered computational technology to solve complex reactive flow problems. Her work unified concepts from science, mathematics, engineering, and...

Katherine (Kathy) Anne Yelick

Co-inventor of Unified Parallel C (UPC), a programming language extension designed for high-performance computing on large-scale parallel machines, Yelick is an internationally recognized expert in high performance computing. Yelick has served as a...

Herman Hollerith

Inventor of the punched card, Hollerith was a German-American statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data. He was the...

Thomas James Perkins

The first General Manager of HP's computer divisions who helped shepherd Hewlett-Packard's entry into the minicomputer business, Perkins was also one of the founders of the leading venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins...

David Harold Bailey

Writer of the computer program that enabled the discovery of the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula for computing digits of pi, Bailey is a mathematician and computer scientist. He received his B.S. degree in Mathematics...

Steven R. Hofstein

Co-producer of the first working MOS integrated circuit, Hofstein is a well-known scientist with over 40 patents whose inventions have been chronicled by publications that include the New York Times, Newsweek, Business...

Edson (Ed) de Castro

Designer of the Data General Nova series of computers, de Castro was a computer engineer born in Plainfield, New Jersey, but his family moved to Newton, Massachusetts when he was six, and...

Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth

Deriver of the Metropolis algorithm — cited in Computing in Science and Engineering (Jan. 2000) as being among the top 10 algorithms having the "greatest influence on the development and practice of...

Randy Bush

Founder of the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), an NSF-supported pro bono effort to help develop and deploy networking technology in projects throughout the world, Bush has worked with the computer industry...

David A. Hodges

Co-founder of Berkeley's Competitive Semiconductor Manufacturing Program, Hodges was a noted American electrical engineer and the Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor of Engineering Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley. He...

Albert Hosmer Bowker

Instrumental in the formation of the Stanford University Computer Science department, Bowker was an American educator who shaped academic computing at a pivotal moment. Born in Winchendon, Mass., he grew up in...

Benjamin B. Bederson

One of the principal leaders in the field of human-computer interaction, Bederson has been recognized through his selection to the Association for Computing Machinery's CHI Academy, an honorary group of individuals who...