John Richard Patterson

Pioneer of computer dating outside America, Patterson was the first to use a computer to professionally match couples in the 1960s. He was the founder of Dateline Computer Dating.

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...

Audrey Tang

A free software programmer as well as a politician, Tang is described as one of the "ten greatest Taiwanese computing personalities." They are a leader of the Haskell and Perl programming language...

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...

Tim William Bray

Co-inventor of the XML web standard, Bray has been a major contributor to XML and Atom web standards. Right out of college, Bray joined Digital Equipment Corporation in Toronto as a software specialist....

Trevor Pearcey

Creator of CSIRAC, one of the first stored program electronic computers in the world, Pearcey was an outstanding Australian ICT Pioneer. Most notably, he led the project team that built one of the...

Carl Georg Lange Barth

Improver and popularizer of the industrial use of compound slide rules in scientific management, Barth was a Norwegian-American mathematician and mechanical engineer. He was born in Christiania, Norway, and graduated from the...

Steven (Steve) Gibson

Creator of one of the first adware removal programs, OptOut, Gibson is an American software engineer and security researcher. Born in Dayton, Ohio, he began working on computers as a teenager, and...

Florian Brody

Co-inventor of Voyager's Expanded Books, the first electronic books to be read on a laptop, Brody is an international marketing executive and digital media specialist with over 25 years of experience. He...

Li-Shiuan Peh

Developer and builder of self-regulating power-aware interconnection networks that trade off power and performance automatically, Peh is recognized for work that would reconcile the design goals of high-performance and low-power usage. Li-Shiuan Peh...

Georg (Per) Pehr Scheutz

Co-developer of the Scheutzian calculation engine, which produced the first tables calculated and printed by machinery, Scheutz was a 19th-century Swedish lawyer, translator, and inventor. He studied law at Lund University, graduating...

Robert (Bob) C. Baron

Program Manager for the Mariner II (Venus) and the Mariner IV (Mars) onboard space computers, Baron spent over 25 years as an engineer, entrepreneur, and executive in the computer industry. A historian,...

R. Narasimhan

Often referred to as the Bhisma of Computer Science and Technology in India, Narasimhan made significant contributions to the development of computer science education, research, and technology in India in the early...

Srini Devadas

Co-inventor of silicon Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and co-founder of Verayo, a company focused on improving the security of computer hardware, Devadas has served as the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical...

John Adrian Shepherd-Barron

Pioneer in the development of the cash machine (ATM), Shepherd-Barron joined De La Rue Instruments in the 1960s and in 1965 came up with the concept of a self-service machine that would...

Megan Smith

Named in 2014 as the third U.S. Chief Technology Officer and the first woman to hold that position, Smith served as Assistant to the President under Barack Obama until January 2017, succeeding...

Alan B. Fowler

Researcher of statistical fluctuations in small semiconductor systems, Fowler is an American physicist born in Denver, Colorado. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a B.S. degree in 1951, an M.S. degree...

Reiner W. Hartenstein

Pioneer of hardware description languages and reconfigurable computing, Hartenstein is known for the successful hardware design language KARL and its graphical companion language ABL, as well as for configware/software co-compilation techniques. Hartenstein received...

Mendel Rosenblum

Designer and builder of virtualization technology for commodity computing platforms, Rosenblum co-founded VMware in 1998 and served as its Chief Scientist for the company's first 10 years. He received his B.A. degree...

Winifred (Mitchell) Baker

Instrumental in the creation of the Mozilla Foundation, Baker has served as Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation and Chairperson and former Chief Executive Officer of the Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the...