Harry (Webb) McKinney

Co-leader of HP's post-merger integration team responsible for the planning and integration of HP and Compaq's systems, processes, and people, McKinney brings a wealth of experience in mergers, integrations, and executive leadership,...

W. Bruce Croft

A leading contributor to research in information retrieval and the theoretical development and practical use of Bayesian inference networks and language modelling for retrieval, Croft has served as a distinguished Professor in...

Morgan Sparks

Co-inventor of the microwatt bipolar junction transistor, Sparks helped create a semiconductor device that led to personal computers, cell phones, and DVD players. He was born in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, and grew...

William (Bill) Nelson Joy

Founder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems, Joy co-founded the company in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy, Andy Bechtolsheim and Vaughan Pratt, and has served as chief scientist there until...

Sajal K. Das

Pioneer in research on wireless sensor networks and pervasive and mobile computing, Das has served as the Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair Professor and chair of the Computer Science department at the...

Karen Banks

Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013 as a "Global Connector," Banks is a British computer networking pioneer recognized for expanding internet access to underserved communities worldwide. In the 1990s,...

Henry (Hank) Wallman

Co-builder of the Electronic Differential Analyser, an early example of an analog computer, Wallman also performed pioneering research in biomedical engineering combining video displays with X-ray imaging. An American mathematician known for...

Joseph (Rod) Rodney Canion

Co-founder of Compaq Computer Corporation, Canion is a native of Houston who graduated from the University of Houston in 1966 and 1968 with Bachelor's and Master's degrees in electrical engineering with an...

Gwendowlyn K Bell

Founding President and Co-founder of The Computer Museum and Co-founder of the Computer History Museum, Bell has also served as President of the ACM.

Branimir Makanec

A pioneer of computer popularization in Croatia, Makanec established the Multimedia Center of the Zagreb University Referral Center (MMC). The MMC was an open-type computer center intended to be used for non-numerical...

Joseph Henry

Inventor of the electromagnetic relay that formed the basis of the electrical telegraph, Henry was also the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a founding member of the National Institute for...

John Karat

Lead researcher in the field of human-computer interaction and co-developer of IBM's large vocabulary desktop speech recognition system, Karat is an internationally recognized figure whose career with IBM spanned Development (1982–1987) and...

Mark Eugene Russinovich

Co-developer of the website sysinternals.com, Russinovich wrote and published dozens of popular Windows administration and diagnostic utilities including Autoruns, Filemon, and RootkitRevealer. He has served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Microsoft...

Erik Selberg

Creator of MetaCrawler, one of the first Web meta-search engines, Selberg is an American software developer. Selberg attended college at Carnegie Mellon University in 1989. In 1993, he graduated with a double...

Eric Horvitz

Recognized for playing a significant role in establishing the credibility of artificial intelligence, Horvitz has also helped establish the link between artificial intelligence and decision science. Horvitz coined the concept of bounded...

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...

Shuman Ghosemajumder

Creator of the first real-time collaborative graphic design application, Ghosemajumder is a Canadian technologist, entrepreneur, and author. He was born in Stuttgart, Germany and grew up in London, Ontario, Canada. In 1996 he...

Saul Amarel

Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Amarel was best known for his groundbreaking work in AI methodologies applied to scientific inquiry and engineering practice. He also had a distinguished career as a scientist, engineer,...

Jerrier A. Haddad

Charged with the complete technical and executive responsibility for the IBM 701 development and design program, Haddad led the effort that featured the first magnetic tape storage system. The technical responsibility included...

Clifford Alan Pickover

Member of the team that worked on design-automation workstations and developed code for IBM's IntelliStation, Pickover is an American author, editor, inventor, and columnist in the fields of science, mathematics, and science...