David Bradley

One of the twelve engineers who developed the original IBM PC, Bradley is known for creating the computer's ROM BIOS code. He is also the author of *Assembly Language Programming for the...

Ernest (Lee) E. Keet

Founder of Turnkey Systems, Inc. (TSI) and founding director of both the Charles Babbage Foundation and the IT History Society, Keet helped launch one of the pioneering commercial software firms of the...

Carol A. Jones

Responsible for delivering the first releases of WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Studio, Jones is recognized as a visionary and technical leader for WebSphere Portal, driving the initiative across IBM. She was...

Randy Howard Katz

Co-developer of the redundant array of independent disks (RAID) concept for computer storage, Katz is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department....

David Tresman Caminer

Pioneer in bringing the LEO computer into active use for the UK catering enterprise J. Lyons and Company, Caminer took a leading role in developing the business applications and was in charge...

Steve Dorner

Developer of the Eudora e-mail client, Dorner is an American software engineer who created it in 1988 as part of his work as a staff member at the University of Illinois at...

Ivan Edward Sutherland

Pioneer of computer graphics and inventor of Sketchpad, Sutherland received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1988 for that invention, which became an early predecessor to the sort...

Dana Stewart Scott

Author of the joint paper "Finite Automata and Their Decision Problem," which introduced the idea of nondeterministic machines, Scott has had a research career spanning computer science, mathematics, and philosophy, characterized by...

Dana L. Ulery

The first woman engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ulery is an American computer scientist and pioneer in scientific computing applications. She began her career in 1961, designing and developing algorithms...

Rolf Skår

Researcher on the second minicomputer in the world based on integrated circuits, Skår was also a co-founder of Norsk Data and served as CEO of the Norwegian Space Centre from 1997 to...

Robert (Bob) H. Dennard

Inventor of dynamic random access memory (DRAM), Dennard's creation of the one-transistor dynamic RAM was a core development in the launch of today's computer industry, setting the stage for development of increasingly...

Sophie Wilson

Primary designer of the ARM microprocessor, Wilson is a British computer scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). She was born in Leeds, England, and was educated at the University of...

Thomas M. Cover

Known for developing the relationship between information theory and statistics, Cover served as past President of the IEEE Information Theory Society and was a Fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics and...

Katherine L. Morse

Developer of a compiler and operating system kernel for a neural network subprocessor, Morse has worked continually in computing since taking her first paid programming job at age 17, the summer after...

Lynn G. Gref

Developer of the Rapid Development Methodology (RDM), Gref is a technologist and systems engineer who has done pioneering work in missile systems; command, control and communications (C3) systems; and satellite systems. He...

Aaron F. Bobick

Expert in using computer vision techniques to recognize people, Bobick's research has been reported by the BBC News and ABC News. His research has been in the field of Artificial Intelligence and...

Elisa Bertino

Major contributor to the theory of object-oriented databases, temporal databases, and database security systems, Bertino has served as a Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University,...

Hermann Kopetz

Chief architect of the Time-Triggered Protocol and the Time-Triggered Architecture (TTA), Kopetz has spent over twenty-five years developing a computing infrastructure for the design and implementation of dependable distributed embedded systems. He...

Robert (Bob) Proebsting

Inventor of DRAM address multiplexing with the MK4096 4096 X 1 bit DRAM introduced in 1973, Proebsting co-founded Mostek in June 1969 and made one of the most significant contributions in DRAM...

Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope

Inventor of two calculating machines, Stanhope was also a British statesman and scientist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). Also known as Charles Mahon, 3rd Earl Stanhope, he was the...