Puneet Sharma

Recognized for work on Mobile Collaborative Communities featured in New Scientist Magazine, Sharma has served as a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs, conducting research on Network Measurement and Monitoring, Wireless Networks,...

Steve Anthony Ballmer

CEO of Microsoft, Ballmer is one of the most prominent figures in the history of the technology industry. He grew up in Farmington Hills, Michigan. In 1973, he graduated from Detroit Country Day...

Evgenii Mikhailovich Landis

Co-inventor of the AVL tree data structure, Landis worked with Georgy Adelson-Velsky to produce one of the most influential innovations in computer science. In 1946, Aleksandr Kronrod and Landis reinvented Sard's Lemma, which...

Juan R. Rodriguez

Pioneer in the development of advanced computer data storage technologies across four decades, Rodriguez co-founded Storage Technology Corporation in 1969 along with three other IBM engineers: Jesse Awieda, Thomas S. Kavanagh, and...

Edmund Callis Berkeley

Author of the landmark 1949 book Giant Brains, or Machines That Think, Berkeley became famous for describing the principles behind computing machines and surveying the most prominent examples of the time, including...

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...

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...

Vannevar Bush

The first presidential science advisor, Bush was an American engineer and science administrator known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb as a...

Coraline Ada Ehmke

Creator of the Contributor Covenant and the Post-Meritocracy Manifesto, Ehmke was a leading advocate for codes of conduct in open source projects and communities. She founded the Organization for Ethical Source and...

Tom Gilb

Developer of software metrics, software inspection, and evolutionary processes, Gilb is an American systems engineer, consultant, and author known for bringing quantitative measurement approaches to software development. Since quantitative measurements are essential...

Alan F. Shugart

A pioneer in managing programs and companies in the disk drive industry, Shugart made lasting contributions to the field over several decades. Al Shugart started at IBM in 1951 and over 18 years...

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.

Elizabeth M. Belding

Founder and Director of the Mobility Management and Networking (MOMENT) Laboratory, Belding has served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and as...

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...

John Logie Baird

Inventor of the first publicly demonstrated television system, Baird was also credited with creating the world's first fully electronic colour television tube. Although Baird's electromechanical system was eventually displaced by purely electronic...

Richard Edwin Stearns

1993 ACM Turing Award recipient, Stearns is a prominent computer scientist who, with Juris Hartmanis, was recognized "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational...

Marcelli Wein

A member of the pioneer group that initiated Computer Graphics projects at the NRC, developing the use of interactive graphics systems and computer animation, Wein is an international leader in Computer Graphics...

Owen R. Mock

One of the programmers who developed the PACT series of compilers for the IBM 701 and helped install the first operating system ever in operation, Mock pioneered computer operating systems in the...

Robert (Bob) William Galvin

CEO of Motorola and instrumental, along with Motorola engineer Bill Smith, in implementing the Six Sigma Quality System, Galvin served as Motorola's chief executive from 1959 to 1986. A US executive, Robert...

Aleksandr Semenovich Kronrod

Known for the Gauss–Kronrod quadrature formula, which he published in 1964, Kronrod was a Soviet mathematician and computer scientist. Earlier in his career, his computations informed theoretical physics. He was also known...