Andrew (Andy) Stephen Grove

One of the earliest employees of Intel Corporation, Grove ultimately played key leadership roles in its success.

Susan Hares

Co-author of the BGP specification — the protocol considered industry-wide to be the most important on the Internet — Hares is an internationally recognized leader in commercialized advanced networking technologies and products...

Willis Alfred Adcock

Assisted with the invention of the silicon transistor and the integrated circuit, Adcock was a Canadian-American physical chemist, electrical engineer, and university professor who also worked on the first atomic bomb. He...

Andrei Zary Broder

Co-inventor of the first practical test to prevent robots from masquerading as humans and accessing web sites — often referred to as CAPTCHA — Broder has served as a Distinguished Scientist at...

An Wang

Inventor and co-founder of Wang Laboratories, Wang transformed business computing through pioneering work in calculators, word processors, and minicomputers. Wang founded Wang Laboratories in June 1951 as a sole proprietorship. By 1970...

Shigeru Miyamoto

Lead game designer for Nintendo since its inception in 1974, Miyamoto was born and raised in the Kyoto Prefecture, where the natural surroundings inspired much of his later work. He is mainly...

Kun-Yao (K.Y.) Lee

Founder of BenQ Corporation, the No. 2 manufacturer of flat-panel computer displays, Lee is also recognized for growing the company to 40 times its former size and building BenQ products into a...

Lisa P. Jackson

The first African American to serve as administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Jackson held that position from 2009 to 2013, following her nomination by President-elect Barack Obama and confirmation...

David M. Young

Founder of the Center for Numerical Analysis at The University of Texas at Austin, Young was also known for establishing the Successive Overrelaxation (SOR) method. Professor Young's career and many contributions almost exactly...

Jack Howlett

Director of the Atlas Computer Laboratory, Howlett led a laboratory created to provide a service to researchers across the United Kingdom with a need for large-scale computing power, and played a key...

Charles (Chuck) Branscomb

Developer of the IBM 1401 Data Processing System and several other successful products, Branscomb spent 39 years at IBM, where he developed and managed successful products, including the IBM System/360 and several...

Tu Youyou

The first female citizen of the People's Republic of China to receive a Nobel Prize in any category, Tu Youyou was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with...

Peter Pin-Shan Chen

Known for the development of Entity-Relationship Modeling, Chen is an American computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University. Born in Taichung, Taiwan, he received a B.S. in electrical...

Janet Emerson Bashen

Regarded as the first African American woman to obtain a web-based software patent, Bashen earned that distinction through her invention of LinkLine, a web-based EEO software application designed to assist with equal...

Paul Vincent Galvin

Co-founder of Motorola, Galvin helped establish one of the world's leading telecommunications companies. Founded as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation on September 25, 1928, Motorola became a leader in communications equipment. Galvin was born...

Gordon B. Davis

Founding father of the academic discipline of MIS, Davis established research and teaching in MIS at the University of Minnesota in 1967. Davis authored and co-authored foundation texts in the discipline. He...

Wayne P. Stevens

Co-refiner and promoter of the concepts of what is now called Flow-based Programming (FBP), Stevens worked with John Paul Morrison to develop and advocate these ideas. An American software engineer, highly respected...

Christopher (Chris) J. Date

Involved in the technical planning and design of the IBM products SQL/DS and DB2, Date is an independent author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant specializing in relational database theory. He attended High Wycombe...

Evan Williams

Co-founder of Twitter, Williams also founded several other Internet companies, including Pyra Labs (creator of weblog-authoring software Blogger), and has served as CEO of Twitter.

Robert Cecil Martin

Initiator of the 2001 meeting that created Agile software development from Extreme Programming techniques, Martin has been a software professional since 1970 and has served as an international software consultant from 1990....