Gabe Logan Newell

Producer of the first three releases of Windows, Newell later founded Valve, producing one of the best-selling PC games ever, Half-Life.

Gordon Eubanks

Designer of CBASIC and CP/M tools, Eubanks is recognized as a microcomputer industry pioneer and one of the founding figures of the personal computer software era. While serving in the U.S. Navy, Eubanks...

Morton (Mort) H. Meyerson

Founding Chief Executive of EDS, Meyerson began his business career in 1963 at Bell Helicopter. In 1966, he joined Electronic Data Systems, Inc. as a systems engineer trainee, ultimately becoming President and...

James C. Morgan

Silicon Valley's longest-serving FORTUNE 500 CEO, Morgan served as chairman of the board of Applied Materials from 1987 to 2009 and as chief executive officer from 1977 to 2003. He has served...

Steve (Slug) Russell

Chief developer of Spacewar!, one of the earliest videogames, Russell is an American video game designer, programmer, and computer scientist. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, his family later moved to a small farm...

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...

Robert (Bob) Stanley Barton

Chief architect of the Burroughs B5000, Barton was also a co-inventor of dataflow. His thinking was broadly influential. As one example, Barton influenced the systems and higher-level computer language thinking of Alan Kay,...

Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III

Developer of the mathematical underpinnings of continuum mechanics, Truesdell transformed the study of elasticity, fluid dynamics, and related fields through work that began in the 1960s and continued for the rest of...

Herbert Franz Mataré

Co-developer of the first functional "European" transistor, Mataré made his landmark contribution alongside Heinrich Welker in the vicinity of Paris in 1948, at the same time and independently from the Bell Labs...

Dennis Crowley

Co-founder of the popular social networking sites Dodgeball and Foursquare, Crowley is an American Internet entrepreneur born in Medway, Massachusetts who graduated from nearby Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, Massachusetts in...

Ginny Strazisar

Builder of the ARPANET gateway software, Strazisar wrote the first internetworking router (then called "gateway") software for the new TCP/IP protocols. On August 27, 1976, the "bread truck"—as it was often called—first...

Jack P. Ruina

Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) from 1961 to 1963, during which the idea of an information processing program was initiated, Ruina held a position that proved foundational to what...

Patrick Joseph McGovern

Founder of Computerworld and the International Data Group (IDG), McGovern built one of the world's largest technology media companies, with subsidiaries in technology publishing, research, event management, and venture capital. McGovern was born...

Gerald D. Cohen

CEO and founder of Information Builders, Cohen started an early enterprise database software company.

Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth

Deriver of the Metropolis algorithm — cited in Computing in Science and Engineering (Jan. 2000) as being among the top 10 algorithms having the "greatest influence on the development and practice of...

Dorothy Vaughan

The first African American woman to receive a promotion and supervise a group of staff at Langley Research Center, Vaughan became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers in 1949 and was...

Charles R. Trimble

Developer of the Global Positioning System (GPS) for commercial and consumer applications, Trimble founded Trimble Navigation Limited (TNL) in 1978 along with two partners from Hewlett-Packard, initially operating from Los Altos, California....

John Vernon Pavlik

Originator of the concept of the Three Stages of Online News Content, which explains the source of online news content, Pavlik is an American academic and author who has published on new...

Edward (Ed) H. Sussenguth, Jr.

Known for his work on the APL programming language and multiple systems for IBM, Sussenguth was an American engineer born in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He received his B.A. degree in 1954 from Harvard...

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg

Co-founder of Facebook, Zuckerberg is an American entrepreneur best known for creating the popular social networking site. He co-founded Facebook with fellow classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while attending...