Lawrence (Larry) H. Landweber

Creator of THEORYNET, an electronic mail system serving over 100 researchers in computer science, Landweber is also best known for founding the Computer Science Network (CSNET) project in 1979, which later developed...

Frederic Alois Friedel

Co-founder of the chess database company ChessBase, Friedel is a German graduate linguist, science, chess, and computer chess journalist. He co-founded ChessBase in 1986 with game database developer Matthias Wöllenweber. He studied...

Sam Ruby

Co-developer and principal maintainer of the Feed Validator — a tool used to check the validity of HTML, CSS, XML documents, and RSS feeds — Ruby has made significant contributions to web...

John (Jack) G. Herriot

Teacher of the first programming course at Stanford University, Herriot helped found the Computer Science Department and served as the first Director of the Stanford Computation Center, which later evolved to become...

Harold Cohen

Author of the celebrated AARON program, an ongoing research effort in autonomous machine (art making) intelligence, Cohen is recognized as one of the few artists ever to have become deeply involved in...

Ida Rhodes

A member of the influential circle of women at the heart of early computer development in the United States, Rhodes was an American mathematician who shaped the field during its foundational years.

George Ciprian Necula

Known for his influential Ph.D. thesis first describing proof-carrying code, Necula completed his doctorate at Carnegie Mellon University under programming languages researcher Peter Lee. Originally from Baia Mare, Romania, he attended the...

David Filo

Co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang, Filo is an American businessman. His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side scripting software used to dynamically serve variable web pages,...

Pierre Morad Omidyar

Founder and chairman of eBay, Omidyar is a French-born Armenian-Iranian entrepreneur, philanthropist, and economist. Omidyar and his wife Pam are well-known philanthropists who founded Omidyar Network in 2004 in order to expand...

Joel S. Birnbaum

Director of the development of the precursor of Hewlett-Packard precision architecture — the basis for all Hewlett-Packard's RISC computers — Birnbaum has also served as Senior Vice President for Research and Development...

Benjamin B. Bederson

One of the principal leaders in the field of human-computer interaction, Bederson has been recognized through his selection to the Association for Computing Machinery's CHI Academy, an honorary group of individuals who...

Elizabeth (Liz) L. Burd

Leader of Durham's Technology Enhanced Learning research group, a group of 20 research staff and students, Burd has also served as director of the UK's Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning—Active...

Alexander L'vovich Brudno

Best known for fully describing the alpha-beta (α-β) search algorithm, Brudno was a Russian Jewish computer scientist who lived in Israel from 1991. He developed the "mathematics/machine interface" for the M-2 computer...

Robin Oliver Gandy

A pioneer in recursion theory, Gandy is best known for the Spector-Gandy theorem, the Gandy Stage Comparison theorem, and the Gandy Selection Theorem. A British mathematician and logician, he was a friend,...

Glenn Ricart

Leader of the team that wrote the code for the first implementation of TCP/IP for the IBM PC, Ricart is recognized as an Internet pioneer who started using one of the original...

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...

Harry Max Markowitz

Co-developer of SIMSCRIPT, the first simulation programming language, Markowitz also received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990 while a professor of finance at Baruch College of the City University...

Gennaro (Jerry) A. Cuomo

Co-founding father of IBM WebSphere Software, Cuomo has served as Chief Technology Officer of WebSphere, a business unit within IBM Software Group (SWG). He has been working for IBM since 1987 and...

Helen Greiner

Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for leadership in the design, development, and application of practical robots, Greiner is an American engineer and businesswoman best known as a co-founder...

Pierre Jaquet-Droz

Creator of animated dolls, or automata, devices which some consider to be the oldest examples of the computer, Jaquet-Droz lived in Paris, London, and Geneva, where he designed and built these mechanisms...