C. Michael Armstrong

Responsible for the development and manufacture of minicomputers, personal computers, and software at IBM, Armstrong is a business executive who also led Hughes Aircraft, AT&T, and Comcast as Chairman and CEO. Born in...

Bertrand Meyer

Creator of the Eiffel programming language, Meyer has made foundational contributions to software engineering and object-oriented design. He received the equivalent of a bachelor's degree in engineering from the École polytechnique in...

Cheryl L. Shavers

Appointed Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology in the Clinton Administration, Shavers served in that role from 1999 to 2001, representing one of the most senior positions in U.S. technology policy. Her...

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...

Susan Estrada

Founder of CERFnet, one of the original regional IP networks, Estrada is recognized as an Internet pioneer and named a "thinking nerd" by colleagues, with a deep interest in emerging broadband technologies...

Michael Oser Rabin

Author of the landmark joint paper "Finite Automata and Their Decision Problems," which introduced nondeterministic machines and had a lasting impact on automata theory, Rabin and co-author Dana S. Scott were cited...

Bruce Gilchrist

Co-inventor of a fast adder incorporating a speed-up technique for asynchronous adders — a design later used in the Philco TRANSAC S-2000 (1957), the first commercial transistorized computer — Gilchrist also served...

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...

Brewster Kahle

Founder of the Internet Archive and creator of WAIS and Alexa Internet, Kahle has been a pioneering force in digital access and preservation. He was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity....

Patricia S. Cowings

The first American woman to be trained as a scientist astronaut by NASA, Cowings was an aerospace psychophysiologist whose work focused on the physiology of astronauts in outer space. She served as...

Tim Westergren

Founder and CEO of Pandora, Westergren started the Music Genome Project, a mathematical algorithm to organize music. The idea was marketed by Pandora Media. Westergren, along with the other developers, patented the...

Ivan Plander

Developer of the analog computer around 1958, Plander is a Slovak computer scientist who received his Ph.D. at the Technical University in Prague and his Habilitation (Dr.Sc.) in Computer Science at the...

Bonnie Dunbar

A veteran of five Space Shuttle missions flown between 1985 and 1998, Dunbar is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut whose flights included two dockings with the Mir space station. Before...

Malcolm (Doug) Douglas McIlroy

Renowned for seminal work on software componentization and the Unix pipeline implementation, McIlroy is also known for developing several Unix tools, such as spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, and tr. Dr. McIlroy...

Daniel Henry Holms Ingalls, Jr.

Inventor of BitBlit, the general-purpose graphical operation underlying most bitmap graphics systems, Ingalls is a pioneer of object-oriented computer programming and the principal architect, designer, and implementor of five generations of Smalltalk...

Cuthbert Corwin Hurd

Pioneer of IBM's development of general-purpose computers, Hurd made contributions that helped transform scientific computing. In 1947 Hurd worked for Union Carbide as a mathematician at the United States Atomic Energy Commission facility...

Simon Phipps

Instrumental in IBM's involvement in the Java programming language, Phipps founded IBM's Java Technology Center. A computer scientist and web and open source advocate, he left IBM for Sun Microsystems in 2000,...

William (Bill) V. Campbell

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur who mentored leaders at Apple, Intuit, and Google, Campbell was born and raised in Homestead, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, son of a local school official. He attended Columbia University...

Stephen W. Dunwell

Lead engineer in the development of IBM's STRETCH supercomputer, Dunwell oversaw a project that was first shipped in 1962—two years before the introduction of the legendary IBM System/360. The development of STRETCH illustrates...

Ray Harishankar

Significant contributor to IBM's leadership position in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), reusable asset-based development approaches leveraging SOA, and in the creation of highly reusable IT assets, Harishankar has served as an IBM...