Gary Price

Founder of ResourceShelf.com and originator of Price's List of Lists, "a database of ranked listings of companies, people and resources freely available on the Internet," Price is an American librarian based near...

Anthony (Tony) M. Fadell

Developer of technologies including the Sony Magic Link, Motorola Envoy, and the Apple iPod, Fadell is a Lebanese American computer science engineer. He served as Senior Vice President of the iPod Division...

Alice Rowe Burks

One of 75 females employed as a "woman computer" performing mathematical calculations before electronic computers became commercially available, and co-publisher of the definitive Who Invented the Computer? in 2003, Burks was also...

James W. Cortada

Noted IT historian and author, Cortada is also the founder and a board member of the IT History Society. Cortada joined IBM in 1974 as a salesman, and held a variety of sales...

Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Co-founder of Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys—the two largest companies in Electronic Design Automation (EDA)—Sangiovanni-Vincentelli is a world-renowned authority on integrated circuit and system design who has been instrumental in bringing EDA...

Amarnath Gupta

Creator of the first domain knowledge-based mediation for scientific databases — a patented achievement — Gupta is also a pioneer in applying the latest information systems research in biomedicine, and has advanced...

Dan Fylstra

Founding Associate Editor of BYTE Magazine and co-developer and marketer of VisiCalc, the original spreadsheet program, Fylstra has been a pioneer of the computer industry since the 1970s. In 1978 he co-founded...

Jaan Tallinn

Co-developer of Skype and FastTrack/Kazaa, Tallinn holds the world's record for the largest number of software downloads at almost 500 million. An Estonian programmer, he is widely celebrated for writing the peer-to-peer...

Ethel Cox Marden

Participant in the creation of the first computer languages, Marden went to work for the National Bureau of Standards after World War II, serving as a mathematician and administrator. She served as...

Boris Artashesovich Babayan

Creator of early Soviet supercomputers, Babayan is notable as a pioneering figure in Soviet computing history. Babayan later pursued a career with Intel.

James E. Rumbaugh

Co-developer of the Object Modeling Technique (OMT) and the Unified Modeling Language (UML), Rumbaugh is an American computer scientist and object-oriented methodologist who created these with Grady Booch and Ivar Jacobson. Born...

Morgan Sparks

Co-inventor of the microwatt bipolar junction transistor, Sparks helped create a semiconductor device that led to personal computers, cell phones, and DVD players. He was born in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, and grew...

Hugh Darwen

Chief architect on Business System 12, a database management system that faithfully embraced the principles of the relational model, Darwen has been recognized as a significant figure in the history of the...

Robert (Bob) P. Colwell

Leader of the development of Intel's Pentium 4 CPU, Colwell is also recognized as the chief IA-32 architect on the Pentium Pro, Pentium II, and Pentium III microprocessors. An electrical engineer and...

Manuel Blum

Recipient of the 1995 Turing Award for his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking, Blum is a computer scientist whose work has...

Nikola Tesla

A major contributor to the birth of commercial electricity and revolutionary developer in the field of electromagnetism, Tesla was an inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer who is best known for his...

Kevin A. Stoodley

Conceiver and developer of the Testarossa dynamic compilation infrastructure, which along with the J9 JVM project became the basis for all of IBM's Java language implementations, Stoodley has served as Chief Technical...

Peter R. Samson

Creator of the Harmony Compiler for the PDP-1 and the Expensive Planetarium star display for Spacewar!, Samson is an American computer scientist best known for creating pioneering computer software. He studied at...

Andrew Chi-Chih Yao

A pioneer in the theory of computation, Yao is recognized for fundamental contributions including the complexity-based theory of pseudorandom number generation, cryptography, and communication complexity. Yao used the minimax theorem to prove...

Stanley Mazor

Co-designer of the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004, Mazor also co-patented "Symbol," a high-level language computer. Born in Chicago, Illinois, as a youth his family moved to California, where he attended...