Michael Gleicher

Recognized for developing better ways to synthesize human motions to make animated characters that are better able to communicate, Gleicher has served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at...

William H. Bridge

Pioneer in the development and research of computers and computer technology in the GE DATANET, Bridge began his engineering career during the seminal years of digital computer technology. He joined the SEAC...

David L. Mills

Inventor of the Network Time Protocol, the fuzzball router, and the Exterior Gateway Protocol, Mills was an American computer engineer and Internet pioneer. He earned his PhD in Computer and Communication Sciences...

Irene Greif

Inventor of the Version Manager — consistently designated by analysts as the most significant group-enabling feature in spreadsheets — Greif is an American computer scientist and a founder of the field of...

David Bradley

One of the twelve engineers who developed the original IBM PC, Bradley is known for creating the computer's ROM BIOS code. He is also the author of *Assembly Language Programming for the...

Martin David Davis

Known for his work on Hilbert's tenth problem and as co-inventor of the Davis-Putnam and DPLL algorithms, Davis is an American mathematician. Born in New York City, he grew up in the...

James (Jim) M. McCoy

Co-founder and CEO of Maxtor, which became a leading disk drive manufacturer after pioneering the market for high-performance 5.25-inch disk drives, McCoy has built multiple billion-dollar international companies over four decades as...

Ramakrishnan Srikant

Key architect for IBM Intelligent Miner, Srikant contributed the association rules and sequential patterns modules to the product. Dr. Srikant has served as a Principal Research Scientist at Google. He previously managed the...

Paul Thelen

Founder of the largest portal for downloadable games in the world, Thelen built Big Fish Games into a platform distributing in excess of 1.5 million games per day. After graduating from the University...

Karen Spärck Jones

Pioneer of inverse document frequency (IDF) weighting in information retrieval, Spärck Jones introduced a concept now used in most search engines today. A British computer scientist, she was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England...

Gerald (Jerry) Anderson Lawson

Inventor of the video game cartridge and the Fairchild Channel F console, Lawson transformed how games were distributed and played. A lifelong engineer and tinkerer, he was born in 1940 and grew...

Judea Pearl

A pioneer of the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks, Pearl is an Israeli American computer scientist and philosopher. His work demonstrated empirical success in numerous applications...

Philip Stuart Milner-Barry

One of four leading codebreakers at Bletchley Park to petition Prime Minister Winston Churchill directly for more resources for their work, Milner-Barry was also a British chess player, chess writer, and civil...

Andrew Mason

Developer of Groupon, a website that sells deals to local businesses, Mason grew up in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, and graduated from Mt. Lebanon High School in 1999. He...

Jeremy Stoppelman

CEO of Yelp, Stoppelman co-founded the company in 2004 and has led it as chief executive since its inception.

Bernard Galler

American mathematician and computer scientist at the University of Michigan, Galler was involved in the development of large-scale operating systems and computer languages, including the MAD programming language and the Michigan Terminal...

William Stanley Jevons

Constructed a logical machine called the Logic Piano, Jevons was a pioneering figure in both logic and economics. Jevons arrived quite early in his career at the doctrines that constituted his most...

James (Jim) Nicholas Gray

Pioneer of granular database locking, two-tier transaction commit semantics, and the data cube operator for data warehousing applications, Gray transformed the field of database and transaction processing systems. Gray studied at the University...

Ahti Heinla

Co-developer of Skype, Heinla is an Estonian programmer and entrepreneur who served as Lead Architect on the project alongside Priit Kasesalu and Jaan Tallinn. They had also originally developed Kazaa, which started...

Laurence (Larry) Spitters

Co-founder of Memorex, the first company to manufacture chromium dioxide cassettes in substantial volume, Spitters is an American industrialist in the field of magnetic recording media. He received a B.A. from Western...