Paul M. Horn

Pioneer in the use of copper and self-assembly in chip manufacturing and contributor to pervasive computing, Horn is an American computer scientist and solid state physicist. He spent 28 years with IBM...

Jacob Bernoulli

Known for numerous mathematical landmarks including Bernoulli Numbers and the Bernoulli Differential Equation, Bernoulli became familiar with calculus through a correspondence with Gottfried Leibniz, then collaborated with his brother Johann on various...

Roger Sippl

Co-developer of the relational database Informix (INFORMation on unIX) and co-founder of Relational Database Systems (RDS), Sippl earned a B.S. in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. He and...

George Robert Stibitz

Recognized as one of the fathers of the modern digital computer for his work with Bell Labs in the 1930s and 1940s, Stibitz completed a relay-based calculator in November 1937 he dubbed...

David Michael Dahm

Designer of the pioneering Burroughs B5000 compiler and operating systems, Dahm introduced generative techniques to Data Base Management. Born in Texarkana, Arkansas, he grew up in Dallas, Texas, and graduated Valedictorian from...

Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale

Developer of the "migratable objects" parallel programming model and its implementation in the Charm++ parallel programming system, Kale has served as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at...

Stephen (Steve) T. Kent

Designer and developer of user authentication and access control systems as well as other network security systems, Kent has served as Vice President and Chief Scientist for Information Security at BBN Technologies....

David Gelernter

Made seminal contributions to the field of parallel computation, specifically the tuple space coordination model as embodied by the Linda programming system (named for Linda Lovelace, an actress in the porn movie...

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...

Walter (Jerry) Jeremiah Sanders III

Co-founder and long-time CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Sanders helped establish one of America's most prominent semiconductor manufacturers.

Richard F. Clippinger

Co-developer of numeric methods for solving ordinary and partial differential equations on the ENIAC, EDVAC, and ORDVAC computers, Clippinger was a computing laboratory staff member at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, who...

Mina Spiegel Rees

Pioneer of federally funded computer research and development and the first woman president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Rees transformed the landscape of postwar American science. She was...

Robert Marco Tomasulo

Inventor of the Tomasulo algorithm, a computer architecture hardware algorithm for dynamic scheduling of instructions that allows out-of-order execution, Tomasulo was the recipient of the 1997 Eckert–Mauchly Award, "for the ingenious Tomasulo...

Daniel C. Edelstein

Leading expert in copper chip wiring technologies, Edelstein served as Chief Architect and driving force behind IBM's copper chip wiring technologies, first announced in 1997. These were devised to increase the speed...

Ken E. Batcher

Designer of the Massively Parallel Processor, Batcher created one of the most significant parallel computing architectures of its era. Among the designs Batcher worked on at Goodyear were the: Massively Parallel Processor (16,384...

Clare-Marie Karat

Author of the "Computer User's Bill of Rights" and creator of a cost-benefit methodology for analyzing the return on investment in usability, Karat is a leading figure in Human Computer Interaction research....

Owen R. Mock

One of the programmers who developed the PACT series of compilers for the IBM 701 and helped install the first operating system ever in operation, Mock pioneered computer operating systems in the...

Adele Goldberg

Co-developer of the programming language Smalltalk-80 and various concepts related to object-oriented programming, Goldberg conducted this work as a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the 1970s. She...

Jeff De Luca

Primary architect of Feature Driven Development (FDD), De Luca created this lightweight methodology for developing computer software with reduced management overhead, time and money circa 1999. He is a global information technology...

Charles (Chuck) H. Moore

Inventor of the Forth programming language, Moore is recognized as one of the most influential figures in programming language history. Born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, in 1938, Moore grew up in Flint,...