Samuel Morland

Credited with early developments in relation to computing, hydraulics and steam power, Morland was a notable English academic, diplomat, spy, inventor and mathematician of the 17th century. He was educated at Winchester...

David H. Crocker

Co-worker on RFC 822, the first standard to describe the syntax of a domain name, Crocker has forty years of work experience in the Internet industry, including early work with DARPA and...

Annie Easley

A significant contributor to the early development of NASA's rocket technologies, Easley spent decades as a NASA engineer whose work in programming, energy-conversion, and shuttle launches helped address the agency's need for...

John C. Klensin

Co-creator of the Network Startup Resource Center, helping dozens of countries to establish connections with the Internet, Klensin's career has included 30 years as a Principal Research Scientist at MIT, a stint...

John LeRoy Hennessy

Co-founder of MIPS Computer Systems Inc., Hennessy is known for developing the MIPS architecture and pioneering RISC chips. He has also served as the 10th President of Stanford University. He earned his...

Peri L. Tarr

Technical leader for collaborative analytics and optimization for software and systems engineering, with results transferred into IBM products, Tarr has served as a Research Staff Member at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research...

Timothy (Tim) John Berners-Lee

Creator of the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee is a British engineer and computer scientist who made the first proposal for it in March 1989. On 25 December 1990, with the help of...

Jean E. Sammet

Developer of FORMAC, the first widely used computer language for symbolic manipulation of mathematical formulas, Sammet spent 27 years at IBM where she created it. She received her B.A. in Math from Mount...

David (Dave) B. Lindquist

Responsible for the strategy and architecture of IBM's Cloud technology (SmartCloud software), Smarter Infrastructure, and Integrated Service Management solutions, Lindquist has served as an IBM Fellow, Chief Technology Officer of Software Group,...

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...

Charles Walton

The first patent holder for the RFID (radio frequency identification) device, Walton was an American inventor best known for a technology that uses radio waves to transfer data from an electronic tag,...

Ralph Ernest Meagher

Co-creator of the ILLIAC series, culminating with the ILLIAC IV supercomputer, the largest and fastest in the world, Meagher completed his physics degree at the University of Illinois in 1949. He had...

Jan Aleksander Rajchman

Conceiver of the first read-only memory and developer of the selectively addressable storage tube, Rajchman was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. Although he was born in London, he received the...

Tom Kilburn

Co-inventor of the first stored-program computer, Kilburn was a major player in the team which built the Manchester University "Baby" in 1948. He also co-invented with Freddie Williams the cathode ray storage...

Tsutomu Shimomura

Best known for his contributions to lattice gas automata and digital security research, Shimomura has made significant contributions to both computational physics and computer security. In the fall of 1984 he joined the...

Stephen (Steve) Walker

Member of the team that developed ARPAnet, the breakthrough packet switching system that evolved into the Internet, Walker is an American engineer who is nationally recognized for his pioneering work on the...

Robert Stein

Producer of the first interactive computer discs for CD-ROM, Stein is considered a visionary and innovator in the world of communication and multimedia. Born and raised in New York City, Stein attended...

Martin Edward Hellman

Co-inventor of public key cryptography, Hellman co-authored with Whitfield Diffie the landmark 1976 paper *New Directions in Cryptography*. It introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographic keys, which went far toward...

Ole-Johan Dahl

One of the fathers of object-oriented programming and Simula, Dahl produced the initial ideas for object-oriented (OO) programming in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Center (NR) as part of the Simula...

Jerry D. Hutcheson

Researcher of several types of semiconductor devices, Hutcheson joined the electronics industry in 1959 and advanced through a succession of research and manufacturing posts in several companies that involved him with the...