Charlie Bass

Co-founder of Ungermann-Bass (UB), the first large networking company independent of any computer manufacturer, Bass helped commercialize Ethernet, oversaw a successful IPO, and then saw the company purchased by Tandem Computers. In...

Jack Yun Ma

Founder of one of the world's biggest B2B online marketplaces, Ma built Alibaba.com into an eBay for companies doing international trade. A Chinese entrepreneur and philanthropist, he also founded and served as...

Hong-Jiang Zhang

A leader in establishing Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) into a world-class basic research center in computer science, Zhang has been a prominent researcher in media computing, more specifically in video and image...

Aart J. de Geus

One of the world's leading experts on logic synthesis and simulation, de Geus is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Synopsys Inc., a fellow of IEEE, and Phil Kaufman Award winner. He...

Michael T. Goodrich

Pioneer and research leader on efficient parallel and distributed solutions, Goodrich has served as a Chancellor's Professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science of the Donald Bren School of Information...

Paul Gardener Allen

Co-founder of Microsoft, Allen launched the company with Bill Gates in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1975, and began marketing a BASIC programming language interpreter. In 1980, after promising to deliver IBM a...

Meg Whitman

Longtime chief executive of eBay and Hewlett Packard, Whitman held senior business leadership positions at some of the most prominent companies in American technology and media, including The Walt Disney Company and...

John F. Shoch

Contributor to the development of computer networking — particularly the PARC Universal Protocol (PUP), an important predecessor of TCP/IP — Shoch attended Stanford, where he earned a B.A. in political science (1971);...

Samuel Reid Warren, Jr.

Supervisor of the EDVAC project at the Moore School, Warren spent the bulk of his career at the University of Pennsylvania. Born in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, he was the...

Robert Cecil Martin

Initiator of the 2001 meeting that created Agile software development from Extreme Programming techniques, Martin has been a software professional since 1970 and has served as an international software consultant from 1990....

Seymour Papert

One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence and an inventor of the Logo programming language, Papert was among the most influential thinkers in education and computing. At MIT, he created the Epistemology...

Dan Warmenhoven

Under his leadership, NetApp grew from a start-up to a multibillion-dollar company and a recognized market leader in networked storage. Warmenhoven has served as Executive Chairman of NetApp Inc., as well as...

Eric S. Yuan

Founder and CEO of Zoom Video Communications, Yuan is a Chinese-American billionaire businessman who owns approximately 22% of the company. After earning his master's degree, Yuan lived in Beijing and attended a...

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...

Frank Gerald Soltis

Chief Scientist for IBM's System i computers, Soltis is recognized as a pioneer of technology-independent machine interfaces (TIMI) and describes himself as the grandfather of the AS/400. His pioneering architecture of TIMI...

Igor Aleksander

A pioneer in artificial intelligence and neural networks, Aleksander was born in Croatia, educated in Italy and South Africa, and completed a PhD at Queen Mary College, University of London. In 1984...

Arthur Walter Burks

Contributor to the design of the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, Burks served as a senior engineer on the project in the 1940s. Decades later, Burks and his wife Alice...

John Adam Presper Eckert, Jr.

Co-inventor of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, Eckert was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly, he presented the first course in computing topics (the Moore School...

Arthur W. Astrin

Builder of the world's first DSP and hardware FFT processor with sufficient speed to allow OFDM modulation, Astrin is an American communications engineer who has worked for Apple Computer, Inc., IBM (where...

Glenn John McQueen

Supervisor of computerized animation on Pixar's early films and hailed as one of the best animators in the field, McQueen's work was central to the studio's success. A Canadian supervisor of digital...