Marshall T. Rose

A network protocol and software engineer who contributed extensively to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Rose has played a central role in shaping the Internet and network applications. His work on...

Albert (Al) Vezza

Founder of Infocom, one of the earliest computer game companies, Vezza has also been recognized as one of the earliest Internet leaders. A computer science professor, he served as the Assistant Director...

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...

Paul J. Severino

Designer of interface boards for the PDP-11 at Digital Equipment Corporation, Severino began his career there after receiving his B.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1969, subsequently serving as...

Theodore Y. Ts'o

Known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, in particular his contributions to file systems, Ts'o graduated in 1990 from MIT with a degree in computer science. After graduation he worked in...

Scott W. Ambler

Leader in the development of several software processes — including Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Enterprise Unified Process (EUP), and Agile Unified Process (AUP) methodologies — Ambler is a Canadian software...

David Patrick Reed

Designer of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Reed is an American computer scientist known for significant contributions to computer networking, including the design and construction of Internet protocols, distributed data storage, and...

John Richard Patterson

Pioneer of computer dating outside America, Patterson was the first to use a computer to professionally match couples in the 1960s. He was the founder of Dateline Computer Dating.

Hugh Williams

One of the members of the IBM team that developed the plan for unbundling software from hardware in 1969, Williams is also known for solving the Archimedes Cattle Problem. In June of...

Micael Moritz

Noted Silicon Valley investor, Moritz has been a British-American venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California, a former member of the board of directors of Google, and a philanthropist and...

Richard Lawrence Grimsdale

Designer and developer of the world's first transistorized computer, the Metrovick 950, Grimsdale was born in Australia, returned to England with his parents, and later studied electrical engineering at Manchester University, graduating...

Raymond (Ray) Kurzweil

Inventor and developer of Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Text-To-Speech Synthesis, Speech Recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments, Kurzweil is an American author, inventor, and futurist. He grew up in the New York...

Pratap Pattnaik

Chief architect and scientist for defining, designing, and implementing the key research technologies that influenced IBM's server design in high-performance computing, Pattnaik has served as an IBM Fellow at the IBM Thomas...

Emerson W. Pugh

Leader of IBM's development of a thin magnetic film memory array used in the top-performance IBM System/360 computer, Pugh also led research and development in magnetic bubbles and other memory technologies, 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);...

Corrado Böhm

Known for his contributions to the theory of structured programming, constructive mathematics, combinatory logic, lambda-calculus, and the semantics and implementation of functional programming languages, Böhm was a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus...

Venu Govindaraju

Co-developer of handwriting recognition at the core of the first handwritten address interpretation system used by the US Postal Service, Govindaraju is an Indian-American computer scientist and educator whose primary contributions are...

Herbert Franz Mataré

Co-developer of the first functional "European" transistor, Mataré made his landmark contribution alongside Heinrich Welker in the vicinity of Paris in 1948, at the same time and independently from the Bell Labs...

Margaret Hamilton

Award-winning NASA computer scientist and mathematician who developed the Apollo program's on-board flight software, Hamilton is also recognized as the individual who coined the term "software engineering." Born in 1938, Hamilton graduated from...

Fred J Baker

Active in the networking and communications industry, Baker chaired a number of IETF working groups, including Bridge MIB, DS1/DS3 MIB, ISDN MIB, PPP Extensions, IEPREP, and IPv6 Operations. He served on the...