John A Gosden

Pioneer of LEO software development and EDP standards, Gosden was a key figure in the world's first business computing applications. John joined J. Lyons as a trainee programmer in 1953 just a few...

Galileo Galilei

Called "the Father of Modern Science," Galilei played a major role in the Scientific Revolution, including landmark improvements to the telescope and the invention of an improved military compass. He was born...

Marc Andreessen

Founder of Netscape and co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser, Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. He also chaired Opsware, a software company he originally founded as...

Ruzena Bajcsy

Founding director of the University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception (GRASP) Laboratory, Bajcsy is an American engineer and computer scientist specializing in robotics. She also served as head of...

Raymond (Ray) M. Holt

Developer of the first microprocessor chip set for the US Navy F-14 Tomcat, Holt designed this groundbreaking chip set at Garrett AiResearch's Central Air Data Computer. He co-founded Microcomputer Associates, Incorporated with...

Michael Shrayer

Inventor of the Electric Pencil, the first word processor for home computers, Shrayer launched an unexpected and lucrative new business from what began as a personal project. In 1975, Shrayer was "semi-retired" from...

C. Denis Mee

Founder of IBM's Magnetic Recording Institute (MRI), Mee is a key technologist and pioneer in the hard drive industry. He joined IBM in 1962 at Yorktown Heights, NY as a research staff...

Fritz Joachim Weyl

Developer of the U.S. government Office of Naval Research (ONR) Computer in 1946, Weyl was a renowned mathematician who significantly contributed to research in mathematics during his lifetime and came to be...

Solomon Wolf Golomb

Inventor of Golomb coding and pioneer in combinatorial analysis and coding theory, Golomb transformed modern communications. He pioneered the identification of the characteristics and merits of maximum length shift register sequences, also...

J. Noel Chiappa

Member of the TCP/IP Working Group which started the Internet project, Chiappa was instrumental in developing an early ring-based local area network and gateway. He has worked as an independent researcher in...

Steve Anthony Ballmer

CEO of Microsoft, Ballmer is one of the most prominent figures in the history of the technology industry. He grew up in Farmington Hills, Michigan. In 1973, he graduated from Detroit Country Day...

Ron Johnson

Pioneer of the Apple Retail Stores and the Genius Bar, Johnson is an American businessman who served as Senior Vice President of Retail Operations at Apple Inc. from January 2000 to November...

Amir Pnueli

Pioneer of temporal logic in computing science, Pnueli made a major breakthrough in the verification and certification of concurrent and reactive systems with his landmark 1977 paper "The Temporal Logic of Programs,"...

Ralph Ungermann

Co-founder of Ungermann-Bass (UB), the first large networking company independent of any computer manufacturer, Ungermann was considered to be a founding father of the data communications industry. He was often described as...

Angel Angelov

Founder of the Institute of Engineering Cybernetics and Robotics in Bulgaria, Angelov is recognized for pioneering computer science applications to particle accelerators and broader industrial control systems. Microprocessor-based control and pattern recognition...

Anthony James Barr

In 1962-63, Tony Barr, as a physics graduate student, wrote a general analysis of variance program and a multiple regression program to run on the IBM1410 computer. These programs were used...

Arthur Scherbius

Inventor of the cryptographic machine Enigma, Scherbius founded the company to manufacture it and transformed the history of wartime communications. He was born in Frankfurt am Main and studied electricity at the...

Aaron Hillel Swartz

Co-developer of RSS, Creative Commons, web.py, and Reddit, Swartz was an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer, and Internet activist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Susan and Robert...

Lawrence (Larry) Joseph Ellison

Founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major enterprise software company, Ellison is an American entrepreneur. As of 2010, he was the sixth richest person in the world with a personal wealth...

Jacob Ziv

Co-developer of the LZ77 lossless data compression algorithm, Ziv made foundational contributions to information theory. From 1955 to 1959, he was a Senior Research Engineer in the Scientific Department Israel Ministry of Defense,...