Matthew J. Szulik

Former Chairman of Red Hat, Szulik led several other technology companies, including Interleaf and MapInfo, for more than 20 years. He has also held the titles of chief executive officer and president...

Charles Edwin Molnar

Co-developer of one of the first minicomputers, the LINC (Laboratory Instrument Computer), Molnar made this contribution with Wesley A. Clark while a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in...

Peter A. Franaszek

Known for his research in fragmentation-reduction algorithms, network theory, and magnetic recording, Franaszek has been a researcher at the IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. Dr....

Joshua Lederberg

American molecular biologist known for his work in genetics, artificial intelligence, and space exploration, Lederberg was just 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for...

Jonathan (Joe) Betts-LaCroix

Co-creator of the world's smallest Windows PC, Betts-LaCroix co-founded OQO Corporation, which the Guinness World Records credited with creating that device. He is also an American scientist and entrepreneur known for his...

Randy Eisenman

Founder and CEO of Handango, which he positioned as the global leader in the smartphone content market, Eisenman drove the company's strategy and built a world-class team after founding the company in...

Diane B. Greene

Co-founder and former CEO of VMware, Greene led the company through an IPO and to a $2B run-rate. Born in Rochester, New York, she was raised in Annapolis, Md. She received her...

Isaac L Auerbach

Founder of Auerbach Associates and publisher of the influential Auerbach Reports on computer issues, Auerbach was a leading figure in the information processing industry. Isaac Auerbach earned a BS at Drexel University in...

Bashir Iskandarovich Rameyev

Holder of the first officially registered USSR patent in the field of electronic computers, Rameyev was a Soviet inventor and scientist and one of the founders of Soviet computing. He was the...

William (Bill) Reeves

Pioneer and inventor of the first Motion Blur algorithm and methods to simulate particle motion in computer graphics, Reeves is also one of the founding employees of Pixar. After obtaining a Bachelor...

Borje Langefors

Pioneer of the first theoretical approach to systems development practices, Langefors was the first computer scientist to develop a coherent model of the development of computer-based information systems in the early 1960s....

Harold Locke Hazen

Pioneer in the development of differential analyzers, Hazen collaborated with Vannevar Bush at MIT to construct the first widely practical such machine, built 1928–1931 and comprising six mechanical integrators. In the same year,...

Joseph Smagorinsky

Among the earliest researchers who sought to exploit new methods of numerical weather prediction to extend forecasting past one or two days, Smagorinsky was also the first Director of the National Oceanic...

Gregory Bateson

A pioneer in extending systems theory and cybernetics to the social and behavioral sciences, Bateson had a natural ability to recognize order and pattern in the universe. In the 1940s he helped...

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...

Klára (Klari) Dán Von Neumann

Writer of the code used on the MANIAC machine developed by John Von Neumann and Julian Bigelow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Klára Dán Von Neumann was also a pioneer computer...

Carol A. Jones

Responsible for delivering the first releases of WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Studio, Jones is recognized as a visionary and technical leader for WebSphere Portal, driving the initiative across IBM. She was...

Stanley Gill

Co-inventor of the first computer subroutine, Gill was a British computer scientist who shared that achievement with Maurice Wilkes and David Wheeler. Gill was born in Worthing, West Sussex, England, educated at...

Robert (Bob) M. Frankston

Co-creator of VisiCalc and co-founder of Software Arts, Frankston received numerous honors and awards for his work. He has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1994) "for the...

Monroe (Monty) Newborn

Co-author of the computer chess program Ostrich, which competed in five world championships through the 1970s and 1980s and nearly won in 1974, Newborn has also served as Chairman and principal organizer...