Alain Glavieux

Co-inventor of turbo codes, Glavieux was a French professor of electrical engineering at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Bretagne. He was the coinventor with Claude Berrou and Punya Thitimajshima of a...

Francine Berman

A pioneer in grid computing, Berman is one of the two founding Principal Investigators of the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid project. She also directed the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI),...

Phil Farrand

Creator of Finale, an award-winning, high-end desktop publishing music notation software package, Farrand is an American computer programmer, consultant, webmaster, and author. He is also known for his Nitpicker's Guides, in which...

Dean Eric Eastman

World-renowned expert on the electronic properties of materials and spectroscopy, Eastman is an American solid-state physicist and IBM manager. He conducted important research in the field of condensed matter physics, surface science,...

Pieter Van den Abeele

Founder of the PowerPC version of Gentoo Linux, Van den Abeele spearheaded the Gentoo architectures and platforms effort together with Daniel Robbins. He received a scholarship from Apple Computer for founding Gentoo...

Richard Matthew Stallman

Founder of the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, Stallman also launched the free software movement and was the main author of the GNU General Public License for open...

Frances (Fran) Elizabeth Allen

Pioneer in optimizing compilers and the first woman to win the Turing Award, Allen was also the first female IBM Fellow. Allen was an expert in the field of optimizing compilers. As a...

Edward M. Esber, Jr.

Credited with the successful marketing of the first productivity software for personal computing, Esber paved the way for the widespread acceptance of personal computers in business. He served as CEO of Ashton-Tate...

Ronald K Stamper

Pioneer in organizational semiotics and information theory, Stamper is recognized for applying semiotics to information systems in a way that transformed the field. Born in Nottingham, England, 1934, Stamper studied mathematics and statistics...

Robert E. Cook

Founder of VM Software (later renamed Systems Center), a provider of software utilities for IBM's VM operating system, Cook built his first company into a firm listed on both the Nasdaq and...

Derrick (Dick) Henry Lehmer

Part of the Computations Committee formed to prepare the ENIAC for utilization following its completion, Lehmer was also active in the building of the California Digital Computer (CALDIC). An American mathematician, he...

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...

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...

Eugene (Gene) L. Delves

Co-founder of the organization known today as Accenture, Delves was one of five men whose 1954 efforts marked the first successful installation and use of a computer in the industry. In 1954,...

Curt L. Cotner

Designer and developer of many key features of DB2 for z/OS, Cotner has served as an IBM Fellow and VP/CTO for IBM Data Management. In that role, he held technical and management...

Marie desJardins

Researcher focused on understanding trust among agents in online communities, desJardins has led the Multi-Agent, Planning and Learning Lab (MAPLE) at UMBC, which focuses on developing A.I. solutions to real world problems....

Andrew James Viterbi

Inventor of the Viterbi algorithm, used for decoding convolutionally encoded data and still widely used in cellular phones for error correcting codes, as well as for speech recognition, DNA analysis, and many...

David L. Mills

Inventor of the Network Time Protocol, the fuzzball router, and the Exterior Gateway Protocol, Mills was an American computer engineer and Internet pioneer. He earned his PhD in Computer and Communication Sciences...

Terry Allen Winograd

Developer of SHRDLU, an early natural language understanding computer program, Winograd is known within the philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence fields for his work on natural language. He wrote SHRDLU as...

Thomas (Tom) O. Stanley

Fundamental investigator of the CED concept that led to the development of the RCA VideoDisc system, Stanley has been recognized as "a visionary who, not only foresaw the CED videodisc system long...