Shu-Ching Chen

Collaborator with FIU's International Hurricane Research Center (IHRC), Chen is recognized for applying his research to real-world problems, including LiDAR data filtering that has revolutionized the acquisition of digital elevation data for...

William (Will) Ralph Wright

Creator of SimCity, one of the most influential computer games ever made, Wright is an American video game designer and co-founder of the game development company Maxis, now part of Electronic Arts...

Mochio Umeda

One of the most well-known commentators on IT and Web 2.0 issues in Japan, Umeda is also the author of the best-selling book "Web Shinkaron (Theory of Web Evolution)." He is a...

Thomas (Tom) M. Whitney

Leader of the team that invented the HP-35, the world's first handheld scientific electronic calculator, Whitney was also an early employee of Apple Computer. Thomas (Tom) M. Whitney graduated from Aurelia High...

Grigore Constantin Moisil

Considered the father of computer science in Romania, Moisil made foundational contributions to automata theory, many-valued algebras, and mathematical logic. Grigore Moisil attended primary school in Bucharest, then high school in Vaslui and...

Rajeev Sangal

Noted for Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, and speech research in Indian Languages, Sangal founded and has served as director of the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT-H), India. IIIT-H is...

Martin P. Nally

Leader of the architecture, design, and development of WebSphere Studio, which evolved into Rational Application Developer, Nally was named an IBM Fellow in 2007 and has served as Vice President and Chief...

Charles (Charlie) A. Zraket

Designer of the hardware and software system for the Whirlwind computer that permitted the machine to accept real-time inputs, Zraket made a truly groundbreaking contribution at that time. A pioneer in the...

Stephen (Steve) Gary Wozniak

Co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc. with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne, Wozniak is an American computer engineer whose inventions and machines are credited with contributing significantly to the personal computer revolution of...

Michael (Mike) Rubens Bloomberg

Founder and CEO of Bloomberg L.P., a global financial services, mass media, and software company, Bloomberg is an American businessman, author, politician, and philanthropist. His net worth is estimated at US$ 53.4...

Travis Cordell Kalanick

Co-founder of Uber, the transportation network company connecting passengers with drivers of vehicles for hire and ridesharing services, Kalanick is an American entrepreneur who also co-founded the peer-to-peer file sharing company Red...

Donna Dubinsky

A pioneer in the development of personal digital assistants (PDAs), Dubinsky served as CEO of Palm, Inc. and co-founded Handspring with Jeff Hawkins. She went on to co-found the brain research company...

John von Neumann

Generally regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians in modern history, von Neumann made major contributions to a vast range of fields, including set theory, functional analysis, quantum mechanics, ergodic theory, continuous...

Nathaniel S. Borenstein

One of the original designers of the MIME protocol for formatting multimedia Internet electronic mail, Borenstein has served as Chief Scientist at email management company Mimecast and founded NetPOS.com and First Virtual...

Gordon Eubanks

Designer of CBASIC and CP/M tools, Eubanks is recognized as a microcomputer industry pioneer and one of the founding figures of the personal computer software era. While serving in the U.S. Navy, Eubanks...

Lawrence (Larry) J. Schoenberg

His commitment to using digital tools in manuscript studies and to making his collection freely available online supported the work of many scholars. Co-founder and former CEO of AGS Computers, Inc., Schoenberg...

Barry Leiba

Developer of Ultimail, an early integrated multimedia e-mail system created with his team at IBM Research, Leiba is a computer scientist and software researcher. His work focused for many years on electronic...

Leonard Max Adleman

Co-inventor of the RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) cryptosystem, Adleman is a theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. RSA is in widespread use in...

Adriaan van Wijngaarden

One of the founding fathers of informatica (computer science) and designer of ALGOL, van Wijngaarden was a pioneering figure in the history of computing. Adriaan's education was in mechanical engineering, for which...

James (Jim) Flanagan

Originator of auto-directive microphone arrays for teleconferencing and pioneer of digital computers for acoustic signal processing, Flanagan made foundational contributions to voice communications and electro-acoustic systems. He received his B.S.E.E. degree from...