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...

Cesar A. Gonzales

Co-inventor of patented still-frame and motion video compression techniques that IBM contributed to the JPEG and MPEG international standards, Gonzales played a central role in bringing about the worldwide leap into digital...

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...

Mikhail Donskoy

Lead developer of Kaissa, the world champion chess computer, Donskoy was a Soviet and Russian computer scientist. In 1970, he graduated from Moscow State University and joined the Institute of Control Sciences...

John Whitaker Fairclough

Co-designer of Pegasus, which pioneered what was called a general register-set architecture now used in modern microprocessors that are a million times more powerful, Fairclough had a brilliant computer career. He also...

Omer Reingold

Author of Reingold's Algorithm, which resolved the memory-complexity of finding paths in undirected graphs, Reingold is cited for finding a solution to a more than 25-year quest by expert theoretical computer science...

Ken W. Kolence

Co-founder of Boole & Babbage, the first software product firm in Silicon Valley, Kolence is recognized as a software industry pioneer and computer executive. He received his Master's degree in Math, with...

James (Jim) F. Blinn

Creator of the pre-encounter animations for the Voyager project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Blinn is one of the founders of the computer graphics industry. He has spent his career expanding industry...

Antoni Kilinski

A noted contributor to computer science in Poland, Kilinski played a pioneering role in the development of electronic computing and digital technology. In 1948 Antoni worked in the central institutions of the Polish...

Leonard Kleinrock

Known as a "Father of the Internet," Kleinrock is an American engineer and computer scientist who made several important contributions to the field of computer networking, in particular to the theoretical side...

Ruchi Sanghvi

The first female engineer hired by Facebook, Sanghvi later founded her own company, Cove, in 2011, alongside two co-founders. Dropbox acquired Cove in 2012, and Sanghvi joined Dropbox as VP of Operations,...

Willis Alfred Adcock

Assisted with the invention of the silicon transistor and the integrated circuit, Adcock was a Canadian-American physical chemist, electrical engineer, and university professor who also worked on the first atomic bomb. He...

Karl Ferdinand Braun

Inventor of the cathode-ray tube, Braun built the first such device in 1897 — known as the "Braun Tube" in German-speaking countries. During the development of radio, he also worked on wireless...

David Hilbert

One of the founders of proof theory and mathematical logic, Hilbert's work laid the basis for recursion theory and later theoretical computer science. He was recognized as one of the most influential...

Stanley (Stan) T. Myers

Former President and CEO of SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International), Myers served in that role from 1996 until stepping back from executive leadership in 2011. On January 11, 2012, he was...

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....

Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Co-founder of Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys—the two largest companies in Electronic Design Automation (EDA)—Sangiovanni-Vincentelli is a world-renowned authority on integrated circuit and system design who has been instrumental in bringing EDA...

Lee de Forest

Inventor of the audion triode and audio and radio pioneer, De Forest had an interest in wireless telegraphy and invented the Audion in 1906. He then developed an improved wireless telegraph receiver....

Paul Baran

Co-inventor of packet-switched networks, Baran transformed the foundations of modern digital communications. He was born in Grodno (then Poland) and his family moved to Philadelphia in 1928. Baran did undergraduate work at...

Nikola Tesla

A major contributor to the birth of commercial electricity and revolutionary developer in the field of electromagnetism, Tesla was an inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer who is best known for his...