Wolfgang Roesner

Architect of the verification tools and methodologies used across all IBM systems, Roesner is a senior technical staff member in IBM's verification tools development group in Austin, Texas. His accomplishments in the...

Paul Alexander Desmond DeMaine

A leading figure in the early development of computer-based automatic indexing and information retrieval and one of the founders of academic computer science in the 1960s, DeMaine was born in South Africa...

Christopher (Chris) J. Date

Involved in the technical planning and design of the IBM products SQL/DS and DB2, Date is an independent author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant specializing in relational database theory. He attended High Wycombe...

Gideon Gartner

Founder of Gartner Group (now Gartner, Inc.), Gartner built one of the most influential IT research and advisory firms in the world. IT "advisory" firms are distinct from consultancies, in that they provide...

John Landry

Builder of world-class software companies, Landry has spent nearly 30 years helping people connect with one another. He has served as Managing Director of Lead Dog Ventures, a business accelerator providing emerging...

Peter R. Jennings

Author of the first commercially successful chess program for microcomputers, Jennings is a Canadian physicist, interdisciplinary scientist, inventor, software developer, computer chess programmer, businessman, and paraglider. Born in England, his family moved...

Ronald (Ron) Lewis Graham

Credited by the American Mathematical Society as "one of the principal architects of the rapid development worldwide of discrete mathematics in recent years," Graham was also a leading figure in scheduling theory,...

William (Velvel) Morton Kahan

One of the foremost experts on floating-point computations, Kahan is recognized for his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis and has dedicated himself to "making the world safe for numerical computations." Among his...

Michael J. Maples, Sr.

Advisor to Microsoft on strategic relationships and management initiatives, Maples is an Angel investor who has been active in the computer industry for more than 30 years, and is sometimes described as...

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...

Wes Kussmaul

Founder of the Kussmaul Encyclopedia, the first online encyclopedia, and developer of online identity security, Kussmaul is also the author of several books about online security. In 1971, while stationed at Whiteman...

Aleksandr Semenovich Kronrod

Known for the Gauss–Kronrod quadrature formula, which he published in 1964, Kronrod was a Soviet mathematician and computer scientist. Earlier in his career, his computations informed theoretical physics. He was also known...

Ralph L. Palmer

Developer of the IBM 604 Electronic Calculator, Palmer graduated with a B.S. in electrical engineering from Union College in Schenectady in 1931. He joined IBM as an engineer in 1932. It was here...

Julian Bigelow

Builder of one of the first true stored-program digital computers, Bigelow transformed the course of computing history. He obtained a master's degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying electrical engineering and...

Eva Tardos

Recipient of the Fulkerson Prize (1988), the Dantzig Prize (2006), and the IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2019), Tardos is known as a Hungarian mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of...

Irma M. Wyman

The first woman to become Vice President of Honeywell, Inc., Wyman was also the first female CIO of Honeywell and a Systems Thinking tutor (the process of understanding how things influence one...

Frederic Alois Friedel

Co-founder of the chess database company ChessBase, Friedel is a German graduate linguist, science, chess, and computer chess journalist. He co-founded ChessBase in 1986 with game database developer Matthias Wöllenweber. He studied...

John Napier

Renowned as the discoverer of the logarithm and inventor of "Napier's bones," Napier was a Scottish mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and astrologer, and also the 8th Laird of Merchiston. He was the son...

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...

Hiroshi Yamamoto

IBM Distinguished Engineer who expanded horizontal industry skills in the electronics industry, Yamamoto has served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Global Electronics Industry, with responsibilities covering all electronics customers at...