George W. Platzman

One of the founders of modern meteorology, Platzman helped formulate the first weather forecast by computer, carried out in 1950 on the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC). He pioneered the field...

Edward Hance Shortliffe

Pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence in medicine, Shortliffe is best known as the principal developer of the clinical expert system MYCIN, one of the first rule-based artificial intelligence expert systems,...

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...

Carl Machover

Inducted into the FAMLI Computer Graphics Hall of Fame, Machover is recognized as a computer graphics pioneer and graphics "evangelist." He has served as president of Machover Associates Corp (MAC), a computer graphics...

John C. Dvorak

Technology columnist and broadcaster, Dvorak has covered the computing industry since the 1980s, when he became a mainstay of a variety of magazines. Dvorak has also served as Vice-President of Mevio (formerly PodShow)...

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...

Ken Thompson

Co-creator of the UNIX operating system, Thompson is an American pioneer of computer science notable for his work with the B programming language and his shepherding of the Unix and Plan 9...

Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang

Lead architect for IBM HotVideo HyperVideo technology, Zhang is a computer scientist formerly at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he served as a Research Staff Member (RSM) and Program Manager...

Donald F. Ferguson

Chief Architect for IBM's Software Group, Ferguson provided overall technical leadership for IBM WebSphere, Tivoli Software, IBM DB2, Rational Software, and Lotus Software products. He has served as Vice President and CTO...

Jean E. Sammet

Developer of FORMAC, the first widely used computer language for symbolic manipulation of mathematical formulas, Sammet spent 27 years at IBM where she created it. She received her B.A. in Math from Mount...

Donald Valentine

Referred to as the "grandfather of Silicon Valley venture capital," Valentine was an American venture capitalist who concentrated mainly on technology companies in the United States. Valentine grew up in the Bronx,...

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie

Creator of the C programming language, Ritchie was an American computer scientist notable for his influence on programming languages and on operating systems such as Multics and Unix. He received the Turing...

Gerard J. Holzmann

Developer of the SPIN model checker, Holzmann is a Dutch-born American computer scientist and researcher known for his work at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey and at NASA. SPIN (short...

Fred M. Gibbons

Co-founder and CEO of Software Publishing Corporation (SPC), best known for its pioneering Harvard Graphics business and presentation graphics program, Gibbons cofounded the Mountain View, California-based company in 1980 along with two...

Carlo Heinrich Séquin

Pioneer in computer processor design, Séquin is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked with computer graphics, geometric modelling, and on the development of computer...

Arlene Joy Harris

Pioneer of the first automated cellular service activation systems now used globally in retail locations to remotely and instantly activate cellular phones, Harris is also known as the "First Lady of Wireless"...

Harry Douglas Huskey

Designer of the G15 computer for Bendix Aviation Corporation, which could perhaps be considered the first "personal" computer in the world, Huskey was an American computer design pioneer born in the Smoky...

Stuart Parkin

Pioneer in the science and application of spintronic materials, Parkin has served as Manager of the Magnetoelectronics group at IBM Research, Almaden, in San Jose, California, and as a 1999 IBM Fellow...

Stephen Wolfram

Chief designer of Mathematica and the Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine, Wolfram is a British scientist whose parents were Jewish refugees who emigrated from Westphalia, Germany, to England in 1933. He was...

Brian Warboys

Chief designer of ICL's VME operating system, Warboys went on to become a Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Manchester from 1985 until he retired in September 2007, subsequently being...