Ginny Strazisar

Builder of the ARPANET gateway software, Strazisar wrote the first internetworking router (then called "gateway") software for the new TCP/IP protocols. On August 27, 1976, the "bread truck"—as it was often called—first...

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...

Samuel (Sam) H. Altman

President of Y Combinator and co-chairman of OpenAI, Altman is an American entrepreneur, programmer, and blogger.

Susan Hares

Co-author of the BGP specification — the protocol considered industry-wide to be the most important on the Internet — Hares is an internationally recognized leader in commercialized advanced networking technologies and products...

Clifford Alan Pickover

Member of the team that worked on design-automation workstations and developed code for IBM's IntelliStation, Pickover is an American author, editor, inventor, and columnist in the fields of science, mathematics, and science...

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg

Co-founder of Facebook, Zuckerberg is an American entrepreneur best known for creating the popular social networking site. He co-founded Facebook with fellow classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while attending...

Michael James Lighthill

Pioneer in aeroacoustics and developer of television and communications satellites, Lighthill was a British applied mathematician known for his pioneering work in fluid dynamics. He worked at the National Physical Laboratory, Trinity...

John R. Opel

Responsible for obtaining a contract with Microsoft to create an operating system for IBM's first personal computer, Opel transformed the trajectory of the PC industry through a pivotal business relationship. A U.S. computer...

Jonathan (Jony) Paul Ive

Lead designer and conceptual mind behind many of Apple's most iconic products, including the iMac, MacBook Air, iPod, iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad, Ive is widely recognized as one of the most...

Peter R. Samson

Creator of the Harmony Compiler for the PDP-1 and the Expensive Planetarium star display for Spacewar!, Samson is an American computer scientist best known for creating pioneering computer software. He studied at...

Gordon B. Davis

Founding father of the academic discipline of MIS, Davis established research and teaching in MIS at the University of Minnesota in 1967. Davis authored and co-authored foundation texts in the discipline. He...

Thomas (Tommy) Harold Flowers

Designer of Colossus, the first programmable electronic computer, Flowers made one of the most significant contributions to wartime codebreaking. His first contact with the wartime codebreaking effort came when he was asked...

Jan Camenisch

Co-inventor of Identity Mixer, a unique cryptographic protocol suite for privacy-preserving authentication and transfer of certified attributes, Camenisch is a leading scientist in the area of privacy and cryptography. He has served...

Michael (Mike) James Massimino

Researcher on human operator control of space robotics systems resulting in two patents, and developer of laptop computer displays to assist operators of the Space Shuttle remote manipulator system, Massimino is an...

Tim O'Reilly

Founder of O'Reilly Media, publisher of some of the most industry-standard books on information technology, O'Reilly launched the company in 1978, starting with the "Nutshell Handbooks" series on Linux, and later expanding...

James H. Clark

Founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape, Clark is recognized as one of Silicon Valley's most prolific entrepreneurs. His research work in computer graphics led to the development of systems for fast rendering...

Steve Lukasik

Chief Scientist of the Federal Communications Commission, Lukasik advised the Commission on technical issues in communication regulation and the management of non-government use of the electromagnetic spectrum. He received a B.S. in Physics...

Norman Macrae

Foreseer of the spread of the internet and biographer of Johnny Von Neumann, Macrae was considered by some to have been one of the world's best forecasters when it came to economics...

Kerrie L. Holley

Co-patent owner of the computer industry's first SOA method and SOA maturity model, Holley is an IBM Fellow, software architect, author, researcher, consultant, and inventor recognized internationally for his innovative work in...

Chandu Thota

A widely recognized expert in mapping, geo-spatial applications, and scalable web services, Thota is a software entrepreneur notable for starting a service called Dealmap, which launched DealExchange to help publishers and local...