Fernando (Corby) J. Corbato

Pioneer in the development of general-purpose, large-scale, time-sharing and resource-sharing computer systems, Corbató received the ACM Turing Award in 1990 for these foundational contributions. Fernando (Corby) J. Corbató was born on July 1,...

Mark H. Kryder

Spearheader of the breakthroughs that increased hard-disk densities and accelerated their corresponding drop in price, Kryder is also author of "Kryder's Law," in which he pointed out that if scaling magnetic recording...

Saul Rosen

Chief software designer for the world's first transistorized computer, the Philco TRANSAC S-2000, Rosen left a significant mark on early computing history. Born in Port Chester, NY, Rosen was elected to Phi Beta...

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...

Lubomyr T. Romankiw

Co-inventor of a technique that produced the first practical and manufacturable thin film magnetic head, Romankiw helped increase the density of data stored on magnetic disks and dramatically reduced the cost of...

Frederick (Fred) Jacob Damerau

Pioneer in natural language processing and data mining, Damerau spent over four decades at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown, New York. Born in Parma, Ohio, son of the...

Edson Hendricks

Developer of RSCS (later known as VNET), fundamental software that powered the world's largest network (or network of networks) prior to the Internet, Hendricks is an IBM computer scientist whose work directly...

Enrico Clementi

Leader of research and development in parallel computer architecture and fundamental research in chemistry, biophysics, and fluid dynamics, Clementi was a pioneer in computational techniques for quantum chemistry and molecular dynamics. Born...

Brian Keith Reid

Known for developing the Scribe word processing system and pioneering the use of descriptive markup, Reid earned his B.S. in physics from the University of Maryland, College Park, and then worked in...

Anne-Marie Eklund Lowinder

Credited with making .SE the world's first top-level domain to be signed with DNSSEC in 2005, Eklund Löwinder was a leading innovator in the implementation of Domain Name System Security Extensions, the...

Jose Luis Moreira da Encarnacao

Developer of the GKS Standard (Graphical Kernel System), Encarnação has made foundational contributions to computer graphics. He has served as Professor Emeritus of Technical University Darmstadt, and founded graphics research centers in...

Maxwell (Max) Herman Alexander Newman

Head of the department that built the world's first electronic stored-program digital computer, Newman was a British mathematician and codebreaker born in Chelsea, London, England. He attended Goodrich Road School, then City...

Barbara Liskov

A pioneer in object-oriented programming, Liskov's work in programming methodology has affected all aspects of modern computing, including programming languages, object-oriented programming, and software robustness to hacking. She designed CLU, an object-oriented...

Thomas (Tom) O. Stanley

Fundamental investigator of the CED concept that led to the development of the RCA VideoDisc system, Stanley has been recognized as "a visionary who, not only foresaw the CED videodisc system long...

Oliver William Standingford

Responsible for the implementation of LEO I, the first computer used for commercial business applications, Standingford was a senior manager at J. Lyons and Co. who oversaw its procurement alongside Raymond Thompson. Born...

John R. Levine

Co-author of The Internet for Dummies (with Carol Baroudi and Margaret Levine Young), Levine is an Internet author and consultant specializing in email infrastructure, spam filtering, and software patents. Levine has chaired the...

William (Bill) David Mensch, Jr.,

A central person in the creation of the Motorola 6800 and MOS Technology 6502 families of microprocessor chips, Mensch is also recognized as the sole IC design engineer of the 6820/21 PIA,...

Martin Campbell-Kelly

Noted IT historian and professor of computer science, Campbell-Kelly has specialized in the history of computing at the University of Warwick. Campbell-Kelly has served as a full professor in the Department of Computer...

Brendan Eich

Creator of the JavaScript scripting language, Eich is a computer programmer and chief technology officer of Mozilla Corporation. He worked with MicroUnity Systems Engineering writing microkernel and DSP code, and doing the...

Bruce Lindsay

Participant in the development of System R (the first Relational DBMS prototype) and R* (a distributed RDBMS), Lindsay is a recognized expert on many aspects of relational database technology, including distributed DBMS,...