Matthias Ettrich

Founder of the LyX project, an open source document processor popular among technical authors and scientists for its advanced mathematical modes, Ettrich is a German computer scientist and software engineer known for...

Stephen Cole Kleene

American mathematician who helped lay the foundations for theoretical computer science, Kleene was best known as a founder of the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory. One of many distinguished...

Charles Walton

The first patent holder for the RFID (radio frequency identification) device, Walton was an American inventor best known for a technology that uses radio waves to transfer data from an electronic tag,...

Elisha Gray

Best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876, Gray is considered by some writers to be the true inventor of the variable resistance telephone, despite losing out to Alexander...

Arnold T. Nordsieck

Builder of the "differential analyzer"—an analog computer capable of solving complex equations and drawing curves—Nordsieck constructed the device in the 1950s out of $700-worth of war surplus materials. Clones subsequently became the...

Myron Kayton

Designer and analyzer of some of the earliest multi-sensor navigation systems, Kayton has spent much of his career working for TRW, NASA, and Litton, followed by running his own practice for 18...

Rolf Skår

Researcher on the second minicomputer in the world based on integrated circuits, Skår was also a co-founder of Norsk Data and served as CEO of the Norwegian Space Centre from 1997 to...

Larry LeRoy Constantine

Pioneer in modern software engineering, Constantine began his professional career in computers with a summer job at Scientific Computing, at the time a subsidiary of Control Data Corporation, in Minneapolis, having learned...

John Adam Presper Eckert, Jr.

Co-inventor of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, Eckert was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly, he presented the first course in computing topics (the Moore School...

Darleane C. Hoffman

Among the researchers who confirmed the existence of seaborgium (element 106), Hoffman was an American nuclear chemist whose work placed her at the forefront of her field. She became a faculty senior...

Satya Nadella

Leader of a transformation of Microsoft's business and technology culture from client services to cloud infrastructure and services, Nadella was appointed CEO of Microsoft Corporation on February 4, 2014, succeeding Steve Ballmer,...

Carol Ann Bartz

Former CEO of both Autodesk and Yahoo, Bartz is a prominent figure in the computer industry. In 1976, she went to work at the manufacturing conglomerate 3M, but left after her request...

Keith Brown

Technical author on Microsoft Windows Security, Brown wrote the SSPI workbench tool and has been the security columnist for MSDN Magazine since 1998.

Andreas (Andy) von Bechtolsheim

One of the earliest investors in Google, Bechtolsheim is a computer hardware scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Sun Microsystems. At Stanford University, Bechtolsheim had devised a powerful computer (which he called a workstation)...

Fletcher R. Jones

Co-founder of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), which became the largest software company in the United States, Jones was an American businessman and computer pioneer who also owned thoroughbred racehorses. Jones was born...

Donald Ervin Knuth

Author of the landmark series *The Art of Computer Programming*, Knuth is renowned for his contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages. He has served as Professor...

Hu Qiheng

Recognized as a global connector in the Internet Hall of Fame class of 2013, Hu Qiheng led the National Computing and Networking Facility of China, which connected China to the Internet in...

William Frederick Miller

Contributor to the development of the computer and its applications at Argonne, Miller served as Director of the Applied Mathematics Division at Argonne National Laboratory beginning in 1959, and later as President...

Kevin A. Stoodley

Conceiver and developer of the Testarossa dynamic compilation infrastructure, which along with the J9 JVM project became the basis for all of IBM's Java language implementations, Stoodley has served as Chief Technical...

Eileen Collins

The first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle and the first to command a Space Shuttle mission, Collins served as a NASA astronaut and Air Force colonel across a distinguished career in...