Edson (Ed) de Castro

Designer of the Data General Nova series of computers, de Castro was a computer engineer born in Plainfield, New Jersey, but his family moved to Newton, Massachusetts when he was six, and...

Vinod Gupta

Considered the father of the sales leads industry, Gupta founded infoGROUP (previously known as infoUSA) and served as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman. infoGROUP was a data and marketing services...

Vern Paxson

Author of the flex lexical analyzer and the Bro intrusion detection system, Paxson has served as Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also worked as...

Matthew (Matt) David Welsh

Co-founder of the Linux Documentation Project, Welsh is a computer scientist and software engineer. He has also served as the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University School of Engineering...

Dorothy Vaughan

The first African American woman to receive a promotion and supervise a group of staff at Langley Research Center, Vaughan became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers in 1949 and was...

Aaron F. Bobick

Expert in using computer vision techniques to recognize people, Bobick's research has been reported by the BBC News and ABC News. His research has been in the field of Artificial Intelligence and...

Patrick Volkerding

Founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution, Volkerding has served as Slackware's "Benevolent Dictator for Life" (BDFL), and is also known informally as "The Man". He has also contributed to the...

Jozef Gruska

A pioneer in the theory of quantum computing and organizing activities in the field, Gruska graduated in mathematics from Commenius University in Bratislava and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the...

William H. Davidow

Computer industry executive, author, and venture capitalist, Davidow has been active in high-technology for more than 30 years. He has continued as an active advisor to MDV. Davidow is the author of...

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...

Alec N. Broers

Pioneer of nanotechnology, Broers developed the first man-made nanostructures in materials suitable for microelectronic circuits, opening up the possibility for the extreme miniaturization of electronic circuits. An Anglo-Australian electrical engineer, Broers was born...

Jeffrey (Jeff) Preston Bezos

Founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Bezos graduated from Princeton University as a member of Tau Beta Pi and worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. before founding Amazon...

John Henry Patterson

Founder of the National Cash Register Company, Patterson was also famous for hiring and later firing Thomas Watson Sr., who went on to become General Manager, then President, of CTR — later...

Carl Sassenrath

Creator of the Amiga Computer operating system kernel, which brought multitasking to personal computers, Sassenrath is also the designer of the REBOL computer language. Born in Eureka, California, he has served as...

Nicholas (Nick) Shelness

Contributor to Lotus' e-mail and collaboration products including Notes, Domino and cc:Mail, Shelness is a world-class expert on messaging and groupware. A 1999 IBM Fellow — the highest honor a scientist, engineer,...

Victor (Vic) Hayes

Known as the "Father of Wi-Fi," Hayes co-established and chaired the IEEE 802.11 Standards Working Group for Wireless Local Area Networks. Born in Surabaya, Dutch East Indies, he held a BSEE and...

Marc Canter

Founder of the company that became Macromedia, Canter has also served as CEO of Broadband Mechanics, which produced People Aggregator, a social networking tool with source available (but not under an open...

Larry Cohn

Experienced in creating businesses focused on implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, Cohn has spent over twenty-five years helping organizations integrate varied systems and enable seamless transactions and production. He holds a...

Qi (English pr. Chee) Lu

Instrumental in driving Microsoft's partnership with Yahoo! in Search and the launch of Bing, Lu has served as Executive Vice President of Microsoft's Applications and Services Group, where he set the vision,...

Douglas B. Lenat

Prominent in artificial intelligence and machine learning research, Lenat was best known for the Cyc project, an attempt to build the basis of a general artificial intelligence by manually representing knowledge in...