William (Bill) Millard

Considered the "father" of modern computer retailing, Millard founded IMS Associates, makers of the IMSAI series of computers, and the electronics retailer ComputerLand. Millard worked for IBM and, later, as the head...

Cleve Barry Moler

Inventor of MATLAB, a numerical computing package, Moler is an American mathematician and computer programmer specializing in numerical analysis. In the mid to late 1970s, he was one of the authors of...

Dave Smith

Known as the "Father of MIDI" for his role in developing the Musical Instrument Digital Interface, Smith pioneered many groundbreaking technologies in music. He was also responsible for the Prophet 5, the...

Peter Pin-Shan Chen

Known for the development of Entity-Relationship Modeling, Chen is an American computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University. Born in Taichung, Taiwan, he received a B.S. in electrical...

Nicholas (Nick) DeWolf

Designer of more than 300 semiconductor and other test systems, including the J259, the world's first computer-operated integrated circuit tester, DeWolf co-founded Teradyne, a Boston, Massachusetts-based manufacturer of automatic test equipment, in...

Lionel Kattner

Contributor to the development of the first planar integrated circuit and co-founder of Signetics Corporation, Kattner is recognized as a key figure in early semiconductor history. A graduate of Southwestern University in...

Michael Faraday

A father of electromagnetism and electronics, Faraday studied the magnetic field around a conductor carrying a DC electric current. While conducting these studies, he established the basis for the electromagnetic field concept...

Fred J Baker

Active in the networking and communications industry, Baker chaired a number of IETF working groups, including Bridge MIB, DS1/DS3 MIB, ISDN MIB, PPP Extensions, IEPREP, and IPv6 Operations. He served on the...

Peter Andreas Thiel

Co-founder of PayPal, Thiel is a German-born American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager. He co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin, and later, Elon Musk, and has served as its CEO. He...

William Bradford Shockley

Co-inventor of the transistor, Shockley shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain for this achievement. Shockley's attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the...

Satoshi Matsuoka

Lead developer of the TSUBAME series of supercomputers — which included the 4th fastest in the world on the Top500 — Matsuoka has served as a Full Professor at the Global Scientific...

Jack Yun Ma

Founder of one of the world's biggest B2B online marketplaces, Ma built Alibaba.com into an eBay for companies doing international trade. A Chinese entrepreneur and philanthropist, he also founded and served as...

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...

John Ambrose Fleming

Inventor of the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, Fleming transformed the foundations of modern electronics. After leaving the University of Nottingham in 1882, Fleming took up the post of "Electrician" to...

Gordon Matthews

Founder of ECS Communications (later VMX), one of the first companies to pioneer the commercialization of voicemail for corporate use, Matthews was an American inventor and businessman. He also invented systems to...

Mary Lou Jepsen

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of One Laptop per Child, Jepsen helped shape one of the most recognized nonprofit computing initiatives of its era. She also served as Chief Architect of that...

John Kenneth Ousterhout

Creator of the Tcl scripting language and the Tk platform-independent widget toolkit, Ousterhout has served as a professor of computer science at Stanford University and chairman of Electric Cloud, Inc. He founded...

David (Dave) Dana Clark

Chief Protocol Architect in the development of the Internet, Clark is an American computer scientist. He graduated from Swarthmore College, southwest of Philadelphia, in 1966. In 1968, he received his Master's and...

William Wang

Founder and CEO of Vizio, Inc., Wang was born and raised in Taiwan, moved to Hawaii, United States at the age of 13 and then to California at the age of 14....

Cecil Wayne Ratliff

Creator of the Vulcan database program, Ratliff worked for the Martin Marietta Corporation from 1969 to 1982 in a progression of engineering and managerial positions. He was a member of the NASA...