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...

Jay W. Lathrop

Instrumental in the development of photolithography — critical in the first efforts to produce semiconductor integrated circuits — Lathrop is recognized as a pioneering figure in microminiaturization of solid-state circuits. Born in Bangor,...

Raymond (Ray) F. Boyce

Co-developer of SQL, the first commercially successful language for relational databases, Boyce's work established the standard for relational database query languages still in use today. He was also known for his research...

Michael (Mike) F. Cowlishaw

Designer and implementer of the IBM REXX programming language, Cowlishaw is best known as a programmer and writer. He joined IBM in 1974 as an electronic engineer and retired from IBM in...

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...

Dabbala (Rej) Rajagopal Reddy

Pioneer of large-scale artificial intelligence systems, Reddy is recognized for demonstrating the practical importance and potential commercial impact of AI technology. One of the early pioneers in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence,...

Yngvar Lundh

Developer of a new form of distributed, digital PBXs called hub technology, Lundh was a Norwegian engineer and scientist also known for bringing the Internet to Norway and developing some of the...

Donald Becker

Co-creator of the Beowulf clustering software, Becker is known throughout the international community of operating system developers for his contributions to networking software. The Beowulf clustering software connected many inexpensive PCs to...

Yogen Dalal

Member of the original Star and Ethernet development teams at Xerox, Dalal is also a co-author of the TCP Specification, whose team's pioneering work on the design of the TCP protocol has...

Gururaj S. Rao

Designer of Systems Leadership functions that differentiated S/390 from its competition, Rao is personally credited with IBM's mainframe resurrection. His team successfully implemented IBM's breakthrough copper interconnect technology to set a new...

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...

Neil Bartlett

Key contributor to IBM's risk analytics business, Bartlett has served as an IBM Fellow, Chief Technology Officer, and Head of Development for the Risk Analytics division of IBM. His innovative work in...

Philip Stuart Milner-Barry

One of four leading codebreakers at Bletchley Park to petition Prime Minister Winston Churchill directly for more resources for their work, Milner-Barry was also a British chess player, chess writer, and civil...

Sergio Verdu

Known for pioneering the field of multiuser detection, Verdú has served as the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he has taught and conducted research on Information Theory...

John Rushby

Developer of the Prototype Verification System (PVS), a major impetus for the development of computer science, Rushby is a British computer scientist legendary in the field of formal methods and verification. He...

William (Bill) L. Schrader

Co-founder of the world's first commercial Internet Service Provider, Schrader partnered with Martin L. Schoffstall to launch PSINet in 1989, initially funding the company using credit cards and by selling his family...

Kathleen Booth (née Britten)

Credited with writing the first assembly language and the design of the assembler and autocode (ARC and APE(X)C) for the Birkbeck College computers, Booth made foundational contributions to computer programming. Born in...

Paul Eliot Green, Jr.

Co-creator of the Rake receiver and supervisor of its deployment in the first-ever spread-spectrum system, Green changed the landscape of electronic signaling. He was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and was...

Michael (Mike) Lazaridis

Founder of Research In Motion (RIM), Lazaridis co-created and manufactured the BlackBerry wireless handheld device. He has also served as chancellor of the University of Waterloo, and is an Officer of the...

Neil James Alexander Sloane

Contributor to the fields of combinatorics, error-correction coding, and sphere packing, Sloane's research has ranged far and wide, including coding theory, sphere packing, lattices and quadratic forms, packing lines, and planes, spherical...