Bruce G. Buchanan

A key figure in the development of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Buchanan is University Professor of Computer Science Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. He received a B.A. degree in Mathematics...

Robert Kevin Rose

Co-founder of Digg and other Internet start-ups, Rose is recognized for his entrepreneurial work in online media. He first became an on-air talent and later served as a co-host on TechTV's show The...

Josephine M. Cheng

Developer of IBM's database technology for the web, allowing people to access huge amounts of data via the Internet previously accessible only through proprietary systems, Cheng has been an IBM Fellow (2000)...

Albert S. Hoagland

Early designer of random access disk storage, Hoagland played a key role in magnetic head design and recording for the Random Access Method of Accounting and Control (RAMAC) disk drive, the first...

Anthony Brian Cleaver

Member of the team that developed one of the first computerized cash machines in Essex, England, Cleaver began his career as a Systems Engineer with IBM, UK Ltd. in 1962, holding many...

Jeffrey R Yost

Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Yost has also served as Associate Director of the Charles Babbage Institute from 1998 onward. Yost authored The Computer Industry (Greenwood Press, 2005) and...

Andrei Petrovich Ershov

Pioneer of Soviet computer science, Ershov was responsible for the languages ALPHA and Rapira, AIST-0 the first Soviet time-sharing system, the electronic publishing system RUBIN, and MRAMOR, a multiprocessing workstation. He was...

Terry Allen Winograd

Developer of SHRDLU, an early natural language understanding computer program, Winograd is known within the philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence fields for his work on natural language. He wrote SHRDLU as...

George M. Galambos

Designer on the team that built the Interac network connecting bank machines around the world, Galambos is a computer engineer born in Budapest, Hungary. The result was an open system that allowed...

Shaun Wylie

A key member of Hut 8 at Bletchley Park, Wylie worked alongside Alan Turing on solving the Enigma machine as used by the German Navy. He was born in Oxford, England, the...

Don Hammond

Developer of time standards for space navigation, high-speed computer printers, and medical ultrasound technology, Hammond built a 50-year career on these and other significant contributions. While at HP from 1959 to 1987, Hammond...

Garth Gibson

Co-developer of the RAID taxonomy of redundant data storage systems, Gibson is a Computer Scientist from Carnegie Mellon University, born in Aurora, Ontario. He holds a Ph.D. and an MSc in Computer...

James E. Rumbaugh

Co-developer of the Object Modeling Technique (OMT) and the Unified Modeling Language (UML), Rumbaugh is an American computer scientist and object-oriented methodologist who created these with Grady Booch and Ivar Jacobson. Born...

Paul Tseng

The first to establish the convergence of the affine scaling algorithm for linear programming in the presence of degeneracy, Tseng was recognized by his peers to be one of the leading optimization...

Virginia (Ginni) Marie Rometty

The first woman to serve as Chairman and CEO of IBM, Rometty held the positions of Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of IBM. She was appointed President and CEO effective January...

John T. Draper

Author of EasyWriter, the first word processor for the Apple II, Draper is also recognized as a famous former hacker. While Draper was driving around his Volkswagen Microbus to test a pirate radio...

Lester (Les) Donald Earnest

Developer of the "first pen-based computer system that reliably recognized cursive writing" and the first spell checker, Earnest began his career as a computer programmer in 1954 during a stint as a...

George Barnard Grant

One of the few Americans to make a significant contribution to mechanical computation prior to the end of the nineteenth century, Grant improved on the Difference Machine calculator and is recognized as...

Donald D. Chamberlin

One of the principal designers of the original SQL language specification, Chamberlin also made significant contributions to the development of XQuery. Donald D. Chamberlin was born in San Jose, in the USA. After...

Adam Osborne

Creator of the first commercially successful portable computer, Osborne transformed personal computing in the early 1980s. Adam Osborne was born in Thailand in 1939 to British parents and spent much of his childhood...