Paul V. Mockapetris

Inventor of the Domain Name System, Mockapetris is sometimes acknowledged, together with Jon Postel, as the creator of DNS. Mockapetris received his Bachelor's Degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute...

Carl Georg Lange Barth

Improver and popularizer of the industrial use of compound slide rules in scientific management, Barth was a Norwegian-American mathematician and mechanical engineer. He was born in Christiania, Norway, and graduated from the...

Galileo Galilei

Called "the Father of Modern Science," Galilei played a major role in the Scientific Revolution, including landmark improvements to the telescope and the invention of an improved military compass. He was born...

Norman Macrae

Foreseer of the spread of the internet and biographer of Johnny Von Neumann, Macrae was considered by some to have been one of the world's best forecasters when it came to economics...

Minos Garofalakis

ACM Distinguished Scientist (2011), Garofalakis is a Professor of Computer Science at the ECE Department of the Technical University of Crete, and the Director of the Software Technology and Network Applications Laboratory...

Michael John Muuss

Author of the freeware network tool Ping, Muuss was a senior scientist specializing in geometric solid modeling, ray-tracing, MIMD architectures, and digital computer networks at the United States Army Research Laboratory at...

Patrick Cousot

Co-inventor of Abstract Interpretation, a theory of sound approximation of mathematical structures, Cousot developed this influential technique in formal methods together with his wife Radhia in 1975. In the 2000s, he worked...

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg

Co-founder of Facebook, Zuckerberg is an American entrepreneur best known for creating the popular social networking site. He co-founded Facebook with fellow classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while attending...

Misha Mahowald

Inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame in 1996, Mahowald was recognized for her development of the Silicon Eye and other computational systems. A pioneer in the emerging field...

B. (Bob) Ramakrishna Rau

Developer of the Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) technology that is now standard in modern computer processors, Rau was widely recognized as an expert in VLIW computing, which is the basis of...

Randy Eisenman

Founder and CEO of Handango, which he positioned as the global leader in the smartphone content market, Eisenman drove the company's strategy and built a world-class team after founding the company in...

Gerrit (Gerry) Anne Blaauw

One of the principal designers of the IBM System/360 line of computers, Blaauw worked alongside Fred Brooks, Gene Amdahl, and others on this landmark project. In 1947, he won an exclusive scholarship funded...

Cheryl L. Shavers

Appointed Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology in the Clinton Administration, Shavers served in that role from 1999 to 2001, representing one of the most senior positions in U.S. technology policy. Her...

James T. Pendergrass

Instrumental in establishing the naval cryptologic service's pioneering program to develop electronic digital computers, Pendergrass shaped the early development of computing in the U.S. Navy. Born in Bala Cynwyd, PA, he earned...

Ray Ozzie

Creator of Lotus Notes and founder of Groove Networks, Ozzie has been a central figure in collaborative software development. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science in 1979 from the University of...

George Robert Stibitz

Recognized as one of the fathers of the modern digital computer for his work with Bell Labs in the 1930s and 1940s, Stibitz completed a relay-based calculator in November 1937 he dubbed...

Victor Saul Miller

Co-inventor of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), Miller is an American mathematician at the Center for Communications Research (CCR) of the Institute for Defense Analyses in Princeton, New Jersey, US. He received his...

Harm Peter Hofstee

Chief architect of the synergistic processor elements in the Cell Broadband Engine, Hofstee is known for his work on the processor behind the Sony PlayStation 3 and the Roadrunner supercomputer that first...

Muhammad ibn Musa al

Presenter of the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations in Arabic, al-Khwārizmī was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and geographer—a scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad whose life spanned...

Anthony Finkelstein

Recognized internationally for his contributions to software engineering and requirements engineering, Finkelstein graduated from the LSE with a Masters in systems, then went on to take a PhD at the Royal College...