Anita Borg

Developer of a patented method for generating complete address traces for analyzing and designing high-speed memory systems, and of MECCA, an email and Web-based system for communicating in virtual communities, Borg was...

Ravi Arimilli

Chief Architect largely responsible for the development of the IBM POWER5, Arimilli has been named an IBM Fellow, the company's highest technical honor, in May 2001. One of the most prolific inventors...

Isidor Isaac Rabi

Co-founder of CERN and Nobel laureate in Physics, Rabi was a Galician-born American physicist born into a traditional Jewish family in Rymanów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Poland), and was brought to the United...

John Grist Brainerd

Leader of the ENIAC project, Brainerd was perhaps most famous for his work leading the development of the world's first large-scale electronic digital computer. During World War II, the differential analyzer at...

Michael Gleicher

Recognized for developing better ways to synthesize human motions to make animated characters that are better able to communicate, Gleicher has served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at...

David Patrick Reed

Designer of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Reed is an American computer scientist known for significant contributions to computer networking, including the design and construction of Internet protocols, distributed data storage, 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....

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...

Frances (Betty) Elizabeth Holberton

One of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, Holberton made foundational contributions to the history of computing. During World War II, while the men were fighting,...

James T. Russell

Inventor of the concept of optical digital recording and playback, Russell joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of Battelle Memorial Institute in Richland in 1965. There, that same year, he developed the...

Dave Cochran

Co-developer of the HP 35 Pocket Scientific Calculator, Cochran spent 25 years at Hewlett-Packard, starting as a part-time Test Technician in 1956 and departing as a celebrated HP Engineer in 1981. Between...

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...

Jie Liu

Leader of Microsoft Research's Sensing and Energy Research Group (SERG), Liu has conducted fundamental and applied research in sensing and energy-efficient computing with applications in sensor networks, data centers, and mobile computing....

Ghavam Shahidi

Chief architect of silicon on insulator (SOI) complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) technology at IBM, Shahidi is an Iranian-American electrical engineer and IBM Fellow. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, all in...

Randy Bush

Founder of the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), an NSF-supported pro bono effort to help develop and deploy networking technology in projects throughout the world, Bush has worked with the computer industry...

Tze-Chiang (T. C.) Chen

Major contributor to CMOS miniaturization and DRAM devices with a profound impact on IBM's leadership in CMOS process technology and DRAM manufacturing, Chen has served as an IBM Fellow and the Vice...

Enid Mumford

A pioneer in early studies on the use of large-scale computing, Mumford demonstrated that the underlying cause of failed computer implementations was an inability to overcome human factors associated with the implementation...

Clair D. Lake

Co-inventor of IBM's MARK I and co-developer of the first Type 1 Total Printing and Listing Tabulator, Lake was a prolific IBM inventor. In May 1939 he was assigned to serve as...

John Richard Rice

Founder of the ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Rice was an American mathematician and computer scientist who served as the W. Brooks Fortune Distinguished Emeritus of Computer Science and a Professor of...

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,...