Jean Calvignac

Leader of the team responsible for the architecture of IBM network processors, Calvignac is a 1997 IBM Fellow. Network processors are an integrated circuit which has a feature set specifically targeted at...

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....

L. John Doerr

Prominent venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in Silicon Valley, Doerr is an American investor based in Menlo Park, California.

Paul J. Severino

Designer of interface boards for the PDP-11 at Digital Equipment Corporation, Severino began his career there after receiving his B.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1969, subsequently serving as...

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...

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...

Boris N Malinovsky

Designer of early Soviet computers and control systems, Malinovsky worked with noted Russian computer pioneer Lebedev in the design of early Soviet computers. In 1955–1958, he designed a specialized computer for ground-based...

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...

Mark Edwin Kriegsman

Developer of large-scale rule-based, statistical, and text-processing AI systems, Kriegsman is an American entrepreneur, computer programmer, inventor, and writer. His fascination with computers caught the attention of a local newspaper in 1979,...

John C. Klensin

Co-creator of the Network Startup Resource Center, helping dozens of countries to establish connections with the Internet, Klensin's career has included 30 years as a Principal Research Scientist at MIT, a stint...

Brian Pollard

A member of the team whose research developed the Sirius, which in 1959 claimed to be the smallest and most economically priced computer in the European market, Pollard was a key figure...

Ted Dabney

Co-founder of Syzygy and Atari, Dabney met Nolan Bushnell while working at Ampex, and the two jointly created Syzygy. Their first product, Computer Space, was manufactured and sold by Nutting Associates. Following...

Robert (Bob) J. Frankenberg

Leader of the revival of HP's personal computer unit, Frankenberg is an American computer engineer and business executive. He spent much of his career at Hewlett-Packard (HP), starting there in 1969. While...

Keith Uncapher

Pioneer of packet switching and MOSIS, Uncapher spread the ideas that later evolved into the Internet. Under his leadership, ISI provided support for emerging DARPA programs in Information Technology. There, Uncapher assembled...

Safrira Goldwasser

Co-inventor of zero-knowledge proofs, Goldwasser's research areas include computational complexity theory, cryptography, and computational number theory. Zero-knowledge proofs probabilistically and interactively demonstrate the validity of an assertion without conveying any additional knowledge,...

Jeremy Stoppelman

CEO of Yelp, Stoppelman co-founded the company in 2004 and has led it as chief executive since its inception.

Sam Ruby

Co-developer and principal maintainer of the Feed Validator — a tool used to check the validity of HTML, CSS, XML documents, and RSS feeds — Ruby has made significant contributions to web...

Alan Jay Perlis

A pioneer in advanced programming techniques and compiler construction, Perlis was the first recipient of the ACM Turing Award in 1966, sometimes called the "Nobel Prize of Computing." Perlis was born on April...

Abraham (Abe) Peled

Innovator of the first Internet ISP and e-commerce sites in Israel, Peled is an Israeli businessman born in Romania with over 40 years of accomplishments in the digital TV industry. He graduated...

Carol A. Jones

Responsible for delivering the first releases of WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Studio, Jones is recognized as a visionary and technical leader for WebSphere Portal, driving the initiative across IBM. She was...