Solomon Wolf Golomb

Inventor of Golomb coding and pioneer in combinatorial analysis and coding theory, Golomb transformed modern communications. He pioneered the identification of the characteristics and merits of maximum length shift register sequences, also...

Bernard Galler

American mathematician and computer scientist at the University of Michigan, Galler was involved in the development of large-scale operating systems and computer languages, including the MAD programming language and the Michigan Terminal...

Edwin (Ted) Joseph Selker

Developer of the TrackPoint pointing stick technology and designer of the ThinkPad 755CV notebook computer (which doubles as an LCD projector), Selker is an American computer scientist known for his user interface...

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...

Sandy Lerner

Co-founder of Cisco Systems and co-designer of the first router connecting Stanford's computer systems, Lerner received her Bachelor's Degree in 1975 in Political Science from California State University, Chico, a Master's Degree...

Edward J. McCluskey

Pioneer of digital systems design and synthesis for over five decades, McCluskey is known for co-developing the Quine-McCluskey method of Boolean function minimization. Professor McCluskey worked on electronic switching systems at the Bell...

William Gordon Welchman

One of four signatories to an influential letter delivered personally to Winston Churchill in October 1941 asking for more resources for the code-breaking work at Bletchley Park, and teacher of the first...

Richard O Mason

Developer of foundational concepts in IT and information ethics, Mason has served as Carr P. Collins Professor of Management Information Sciences at the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist...

Edward (Ned) W. Barnholt

Headed the Agilent spin-off from Hewlett-Packard in 1999, Barnholt served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board of Agilent Technologies until his retirement in 2005. Born in New York City,...

John F. Shoch

Contributor to the development of computer networking — particularly the PARC Universal Protocol (PUP), an important predecessor of TCP/IP — Shoch attended Stanford, where he earned a B.A. in political science (1971);...

Janet Emerson Bashen

Regarded as the first African American woman to obtain a web-based software patent, Bashen earned that distinction through her invention of LinkLine, a web-based EEO software application designed to assist with equal...

Scott Cook

Founder of Intuit, Cook launched the financial software company in 1983; it today offers software and online products to help individuals and small companies manage their finances. He started his career at Procter...

Chandu Thota

A widely recognized expert in mapping, geo-spatial applications, and scalable web services, Thota is a software entrepreneur notable for starting a service called Dealmap, which launched DealExchange to help publishers and local...

Robert (Bob) E. Lorenzini

Co-designer and developer of a crystal growing furnace, Lorenzini joined Rheem Semiconductor in 1960, the first spin-off from Fairchild Semiconductor, where he was involved in the design and development of that furnace....

Keith Lonsdale

Co-developer of the Ferranti Mark I, believed to be the world's first commercially available computer, Lonsdale worked alongside Brian Pollard and Tom Kilburn to construct the machine, a production version of the...

Glenford (Glen) Myers

Leader of the team that developed the advanced computer system "SWARD" (Software Oriented Architecture), built and successfully operated in 1980, Myers is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and author. He founded two...

Terry G. Johnson

Founder of Miniscribe in 1980, an early manufacturer of 5.25-inch and later 3.5-inch drives, Johnson was a pioneer in disk storage products. Born in Ogden, Utah, Johnson graduated from high school in 1953....

Elise Gerich

Principal Investigator for NSFNET's T3 Backbone Project and the Routing Arbiter Project, Gerich is a 21-year veteran of Internet networking who has served as the Vice President of IANA at ICANN. The...

David R. Karger

Developer of the fastest minimum spanning tree algorithm to date, Karger is also known for Karger's algorithm, a Monte Carlo method to compute the minimum cut of a connected graph. His work...

James Henry Wakelin, Jr.

Involved with B.F. Goodrich's first use of modern computers, Wakelin was a United States physicist, oceanographer, and businessman who served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research and Development) from 1959 to...