Robert (Bob) E. Watson

Directed such "firsts" for HP as the first HP desktop calculator family, HP's first handheld calculators, HP's first LaserJets, and HP's first ink-jet products, Watson spent 30 years with Hewlett-Packard, serving in...

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...

Scott McNealy

Co-founder of Sun Microsystems, McNealy started the computer technology company in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Andy Bechtolsheim. Sun Microsystems, along with companies such as Silicon Graphics, 3Com, and Oracle...

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...

Harlan E. Anderson

Co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), which at one time was the second largest computer company in the world, Anderson built a career spanning research, industry leadership, and philanthropy. Other notable entities...

Peter A. Franaszek

Known for his research in fragmentation-reduction algorithms, network theory, and magnetic recording, Franaszek has been a researcher at the IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. Dr....

Frank Land

Pioneering IT use in business and the teaching of systems analysis in universities, Land began his career in computing as an analyst programmer with LEO—the Lyons Computer—in 1952. He left in 1968,...

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...

Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet

Considered one of the fathers of information science, Otlet was an author, entrepreneur, visionary, lawyer, and peace activist whose writings have sometimes been called prescient of the current World Wide Web. He...

Roger D. Moore

Co-recipient of the 1973 Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery, Moore was recognized — along with Larry Breed and Richard Lathwell — for their work in the design...

Karl Alexander Müller

Co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987 with Georg Bednorz for their work in superconductivity in ceramic materials, Müller is a Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate. In 1986 they showed...

Jan Camenisch

Co-inventor of Identity Mixer, a unique cryptographic protocol suite for privacy-preserving authentication and transfer of certified attributes, Camenisch is a leading scientist in the area of privacy and cryptography. He has served...

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...

Eduardo (Ed) T. Kahan

Developer of the IBM Architecture Description Standard (ADS), used by the IBM WW technical community, Kahan has served as a certified consultant and an active member of the IBM Academy of Technology....

Paul Alexander Desmond DeMaine

A leading figure in the early development of computer-based automatic indexing and information retrieval and one of the founders of academic computer science in the 1960s, DeMaine was born in South Africa...

Leonid Genrikhovich Khachiyan

Known for his Ellipsoid Algorithm for linear programming, Khachiyan proved the existence of an efficient way to solve linear programming problems thought to be intractable until that time. His 1979 breakthrough dealt...

Jane Lubchenco

Named Nature's first Newsmaker of the Year in 2010, Jane Lubchenco was an American environmental scientist and marine ecologist whose work spanned biodiversity, climate change, and the sustainable use of oceans. From 2009...

Carl Adam Petri

Developer of Petri nets for modeling distributed systems, Petri introduced the concept in his Ph.D. thesis in 1962, where he originally called them communicating automata. Afterwards, Petri served as department head at...

Claudio Ciborra

Known for his innovative thinking about information systems and his recognition of the relevance of transaction cost theory, Ciborra inspired researchers and thinkers around the world. He recognized the importance of tinkering,...

Robert C. Pike

A member of the Unix team at Bell Labs, Pike was involved in the creation of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems, as well as the Limbo programming...