Steve Newberry

CEO of LAM Research, a leader in the manufacturing of semiconductors, Newberry has served in that role at the forefront of the semiconductor industry.

Edwin Ronald Nixon

One of the most powerful influences in shaping British industry's response to the technological revolution, Nixon headed IBM's operations in the UK for an astonishing 25-year span from the 1960s to the...

Frederic (Ted) Withington

Founder board member of the IT History Society and Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Withington began his career as a programmer at NSA in 1953. Over the years he worked for computer makers...

Larry LeRoy Constantine

Pioneer in modern software engineering, Constantine began his professional career in computers with a summer job at Scientific Computing, at the time a subsidiary of Control Data Corporation, in Minneapolis, having learned...

Robert Stein

Producer of the first interactive computer discs for CD-ROM, Stein is considered a visionary and innovator in the world of communication and multimedia. Born and raised in New York City, Stein attended...

Doris L. Carver

Researcher of system reengineering, software requirements methodologies, and formal model transformations, Carver directed the Software Engineering Laboratory at LSU, where she published over 80 technical papers and received funding from NSF, NASA,...

Daniel Karrenberg

Pioneer of the Internet in Europe, Karrenberg is a computer scientist who has focused on inventing, designing, and implementing Internet-related systems, especially those that collect and analyze data about the Internet itself....

Mark N. Wegman

Co-inventor of Static Single Assignment (SSA) form, which is used in the analysis portion of most if not all modern optimizing compilers, Wegman is an American computer scientist known for his contributions...

Barry Leiba

Developer of Ultimail, an early integrated multimedia e-mail system created with his team at IBM Research, Leiba is a computer scientist and software researcher. His work focused for many years on electronic...

Raymond (Ray) John Noorda

Founder and former CEO of Novell, Noorda was a U.S. computer businessman who served in that role between 1982 and 1994. He also served as chairman of Novell until he was replaced...

Robert (Bob) P. Colwell

Leader of the development of Intel's Pentium 4 CPU, Colwell is also recognized as the chief IA-32 architect on the Pentium Pro, Pentium II, and Pentium III microprocessors. An electrical engineer and...

Ian Munro Ross

Co-inventor of epitaxy, used in silicon-based manufacturing processes for BJTs and modern CMOS and particularly important for compound semiconductors such as gallium arsenide, Ross was also an early pioneer in transistors who...

Rajeev Sangal

Noted for Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, and speech research in Indian Languages, Sangal founded and has served as director of the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT-H), India. IIIT-H is...

Hiroshi Yamamoto

IBM Distinguished Engineer who expanded horizontal industry skills in the electronics industry, Yamamoto has served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Global Electronics Industry, with responsibilities covering all electronics customers at...

Suhas S. Patil

Pioneer in applying computer architecture knowledge to VLSI design, Patil founded Cirrus Logic, a fabless semiconductor company. Over the years, his work covered computer architecture, parallel processing computers, mathematics for computer science,...

Kanianthra Mani Chandy

Co-proposer of a new solution to the Dining Philosophers problem, Chandy is recognized for his contributions to concurrent algorithm design and distributed computing. Along with J. Misra, he proposed the solution in...

Morton M. Astrahan

Developer of the SAGE air-defense computer and a pioneer in relational database systems, Astrahan joined IBM in 1949 and spent his entire professional career there—first at the Endicott Laboratory and then later...

William (Bill) James Dally

Co-builder of the J-Machine and the M-Machine — parallel machines emphasizing low overhead synchronization and communication — Dally has served as Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Research at NVIDIA, an...

Bashir Iskandarovich Rameyev

Holder of the first officially registered USSR patent in the field of electronic computers, Rameyev was a Soviet inventor and scientist and one of the founders of Soviet computing. He was the...

Victor Mayer Amédée Mannheim

Inventor of the modern slide rule, Mannheim standardized the design that remained in common use until pocket calculators took over. After graduating from the École d'Application in Metz, Mannheim became an officer of...