Frederick Jelinek

Pioneer of speech recognition, Jelinek was a Czech-American researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing, well known for his oft-quoted statement, "Every time I fire a linguist, the...

Bjarne Stroustrup

Designer and implementer of the C++ programming language, Stroustrup is a computer scientist most notable for the creation and development of the widely used C++. He has served as Professor and holder...

Tom Gilb

Developer of software metrics, software inspection, and evolutionary processes, Gilb is an American systems engineer, consultant, and author known for bringing quantitative measurement approaches to software development. Since quantitative measurements are essential...

F. Grant Saviers

Co-developer of a controller for DEC's first disk drive, Saviers joined DEC in 1968 and held several senior management positions over 24 years with the company. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he became interested...

Steven (Steve) Paul Jobs

Co-founder and CEO of Apple, Jobs was an American business magnate who also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios. He became a member of the board of The Walt...

Martin Wiberg

Inventor of a machine that could print logarithmic tables, Wiberg is known as a computer pioneer for his 1875 invention of a device the size of a sewing machine. The tables were...

Andy Hertzfeld

Key member of the original Apple Macintosh development team, Hertzfeld graduated from Brown University with a Computer Science degree in 1975 and attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. In...

Michael Saul Dell

Founder and CEO of Dell Inc., Dell is an American business magnate who has been among the richest people in the world, with a net worth of US$13.5 billion in 2010.

M. Kenneth Oshman

Co-founder of ROLM Corporation, a telecommunications equipment company, Oshman helped establish the firm in 1969 and served as its CEO, President, and director until its merger with IBM in 1984. Having grown up...

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...

William Mark Goddard

Co-inventor of the "Direct Access Magnetic Disc Storage Device," which gave birth to the modern-day hard disk drive, Goddard is hailed as a contributor to one of the most significant inventions in...

Tom Anderson

Founder of the social networking website MySpace, Anderson co-founded the site in 2003 with Chris DeWolfe. Anderson has served as president of MySpace, and later became a strategic adviser for the company....

Gene Myron Amdahl

Team leader in building IBM mainframes and founder of Amdahl Corporation, Amdahl was chiefly known for his work on mainframe computers at IBM and later his own companies. He was perhaps best...

Paul Maritz

Responsible for essentially all of Microsoft's desktop and server software — including such major initiatives as the development of Windows 95, Windows NT, and Internet Explorer — Maritz has served as a...

Tyrone Grandison

Leader of the IBM team that pioneered research in Relational Database Privacy, Grandison demonstrated that privacy protection was possible at the database level and that both security and privacy controls can exist...

Allen Newell

Pioneer in artificial intelligence, Newell made basic contributions to AI and the psychology of human cognition, for which he and Herbert Simon were awarded the ACM's A.M. Turing Award in 1975. He...

Paul A. Strassmann

Developer of new methods for evaluating the productivity of computer investments, Strassmann is a Czechoslovakian-born American engineer and business management theorist. He is also noted for his 47-minute 2005 lecture, "Information Management...

Hiroshi Ito

Co-inventor of "Chemically Amplified Resists," Ito made seminal contributions to modern photolithography that greatly aided the production of more powerful chips at a lower cost and contributed substantially to worldwide economic growth. Ito...

Erik Selberg

Creator of MetaCrawler, one of the first Web meta-search engines, Selberg is an American software developer. Selberg attended college at Carnegie Mellon University in 1989. In 1993, he graduated with a double...

Arthur L. Norberg

Former Director of the Charles Babbage Institute, Norberg is a noted author and historian of information technology.