Liane Tarouco

A pioneer in the development of the Internet in Brazil, Tarouco educated a generation of engineers and network specialists across that country, South America, Europe, and Africa. She authored the first book...

Dean Eric Eastman

World-renowned expert on the electronic properties of materials and spectroscopy, Eastman is an American solid-state physicist and IBM manager. He conducted important research in the field of condensed matter physics, surface science,...

Dave Cochran

Co-developer of the HP 35 Pocket Scientific Calculator, Cochran spent 25 years at Hewlett-Packard, starting as a part-time Test Technician in 1956 and departing as a celebrated HP Engineer in 1981. Between...

Ruth Teitelbaum (née Lichterman)

One of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer, Teitelbaum played a pivotal role in the rise of computers. She graduated from Hunter College with a B.Sc. in Mathematics and was hired...

Bill Hilf

Leader of product planning, product management and technical product management for Microsoft's Cloud computing platform, Windows Azure, Hilf has also served as a Senior Vice President at Hewlett-Packard for the HP Helion...

Gregory Bateson

A pioneer in extending systems theory and cybernetics to the social and behavioral sciences, Bateson had a natural ability to recognize order and pattern in the universe. In the 1940s he helped...

Daniel D. McCracken

Author of "A Guide to Fortran Programming" (Wiley, 1961) and its successors — the standard textbooks on that language for over two decades — McCracken was one of computing's most prolific educators....

Chen-Jung (Stan) Shih

Designer and developer of Taiwan's first desktop calculator, Shih is also recognized as the founder and former President of the Acer Group. Born in Lukang Township, Changhua County, Taiwan, he has been...

Ram Chillarege

Inventor of Orthogonal Defect Classification (ODC) technology, Chillarege has fundamentally enriched the management of software engineering. While at IBM Research, he founded the Center of Software Engineering and authored the seminal IBM...

Luba Cherbakov

Co-inventor and chief evangelist behind Service-Oriented Modeling and Architecture (SOMA), the industry's first SOA modeling method, Cherbakov is also a 2012 IBM Fellow — the 13th woman (and among only seventeen women)...

James Martin

Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his book *The Wired Society: A Challenge for Tomorrow*, Martin was a British Information Technology consultant and author who was one of the first to promote...

Walter (Dave) David Sincoskie

Inventor of the Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN), Sincoskie also installed the first ethernet local area network at Bellcore and helped invent voice over IP technology. He co-authored the first specifications for...

Stephen Cole Kleene

American mathematician who helped lay the foundations for theoretical computer science, Kleene was best known as a founder of the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory. One of many distinguished...

Alan F. Shugart

A pioneer in managing programs and companies in the disk drive industry, Shugart made lasting contributions to the field over several decades. Al Shugart started at IBM in 1951 and over 18 years...

Pierre Jaquet-Droz

Creator of animated dolls, or automata, devices which some consider to be the oldest examples of the computer, Jaquet-Droz lived in Paris, London, and Geneva, where he designed and built these mechanisms...

Miguel de Icaza

Starter of the GNOME project with Federico Mena in August 1997, de Icaza aimed to create a completely free desktop environment and component model for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Earlier,...

Brian Randell

Developer of a compiler for the English Electric KDF9, an early stack machine, Randell is a British computer scientist and Emeritus Professor at the School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, U.K. He...

David Patrick Reed

Designer of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Reed is an American computer scientist known for significant contributions to computer networking, including the design and construction of Internet protocols, distributed data storage, and...

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...

Henry Edward Roberts

Designer of the first commercially successful personal computer, Roberts transformed computing in 1975. He founded Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) in 1970 to sell electronics kits to model rocketry hobbyists, but...