James (Jim) F. Blinn

Creator of the pre-encounter animations for the Voyager project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Blinn is one of the founders of the computer graphics industry. He has spent his career expanding industry...

Darleane C. Hoffman

Among the researchers who confirmed the existence of seaborgium (element 106), Hoffman was an American nuclear chemist whose work placed her at the forefront of her field. She became a faculty senior...

Don Cassel

Developer of one of the first online interactive courses at Humber College for Microsoft Access using WebCT, Cassel created a significant tool for developing and delivering distance learning for the college. Cassel joined...

Paolo A. Gargini

Developer of the building blocks of HMOS III and CHMOS III technologies used in the 1980s for the 80286 and the 80386 processors, Gargini has served as Director of Technology Strategy and...

Omer Reingold

Author of Reingold's Algorithm, which resolved the memory-complexity of finding paths in undirected graphs, Reingold is cited for finding a solution to a more than 25-year quest by expert theoretical computer science...

Igor L. Markov

Leader of the effort on the Hardware tree during the 2011 redesign of the ACM Computing Classification System, Markov has served as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at...

Thomas Eugene Kurtz

Co-developer of the BASIC programming language, Kurtz transformed computing education for generations of users. In 1951, Dr. Kurtz's first experience with computing came at the Summer Session of the Institute for Numerical Analysis...

Robert Kevin Rose

Co-founder of Digg and other Internet start-ups, Rose is recognized for his entrepreneurial work in online media. He first became an on-air talent and later served as a co-host on TechTV's show The...

Anthony A. Storey

Prime mover in creating the Enterprise Java Beans industry specification that brought Java into the server environment, Storey has also been a widely recognized expert in online transaction processing and the vital...

Ken E. Batcher

Designer of the Massively Parallel Processor, Batcher created one of the most significant parallel computing architectures of its era. Among the designs Batcher worked on at Goodyear were the: Massively Parallel Processor (16,384...

David J. Kuck

Developer of the Parafrase compiler system (1977), the first testbed for automatic vectorization and related program transformations, Kuck is one of the most influential figures in parallel computing. His influence spans a...

Derrick (Dick) Henry Lehmer

Part of the Computations Committee formed to prepare the ENIAC for utilization following its completion, Lehmer was also active in the building of the California Digital Computer (CALDIC). An American mathematician, he...