W. (Rick) Richards Adrion

Founder of the Applied Computing Systems Institute of Massachusetts, Adrion has served as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He served as PI for an NSF REU Site,...

Frederick M. Hoar

A Silicon Valley public relations and marketing executive legend, Hoar died January 2 after a three-year bout with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. He was 77. Hoar was one of Silicon Valley's most visible public...

Evelyn Boyd Granville

Part of the IBM team responsible for formulating orbit computations and computer procedures for NASA's Projects Vanguard and Mercury, Granville was also one of the first African-American women to receive a Ph.D....

Edward (Ed) E. Iacobucci

Leader of the joint IBM-Microsoft design team that launched the modern era of multi-tasking personal computer operating systems, Iacobucci was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Dr. Guillermo and Costantina Iacobucci. His...

Peter Andreas Thiel

Co-founder of PayPal, Thiel is a German-born American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager. He co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin, and later, Elon Musk, and has served as its CEO. He...

Leslie John Comrie

Pioneer in mechanical computation and astronomy, Comrie was also the founder of the world's first private company for scientific computing. He was born in Pukekohe (south of Auckland), New Zealand, and attended Auckland...

Steve Dorner

Developer of the Eudora e-mail client, Dorner is an American software engineer who created it in 1988 as part of his work as a staff member at the University of Illinois at...

Reshma Saujani

Founder of Girls Who Code, a nonprofit working to increase the number of women in computer science and close the gender employment gap in that field, Saujani built a career spanning law,...

Calvin (Kelly) C. Gotlieb

Known as the "father" of computing in Canada, Gotlieb started working with computing equipment in the 1940s. He was one of the driving forces behind the University of Toronto's being a leader...

Fred M. Gibbons

Co-founder and CEO of Software Publishing Corporation (SPC), best known for its pioneering Harvard Graphics business and presentation graphics program, Gibbons cofounded the Mountain View, California-based company in 1980 along with two...

Jeffrey (Jeff) M. Nick

Major role player in setting technical direction for EMC Corporation's M&A activities in the areas of Cloud computing, software-defined data center, and data analytics, Nick has served as Senior Vice President and...

Harold Locke Hazen

Pioneer in the development of differential analyzers, Hazen collaborated with Vannevar Bush at MIT to construct the first widely practical such machine, built 1928–1931 and comprising six mechanical integrators. In the same year,...

Richard Wesley Hamming

Known for his work on numerical methods, automatic coding systems, and error-detecting and error-correcting codes, Hamming was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer science and telecommunications. Hamming's contributions...

Tim Westergren

Founder and CEO of Pandora, Westergren started the Music Genome Project, a mathematical algorithm to organize music. The idea was marketed by Pandora Media. Westergren, along with the other developers, patented the...

Robert E. Cook

Founder of VM Software (later renamed Systems Center), a provider of software utilities for IBM's VM operating system, Cook built his first company into a firm listed on both the Nasdaq and...

Larry Cohn

Experienced in creating businesses focused on implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, Cohn has spent over twenty-five years helping organizations integrate varied systems and enable seamless transactions and production. He holds a...

Werner Zorn

One of the fathers of networking in Germany, Zorn oversaw the first email link between Germany and the US CSNET in August 1984 and the spread of CSNET in Germany, while serving...

Donald Peter Greenberg

Pioneer developer of software that influenced many architectural software (CAAD) products still in use today, Greenberg also initiated the first computer-aided architectural design studio in the United States in 1984. An internationally...

Leslie Lamport

Known for his seminal work in distributed systems and as the initial developer of LaTeX, Lamport is a prominent computer scientist and mathematician. A graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, he...

Lawrence (Larry) Page

Co-founder of Google Inc., Page is an American computer scientist who founded the company alongside Sergey Brin.