Reid Garrett Hoffman

Co-founder of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for professional networking, Hoffman is best known as one of Silicon Valley's most influential entrepreneurs and investors. He was born in Palo Alto,...

Sergy Brin

Co-founder of Google, Inc., the world's largest Internet company based on its search engine and online advertising technology, Brin built the company alongside Larry Page. Together with Page, they are often referred...

Philippe Kahn

Creator of the first camera phone and founder of Borland Software and other technology companies, Kahn has built an extraordinary entrepreneurial legacy. He founded four successful companies: Fullpower Technologies, Starfish Software, Lightsurf...

Charles Ranlett Flint

Founder of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), which later became IBM, Flint transformed the landscape of business computing. In 1868, Charles Flint graduated from the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, and in 1871 entered the...

Sudha Murthy

Founder-Chairperson of the Infosys Foundation, Murty built the non-profit charitable organization into a vehicle for wide-ranging social impact across India. She founded several orphanages, supported rural development efforts, and championed a movement...

Yogen Dalal

Member of the original Star and Ethernet development teams at Xerox, Dalal is also a co-author of the TCP Specification, whose team's pioneering work on the design of the TCP protocol has...

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...

John Edward Warnock

Co-founder of Adobe Systems Inc., Warnock pioneered the development of graphics, publishing, Web, and electronic document technologies that revolutionized the field of publishing and visual communications. He served as President of Adobe...

Valentin Fyodorovich Turchin

Developer of the Refal programming language, the theory of metasystem transitions, and the notion of supercompilation, Turchin made foundational contributions to computer science and cybernetics. The philosophical core of Turchin's scientific work was...

Paul Gardener Allen

Co-founder of Microsoft, Allen launched the company with Bill Gates in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1975, and began marketing a BASIC programming language interpreter. In 1980, after promising to deliver IBM a...

Shawn Fanning

Developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer filesharing platforms

Carla Gomes

Founding Director of the Institute for Computational Sustainability at Cornell University, Gomes was a Portuguese-American computer scientist noted for pioneering work in developing computational methods to address challenges in sustainability. Her research spanned...

Alexander Ivanovich Mikhailov

Co-founder of the Vserosiisky Institut Nauchnoi I Tekhnicheskoy Informatsii (VINITI) and co-author of the concept of Informatics, Mikhailov was a pioneering figure in the study and dissemination of scientific information. He graduated...

Regis McKenna

Technology public relations legend for Intel, Apple, and dozens of other Silicon Valley firms, McKenna founded Regis McKenna, Inc. in 1970. McKenna retired from consulting in 2000 and concentrated his efforts on...

Harlan E. Anderson

Co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), which at one time was the second largest computer company in the world, Anderson built a career spanning research, industry leadership, and philanthropy. Other notable entities...

Brewster Kahle

Founder of the Internet Archive and creator of WAIS and Alexa Internet, Kahle has been a pioneering force in digital access and preservation. He was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity....

Scott McNealy

Co-founder of Sun Microsystems, McNealy started the computer technology company in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Andy Bechtolsheim. Sun Microsystems, along with companies such as Silicon Graphics, 3Com, and Oracle...

Herbert Freeman

Contributor to the field of automatic label placement, computer graphics, and machine vision, Freeman published numerous works on geometric patterns from '61 and co-founded, with Azriel Rosenfeld of the University of Maryland,...

Donald Valentine

Referred to as the "grandfather of Silicon Valley venture capital," Valentine was an American venture capitalist who concentrated mainly on technology companies in the United States. Valentine grew up in the Bronx,...

Farida Bedwei

Co-founder of Logiciel, a Ghanaian fin-tech company, Bedwei is a software engineer known for her expertise in software architecture and the deployment of mobile services for banking applications. She built both mobile...