Satoshi Matsuoka

Lead developer of the TSUBAME series of supercomputers — which included the 4th fastest in the world on the Top500 — Matsuoka has served as a Full Professor at the Global Scientific...

Ward Christensen

Founder of the CBBS bulletin board, the first bulletin board system (BBS) ever brought online, Christensen started development during a blizzard in Chicago, Illinois, and officially established CBBS four weeks later, on...

Myron Kayton

Designer and analyzer of some of the earliest multi-sensor navigation systems, Kayton has spent much of his career working for TRW, NASA, and Litton, followed by running his own practice for 18...

Aart J. de Geus

One of the world's leading experts on logic synthesis and simulation, de Geus is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Synopsys Inc., a fellow of IEEE, and Phil Kaufman Award winner. He...

Jim Tice Ellis

Co-creator of Usenet, Ellis changed how people communicate online. It was 1979 when Ellis and a fellow Duke University student, Tom Truscott, decided to use e-mail programs and university computers to establish...

John Adam Presper Eckert, Jr.

Co-inventor of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, Eckert was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly, he presented the first course in computing topics (the Moore School...

William (Bill) John Poduska, Sr.

Founder of Apollo Computer, one of the first creators of graphical workstations in the 1980s, Poduska is an American engineer, entrepreneur, and independent business consultant. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, he graduated from...

Romuald W. Marczyński

Primary creator of the EMAL machine designs — Poland's first computers — Marczyński was a professor, mathematician, and pioneer of Polish technical computer science. He was one of the first in Poland...

John Vincent Atanasoff

Inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer, Atanasoff was raised by his parents in Brewster, Florida. At the age of nine he learned to use a slide rule, followed shortly by...

James L. Fergason

Inventor of an improved liquid crystal display, Fergason made his seminal discovery of the twisted nematic cell — a low-power, field-operated LC display — in 1969 while at the Liquid Crystal Institute...

Robert (Bob) C. Baron

Program Manager for the Mariner II (Venus) and the Mariner IV (Mars) onboard space computers, Baron spent over 25 years as an engineer, entrepreneur, and executive in the computer industry. A historian,...

André Trương Trọng Thi

Considered to be the "father of the personal computer," Trương Trọng Thi created the Micral microcomputer in 1973—two years before the debut of the famed Altair—based on an Intel 8008 processor, the...

Steven W. Hunter

Systems Architect for Systems x and BladeCenter products at IBM, Hunter was named an IBM Fellow in 2011—the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM can achieve. He has served...

Leo Fantl

One of the first to join the LEO computing team as a programmer, Fantl was responsible for the planning and programming of some of the earliest business data processing applications.

Pratap Pattnaik

Chief architect and scientist for defining, designing, and implementing the key research technologies that influenced IBM's server design in high-performance computing, Pattnaik has served as an IBM Fellow at the IBM Thomas...

Donald (Don) M. Eigler

The first researcher to use a scanning tunneling microscope tip to arrange individual atoms on a surface, Eigler is noted for his achievements in nanotechnology. In September 1989, he famously spelled out...

Estil Hoversten

Co-conceiver of the Internet Stream Protocol (ST), a connection-oriented complement to IPv4 notable for introducing the concepts of packetized voice, Hoversten has served as Senior Vice President of Hughes Network Systems, LLC...

Carver Andress Mead

Spearheaded of tools and techniques for modern integrated circuit design, Mead is a prominent U.S. computer scientist. Born in Bakersfield, California, he has held the position of Gordon and Betty Moore Professor...

Tadashi Watanabe

Chief designer of SX-2, the first supercomputer introduced by NEC in 1983, which boasted the world's fastest speed at that time, Watanabe is a Japanese computer engineer widely recognized as a pioneering...

Michael (Mike) A. McNeilly

Holder of the first patent for infrared deposition of silicon and other materials — a breakthrough that revolutionized deposition quality and produced slip-free, dislocation-free epi — McNeilly is a Silicon Valley pioneer...