John (Jack) Mason Harker

Pioneer of the IBM 350 RAMAC disk storage unit — the world's first hard disk drive — Harker started as a member of the original team that developed the first disk storage...

Wen Tsing Chow

Inventor and fundamental patent holder of programmable read-only memory (PROM), Chow was a Chinese-born American missile guidance scientist and digital computer pioneer. He was born in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China, near the...

Edward S. Davidson

Designer and implementer of an eight-node symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) system whose architecture is used by most multiprocessor systems today, Davidson pioneered pipelining techniques for improving processor throughput in both hardware and software,...

Robin Keith Saxby

Guided ARM Holdings to worldwide dominance in embedded applications as its first CEO, Saxby built the Cambridge-based company into "a global giant" with offices round the world. Born in Derbyshire, in central England,...

Bijan Davari

Leader of the IBM research team that produced the first generation of high-performance, low-voltage CMOS logic characterizing modern computer chips, Davari's pioneering work in miniaturization of semiconductor devices changed the world of...

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...

Maurice Vincent Wilkes

Designer and builder of EDSAC, the first fully productive stored-program electronic computer, Wilkes transformed the foundations of modern computing. Wilkes designed and constructed EDSAC at Cambridge University as the first fully productive stored-program...

Moshe Yanai

Leader of the development of the EMC Symmetrix enterprise storage array, the flagship product of EMC Corporation in the 1990s, Yanai is considered one of the most influential contributors in the history...

Hung Q. Le

Leader of the development of several microprocessor products that enabled IBM to be the leader in the server market, Le holds more than 80 patents in the field of microprocessor design and...

Clifford Edward Berry

Holder of 19 patents in mass spectrometry and 11 in vacuum and electronics, Berry was a pioneer in radio and electrical engineering. Clifford Berry received his M.S. in Physics in 1941. After their...

Jack Howlett

Director of the Atlas Computer Laboratory, Howlett led a laboratory created to provide a service to researchers across the United Kingdom with a need for large-scale computing power, and played a key...

Howard Hathaway Aiken

Pioneer in computing and original concept designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer, Aiken transformed early computing with his vision of electro-mechanical calculation. Howard studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and later obtained...

Bernard (Barney) M. Oliver

Co-developer of pulse-code modulation (PCM) and leader of the team that produced the first hand-held calculators at Hewlett-Packard, Oliver was a scientist who made contributions in many fields, including radar, television, and...

William Mark Goddard

Co-inventor of the "Direct Access Magnetic Disc Storage Device," which gave birth to the modern-day hard disk drive, Goddard is hailed as a contributor to one of the most significant inventions in...

Shoichiro Yoshida

Co-developer of advanced steppers and scanners, high-precision instruments used in the complex process of making integrated circuits, Yoshida has been a pivotal figure in IC lithography innovation. A Japanese engineer born in...

Ron C. Crane

Co-designer of 10M b/sec Ethernet and a driving force behind the IEEE 802.3 and 802.3u standards, Crane left a significant mark on the history of networking. Ron Crane had many technical accomplishments...

Fujio Masuoka

Inventor of flash memory, Masuoka has carved out a path to a new era whereby consumers are able to carry videos, music, books and data with them wherever they go. Born in...

George Harry Heilmeier

Inventor of the LC-Display and pioneering contributor to liquid crystal displays, Heilmeier is inducted in the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, received his B.S. in Electrical...

Terry G. Johnson

Founder of Miniscribe in 1980, an early manufacturer of 5.25-inch and later 3.5-inch drives, Johnson was a pioneer in disk storage products. Born in Ogden, Utah, Johnson graduated from high school in 1953....

Joseph (Josh) A. Fisher

Creator of VLIW architectures, which allow programs to explicitly specify instructions to be executed in parallel for higher performance, Fisher is an American computer scientist also noted for his work on compiling...