Samuel Hawks Caldwell

Best known for his contributions to early computers, Caldwell was an American electrical engineer who completed his degrees in electrical engineering at MIT. His M.Sc. thesis was entitled Electrical Characteristics and Theory...

Leonard Kleinrock

Known as a "Father of the Internet," Kleinrock is an American engineer and computer scientist who made several important contributions to the field of computer networking, in particular to the theoretical side...

Dov (Bentchkowsky) Frohman

Inventor of the erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM), which eventually led to today's flash memory technology, Frohman is an Israeli electrical engineer and business executive, a former Vice President of Intel...

Robert (Bob) P. Colwell

Leader of the development of Intel's Pentium 4 CPU, Colwell is also recognized as the chief IA-32 architect on the Pentium Pro, Pentium II, and Pentium III microprocessors. An electrical engineer and...

Bob (Boe) Overton Evans

At IBM, Evans led the groundbreaking development of compatible computers that changed the industry. He persuaded IBM's chairman, Thomas J. Watson Jr., to discontinue the company's development of a hodgepodge of incompatible...

Bill Charles Norris

Founder of Control Data Corporation, Norris was the pioneering CEO of one of the most powerful and respected computer companies in the world. Norris was famous for taking on IBM in a...

Gordon Stanley Brown

Involved in the development of Whirlwind, the first all-digital computer, Brown also originated many of the concepts behind automatic-feedback control systems and the numerical control of machine tools. He was born in...

David A. Thompson

Pioneer in the design and development of thin film magnetic head technology for use in high-density data storage, Thompson has served as Director of the Advanced Magnetic Recording Laboratory at IBM Almaden...

Gary K. Starkweather

Inventor of the laser printer, Starkweather invented it at Xerox's Webster research center in 1969, and collaborated on the first fully functional laser printing system at Xerox PARC in 1971. At Apple Computer...

Wesley Allison Clark

One of the main participants, along with Charles Molnar, in the creation of the LINC laboratory computer — the first mini-computer and one of the inspirations for the personal computer — Clark...

Gerard J. Holzmann

Developer of the SPIN model checker, Holzmann is a Dutch-born American computer scientist and researcher known for his work at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey and at NASA. SPIN (short...

Michael (Mike) James Massimino

Researcher on human operator control of space robotics systems resulting in two patents, and developer of laptop computer displays to assist operators of the Space Shuttle remote manipulator system, Massimino is an...

Bashir Iskandarovich Rameyev

Holder of the first officially registered USSR patent in the field of electronic computers, Rameyev was a Soviet inventor and scientist and one of the founders of Soviet computing. He was the...

Paul A. Moskowitz

Inventor of the Radio Frequency Circuit and Memory in thin flexible package that forms the basis for the design of today's RFID tags for the retail supply chain, Moskowitz has been awarded...

Gururaj S. Rao

Designer of Systems Leadership functions that differentiated S/390 from its competition, Rao is personally credited with IBM's mainframe resurrection. His team successfully implemented IBM's breakthrough copper interconnect technology to set a new...

James Herbert Pomerene

Co-inventor and developer of the IAS machine and IBM 7030 and Harvest computers, Pomerene joined the Electronic Computer Project at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey under the...

Harm Peter Hofstee

Chief architect of the synergistic processor elements in the Cell Broadband Engine, Hofstee is known for his work on the processor behind the Sony PlayStation 3 and the Roadrunner supercomputer that first...

Harvey G. Cragon

Designer and builder of the first digital computer with Integrated Circuits (IC) and the first TTL computer, Cragon is recognized as a pioneering American computer engineer. Born in Ruston, Louisiana, he studied...

Daniel Meyer

Founder of Southwest Technical Products Corporation (SWTPC), Meyer introduced kits for the AC-30 Cassette Interface data storage and the PR-40 printer. He was born in New Braunfels, Texas and raised in San...

Aaron F. Bobick

Expert in using computer vision techniques to recognize people, Bobick's research has been reported by the BBC News and ABC News. His research has been in the field of Artificial Intelligence and...