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...

Boris Artashesovich Babayan

Creator of early Soviet supercomputers, Babayan is notable as a pioneering figure in Soviet computing history. Babayan later pursued a career with Intel.

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,...

Chintay Shih

A major player in the collective effort to build Taiwan's semiconductor industry from the ground up, Shih led the process technology team for the Industrial Technology Research Institute's (ITRI) RCA project that...

Susan Hares

Co-author of the BGP specification — the protocol considered industry-wide to be the most important on the Internet — Hares is an internationally recognized leader in commercialized advanced networking technologies and products...

Norbert Frištacký

Pioneer in digital computing and education at Slovak universities, Frištacký was one of the earliest to deploy and use digital computers at Slovak universities, and served as the first Rector of STU...

Steven R. Hofstein

Co-producer of the first working MOS integrated circuit, Hofstein is a well-known scientist with over 40 patents whose inventions have been chronicled by publications that include the New York Times, Newsweek, Business...

Stephen Wolff

Credited with turning the Internet from a government project into something of scholarly and commercial interest for the rest of the world, Wolff is sometimes called one of the many fathers of...

Gordon B. Davis

Founding father of the academic discipline of MIS, Davis established research and teaching in MIS at the University of Minnesota in 1967. Davis authored and co-authored foundation texts in the discipline. He...

Edward J. Seminaro

Leader of the team responsible for establishing and executing the system design of IBM's pSeries and iSeries UNIX product family, Seminaro has served as the Chief Hardware System Architect for IBM's Power...

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....

David Bradley

One of the twelve engineers who developed the original IBM PC, Bradley is known for creating the computer's ROM BIOS code. He is also the author of *Assembly Language Programming for the...

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...

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...

Algirdas Avizienis

Organizer and director of the JPL STAR research project from 1961 to 1972, Avizienis is a Lithuanian-born computer scientist whose effort resulted in the construction and evaluation of the experimental JPL STAR...

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...

George F. Daly

Co-developer of the IBM 285 and 297 series accounting machines and co-inventor of the automatic multiplying machines known as Types 600 and 601, Daly was a pivotal figure in IBM's early engineering...

Donald Lester Bitzer

Co-inventor of the Plasma Display and sometimes called the "father of PLATO" (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations), the first generalized computer-assisted instruction system, Bitzer was an American electrical engineer and computer...

Anthony (Tony) M. Fadell

Developer of technologies including the Sony Magic Link, Motorola Envoy, and the Apple iPod, Fadell is a Lebanese American computer science engineer. He served as Senior Vice President of the iPod Division...

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,...