Clifford Ivar Nass

Co-creator of The Media Equation theory, which holds that people tend to treat computers and other media as if they were either real people or real places, Nass was a renowned authority...

Jack St. Clair Kilby

Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 2000 for his invention of the integrated circuit, Kilby was also the inventor of the handheld calculator and thermal printer.

Jean Paul Jacob

Involved in IBM steel mills projects that developed high-level simulations for NASA, Jacob also created the first IBM Scientific Center of South America in Brazil and the Institute for Software Engineering. A...

Jignesh M. Patel

Founder of Locomatix, a "location aware services" technology named one of the 20 hottest startups by MobileBeat in 2010 and highlighted in the Innovation Showcase at CTIA, Patel is a Professor of...

James (Jim) J. Thomas

Considered by many computer scientists to be a visionary and inspiring research and development (R&D) leader in the field of visualization and computer graphics, Thomas was internationally recognized for his contributions to...

Edward Albert Feigenbaum

Known as the "father of expert systems," Feigenbaum is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence. Feigenbaum completed his undergraduate degree, and a Ph.D., at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now...

Carl Sassenrath

Creator of the Amiga Computer operating system kernel, which brought multitasking to personal computers, Sassenrath is also the designer of the REBOL computer language. Born in Eureka, California, he has served as...

Henry Lowood

Curator of History of Science & Technology Collections and Film & Media Collections at Stanford University Libraries, Lowood has served in this role as a leading steward of science and technology heritage.

Dean Eric Eastman

World-renowned expert on the electronic properties of materials and spectroscopy, Eastman is an American solid-state physicist and IBM manager. He conducted important research in the field of condensed matter physics, surface science,...

Mark Eugene Russinovich

Co-developer of the website sysinternals.com, Russinovich wrote and published dozens of popular Windows administration and diagnostic utilities including Autoruns, Filemon, and RootkitRevealer. He has served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Microsoft...

Peter Norton

Creator of Norton Utilities, Norton is recognized as a pioneer in DOS-based utilities software. Before discovering microcomputers, Norton spent a dozen years working on mainframes and minicomputers for companies including Boeing and Jet...

Larry Smarr

Advocate for a high-speed network linking the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications — which became the NSFnet, one of the significant predecessors of today's Internet — Smarr...

Robert (Bob) E. Lorenzini

Co-designer and developer of a crystal growing furnace, Lorenzini joined Rheem Semiconductor in 1960, the first spin-off from Fairchild Semiconductor, where he was involved in the design and development of that furnace....

Barbara Grant

Vice president and General Manager of the Data Storage Division of Removable Media Storage Solutions at IBM, Grant held that role as part of a 21-year career with the company spanning a...

Wendy W Hall

Leader of the team that invented the Microcosm hypermedia system before the World Wide Web existed, Hall has been a pioneering figure in multimedia, hypermedia, and web science. Born in west London,...

Jason McGee

Lead architect on the team that developed the original WebSphere Application Server in 1998, McGee has been instrumental in establishing IBM as the leader in cloud technologies, Java-based application server middleware, and...

Sam Ruby

Co-developer and principal maintainer of the Feed Validator — a tool used to check the validity of HTML, CSS, XML documents, and RSS feeds — Ruby has made significant contributions to web...

Henry Edward Roberts

Designer of the first commercially successful personal computer, Roberts transformed computing in 1975. He founded Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) in 1970 to sell electronics kits to model rocketry hobbyists, but...

Richard (Rick) Thomas Watson

Co-leader of the Global Text Project, which provides free electronic textbooks for students in the developing world, Watson has held the J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Chair for Internet Strategy in the Department...

Carol Shaw

Best known for creating River Raid (1982), the vertically scrolling shooter for the Atari 2600 released through Activision, Shaw is regarded as a pioneering figure in video game design. She joined Atari,...