Michael S. Tomczyk

Best known for his role in the development and marketing of the Commodore VIC-20, the first microcomputer to sell one million units, Tomczyk is also recognized as an early pioneer in telecomputing....

Steve Lukasik

Chief Scientist of the Federal Communications Commission, Lukasik advised the Commission on technical issues in communication regulation and the management of non-government use of the electromagnetic spectrum. He received a B.S. in Physics...

Lester (Les) Donald Earnest

Developer of the "first pen-based computer system that reliably recognized cursive writing" and the first spell checker, Earnest began his career as a computer programmer in 1954 during a stint as a...

Tim Westergren

Founder and CEO of Pandora, Westergren started the Music Genome Project, a mathematical algorithm to organize music. The idea was marketed by Pandora Media. Westergren, along with the other developers, patented the...

Douglas C. Engelbart

Inventor of the computer mouse and early computer pioneer, Engelbart is best known for his work as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs,...

Robert H. High, Jr.

Pioneer in the field of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), High positioned IBM as a leader in delivering critical technologies to its clients. He has served as an IBM Fellow—the highest honor a...

Dana Stewart Scott

Author of the joint paper "Finite Automata and Their Decision Problem," which introduced the idea of nondeterministic machines, Scott has had a research career spanning computer science, mathematics, and philosophy, characterized by...

Katherine L. Morse

Developer of a compiler and operating system kernel for a neural network subprocessor, Morse has worked continually in computing since taking her first paid programming job at age 17, the summer after...

Eric Horvitz

Recognized for playing a significant role in establishing the credibility of artificial intelligence, Horvitz has also helped establish the link between artificial intelligence and decision science. Horvitz coined the concept of bounded...

Randy Bush

Founder of the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), an NSF-supported pro bono effort to help develop and deploy networking technology in projects throughout the world, Bush has worked with the computer industry...

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,...

Biz Stone

Co-founder of Twitter, Stone also served as its Creative Director and helped to create and launch Xanga, Blogger, Odeo, and Obvious. Stone published two books about blogging, including *Blogging: Genius Strategies for...

David Nahamoo

Developer of algorithms that contributed to IBM's leadership in automatic speech recognition, Nahamoo's work includes contributions that resulted in the company's highly successful deployment of ViaVoice. He has served as the Speech...

Monty M. Denneau

Pioneer in high-performance computer design, Denneau received the 2002 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award for "ingenious and sustained contributions to designs and implementations at the frontier of high performance computing leading to...

Cyril Cleverdon

Best known for his work on the evaluation of information retrieval systems, Cleverdon was a British librarian and computer scientist born in Bristol, England. He worked at the Bristol Libraries from 1932...

Daniel (Danny) Mark Lewin

Co-creator of innovative Internet infrastructure services that produced an entirely new industry segment and forever changed the way people and companies distribute content, data, and applications, Lewin co-founded Akamai Technologies. An American-Israeli...

Frances (Fran) Elizabeth Allen

Pioneer in optimizing compilers and the first woman to win the Turing Award, Allen was also the first female IBM Fellow. Allen was an expert in the field of optimizing compilers. As a...

Anita Borg

Developer of a patented method for generating complete address traces for analyzing and designing high-speed memory systems, and of MECCA, an email and Web-based system for communicating in virtual communities, Borg was...

Jakob Nielsen

Founder of the "discount usability engineering" movement for fast and cheap improvements of user interfaces, Nielsen invented several usability methods, including heuristic evaluation — a usability inspection method for computer software that...

Philip S. Yu

Holder of over 300 U.S. patents in data mining, database systems, Internet applications and technologies, Yu is recognized as an IBM Master Inventor and one of the most prolific inventors in computing....