Hartmut Esslinger

Creator of a design strategy that transformed Apple from a "Silicon Valley Start-Up" into a global brand, Esslinger is a German-American industrial designer and inventor known for co-founding Frogdesign, a global innovation...

Neil James Alexander Sloane

Contributor to the fields of combinatorics, error-correction coding, and sphere packing, Sloane's research has ranged far and wide, including coding theory, sphere packing, lattices and quadratic forms, packing lines, and planes, spherical...

Safiya Umoja Noble

Author of the landmark 2018 book "Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism," Noble brought rigorous academic scrutiny to the ways search engine algorithms can perpetuate racism and discrimination. She became...

Robert (Bob) M. Frankston

Co-creator of VisiCalc and co-founder of Software Arts, Frankston received numerous honors and awards for his work. He has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1994) "for the...

Jennifer Rexford

Noted for research in internet routing, network measurement and management, Rexford has served as a Professor in the Computer Science department at Princeton University. From 1996–2004, she was a member of the...

William Gordon Welchman

One of four signatories to an influential letter delivered personally to Winston Churchill in October 1941 asking for more resources for the code-breaking work at Bletchley Park, and teacher of the first...

Kristen Nygaard

Co-inventor of SIMULA and pioneer of object-oriented programming, Nygaard was a computer scientist noted for his social agenda and work with the Norwegian Trade Unions. He was a systems developer and a...

Curt Herzstark

Designer and manufacturer of the Curta, one of the first mechanical pocket calculators, Herzstark was an Austrian engineer and inventor. Born in Vienna, the son of Marie and Samuel Jakob Herzstark, his...

Gertrude B. Elion

Awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine alongside George H. Hitchings and Sir James Black, Elion was an American biochemist and pharmacologist recognized for pioneering rational drug design. Rather than...

Victor R. Basili

Recognized for measuring, evaluating, and improving the software development process, Basili has served as an Emeritus Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, both at...

Hugh Williams

One of the members of the IBM team that developed the plan for unbundling software from hardware in 1969, Williams is also known for solving the Archimedes Cattle Problem. In June of...

Jagadish Chandra Bose

Named by IEEE as one of the fathers of radio science, Bose pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave optics, made very significant contributions to plant science, and laid the foundations of...

Bonnie Dunbar

A veteran of five Space Shuttle missions flown between 1985 and 1998, Dunbar is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut whose flights included two dockings with the Mir space station. Before...

Stephen (Steve) T. Kent

Designer and developer of user authentication and access control systems as well as other network security systems, Kent has served as Vice President and Chief Scientist for Information Security at BBN Technologies....

Ben Silbermann

Co-founder and CEO of Pinterest, a virtual pinboard that grew faster than Facebook and Twitter, Silbermann launched the platform in early 2010 alongside Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp. Pinterest is a free...

Paul Eliot Green, Jr.

Co-creator of the Rake receiver and supervisor of its deployment in the first-ever spread-spectrum system, Green changed the landscape of electronic signaling. He was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and was...

Samuel Morland

Credited with early developments in relation to computing, hydraulics and steam power, Morland was a notable English academic, diplomat, spy, inventor and mathematician of the 17th century. He was educated at Winchester...

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...

Ralph L. Palmer

Developer of the IBM 604 Electronic Calculator, Palmer graduated with a B.S. in electrical engineering from Union College in Schenectady in 1931. He joined IBM as an engineer in 1932. It was here...

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Discoverer of the binary number system and independent co-inventor of infinitesimal calculus, Leibniz occupied a prominent place in the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy. He developed the infinitesimal calculus...