Martha Sloan

The first woman to lead the IEEE Institute, Sloan served as IEEE president in 1993. She received a BSEE with great distinction, an MSEE, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. After two...

David L. Harame

Lead developer of the world's first successful silicon germanium (SiGe) technology for analog and communications circuits, Harame has served as a Director at IBM, an IBM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and a...

Ray Harishankar

Significant contributor to IBM's leadership position in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), reusable asset-based development approaches leveraging SOA, and in the creation of highly reusable IT assets, Harishankar has served as an IBM...

Suhas S. Patil

Pioneer in applying computer architecture knowledge to VLSI design, Patil founded Cirrus Logic, a fabless semiconductor company. Over the years, his work covered computer architecture, parallel processing computers, mathematics for computer science,...

James T. Pendergrass

Instrumental in establishing the naval cryptologic service's pioneering program to develop electronic digital computers, Pendergrass shaped the early development of computing in the U.S. Navy. Born in Bala Cynwyd, PA, he earned...

Mark Edwin Kriegsman

Developer of large-scale rule-based, statistical, and text-processing AI systems, Kriegsman is an American entrepreneur, computer programmer, inventor, and writer. His fascination with computers caught the attention of a local newspaper in 1979,...

Virgil Dorin Gligor

Researcher in computer security addressing problems of trustworthy computing in the presence of malware and malicious insiders, and in next-generation secure Internet design, Gligor is a Romanian-American Professor of Electrical and Computer...

Donald Michael Ludlow

Principal designer and developer of the Input-Output Supervisor (IOS) component of OS/360, Ludlow made significant contributions to IBM's landmark operating system. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Ludlow grew up in Melvindale. He earned a...

Wes Kussmaul

Founder of the Kussmaul Encyclopedia, the first online encyclopedia, and developer of online identity security, Kussmaul is also the author of several books about online security. In 1971, while stationed at Whiteman...

Jaron Zepel Lanier

Pioneer of virtual reality, Lanier led the team in the late 1980s that developed the first implementations of multi-person virtual worlds using head-mounted displays. In mid-1997, he became a founding member of...

Anriette Esterhuysen

A pioneer in using Internet and Communications Technologies to promote social justice and affordable access, Esterhuysen was a leading figure in both South African and global digital rights advocacy. She served as...

Richard Ernest Bellman

Developer of dynamic programming, Bellman made foundational contributions to mathematics and computer science by introducing a method for solving complex problems by breaking them down into simpler sub-problems. An American applied mathematician...

Walden (Wally) C. Rhines

Supervisor of the development of Texas Instruments' first speech synthesis devices, used in the iconic "Speak & Spell" toy, Rhines is also co-inventor of the GaN blue-violet light emitting diode, now important...

Barry Leiba

Developer of Ultimail, an early integrated multimedia e-mail system created with his team at IBM Research, Leiba is a computer scientist and software researcher. His work focused for many years on electronic...

Michael Franz

Pioneer in mobile code and dynamic compilation, Franz led the Secure Systems and Languages Laboratory at the University of California, Irvine — one of the top research teams on dynamic compilation, virtual...

Rosalyn S. Yalow

Co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Yalow shared the honor with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally for the development of the radioimmunoassay technique. She was the second woman...

Juan R. Rodriguez

Pioneer in the development of advanced computer data storage technologies across four decades, Rodriguez co-founded Storage Technology Corporation in 1969 along with three other IBM engineers: Jesse Awieda, Thomas S. Kavanagh, and...

Henry Ross Perot

Founder of Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in 1962, Perot built one of the most influential technology services companies in American history. He sold EDS to General Motors in 1984, and founded Perot...

Richard (Dick) P. Case

Responsible for the engineering design of the IBM 1410 CPU and the IBM 7040–7044 processing systems, Case began his long and distinguished career at IBM in 1956 as a Technical Engineer. During his...

Maria Mitchell

The first woman elected Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Mitchell was also the first internationally known woman to...