Gordon (Tommy) Eric Thomas

Pioneer in the design of 'Baby', the first stored program computer, Thomas graduated in Physics and Electronic Engineering at the University of Manchester in 1948, joining the design team of Professors F.C....

Samuel Reid Warren, Jr.

Supervisor of the EDVAC project at the Moore School, Warren spent the bulk of his career at the University of Pennsylvania. Born in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, he was the...

Pal Spilling

Co-developer of the Internet Protocol and other early computer network protocols, Spilling was a Norwegian Internet pioneer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo and the UNIK Graduate Center at Kjeller...

Jack Yun Ma

Founder of one of the world's biggest B2B online marketplaces, Ma built Alibaba.com into an eBay for companies doing international trade. A Chinese entrepreneur and philanthropist, he also founded and served as...

Daniel L. Murphy

Creator of Text Editor and Corrector (TECO), later implemented on most PDP computers, Murphy is an American computer scientist. He attended MIT from 1961 and graduated in 1965. In 1962 he created...

Gerd Binnig

Co-inventor of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and Nobel Prize winner in Physics (1986), Binnig was born in Frankfurt am Main and played in the ruins of the city during his childhood....

Stephen Warshall

Developer of the transitive closure algorithm known as Warshall's algorithm, Warshall made foundational contributions to graph analysis for finding shortest paths in a weighted graph. Born in New York City, Warshall went to...

Steven (Steve) Gibson

Creator of one of the first adware removal programs, OptOut, Gibson is an American software engineer and security researcher. Born in Dayton, Ohio, he began working on computers as a teenager, and...

Doulgas Rayner Hartree

English mathematician and physicist, Hartree was most famous for the development of numerical analysis and its application to the Hartree-Fock equations of atomic physics and the construction of the meccano differential analyzer.

Kurt Gödel

Known for his two incompleteness theorems, Gödel heavily influenced the sciences and mathematics. Published in 1931 when he was 25 years of age, one year after finishing his doctorate at the University...

Nolan Ira Gasser

Chief architect of the Music Genome Project and chief musicologist for Pandora Media, Inc., Gasser is an American composer, pianist, and musicologist whose proprietary musical analysis system underlies the popular Internet radio...

Dennis Crowley

Co-founder of the popular social networking sites Dodgeball and Foursquare, Crowley is an American Internet entrepreneur born in Medway, Massachusetts who graduated from nearby Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, Massachusetts in...

Steve McConnell Case

Co-founder and former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online (AOL), Case is an American businessman who reached his highest profile when he played an instrumental role in AOL's merger with...

Balakrishnan Prabhakaran

Known for his work in 3D video, animations, and deformable 3D models — a form of multimedia data widely used in entertainment and medical fields — Prabhakaran has served as a Professor...

David F. Redmiles

Author of over 100 research publications integrating the areas of software engineering, human-computer interaction, and computer-supported cooperative work, Redmiles has served as a Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University...

Grigore Constantin Moisil

Considered the father of computer science in Romania, Moisil made foundational contributions to automata theory, many-valued algebras, and mathematical logic. Grigore Moisil attended primary school in Bucharest, then high school in Vaslui and...

Mavis Batey (née Lever)

One of Bletchley Park's most effective codebreakers, Batey joined the team in May 1940 at just 19 years old, interrupting her German-language studies at University College London. Working under the eccentric cryptographer...

Kathleen (Kay) McNulty Mauchly Antonelli

One of the six original programmers of the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, Antonelli helped lay the foundations of modern computing. Kathleen (Kay) McNulty was born on February 12, 1921, in...

Donald Michie

Developer of the Machine Educable Noughts And Crosses Engine (MENACE), one of the first programs capable of learning to play a perfect game of Tic-Tac-Toe, Michie was a British researcher in artificial...

Robert Mano Fano

Known principally for his work in information theory and the invention of Shannon-Fano coding, Fano was a computer scientist and professor emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of...