Guglielmo Marconi

Known as the father of long distance radio transmission, Marconi was an Italian inventor celebrated for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. Although he is often accredited as...

Adele Goldberg

Co-developer of the programming language Smalltalk-80 and various concepts related to object-oriented programming, Goldberg conducted this work as a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the 1970s. She...

Peter C. Patton

Responsible for the development of the Intranet and Internet programs at the University of Pennsylvania, Patton has had over 50 years of experience in the computer industry, with involvement in computer hardware...

Alexander L'vovich Brudno

Best known for fully describing the alpha-beta (α-β) search algorithm, Brudno was a Russian Jewish computer scientist who lived in Israel from 1991. He developed the "mathematics/machine interface" for the M-2 computer...

Reiner W. Hartenstein

Pioneer of hardware description languages and reconfigurable computing, Hartenstein is known for the successful hardware design language KARL and its graphical companion language ABL, as well as for configware/software co-compilation techniques. Hartenstein received...

Blaise Pascal

Inventor of the Pascaline, a mechanical calculator capable of addition and subtraction, Pascal built twenty of these machines over the following ten years after constructing the first in 1642 following three years...

Johannes Georg Bednorz

Co-discoverer, with K. Alex Müller, of high-temperature superconductivity in ceramics, Bednorz shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics for this breakthrough. He was born in Neuenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany to elementary-school teacher...

Thomas E. Osborne

Developer of the architecture for the HP9100A, an early computer, Osborne joined Hewlett-Packard in 1965 as a consultant with that responsibility. Prior to joining HP, he had designed data processing equipment, then...

Frank Marion Wanlass

Inventor of the complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS), the technology employed in most modern microchips, Wanlass transformed electronics with a discovery that now touches nearly every digital device. A native of Utah, Wanlass...

John Rushby

Developer of the Prototype Verification System (PVS), a major impetus for the development of computer science, Rushby is a British computer scientist legendary in the field of formal methods and verification. He...

Jeffrey A. Frey

Co-developer of technologies enabling cloud computing, Frey has served as an IBM Fellow and CTO for System z. He is one of the founding architects of System z Parallel Sysplex, which operates...

Yakov Rekhter

One of the leading architects and a major software developer of the NSFNET Backbone Phase II, Rekhter also co-designed the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the core routing protocol of the Internet. Rekhter joined...

Paul Coteus

One of the chief engineers behind BlueGene/L, which rocked the world of supercomputing when it was introduced in 2004 and quickly earned the title "fastest computer in the world," Coteus led the...

Donald (Don) Nielson

Supporter of the development of the first hand-held computer terminal, Nielson joined SRI in 1959 as a Research Engineer, taking on assignments in telecommunications technology while working on his Ph.D. at Stanford,...

Andrew (Andy) Stephen Grove

One of the earliest employees of Intel Corporation, Grove ultimately played key leadership roles in its success.

Jack Elton Bresenham

Developer of Bresenham's Line Algorithm in 1962, Bresenham is recognized as a pioneer in computer graphics. The algorithm is one of the earliest discovered in the field and determines which points in...

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

Creator of the ALGOL programming language, Dijkstra was one of the most influential members of computing science's founding generation. Among the domains in which his scientific contributions are fundamental are algorithm design,...

Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe

Leader of the team that developed atomic force microscopes (AFMs) into fully hardened instruments usable both within IBM and beyond, Wickramasinghe is a distinguished pioneer in the invention and practical uses of...

Frederik Nebeker

Researcher of the influence of the computer on meteorology, Nebeker has served as the long-time Senior Research Historian at the IEEE History Center at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. A native...

Ruchi Sanghvi

The first female engineer hired by Facebook, Sanghvi later founded her own company, Cove, in 2011, alongside two co-founders. Dropbox acquired Cove in 2012, and Sanghvi joined Dropbox as VP of Operations,...