Ruchir Puri

Leader of high performance design and methodology solutions for all of IBM's enterprise server and system chip designs, Puri has served as an IBM Fellow at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center,...

Carl Machover

Inducted into the FAMLI Computer Graphics Hall of Fame, Machover is recognized as a computer graphics pioneer and graphics "evangelist." He has served as president of Machover Associates Corp (MAC), a computer graphics...

Aaron Levie

Co-founder and CEO of BOX, Levie launched the company from his college dorm room with his friend and co-founder, Dylan Smith who is the CFO. He grew up in Seattle where he...

Marcia Neugebauer

Among the first researchers to yield direct measurements of the solar wind, Neugebauer made foundational contributions to space physics, including work that shed light on the solar wind's physics and its interaction...

Harry Lewis Nelson

Co-discoverer of the 27th Mersenne prime in 1979, which was at that time the largest known prime number, Nelson is also recognized as one of the world's foremost experts in writing optimized...

Regina Honu

Founder of Soronko Academy, the first coding and human-centered design school for children and young adults in West Africa, Honu was a Ghanaian social entrepreneur and software developer who also established Soronko...

Bashir Iskandarovich Rameyev

Holder of the first officially registered USSR patent in the field of electronic computers, Rameyev was a Soviet inventor and scientist and one of the founders of Soviet computing. He was the...

Hamid Pirahesh

Major contributor to query language industry standards, Pirahesh is an IBM Fellow, ACM Fellow, and Senior Manager at IBM Research at IBM Almaden in San Jose, California. He has been responsible for...

Lee Felsenstein

Designer of the Osborne 1, the first mass-produced portable computer, Felsenstein is recognized for his work in reducing the costs of computer technologies to make them available to large markets. Lee had been...

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...

Arthur Dehon Little

Founder of the consulting company Arthur D. Little, which played key roles in the development of the word processor and much more, Little was an American chemist and chemical engineer born in...

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...

Allan Marquand

Builder of a mechanical logical machine that is still extant, Marquand is described as having created "…mills into which the premises are fed and which turn out the conclusions by the revolution...

Alvy Ray Smith, III

Co-founder of the animation studio Pixar and creator of the HSV color space, Smith is an American engineer and noted pioneer in computer graphics. In 1965, he received his Bachelor's Degree in...

Ken Howery

Co-founder of PayPal, Howery is an American investor who graduated from Stanford University in 1998 with a B.A. degree in Economics. That same year, he co-founded PayPal with Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek,...

Phillip A. Griffiths

Former Director of the Institute for Advanced Study (1991–2003), Griffiths is an American mathematician known for his work in the field of geometry, and in particular for the complex manifold approach to...

Martin Richards

Creator of the BCPL programming language, Richards is a computer scientist whose work has had lasting influence on modern programming. In 1959 he came to Cambridge to read Mathematics, followed by the...

Jean Bartik (née Jennings)

One of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer, Bartik was born Betty Jean Jennings in Gentry County, Missouri, in 1924 and attended Northwest Missouri State Teachers College, majoring in mathematics. In...

Guido van Rossum

Creator of the Python programming language, van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer. In the Python community, Van Rossum is known as a "Benevolent Dictator for Life" (BDFL), meaning that he oversees the...

Leon D. Harmon

Codeveloper of the Photomosaic and pioneer of computerized human-face identification, Harmon worked at Bell Labs where he pursued research in human perception, computer vision, and graphics. He started his career as a...