Robert Cecil Martin

Initiator of the 2001 meeting that created Agile software development from Extreme Programming techniques, Martin has been a software professional since 1970 and has served as an international software consultant from 1990....

David Gelernter

Made seminal contributions to the field of parallel computation, specifically the tuple space coordination model as embodied by the Linda programming system (named for Linda Lovelace, an actress in the porn movie...

Jiawei Han

Co-author of the widely-used textbook "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" and a leading researcher in data mining, data warehousing, and database systems, Han has served as Abel Bliss Professor in the Department...

Arthur (Dick) Kittredge Watson

President of IBM World Trade Corporation, Watson guided the expansion of the international business and later served as United States Ambassador to France. His father, Thomas J. Watson, was President of International...

Seymour Ivan Rubinstein

Director of the development of WordStar — the first truly successful commercial program for the personal computer — Rubinstein gave the general population reasonably priced access to word processing for the first...

Dave Boggs

Co-inventor of Ethernet and developer of early Internet protocol prototypes, Boggs helped shape the foundations of modern computer networking. David graduated from Princeton University, and as a young graduate worked at Xerox PARC,...

Edward (Ed) R. McCracken

Instrumental in putting the IMAGE database on every HP 3000, McCracken is recognized as a key figure in turning that system into a successful commercial platform. He later served as Chief Executive...

Darleane C. Hoffman

Among the researchers who confirmed the existence of seaborgium (element 106), Hoffman was an American nuclear chemist whose work placed her at the forefront of her field. She became a faculty senior...

Marshall T. Rose

A network protocol and software engineer who contributed extensively to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Rose has played a central role in shaping the Internet and network applications. His work on...

Owen R. Mock

One of the programmers who developed the PACT series of compilers for the IBM 701 and helped install the first operating system ever in operation, Mock pioneered computer operating systems in the...

Patrice Lyons

Analyzer of a wide range of legal and regulatory issues relating to the development of the Internet, Lyons has served as Corporate Counsel to Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), where she...

Francine Berman

A pioneer in grid computing, Berman is one of the two founding Principal Investigators of the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid project. She also directed the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI),...

Solomon Lefschetz

Developer of the Lefschetz fixed point theorem, now a basic result of topology, Lefschetz did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential...

Peter Andreas Thiel

Co-founder of PayPal, Thiel is a German-born American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager. He co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin, and later, Elon Musk, and has served as its CEO. He...

Wendy W Hall

Leader of the team that invented the Microcosm hypermedia system before the World Wide Web existed, Hall has been a pioneering figure in multimedia, hypermedia, and web science. Born in west London,...

Harry Sello

Responsible for the transfer of silicon transistor technology to Societa Generale Semiconduttore in Italy, negotiating cultural and industrial boundaries, Sello is an American chemist born in Russia whose family emigrated to the...

Edson Hendricks

Developer of RSCS (later known as VNET), fundamental software that powered the world's largest network (or network of networks) prior to the Internet, Hendricks is an IBM computer scientist whose work directly...

Jef Raskin

Human-computer interface expert best known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple, Raskin first met Apple Computer's Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak following the debut of their Apple II personal computer at...

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...

Martin (Marty) Cooper

Lead inventor of the "radio telephone system" and father of the cell phone, Cooper is a pioneer and visionary in the wireless communications industry. With eleven patents in the field, he is...