Kevin A. Stoodley

Conceiver and developer of the Testarossa dynamic compilation infrastructure, which along with the J9 JVM project became the basis for all of IBM's Java language implementations, Stoodley has served as Chief Technical...

Michael T. Goodrich

Pioneer and research leader on efficient parallel and distributed solutions, Goodrich has served as a Chancellor's Professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science of the Donald Bren School of Information...

Thomas James Perkins

The first General Manager of HP's computer divisions who helped shepherd Hewlett-Packard's entry into the minicomputer business, Perkins was also one of the founders of the leading venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins...

Douglas C. Engelbart

Inventor of the computer mouse and early computer pioneer, Engelbart is best known for his work as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs,...

Morris Chang

Founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Chang is sometimes called the father of Taiwan's chip industry. TSMC pioneered the "dedicated silicon foundry" industry and became the largest silicon foundry in the...

Donald Lester Bitzer

Co-inventor of the Plasma Display and sometimes called the "father of PLATO" (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations), the first generalized computer-assisted instruction system, Bitzer was an American electrical engineer and computer...

Jon (Mad Dog) Hall

During his time with Digital Equipment Corporation that he initially became interested in Linux, and was instrumental in obtaining equipment and resources for Linus Torvalds to accomplish his first port, to Digital's...

Ethel Cox Marden

Participant in the creation of the first computer languages, Marden went to work for the National Bureau of Standards after World War II, serving as a mathematician and administrator. She served as...

Vern Paxson

Author of the flex lexical analyzer and the Bro intrusion detection system, Paxson has served as Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also worked as...

John (Jack) Mason Harker

Pioneer of the IBM 350 RAMAC disk storage unit — the world's first hard disk drive — Harker started as a member of the original team that developed the first disk storage...

Winifred (Mitchell) Baker

Instrumental in the creation of the Mozilla Foundation, Baker has served as Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation and Chairperson and former Chief Executive Officer of the Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the...

Russell Lincoln Ackoff

Recognized as the "Father of Operations Research" for helping establish one of the world's first Departments of Operations Research, Ackoff is also celebrated internationally as a pragmatic academic, systems thinker, and prolific...

Thomas (Tommy) Harold Flowers

Designer of Colossus, the first programmable electronic computer, Flowers made one of the most significant contributions to wartime codebreaking. His first contact with the wartime codebreaking effort came when he was asked...

Marc Andreessen

Founder of Netscape and co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser, Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. He also chaired Opsware, a software company he originally founded as...

Michael John Muuss

Author of the freeware network tool Ping, Muuss was a senior scientist specializing in geometric solid modeling, ray-tracing, MIMD architectures, and digital computer networks at the United States Army Research Laboratory at...

Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus

Known as the "Queen of Carbon Science," Dresselhaus was an American physicist, materials scientist, and nanotechnologist whose career centered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she served as an institute professor...

Ashok N. Srivastava

Leader of the Intelligent Data Understanding group at NASA Ames Research Center, Srivastava performed research and development of advanced machine learning and data mining algorithms in support of NASA missions. He has...

Yale Nance Patt

Introducer of the WOS module, the first complex logic gate implemented on a single piece of silicon, Patt is an American professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas...

Clair D. Lake

Co-inventor of IBM's MARK I and co-developer of the first Type 1 Total Printing and Listing Tabulator, Lake was a prolific IBM inventor. In May 1939 he was assigned to serve as...

Harry (Webb) McKinney

Co-leader of HP's post-merger integration team responsible for the planning and integration of HP and Compaq's systems, processes, and people, McKinney brings a wealth of experience in mergers, integrations, and executive leadership,...