Jaleh Daie

The first woman to serve on the U.S. Space Foundation board of directors, Daie was also inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame in 1996. A scientist, educator, and entrepreneur,...

Robert (Bob) R. Maxfield

Co-founder of ROLM Corporation, Maxfield served as its Executive Vice-President and Director. ROLM (named after the initials of the last names of its founders) was co-founded with three other Rice graduates —...

Dean Eric Eastman

World-renowned expert on the electronic properties of materials and spectroscopy, Eastman is an American solid-state physicist and IBM manager. He conducted important research in the field of condensed matter physics, surface science,...

Robert (Bob) P. Colwell

Leader of the development of Intel's Pentium 4 CPU, Colwell is also recognized as the chief IA-32 architect on the Pentium Pro, Pentium II, and Pentium III microprocessors. An electrical engineer and...

Jonathan (Jony) Paul Ive

Lead designer and conceptual mind behind many of Apple's most iconic products, including the iMac, MacBook Air, iPod, iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad, Ive is widely recognized as one of the most...

Suhas S. Patil

Pioneer in applying computer architecture knowledge to VLSI design, Patil founded Cirrus Logic, a fabless semiconductor company. Over the years, his work covered computer architecture, parallel processing computers, mathematics for computer science,...

Enrico Clementi

Leader of research and development in parallel computer architecture and fundamental research in chemistry, biophysics, and fluid dynamics, Clementi was a pioneer in computational techniques for quantum chemistry and molecular dynamics. Born...

Carl Adam Petri

Developer of Petri nets for modeling distributed systems, Petri introduced the concept in his Ph.D. thesis in 1962, where he originally called them communicating automata. Afterwards, Petri served as department head at...

Ronald Linn Rivest

One of the inventors of the RSA algorithm (along with Adi Shamir and Len Adleman), Rivest has made ingenious contributions to making public-key cryptography useful in practice. He also invented the symmetric...

Michael (Mike) A. McNeilly

Holder of the first patent for infrared deposition of silicon and other materials — a breakthrough that revolutionized deposition quality and produced slip-free, dislocation-free epi — McNeilly is a Silicon Valley pioneer...

Nicholas (Nick) John Pippenger

Co-inventor of extendible hashing, Pippenger is recognized for a number of fundamental results widely used in theoretical computer science, database processing, and compiler optimization. He held a B.S. degree in Natural Sciences...

Lawrence (Larry) H. Landweber

Creator of THEORYNET, an electronic mail system serving over 100 researchers in computer science, Landweber is also best known for founding the Computer Science Network (CSNET) project in 1979, which later developed...

Masatoshi Shima

Co-designer of the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004, Shima worked alongside Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff, and Stanley Mazor on that landmark achievement. He studied organic chemistry at Tohoku University in Sendai,...

Marcian (Ted) Edward Hoff

Inventor of the microprocessor, Hoff joined Intel in 1967 as employee number 12, and is credited with coming up with the idea of a universal processor instead of custom-designed circuits. His insight...

Leonard Bosack

Pioneer of commercialization of routing technology and co-founder of Cisco Systems, Bosack received the Computer Entrepreneur Award in 2009 for pioneering and advancing the commercialization of routing technology and the profound changes...

Gladys West

Recognized for her contributions to mathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth, West was an African American mathematician whose work on satellite geodesy models was later incorporated into the Global Positioning...

Joan L. Mitchell

A key contributor to the JPEG image compression algorithm and MPEG video standards, Mitchell became an IBM Fellow in 2001. Working at IBM with William B. Pennebaker, she helped fine-tune the JPEG...

John William Mauchly

Co-inventor of ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, Mauchly worked alongside J. Presper Eckert to design EDVAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States....

Nathan Rochester

Designer of the IBM 701, the first general-purpose, mass-produced computer, Rochester was also the writer of the first symbolic assembler and a founding participant in the field of artificial intelligence. Nathan Rochester received...

A.J. Han Vinck

Recipient of the IEEE ISPLC2006 Achievement award for his contributions to Power Line Communications, Vinck has also held a chair for Digital Communications at the Institute for Experimental Mathematics at the University...