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,...

Randy Pausch

Noted professor of computing, Pausch was a co-founder of Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center and founder of the Alice software project. Randy Pausch was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up...

Michael Stern Hart

Inventor of the electronic book (or e-book) and founder of Project Gutenberg, Hart made e-books freely available via the Internet. An American author and inventor, he attended the University of Illinois, graduating...

Simon Phipps

Instrumental in IBM's involvement in the Java programming language, Phipps founded IBM's Java Technology Center. A computer scientist and web and open source advocate, he left IBM for Sun Microsystems in 2000,...

Mary Lou Jepsen

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of One Laptop per Child, Jepsen helped shape one of the most recognized nonprofit computing initiatives of its era. She also served as Chief Architect of that...

Harm Peter Hofstee

Chief architect of the synergistic processor elements in the Cell Broadband Engine, Hofstee is known for his work on the processor behind the Sony PlayStation 3 and the Roadrunner supercomputer that first...

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...

Robert Clay Prim

Co-developer of Prim's algorithm for finding a minimum spanning tree in a weighted graph, Prim made foundational contributions to computer network design. An American mathematician and computer scientist, he was born in...

Aaron Hillel Swartz

Co-developer of RSS, Creative Commons, web.py, and Reddit, Swartz was an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer, and Internet activist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Susan and Robert...

Richard (Rich) Hilleman

Creator of the original Madden Football game for video game consoles, Hilleman is an American computer game and video game producer best known for his work at Electronic Arts. Apart from Madden,...

James T. Russell

Inventor of the concept of optical digital recording and playback, Russell joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of Battelle Memorial Institute in Richland in 1965. There, that same year, he developed the...

Samuel Reid Warren, Jr.

Supervisor of the EDVAC project at the Moore School, Warren spent the bulk of his career at the University of Pennsylvania. Born in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, he was the...

Kilnam Chon

Developer of the first Internet in Asia, called SDN, Chon is a pioneering computer scientist and network engineer. He was born and raised in Japan and completed his education in the US....

Dinesh Verma

Leader of an international team of 22 research organizations selected to form the International Technology Alliance in Network Sciences, Verma is an IBM Fellow, researcher, and Department Group Manager at the IBM...

Derek Gehl

Internet marketing strategist, software developer, and e-commerce columnist and seminar speaker, Gehl has been a featured contributor to a number of industry publications, including Entrepreneur Magazine, MSNBC Small Business, and AOL Small...

John Warner Backus

Leader of the team that invented FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level programming language, Backus also invented the Backus-Naur form (BNF), the almost universally used notation to define formal language syntax. He...

John P. Morgridge

Former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Cisco Systems, Morgridge is an American businessman from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin who attended Wauwatosa East High School. He received his Bachelor's Degree in...

Paul Thelen

Founder of the largest portal for downloadable games in the world, Thelen built Big Fish Games into a platform distributing in excess of 1.5 million games per day. After graduating from the University...

Tom Anderson

Founder of the social networking website MySpace, Anderson co-founded the site in 2003 with Chris DeWolfe. Anderson has served as president of MySpace, and later became a strategic adviser for the company....

Calvin (Kelly) C. Gotlieb

Known as the "father" of computing in Canada, Gotlieb started working with computing equipment in the 1940s. He was one of the driving forces behind the University of Toronto's being a leader...