Steven (Steve) Gibson

Creator of one of the first adware removal programs, OptOut, Gibson is an American software engineer and security researcher. Born in Dayton, Ohio, he began working on computers as a teenager, and...

John Sall

Co-developer of the SAS System and co-founder of SAS Institute Inc., Sall has made extensive programming contributions in econometrics, time series, and matrix algebra. Born in Rockford, Illinois, he is an American...

Willem Louis van der Poel (aka William)

Designer of the ZEBRA computer, van der Poel was a pioneering Dutch computer scientist who also contributed to Algol 68 and co-built a Braille translator. In 1950 he obtained an engineering degree...

Sergio Verdu

Known for pioneering the field of multiuser detection, Verdú has served as the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he has taught and conducted research on Information Theory...

Tamara (Tammy) G. Kolda

Developer of the MATLAB Tensor Toolbox, Kolda has served as a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the Informatics and Systems Assessments department at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California. Her...

Carla Gomes

Founding Director of the Institute for Computational Sustainability at Cornell University, Gomes was a Portuguese-American computer scientist noted for pioneering work in developing computational methods to address challenges in sustainability. Her research spanned...

John A Gosden

Pioneer of LEO software development and EDP standards, Gosden was a key figure in the world's first business computing applications. John joined J. Lyons as a trainee programmer in 1953 just a few...

Shigeru (Steve) Nakayama

Key player in introducing U.S. semiconductor equipment technology to Japan, Nakayama has made lasting contributions to the international semiconductor industry. Born in Chicago, he grew up in Palo Alto, CA, where he attended...

Daniel A. Hitchcock

Leader of the effort to expand the Magnetic Fusion Energy Computing Center into NERSC, widely regarded as the best-managed High Performance Computing Center in the world, Hitchcock joined the Department of Energy...

William R. Hoover

Chairman and President of Computer Sciences Corporation from 1975 to 1994, Hoover built CSC into one of the largest and most influential technology companies in Southern California. CSC, based in El Segundo,...

Susie Wee

Founder of Cisco DevNet, Wee went on to serve as its Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer beginning in 2018. She established DevNet in 2014, and previously held the role of...

Peter Goddard

A mathematical physicist who helped establish a permanent Archives Center at the IAS, Goddard is known for his contributions to string theory and conformal field theory, including the no-ghost theorem (proved together...

Alan Gara

Technical leader for three generations of IBM Blue Gene supercomputers, Gara's Blue Gene/L system held the #1 position on the Top500 list for five consecutive dates. He has served as an IBM...

Paul V. Mockapetris

Inventor of the Domain Name System, Mockapetris is sometimes acknowledged, together with Jon Postel, as the creator of DNS. Mockapetris received his Bachelor's Degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute...

Joseph Marie Jacquard

Inventor of the earliest programmable loom, Jacquard transformed weaving with his automatic patterned-silk loom, though his early inventions operated poorly and were largely unsuccessful. In 1801, Jacquard exhibited his invention at the industrial...

David A. Forsyth

Inventor of important methods for recognizing objects and activities in images and video, Forsyth is a South African computer scientist and full Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His early...

Daniel L. Murphy

Creator of Text Editor and Corrector (TECO), later implemented on most PDP computers, Murphy is an American computer scientist. He attended MIT from 1961 and graduated in 1965. In 1962 he created...

Fei-Fei Li

Best known for establishing ImageNet, the dataset that enabled rapid advances in computer vision in the 2010s, Li is a professor of computer science at Stanford University whose research spans artificial intelligence,...

Srini Devadas

Co-inventor of silicon Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and co-founder of Verayo, a company focused on improving the security of computer hardware, Devadas has served as the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical...

Dean Everett Wooldridge

Co-founder of the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation, which was awarded the prime contract for overall systems engineering and technical direction of the nation's Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Program, Wooldridge was a prominent engineer in...