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...

Arundhati Bhattacharya

The first woman to serve as Chairperson of the State Bank of India, Bhattacharya became chairperson and chief executive officer of Salesforce, India. In 2016, Forbes ranked her 25th on its list...

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...

Dharma P. Agrawal

Leader of the University of Cincinnati - BlueTooth (UCBT) Bluetooth package, Agrawal was a communications scientist who specialized in wireless sensor networks. He served as the Ohio Board of Regents Distinguished Professor...

Jeffrey (Jeff) Preston Bezos

Founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Bezos graduated from Princeton University as a member of Tau Beta Pi and worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. before founding Amazon...

Irving Stoy Reed

Co-inventor of the Reed-Solomon error-detecting and correcting codes, Reed made many contributions to areas of electrical engineering including radar, signal processing, and image processing. He was part of the team that built...

Mary Beth Rosson

Co-developer of the task-artifact framework for design, an "action science" approach to human-computer interaction (HCI), Rosson has served as Associate Dean of Information Sciences and Technology and Professor at the Penn State...

Joseph Hardin

Leader of the Comprehensive Collaborative Framework (CHEF) project, which developed an open source framework and tools for course management systems, workgroup support, and support of online research, Hardin has served as Director...

Norman Macrae

Foreseer of the spread of the internet and biographer of Johnny Von Neumann, Macrae was considered by some to have been one of the world's best forecasters when it came to economics...

Steven (Steve) Paul Jobs

Co-founder and CEO of Apple, Jobs was an American business magnate who also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios. He became a member of the board of The Walt...

John Adam Presper Eckert, Jr.

Co-inventor of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, Eckert was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly, he presented the first course in computing topics (the Moore School...

Theodore Y. Ts'o

Known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, in particular his contributions to file systems, Ts'o graduated in 1990 from MIT with a degree in computer science. After graduation he worked in...

Doug Chance

Executive Vice President of Hewlett Packard's Network Systems Sector, Chance held various engineering, marketing, and general management positions at Hewlett Packard, sharing responsibility for overall corporate management in that role from November...

Aaron F. Bobick

Expert in using computer vision techniques to recognize people, Bobick's research has been reported by the BBC News and ABC News. His research has been in the field of Artificial Intelligence and...

Charles (Garry) Garrett Betty

Instrumental in the success of the original IBM Personal Computer, Betty received the IBM President's Award in 1982 for his work on the original IBM PC. From 1996 until his death in...

Kevin Warwick

Best known for his studies on direct interfaces between computer systems and the human nervous system, Warwick is a British scientist and professor of cybernetics whose research also spans the field of...

Steve McConnell

Named one of the three most influential people in the software industry by Software Development Magazine in 1998, alongside Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds, McConnell has worked on the TrueType project under...

David Yang

Founder and chairman of ABBYY, Yang was born in 1968 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, to a Chinese father and Armenian mother, both physicists. He spent his first 17 years in Armenia before...

Kenneth Harry Olsen

Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Olsen co-founded the company in 1957 with colleague Harlan Anderson and venture capital provided by Georges Doriot's American Research and Development Corporation. He was born in...

Stephen Arthur Cook

Known for profoundly advancing our understanding of the complexity of computation, Cook is an American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician who made major contributions to the fields of complexity theory and proof complexity....