Karl Kempf

Pioneer in applying advanced mathematics to industrial and engineering challenges, Kempf is best known for heading a group of mathematicians at Stanford University who built computer models allowing Intel to design financial...

Philip Don Estridge

Known as "the father of the IBM PC," Estridge led development of the original IBM Personal Computer. His decisions dramatically changed the computer industry, resulting in a vast increase in the number...

Linus Benedict Torvalds

Creator of the Linux kernel and key catalyst of the open source movement, Torvalds initiated one of the most influential software projects in history.

Guglielmo Marconi

Known as the father of long distance radio transmission, Marconi was an Italian inventor celebrated for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. Although he is often accredited as...

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...

Edward Hance Shortliffe

Pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence in medicine, Shortliffe is best known as the principal developer of the clinical expert system MYCIN, one of the first rule-based artificial intelligence expert systems,...

James C. Morgan

Silicon Valley's longest-serving FORTUNE 500 CEO, Morgan served as chairman of the board of Applied Materials from 1987 to 2009 and as chief executive officer from 1977 to 2003. He has served...

Radia Joy Perlman

Inventor of the spanning-tree protocol, which is fundamental to the operation of network bridges, Perlman is a software designer and network engineer sometimes referred to as the "Mother of the Internet," though...

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....

Cleve Barry Moler

Inventor of MATLAB, a numerical computing package, Moler is an American mathematician and computer programmer specializing in numerical analysis. In the mid to late 1970s, he was one of the authors of...

George H. Conrades

Establisher of IBM's Asia/Pacific headquarters in Tokyo, Japan — enabling the region to attain record growth in revenues and earnings — Conrades is an Internet technology pioneer and executive who spent 31...

Eugene (Gene) L. Delves

Co-founder of the organization known today as Accenture, Delves was one of five men whose 1954 efforts marked the first successful installation and use of a computer in the industry. In 1954,...

Francis Bacon

Considered the father of the scientific method and of empiricism, Bacon transformed natural philosophy and the theory of knowledge. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his...

Peter R. Jennings

Author of the first commercially successful chess program for microcomputers, Jennings is a Canadian physicist, interdisciplinary scientist, inventor, software developer, computer chess programmer, businessman, and paraglider. Born in England, his family moved...

Cecil Wayne Ratliff

Creator of the Vulcan database program, Ratliff worked for the Martin Marietta Corporation from 1969 to 1982 in a progression of engineering and managerial positions. He was a member of the NASA...

Juris Hartmanis

Co-author of the seminal paper that established the foundations for computational complexity theory, Hartmanis received the 1993 ACM Turing Award with Richard E. Stearns "in recognition of their seminal paper which established...

Sophia Bekele

Founder and CEO of CBS International, a private California-based firm engaged in technology transfer to emerging economies, Bekele is a business executive and writer. She founded SbCommunications Network - SbCNet, in Ethiopia. In...

Victor M. Glushkov

Founding father of information technology in the Soviet Union and one of the founders of Cybernetics, Glushkov made significant contributions to the theory of automata. Victor was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR, in...

Donald Peter Greenberg

Pioneer developer of software that influenced many architectural software (CAAD) products still in use today, Greenberg also initiated the first computer-aided architectural design studio in the United States in 1984. An internationally...

Aviel (Avi) David Rubin

Leader of the research team that successfully cracked the security code of Texas Instruments' RFID chip, Rubin is an American computer programmer and scientist with expertise in systems and networking security. He...