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...

Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale

Developer of the "migratable objects" parallel programming model and its implementation in the Charm++ parallel programming system, Kale has served as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at...

Edwin (Ted) Joseph Selker

Developer of the TrackPoint pointing stick technology and designer of the ThinkPad 755CV notebook computer (which doubles as an LCD projector), Selker is an American computer scientist known for his user interface...

Ken W. Kolence

Co-founder of Boole & Babbage, the first software product firm in Silicon Valley, Kolence is recognized as a software industry pioneer and computer executive. He received his Master's degree in Math, with...

Richard Lawrence Grimsdale

Designer and developer of the world's first transistorized computer, the Metrovick 950, Grimsdale was born in Australia, returned to England with his parents, and later studied electrical engineering at Manchester University, graduating...

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Discoverer of the binary number system and independent co-inventor of infinitesimal calculus, Leibniz occupied a prominent place in the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy. He developed the infinitesimal calculus...

Elizabeth (Liz) L. Burd

Leader of Durham's Technology Enhanced Learning research group, a group of 20 research staff and students, Burd has also served as director of the UK's Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning—Active...

Charles (Chuck) H. House

A Silicon Valley legend cited by the Smithsonian and the Computer History Museum as one of the top 200 Computer Wizards of America, House participated in creating twelve product lines at Hewlett-Packard...

Mary Tsingou

One of the first programmers on the MANIAC computer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Tsingou is best known for coding the celebrated computer experiment conducted with Enrico Fermi, John Pasta, and Stanislaw...

Mary Lou Soffa

Developer of software tools for debugging and testing programs to eliminate or reduce false alarms and improve operating efficiency, Soffa is an American computer scientist also noted for her research on compilers,...

Wanda M. Austin

The first woman and first African American to serve as president and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation, Austin broke similar ground at the University of Southern California, where she served as interim...

Keith Brown

Technical author on Microsoft Windows Security, Brown wrote the SSPI workbench tool and has been the security columnist for MSDN Magazine since 1998.

Ken E. Batcher

Designer of the Massively Parallel Processor, Batcher created one of the most significant parallel computing architectures of its era. Among the designs Batcher worked on at Goodyear were the: Massively Parallel Processor (16,384...

Arlene Joy Harris

Pioneer of the first automated cellular service activation systems now used globally in retail locations to remotely and instantly activate cellular phones, Harris is also known as the "First Lady of Wireless"...

Stanley (Stan) Phillips Frankel

Designer of the CONAC computer, Frankel was an American computer scientist born in Los Angeles who attended graduate school at the University of Rochester, received his PhD in physics from the University...

Andrew Hinchley

Recognized as one of the 25 founders of the Internet, Hinchley was formally honored at a ceremony at Stanford University. He has worked on the sharing and exchange of clinical information in...

Jack Haverty

Co-designer of the original email mechanism and co-creator of the initial Internet, Haverty studied at MIT and continued there as a staff member of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, where he...

Tom DeMarco

Known as one of the developers of Structured Analysis, DeMarco began his career at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1963, where he participated in the ESS-1 project to develop the first large-scale Electronic...

Henryk Zygalski

Designer of the "perforated sheets," also known as "Zygalski sheets," a manual device for finding Enigma settings, Zygalski was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma ciphers before...

Samuel Morland

Credited with early developments in relation to computing, hydraulics and steam power, Morland was a notable English academic, diplomat, spy, inventor and mathematician of the 17th century. He was educated at Winchester...