Burton J. Smith

Primary architect of the Denelcor Heterogeneous Element Processor (HEP), Smith was a pioneering computer architect who served as a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. He earned a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of...

Anita Borg

Developer of a patented method for generating complete address traces for analyzing and designing high-speed memory systems, and of MECCA, an email and Web-based system for communicating in virtual communities, Borg was...

Mavis Batey (née Lever)

One of Bletchley Park's most effective codebreakers, Batey joined the team in May 1940 at just 19 years old, interrupting her German-language studies at University College London. Working under the eccentric cryptographer...

Edward M. Esber, Jr.

Credited with the successful marketing of the first productivity software for personal computing, Esber paved the way for the widespread acceptance of personal computers in business. He served as CEO of Ashton-Tate...

Sheila Widnall

The first woman to serve as United States Secretary of the Air Force, Widnall held that post from 1993 to 1997, becoming the first woman to lead an entire branch of the...

Ron Johnson

Pioneer of the Apple Retail Stores and the Genius Bar, Johnson is an American businessman who served as Senior Vice President of Retail Operations at Apple Inc. from January 2000 to November...

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...

Lyman Chapin

Principal architect of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model and protocols, Chapin is widely recognized as a leader in the networking industry and the Internet community, having contributed to the development of...

Steve Dorner

Developer of the Eudora e-mail client, Dorner is an American software engineer who created it in 1988 as part of his work as a staff member at the University of Illinois at...

Ernest (Lee) E. Keet

Founder of Turnkey Systems, Inc. (TSI) and founding director of both the Charles Babbage Foundation and the IT History Society, Keet helped launch one of the pioneering commercial software firms of the...

John Adrian Shepherd-Barron

Pioneer in the development of the cash machine (ATM), Shepherd-Barron joined De La Rue Instruments in the 1960s and in 1965 came up with the concept of a self-service machine that would...

George Harry Heilmeier

Inventor of the LC-Display and pioneering contributor to liquid crystal displays, Heilmeier is inducted in the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, received his B.S. in Electrical...

Lisa T. Su

Inducted into the WITI Hall of Fame in 2021, Su became Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Since taking the helm in 2014, she led a major transformation...

Anthony Brian Cleaver

Member of the team that developed one of the first computerized cash machines in Essex, England, Cleaver began his career as a Systems Engineer with IBM, UK Ltd. in 1962, holding many...

Vladimir Kozmich Zworykin

Inventor of a television transmitting and receiving system employing cathode ray tubes, Zworykin was a Russian-American engineer and pioneer of television technology. He played a role in the practical development of television...

Gianello Toriano (aka Giovan)

Inventor of the Cristalino astronomical clock and a remarkably lifelike mandolin-playing lady automaton, Toriano was an Italo-Spanish inventor, clockmaker, engineer and mathematician born in Cremona, in northern Italy around 1500. His skill...

Valerie Landau

Developer of a multi-touch interface for chorded text entry, Landau filed two patents with her colleague and mentor Douglas Engelbart. Their most recent patent (filed April 2010) describes a multitouch interface for...

Gerald Estrin

Father of reconfigurable computing and variable structure computing, Estrin transformed how computational processes could be accelerated using variable configurations of specialized hardware modules. Estrin received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the...

Vipin Kumar

Developer of the isoefficiency metric for evaluating the scalability of parallel algorithms, Kumar holds the William Norris Endowed Chair in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota,...

Richard (Rick) L. Crandall

Founder of Comshare, Inc., a pioneer of computer timesharing and decision support software, Crandall is recognized as a pioneer in the Software Services Industry. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering, a...