John Norris Maguire

Founder of Software AG of North America, Inc. and overseas distributor of the Adabas system — a commercial relational database management system (DBMS) first developed for IBM 360 computers — Maguire built...

Bijan Davari

Leader of the IBM research team that produced the first generation of high-performance, low-voltage CMOS logic characterizing modern computer chips, Davari's pioneering work in miniaturization of semiconductor devices changed the world of...

Francois Gernelle

Co-developer of the Micral N, the earliest commercial, non-kit personal computer based on a microprocessor, Gernelle created the machine alongside André Truong Trong Thi for the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique...

Harry M. Yudenfriend

Developer of a roadmap enabling consistent data growth, performance improvements, enhanced resilience, continuous availability, increased scale, and improved efficiency at IBM, Yudenfriend was named an IBM Fellow in 2008 and has served...

Alan Emtage

Alan Emtage conceived and implemented the first version of Archie, a pre-Web internet search engine for locating material in public FTP archives.

Robert B. Garner

Team member for the Xerox STAR 8010 Professional Workstation, including the first 10-mbps Ethernet NIC in 1981, Garner designed and managed compute, network, and storage systems in Silicon Valley in both product...

Lawrence (Larry) A. Rowe

Founding director of the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center (BMRC), Rowe is a computer scientist who served as a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley from...

Cyril J. Yansouni

Vice President and General Manager of the Personal Computer Group at Hewlett-Packard, Yansouni brings over 35 years of experience in the technology industry. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Mechanical...

Andrew (Tridge) Tridgell

Co-inventor of the rsync algorithm, a highly efficient file transfer and synchronization tool, Tridgell is also best known as the author of and contributor to the Samba file server. He is recognized...

Mary Lou Jepsen

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of One Laptop per Child, Jepsen helped shape one of the most recognized nonprofit computing initiatives of its era. She also served as Chief Architect of that...

Craig Partridge

Designer of how Internet email is routed, Partridge has made notable contributions to internetworking, including working with Phil Karn on TCP round-trip time estimation and designing and building the world's fastest router...

David Packard

Co-founder of Hewlett-Packard (1939), Packard served as president (1947–1964), CEO (1964–1968), and Chairman of the Board (1964–1968, 1972–1993). He served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1969–1971 during the Nixon administration. Packard...

Alfred Grill

Primary inventor of the low-k and ultralow-k SiCOH and porous pSiCOH insulators that replaced silicon dioxide as interconnect dielectrics for improved chip performance, Grill is an expert in materials science and engineering...

Burton (Burt) Grad

Founder of the Software History Center, Grad has been working on computer software since 1954, when he wrote the first production and inventory control programs for the General Electric Company's installation of...

Kathleen Booth (née Britten)

Credited with writing the first assembly language and the design of the assembler and autocode (ARC and APE(X)C) for the Birkbeck College computers, Booth made foundational contributions to computer programming. Born in...

Alan Jay Perlis

A pioneer in advanced programming techniques and compiler construction, Perlis was the first recipient of the ACM Turing Award in 1966, sometimes called the "Nobel Prize of Computing." Perlis was born on April...

John Richard Rice

Founder of the ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Rice was an American mathematician and computer scientist who served as the W. Brooks Fortune Distinguished Emeritus of Computer Science and a Professor of...

Larry Smarr

Advocate for a high-speed network linking the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications — which became the NSFnet, one of the significant predecessors of today's Internet — Smarr...

Mark Pincus

Co-founder of Zynga, which makes online social games, Pincus also founded Freeloader, Inc., Tribe Networks, and SupportSoft. He has served as CEO of Zynga, which had 235 million monthly active users as...

John (Jack) F. Waters

One of the original key contributors who designed and built MCI's initial Internet service, Waters has served as Chief Technology Officer for Level 3 Communications, Inc., a Denver-based provider of a range...