Robert (Bob) P. Colwell

Leader of the development of Intel's Pentium 4 CPU, Colwell is also recognized as the chief IA-32 architect on the Pentium Pro, Pentium II, and Pentium III microprocessors. An electrical engineer and...

Steve Mann

Pioneer in the development of wearable computers and reality mediators in research towards cybernetics, Mann has been one of the founding members of the Wearable Computers group in the Media Lab at...

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...

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...

Edwin Ronald Nixon

One of the most powerful influences in shaping British industry's response to the technological revolution, Nixon headed IBM's operations in the UK for an astonishing 25-year span from the 1960s to the...

Elisha Gray

Best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876, Gray is considered by some writers to be the true inventor of the variable resistance telephone, despite losing out to Alexander...

Yvonne Marie Andres

Among the earliest people to use the Internet to develop global e-learning opportunities for educators and students, Andrés founded the nonprofit Global SchoolNet in 1984, an international organization that facilitates collaborative educational...

Robert (Bob) H. Dennard

Inventor of dynamic random access memory (DRAM), Dennard's creation of the one-transistor dynamic RAM was a core development in the launch of today's computer industry, setting the stage for development of increasingly...

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...

Barry Leiba

Developer of Ultimail, an early integrated multimedia e-mail system created with his team at IBM Research, Leiba is a computer scientist and software researcher. His work focused for many years on electronic...

Robert John Lansdown

A pioneer of the use of computers for architecture and other creative activities, and one of the founders of the Computer Arts Society, Lansdown was also a British computer graphics polymath and...

Anthony James Barr

Creator of the Statistical Analysis System (SAS) programming language, Barr conceived a database architecture for SAS inspired by the Formatted File System (FFS) he had worked on at the Pentagon. As a physics...

Joseph (Joe) Frederick Traub

Co-pioneer of information-based computational complexity, Traub was the Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He held positions at Bell Laboratories,...

Harry Lewis Nelson

Co-discoverer of the 27th Mersenne prime in 1979, which was at that time the largest known prime number, Nelson is also recognized as one of the world's foremost experts in writing optimized...

Robert W. Floyd

Having a clear influence on methodologies for the creation of efficient and reliable software, Floyd made lasting contributions to computer science across several areas. His contributions included the design of Floyd's algorithm,...

Dawson Engler

Co-founder of the Exokernel Operating System Project and co-developer of KLEE, Engler has served as an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from...

David M. Kelley

One of America's leading design innovators, Kelley is founder, Chairman, and managing partner of the design firm IDEO and a Professor at Stanford University. He has been recognized as one of America's...

Solomon Lefschetz

Developer of the Lefschetz fixed point theorem, now a basic result of topology, Lefschetz did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential...

Ivan Plander

Developer of the analog computer around 1958, Plander is a Slovak computer scientist who received his Ph.D. at the Technical University in Prague and his Habilitation (Dr.Sc.) in Computer Science at the...

Friedrich Ludwig Bauer

First to propose the widely used stack method of expression evaluation, Bauer patented the pushdown stack in 1957, a contribution that proved foundational to modern computing. He contributed to the definition of...