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....

Victor (Vic) Dale Poor

Co-creator of the architecture that was ultimately implemented in the first successful computer microprocessor, the Intel 8008, Poor was an engineer whose designs of hardware and software led to many innovations. At...

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg

Co-founder of Facebook, Zuckerberg is an American entrepreneur best known for creating the popular social networking site. He co-founded Facebook with fellow classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while attending...

Paul Maritz

Responsible for essentially all of Microsoft's desktop and server software — including such major initiatives as the development of Windows 95, Windows NT, and Internet Explorer — Maritz has served as a...

Peter Goddard

A mathematical physicist who helped establish a permanent Archives Center at the IAS, Goddard is known for his contributions to string theory and conformal field theory, including the no-ghost theorem (proved together...

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...

Ralph C. Merkle

Co-inventor of public key cryptography, Merkle is a researcher who also works as a speaker on molecular nanotechnology and cryonics. He appeared as a character in the science fiction novel *The Diamond...

Andries (Andy) van Dam

Co-contributor to the first hypertext system and co-founder of the precursor to ACM SIGGRAPH, van Dam is a Dutch-born American professor of computer science and former Vice-President for Research at Brown University...

Scott Cook

Founder of Intuit, Cook launched the financial software company in 1983; it today offers software and online products to help individuals and small companies manage their finances. He started his career at Procter...

Malcolm (Doug) Douglas McIlroy

Renowned for seminal work on software componentization and the Unix pipeline implementation, McIlroy is also known for developing several Unix tools, such as spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, and tr. Dr. McIlroy...

Anatoliy A. Morozov

Chief Designer of the automated control system of the "Lviv" manufacturing project and the "RADA" system, Morozov is a cybernetics scientist, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Dr....

Jerome (Jerry) Howard Saltzer

Contributor to the End-to-end principle in systems design — one of the important underlying principles governing the operation of the Internet — Saltzer is a computer scientist who made many notable contributions....

Fred J Baker

Active in the networking and communications industry, Baker chaired a number of IETF working groups, including Bridge MIB, DS1/DS3 MIB, ISDN MIB, PPP Extensions, IEPREP, and IPv6 Operations. He served on the...

Peter A. Franaszek

Known for his research in fragmentation-reduction algorithms, network theory, and magnetic recording, Franaszek has been a researcher at the IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. Dr....

Einar (Stef) A. Stefferud

One of the original designers of the MIME protocol for sending multimedia Internet electronic mail, Stefferud made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly in the areas of IETF...

Jozef Gruska

A pioneer in the theory of quantum computing and organizing activities in the field, Gruska graduated in mathematics from Commenius University in Bratislava and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the...

Robert (Bob) William Galvin

CEO of Motorola and instrumental, along with Motorola engineer Bill Smith, in implementing the Six Sigma Quality System, Galvin served as Motorola's chief executive from 1959 to 1986. A US executive, Robert...

Curt L. Cotner

Designer and developer of many key features of DB2 for z/OS, Cotner has served as an IBM Fellow and VP/CTO for IBM Data Management. In that role, he held technical and management...

Wen-mei Hwu

Noted for his work in CPU microarchitecture and compiler optimization, Hwu completed his Ph.D. research at the University of California, Berkeley under Yale Patt. Their CPU microarchitecture projects, HPS and HPSm, were...

Michael (Mike) J. Karels

Key contributor to the history of BSD UNIX, Karels was an American software engineer who graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. He went on...