Andrew F. Kay

Inventor of the digital voltmeter, Kay created an instrument used for measuring electrical potential difference between two points in an electric circuit. He was President and CEO of Kaypro Computers, a personal...

Carla Gomes

Founding Director of the Institute for Computational Sustainability at Cornell University, Gomes was a Portuguese-American computer scientist noted for pioneering work in developing computational methods to address challenges in sustainability. Her research spanned...

John Impagliazzo

Noted IT historian, author, and Professor Emeritus of computing sciences at Hofstra University, Impagliazzo has supported educational computing activities for decades. His accomplishments include contributing to model computing and engineering curricula, publishing...

John McCarthy

Inventor of the Lisp programming language, McCarthy was also responsible for coining the term "Artificial Intelligence" in his 1955 proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth Conference. An American computer scientist and cognitive scientist,...

Don Cassel

Developer of one of the first online interactive courses at Humber College for Microsoft Access using WebCT, Cassel created a significant tool for developing and delivering distance learning for the college. Cassel joined...

David (Dave) Dana Clark

Chief Protocol Architect in the development of the Internet, Clark is an American computer scientist. He graduated from Swarthmore College, southwest of Philadelphia, in 1966. In 1968, he received his Master's and...

Jan Aleksander Rajchman

Conceiver of the first read-only memory and developer of the selectively addressable storage tube, Rajchman was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. Although he was born in London, he received the...

Phaedon Avouris

Innovator of the potential for carbon nanotubes to compete with the long-established silicon transistor for important information technology applications, Avouris is a Greek chemical physicist who has served as an IBM Fellow...

Joseph Weizenbaum

Creator of ELIZA, the pioneering natural language processing program that prompted his growing skepticism about artificial intelligence, Weizenbaum died March 5, 2008 in Berlin. He was 85. Joseph Weizenbaum was born on January...

Alexander G. Fraser

Known for designing the Titan computer's file system and inventing cell-based networks that anticipated Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Fraser made lasting contributions to computing and networking. From 1966-1969 he was Assistant Director...

Lawrence (Larry) Joseph Ellison

Founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major enterprise software company, Ellison is an American entrepreneur. As of 2010, he was the sixth richest person in the world with a personal wealth...

Dan Warmenhoven

Under his leadership, NetApp grew from a start-up to a multibillion-dollar company and a recognized market leader in networked storage. Warmenhoven has served as Executive Chairman of NetApp Inc., as well as...

Stan Veit

Founder of Computer Mart of New York, one of the first computer stores in the world, Veit played an important role in the early days of the personal computer industry in the...

Patrick Carl Fischer

His work on the mathematical foundations of database query languages became central to the databases now used by major web servers worldwide. Fischer was an American computer scientist and noted researcher in...

Stephen Cole Kleene

American mathematician who helped lay the foundations for theoretical computer science, Kleene was best known as a founder of the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory. One of many distinguished...

Arundhati Bhattacharya

The first woman to serve as Chairperson of the State Bank of India, Bhattacharya became chairperson and chief executive officer of Salesforce, India. In 2016, Forbes ranked her 25th on its list...

Steven (Steve) Shih Chen

Co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube, Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan. When he was eight years old, he and his family immigrated to the...

Ruzena Bajcsy

Founding director of the University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception (GRASP) Laboratory, Bajcsy is an American engineer and computer scientist specializing in robotics. She also served as head of...

Mitchell David Kapor

Founder of Lotus Development Corporation and designer of Lotus 1-2-3, Kapor co-founded the company in 1982 with Jonathan Sachs, who was responsible for technical architecture and implementation. He served as the President...

Martha Lane Fox

Co-founder of Lastminute.com and the British Government's first Champion for Digital Inclusion, Lane Fox studied ancient and modern history at Magdalen College, Oxford, having previously attended Oxford High School and Westminster School....