William Oughtred

Credited as the inventor of the slide rule in 1622, Oughtred was the first to use two logarithmic scales sliding by one another to perform direct multiplication and division. Oughtred also introduced the...

Myron Krueger

Considered one of the first generation virtual reality and augmented reality researchers, Krueger is an American computer artist who developed early interactive works. While earning a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the...

Norman A. Phillips

A major co-contributor to the prediction of weather and climate using numerical methods, Phillips was the first to show, with a simple General Circulation model, that weather prediction with numerical models was...

Valerie Barr

Researcher in software testing, gender and science issues, and computer science curriculum development, Barr has served as Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Union College, Schenectady, New York, since September 2004....

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Former CEO of IBM, Gerstner is largely credited with turning around IBM's fortunes. He was chairman of the board and chief executive officer of IBM from April 1993 until 2002, when he retired...

Nathaniel S. Borenstein

One of the original designers of the MIME protocol for formatting multimedia Internet electronic mail, Borenstein has served as Chief Scientist at email management company Mimecast and founded NetPOS.com and First Virtual...

Edson Hendricks

Developer of RSCS (later known as VNET), fundamental software that powered the world's largest network (or network of networks) prior to the Internet, Hendricks is an IBM computer scientist whose work directly...

Russell Lincoln Ackoff

Recognized as the "Father of Operations Research" for helping establish one of the world's first Departments of Operations Research, Ackoff is also celebrated internationally as a pragmatic academic, systems thinker, and prolific...

Lewis Terman

Initiator of the first work in IBM on MOSFET memory, Terman was also involved in the program that led to the first IBM MOSFET memory product. Born in San Francisco, his father was...

Albert Einstein

1921 Nobel Prize winner in Physics for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect, Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution...

George Joseph Laurer

Developer of the Universal Product Code (UPC), Laurer created the pattern of stripes that brought supermarkets into the digital age. A 36-year veteran of the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), he developed...

Victor Shoup

Co-developer of the Cramer–Shoup cryptosystem, the first efficient asymmetric encryption scheme proven to be secure against adaptive chosen ciphertext attack using standard cryptographic assumptions, Shoup is a computer scientist and mathematician. He...

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...

Vladimir Iosifovich Levenshtein

Best known for his contributions to error-correction theory and information theory, Levenshtein is sometimes called the father of edit distance and is known for the Levenshtein distance algorithm, which he developed in...

Lawrence (Larry) A. Welke

Publisher of the first publications dedicated to the software industry, Welke is also remembered as a co-founder of the Software Industry Association section of ADAPSO (known today as the Information Technology Association...

Hans-Joachim Queisser

Inventor of a high-power luminescent diode — an infrared light emitting diode (LED) that now forms the basis of almost every household remote control device — Queisser was a solid-state physicist also...

John W. Haanstra

Instrumental in the launch of the IBM System/360, Haanstra served as Chairman of the influential SPREAD Task Group (Systems Programming, Research, Engineering and Development) and President of the IBM General Products Division...

Romuald W. Marczyński

Primary creator of the EMAL machine designs — Poland's first computers — Marczyński was a professor, mathematician, and pioneer of Polish technical computer science. He was one of the first in Poland...

Coraline Ada Ehmke

Creator of the Contributor Covenant and the Post-Meritocracy Manifesto, Ehmke was a leading advocate for codes of conduct in open source projects and communities. She founded the Organization for Ethical Source and...

Robert (Bob) Alan Iannucci

Led Nokia's Research Center (NRC) labs and lablets to deliver fundamental contributions to the worldwide Long Term Evolution for 3G (LTE) standard, Iannucci is a computer scientist who has served as Director...