Luciano Lenzini

Director of the initiative which led to the operation of the first Internet node in Italy, Lenzini has served as a Full Professor at the Information Engineering Department of the University of...

Seymour Ivan Rubinstein

Director of the development of WordStar — the first truly successful commercial program for the personal computer — Rubinstein gave the general population reasonably priced access to word processing for the first...

Kim Polese

Named to Time magazine's list of "The 25 Most Influential Americans" early in her career in 1997, Polese built a long record of leadership in Silicon Valley technology and entrepreneurship. An advocate of...

Louis Pouzin

Invented the datagram and designed the first packet communications network, CYCLADES, Pouzin also created the first forms of command-line interface. His work was broadly used by Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, and many...

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...

Nancy Jane Hafkin

A pioneer and innovator in networking, development information, and electronic communications in Africa, Hafkin spurred the Pan African Development Information System (PADIS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) from...

Randy Cartwright

Creator of Animation Timer, a stopwatch application for Apple iPhones, Cartwright is a veteran Disney animator and filmmaker. Born in Virginia, Cartwright graduated from UCLA in 1974, where he made his student animated...

Shikoh Gitau

The first African to win the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, Gitau received that honor at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, recognized for her inventions and thesis work. A Kenyan...

Edward Fredkin

A pioneer of reversible computing and cellular automata, Fredkin was also an early pioneer of digital physics, later using the term digital philosophy (DP) to describe his work. While Konrad Zuse's book,...

Richard (Dick) John Egan

Member of the team that developed the Apollo Guidance Computer for the Apollo spacecraft that carried astronauts to the moon, Egan was also a prominent American businessman, political fundraiser, and former US...

Wei Yen

Major contributor to the Cydra-5 mini-supercomputer, Yen is a software developer and entrepreneur who has been involved with several companies, including as chairman and founder of AiLive. He and his brother David...

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...

Jakob Nielsen

Founder of the "discount usability engineering" movement for fast and cheap improvements of user interfaces, Nielsen invented several usability methods, including heuristic evaluation — a usability inspection method for computer software that...

Leonard J. Shustek

Founder of the Computer History Museum, Shustek co-founded Nestar Systems Inc., an early producer of networked client-server computer systems, in 1979. In 1986, Dr. Shustek co-founded Network General Corporation, a manufacturer of...

Gordon (Tommy) Eric Thomas

Pioneer in the design of 'Baby', the first stored program computer, Thomas graduated in Physics and Electronic Engineering at the University of Manchester in 1948, joining the design team of Professors F.C....

Georgy Adelson-Velsky

Co-inventor of the AVL tree and head developer of the Kaissa chess computer, Adelson-Velsky made foundational contributions to both computer science and computer chess. In 1962, Georgy and E.M. Landis published a...

Clifford Alan Pickover

Member of the team that worked on design-automation workstations and developed code for IBM's IntelliStation, Pickover is an American author, editor, inventor, and columnist in the fields of science, mathematics, and science...

David Michael Dahm

Designer of the pioneering Burroughs B5000 compiler and operating systems, Dahm introduced generative techniques to Data Base Management. Born in Texarkana, Arkansas, he grew up in Dallas, Texas, and graduated Valedictorian from...

Marlyn Meltzer (née Wescoff)

One of the original programmers of the ENIAC, the world's first electronic computer, Meltzer was selected for this role in 1945. A graduate of Temple University in 1942, she was hired by...

Werner Michael Blumenthal

Chairman and CEO of Unisys, the American global information technology company, Blumenthal is recognized as a leading figure in both the technology industry and public service. He was born in Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Germany,...