Tim Westergren

Founder and CEO of Pandora, Westergren started the Music Genome Project, a mathematical algorithm to organize music. The idea was marketed by Pandora Media. Westergren, along with the other developers, patented the...

Martha Sloan

The first woman to lead the IEEE Institute, Sloan served as IEEE president in 1993. She received a BSEE with great distinction, an MSEE, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. After two...

Stephen Wolff

Credited with turning the Internet from a government project into something of scholarly and commercial interest for the rest of the world, Wolff is sometimes called one of the many fathers of...

William Harvey Inmon

Recognized by many as the father of the data warehouse, Inmon wrote the first book, held the first conference (with Arnie Barnett), wrote the first column in a magazine, and was the...

Thomas Eugene Kurtz

Co-developer of the BASIC programming language, Kurtz transformed computing education for generations of users. In 1951, Dr. Kurtz's first experience with computing came at the Summer Session of the Institute for Numerical Analysis...

Craig R. Barrett

Former CEO and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Barrett has been a leading advocate for improving education in the U.S. and around the world. He has also served as a vocal spokesman for...

Oliver Selfridge

An innovator in early computer science and artificial intelligence, Selfridge helped shape the foundations of machine learning and AI. Credited with coining the term "intelligent agents" for software programs capable of observing and...

Georg (Per) Pehr Scheutz

Co-developer of the Scheutzian calculation engine, which produced the first tables calculated and printed by machinery, Scheutz was a 19th-century Swedish lawyer, translator, and inventor. He studied law at Lund University, graduating...

Adriaan van Wijngaarden

One of the founding fathers of informatica (computer science) and designer of ALGOL, van Wijngaarden was a pioneering figure in the history of computing. Adriaan's education was in mechanical engineering, for which...

Joshua Schachter

Creator of Delicious, GeoURL, and co-creator of Memepool, Schachter holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He released the first version of Delicious (then called...

John R. Levine

Co-author of The Internet for Dummies (with Carol Baroudi and Margaret Levine Young), Levine is an Internet author and consultant specializing in email infrastructure, spam filtering, and software patents. Levine has chaired the...

Cyril J. Yansouni

Vice President and General Manager of the Personal Computer Group at Hewlett-Packard, Yansouni brings over 35 years of experience in the technology industry. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Mechanical...

Neal Town Stephenson

Writer of the non-fiction essay "In The Beginning Was The Command Line" — examining the histories of and relationships between DOS, Windows, Linux, and BeOS — Stephenson is an American author known...

Muffy Calder

Chief Scientific Advisor to the Scottish Government from 2012 to 2015, Calder was a Canadian-born British computer scientist and Professor of Formal Methods at the University of Glasgow. She also served as...

Dan Magenheimer

Writer of the first PA-RISC simulator, remote debugger, and object-code emulator for the 16-bit HP3000, Magenheimer began at HP as a member of the Processor Architecture Team that developed PA-RISC, where he...

Sandra L. Kurtzig

The first woman to take a high-tech company public, Kurtzig founded ASK Computer Systems Inc. and developed Manman, an ERP program that ran on Hewlett-Packard minicomputers and helped manufacturing companies plan materials...

Hiroshi Yamamoto

IBM Distinguished Engineer who expanded horizontal industry skills in the electronics industry, Yamamoto has served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Global Electronics Industry, with responsibilities covering all electronics customers at...

William (Bill) Henry Gates

Founder of Microsoft, Gates is an American business magnate and philanthropist who co-founded the software company with Paul Allen. Gates has been consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and was the...

Joseph (Rod) Rodney Canion

Co-founder of Compaq Computer Corporation, Canion is a native of Houston who graduated from the University of Houston in 1966 and 1968 with Bachelor's and Master's degrees in electrical engineering with an...

Peri L. Tarr

Technical leader for collaborative analytics and optimization for software and systems engineering, with results transferred into IBM products, Tarr has served as a Research Staff Member at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research...