Estil Hoversten

Co-conceiver of the Internet Stream Protocol (ST), a connection-oriented complement to IPv4 notable for introducing the concepts of packetized voice, Hoversten has served as Senior Vice President of Hughes Network Systems, LLC...

Timothy (Tim) John Berners-Lee

Creator of the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee is a British engineer and computer scientist who made the first proposal for it in March 1989. On 25 December 1990, with the help of...

George Edward Pake

Founding director of Xerox PARC, Pake led the research center during which time it invented the laser printer and pioneered the use of a computer "desktop" which functioned by clicking on "icons,"...

William (Bill) V. Campbell

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur who mentored leaders at Apple, Intuit, and Google, Campbell was born and raised in Homestead, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, son of a local school official. He attended Columbia University...

Dennis M. Jennings

Responsible for three critical decisions that shaped the subsequent development of NSFNET, the network that became the Internet, Jennings is an Irish physicist, academic, Internet pioneer, and venture capitalist. In 1985, he...

Jef Raskin

Human-computer interface expert best known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple, Raskin first met Apple Computer's Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak following the debut of their Apple II personal computer at...

Elmer C. Kubie

Co-founder of Computer Usage Company (CUC), the first independent company to market computer software, Kubie helped transform how software was developed and sold. He and John W. Sheldon founded CUC (1955–1986), sometimes...

Leonard Max Adleman

Co-inventor of the RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) cryptosystem, Adleman is a theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. RSA is in widespread use in...

Anthony Brian Cleaver

Member of the team that developed one of the first computerized cash machines in Essex, England, Cleaver began his career as a Systems Engineer with IBM, UK Ltd. in 1962, holding many...

Jiawei Han

Co-author of the widely-used textbook "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" and a leading researcher in data mining, data warehousing, and database systems, Han has served as Abel Bliss Professor in the Department...

Giovanni Poleni

Builder of the first pinwheel design calculating clock, Poleni was a pioneer of mechanical computation. Made of wood, his calculating clock was built in 1709; he destroyed it after hearing that Antonius...

Eileen Collins

The first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle and the first to command a Space Shuttle mission, Collins served as a NASA astronaut and Air Force colonel across a distinguished career in...

Hector de Jesus Ruiz

Former CEO and executive chairman of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), Ruiz led the semiconductor company through a period of major transformation. Hector de Jesus Ruiz was born in Piedras Negras, Mexico, a...

David (Dave) B. Lindquist

Responsible for the strategy and architecture of IBM's Cloud technology (SmartCloud software), Smarter Infrastructure, and Integrated Service Management solutions, Lindquist has served as an IBM Fellow, Chief Technology Officer of Software Group,...

Grigore Constantin Moisil

Considered the father of computer science in Romania, Moisil made foundational contributions to automata theory, many-valued algebras, and mathematical logic. Grigore Moisil attended primary school in Bucharest, then high school in Vaslui and...

Francis (Fran) O. Underwood

Chief Architect of the IBM 1401, known as the SPACE Machine, Underwood was an engineer, machine designer, and engineering trainer for IBM. Born in Omaha, NE, he came from a line of...

Shawn Fanning

Developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer filesharing platforms

Lester (Les) Donald Earnest

Developer of the "first pen-based computer system that reliably recognized cursive writing" and the first spell checker, Earnest began his career as a computer programmer in 1954 during a stint as a...

Scott W. Ambler

Leader in the development of several software processes — including Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Enterprise Unified Process (EUP), and Agile Unified Process (AUP) methodologies — Ambler is a Canadian software...

Arnold A. Cohen

Developer of selectively alterable digital storage on magnetic drums, Cohen held a patent that proved basic to the field. Born in Duluth, MN, he was a renowned physicist noted for his significant...