James T. Russell

Inventor of the concept of optical digital recording and playback, Russell joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of Battelle Memorial Institute in Richland in 1965. There, that same year, he developed the...

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...

John Adrian Shepherd-Barron

Pioneer in the development of the cash machine (ATM), Shepherd-Barron joined De La Rue Instruments in the 1960s and in 1965 came up with the concept of a self-service machine that would...

Elisa Bertino

Major contributor to the theory of object-oriented databases, temporal databases, and database security systems, Bertino has served as a Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University,...

Paul A. Vixie

Author of the standard UNIX system programs SENDS, proxynet, rtty, and Vixie cron, Vixie is an American Internet pioneer and well-known Unix software author who attended George Washington High School in San...

Jesse James Garrett

Publisher of the diagram "The Elements of User Experience," a foundational model of user-centered design, Garrett is a user experience designer and co-founder of Adaptive Path, a user experience strategy and design...

Charles (Chuck) Lewis Seitz

Co-developer of the first multicomputer, the Cosmic Cube, and deviser of the key programming and packet-routing techniques for second-generation multicomputers, Seitz is a prolific architect and designer of innovative computing and communication...

Anatoliy A. Morozov

Chief Designer of the automated control system of the "Lviv" manufacturing project and the "RADA" system, Morozov is a cybernetics scientist, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Dr....

Robert William Bemer

Best known as "The Father of ASCII," Bemer made foundational contributions to computing through his work on COBOL and the ASCII character codeset. Bemer began his career as an aerodynamicist at Douglas Aircraft...

Clair D. Lake

Co-inventor of IBM's MARK I and co-developer of the first Type 1 Total Printing and Listing Tabulator, Lake was a prolific IBM inventor. In May 1939 he was assigned to serve as...

Leonard Bosack

Pioneer of commercialization of routing technology and co-founder of Cisco Systems, Bosack received the Computer Entrepreneur Award in 2009 for pioneering and advancing the commercialization of routing technology and the profound changes...

Gabe Logan Newell

Producer of the first three releases of Windows, Newell later founded Valve, producing one of the best-selling PC games ever, Half-Life.

Joseph (Josh) A. Fisher

Creator of VLIW architectures, which allow programs to explicitly specify instructions to be executed in parallel for higher performance, Fisher is an American computer scientist also noted for his work on compiling...

Charles (Charlie) William Bachman

Pioneer of database technology, Bachman spent his entire career as an industrial researcher rather than in academia. Born in Manhattan, Kansas, in 1924, Bachman's father was a football coach and minor league baseball...

Alexander (Sandy) Shafto Douglas

Creator of the first graphic computer game, Douglas made important contributions in mathematical computing, computer education, and man-machine interfaces. 'Sandy' Douglas worked on EDSAC and later the Ferranti Pegasus. As a graduate student...

Jerzy Witold Różycki

Inventor of the "clock" method for determining Enigma rotor positions, Różycki was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma-machine ciphers. He was born in what is now Ukraine,...

Hewitt D. Crane

Developer of an eye-movement tracking device and pen-input device for computers, Crane was an American engineer best known for his pioneering work at SRI International on ERMA (Electronic Recording Machine, Accounting), for...

John C. Dvorak

Technology columnist and broadcaster, Dvorak has covered the computing industry since the 1980s, when he became a mainstay of a variety of magazines. Dvorak has also served as Vice-President of Mevio (formerly PodShow)...

Eva Tardos

Recipient of the Fulkerson Prize (1988), the Dantzig Prize (2006), and the IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2019), Tardos is known as a Hungarian mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of...

James H. Clark

Founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape, Clark is recognized as one of Silicon Valley's most prolific entrepreneurs. His research work in computer graphics led to the development of systems for fast rendering...