Warren Weaver

Writer of the memorandum "Translation" (July 1949), said to be probably the single most influential publication in the early days of machine translation, Weaver was an American scientist, mathematician, and science administrator...

Rasmus Lerdorf

Creator of the PHP programming language, Lerdorf also contributed to the Apache HTTP Server and came up with the LIMIT clause, adding it to the mSQL Database in 1995. It is the...

Evan Sharp

Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Pinterest, Sharp designed the Pinterest grid for the initial product launch. Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool that skyrocketed in popularity due to its innovative concept...

Chandu Visweswariah

Pioneer in circuit analysis and optimization and inventor of statistical timing, Visweswariah developed techniques used in every IBM chip design—including formal circuit tuning and gate-level timing sign-off. These fundamental contributions improved performance,...

Peter Harris

Builder of a product that takes existing COBOL programs and produces structured system charts and supporting documentation for program maintenance, Harris also founded ADPAC, a leading software provider to corporations worldwide. While he...

Raymond Samuel Tomlinson

Creator of email, Tomlinson implemented the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to the ARPANet in 1971. Email had previously been sent on other networks such...

Keith Lonsdale

Co-developer of the Ferranti Mark I, believed to be the world's first commercially available computer, Lonsdale worked alongside Brian Pollard and Tom Kilburn to construct the machine, a production version of the...

Margaret R. Fox

Member of the technical staff of the Electronic Computer Laboratory at the National Bureau of Standards, Fox graduated from Wisconsin State College in 1940 and joined the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1943,...

Lawrence (Larry) Page

Co-founder of Google Inc., Page is an American computer scientist who founded the company alongside Sergey Brin.

Calvin Northrup Mooers

Known for his work in information retrieval and for the programming language TRAC, Mooers was a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended the University of Minnesota and received a bachelor's degree in...

Bert E. Forbes

Co-architect of the HP 3000 minicomputer and designer of HP's first 16-bit microprocessor, Forbes is an innovator, accomplished business executive, and visionary philanthropist whose passion for serving his profession and his community...

Christopher Curry

Co-founder of Acorn Computers, Curry has played a significant role in the early development of personal computing in Britain. In April 1966, Curry joined Sinclair Radionics, a company founded by Clive Sinclair in...

Amir Pnueli

Pioneer of temporal logic in computing science, Pnueli made a major breakthrough in the verification and certification of concurrent and reactive systems with his landmark 1977 paper "The Temporal Logic of Programs,"...

Cornelis (Kees) H.A. Koster

Creator of the original Compiler Description Language, Koster was also one of the editors of the original Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68. He was a professor in the Department of Informatics...

Yoelle Maarek

The first engineering hire of Google Israel, Maarek established the company's development center in Haifa in 2006 and led the team that launched Google Suggest worldwide on the Google homepage in 2008....

Peter James Denning

Pioneer of virtual memory systems and co-founder of CSNET, Denning is best known for discovering the locality principle and designing the working set model for program behavior. He took an early interest in...

Sergy Brin

Co-founder of Google, Inc., the world's largest Internet company based on its search engine and online advertising technology, Brin built the company alongside Larry Page. Together with Page, they are often referred...

Bobby Murphy

Co-founder of Snapchat, Murphy is a Filipino-American billionaire businessman who also serves as the platform's Chief Technology Officer (CTO). He co-founded Snapchat with Evan Spiegel and Reggie Brown while they were students...

Irving Stoy Reed

Co-inventor of the Reed-Solomon error-detecting and correcting codes, Reed made many contributions to areas of electrical engineering including radar, signal processing, and image processing. He was part of the team that built...

James Martin

Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his book *The Wired Society: A Challenge for Tomorrow*, Martin was a British Information Technology consultant and author who was one of the first to promote...