Brendan Eich

Creator of the JavaScript scripting language, Eich is a computer programmer and chief technology officer of Mozilla Corporation. He worked with MicroUnity Systems Engineering writing microkernel and DSP code, and doing the...

Liane Tarouco

A pioneer in the development of the Internet in Brazil, Tarouco educated a generation of engineers and network specialists across that country, South America, Europe, and Africa. She authored the first book...

Bernard Meyerson

Founder and developer of IBM's highly successful Analog and Mixed Signal business, Meyerson has served across a series of science, engineering, and business leadership roles throughout his career at IBM. Born in New...

Nobuo Mii

Leader of a team that built the first television system in Kyushu, Japan, Mii accomplished this feat in 1949 as manager of his high school Wireless Communications Club, mainly using electronic parts...

Ben Forta

Author of numerous technical books on ColdFusion, SQL, and Regular Expressions, Forta has also served as Senior Technical Evangelist for Adobe Systems, particularly ColdFusion and Flex, and has been the owner of...

Chad Meredith Hurley

Co-founder and former CEO of the popular video sharing website YouTube, Hurley is also known for co-founding MixBit. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0's "50 People Who Matter...

Charles Simonyi

Overseer of Microsoft's flagship Office applications Word and Excel, Simonyi also directed development of Excel's predecessor Multiplan. In 1981, he applied directly to Bill Gates for a job at Microsoft. With Multiplan,...

Andries (Andy) van Dam

Co-contributor to the first hypertext system and co-founder of the precursor to ACM SIGGRAPH, van Dam is a Dutch-born American professor of computer science and former Vice-President for Research at Brown University...

William (Bill) Millard

Considered the "father" of modern computer retailing, Millard founded IMS Associates, makers of the IMSAI series of computers, and the electronics retailer ComputerLand. Millard worked for IBM and, later, as the head...

David F. Redmiles

Author of over 100 research publications integrating the areas of software engineering, human-computer interaction, and computer-supported cooperative work, Redmiles has served as a Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University...

Phillip Walter Katz

Co-creator of the zip file format for data compression and author of PKZIP, a program for creating zip files which ran under DOS, Katz graduated from the Computer Science Engineering program at...

Donald Becker

Co-creator of the Beowulf clustering software, Becker is known throughout the international community of operating system developers for his contributions to networking software. The Beowulf clustering software connected many inexpensive PCs to...

Fernando (Corby) J. Corbato

Pioneer in the development of general-purpose, large-scale, time-sharing and resource-sharing computer systems, Corbató received the ACM Turing Award in 1990 for these foundational contributions. Fernando (Corby) J. Corbató was born on July 1,...

Stephen Cole Kleene

American mathematician who helped lay the foundations for theoretical computer science, Kleene was best known as a founder of the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory. One of many distinguished...

Mavis Batey (née Lever)

One of Bletchley Park's most effective codebreakers, Batey joined the team in May 1940 at just 19 years old, interrupting her German-language studies at University College London. Working under the eccentric cryptographer...

Sellam Ismail

Founder of the Vintage Computer Festival and active in the preservation of information technology artifacts, Ismail has dedicated himself to salvaging countless artifacts of tech history. His prescience has led to the...

George Joseph Laurer

Developer of the Universal Product Code (UPC), Laurer created the pattern of stripes that brought supermarkets into the digital age. A 36-year veteran of the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), he developed...

John Buxton

Pioneer of computer simulation, Buxton gained world renown for his fundamental scientific contributions to computer simulation, programming language design, and software implementation technology. He was founding professor of computer science at both...

Robert (Bob) J. Frankenberg

Leader of the revival of HP's personal computer unit, Frankenberg is an American computer engineer and business executive. He spent much of his career at Hewlett-Packard (HP), starting there in 1969. While...

Giovanni Caselli

Inventor of the pantelegraph (a.k.a. Universal Telegraph or "all-purpose telegraph"), the predecessor of the modern fax machine, Caselli put the world's first practical operating facsimile machine ("fax") system into use. Pantèlègraph is...