- Vint Cerf
Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) (last name pronounced just like the English word "surf") is an American computer scientist who is commonly referred to as one of the "founding fathers of the Internet" for his key technical and managerial role, together with Bob Kahn, in the creation of the Internet and the TCP/IP protocols which it uses. He was also a co-founder (in 1992) of the Internet Society (ISOC), …
- Samuel J. Palmisano
Samuel J. Palmisano (born July 29, 1951) is the current Chairman, CEO, and President of IBM, one of the world's largest IT companies. He was elected Chairman in October 2002, effective January 1, 2003, and has served as Chief Executive Officer since March 2002. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Palmisano was President and Chief Operating Officer since 2000. Palmisano joined IBM in 1973.
- Thomas J. Watson
Thomas John Watson, Sr. (February 17, 1874 - June 19, 1956) was the president of International Business Machines (IBM), who oversaw that company's growth into an international force from the 1920s to the 1950s. Watson developed IBM's effective management style and turned it into one of the most effective selling organizations yet seen, based largely around punched card tabulating machines.
- Lawrence M. Breed
Lawrence M. Breed was the 1973 recipient (with Richard Lathwell and Roger Moore) of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery. :"For their work in the design and implementation of APL360, setting new standards in simplicity, efficiency, reliability and response time for interactive systems." Larry was a thoroughly entertaining and enjoyable character when I worked with him.
- Thomas J. Watson Jr.
Thomas John Watson, Jr. (January 14 1914 - December 31 1993) was the president of IBM from 1952 to 1971 and the eldest son of Thomas J. Watson, IBM's first president. He was listed as one of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
- Frank Moss
Frank Moss is the a technologist and a "serial entrepreneur." Currently, Moss is the director of the MIT Media Laboratory. Prior to heading the lab, Moss served as the CEO and Chairman of Tivoli Systems. Tivoli became a public company in 1995 under Frank's leadership and merged with IBM the next year. Frank continued to work with the Tivoli team within IBM. Additionally, Moss has helped found a number of other companies including Stellar Computer, Inc., Bowstreet, Inc., …
- Jakob Nielsen
Jakob Nielsen (born 1957 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a writer, speaker, and consultant on software and web-design usability. He earned a Ph.D. in user interface design and computer science from the Technical University of Denmark. Nielsen worked at Bellcore, IBM, and as a senior researcher at computer company Sun Microsystems.
- Sam Ruby
Sam Ruby is a prominent software developer who has made significant contributions to many of the Apache Software Foundation's open source software projects, and to the standardization of web feeds via his involvement with the Atom web feed standard and the popular Feed Validator web service. He currently holds a Senior Technical Staff Member position in the Emerging Technologies Group of IBM. He resides in Raleigh, North Carolina.
- Gavin Wilson
Gavin Wilson (born in 1959) is a writer and analyst for IBM. He is also a director of IBM UK Pensions Trust and Thames Ditton Lawn Tennis Club. Wilson won a scholarship to Oundle. Between 1977 and 1980 he was an exhibitioner at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and graduated with an honours degree in Mathematics. In 1987 he was awarded an MBA from the London Business School.
- Theodore Ts'O
Theodore Y. "Ted" Ts'o (born 1968) is a software developer mainly known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, in particular his contributions to file systems. He graduated in 1990 from MIT with a degree in Computing science. After graduation he worked in the "Information Systems & Technology" (IS&T) department at MIT until 1999, where among other things he was project leader of the Kerberos V5 team. After IS&T he went to work for VA Linux Systems for two years.
- Watts Humphrey
Watts S. Humphrey is a key thinker in the discipline of the management of software development, often called the father of software quality. His contribution to the software engineering processes resides in the creation of the Software Process Program, which includes the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), the Personal Software Process (PSP) and the Team Software Process (TSP), …
- Gabor A. Somorjai
Gabor A. Somorjai (born May 4, 1935 in Budapest, Hungary) is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and is a leading researcher in the field of surface chemistry. Somorjai won the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 1998 for his contributions to the field and was awarded a National Medal of Science in 2002. He is also the 2008 winner of the Priestley Medal.
- Makoto Murata
is a Japanese computer scientist. He participated in the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) XML Working Group. The Working Group designed XML1.0, a markup language specification. Murata and James Clark designed RELAX NG, an XML schema language. In 1982, Murata received his bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University. In 1985, he joined Fuji Xerox. From 1993 to 1995, he researched structured document at Xerox Webster Research Center.
- Fred Brooks
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best-known for managing the development of OS/360, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book "The Mythical Man-Month". "It is a very humbling experience to make a multi-million-dollar mistake, but it is also very memorable." Brooks received a Turing Award in 1999 and many other awards. Born in Durham, North Carolina, he attended Duke University, …
- John Langford
Dr. John Langford is the President of Aurora Flight Sciences. After managing the near record breaking Daedalus human powered aircraft project as a student at MIT, Langford founded Aurora Flight Sciences in order to design and manufacture high altitude UAVs that could be used for global climate change research. Dr. John Langford is a Senior Researcher at Yahoo! Research. His work includes research in machine learning, game theory, steganography, …
- John Maxwell Coetzee
John Maxwell Coetzee, often called J.M. Coetzee, is a South African author (now an Australian citizen living in South Australia) and academic. A novelist and literary critic as well as a translator, Coetzee won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Richard Tarrant
Richard Edward Tarrant, (born August 6, 1942 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American businessman, millionaire, and politician. Most recently, he was the Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from the state of Vermont (see Vermont United States Senate election, 2006) in 2006, but lost the election to Representative Bernie Sanders. Tarrant and his wife reside in Colchester where he is currently working on his charitable foundation.
- Daniel M. Lewin
Daniel "Danny" Mark Lewin (May 14, 1970 - September 11 2001) was a mathematician and entrepreneur, best known for co-founding internet company Akamai Technologies. Lewin was born in Denver, Colorado and raised in Jerusalem, where he served for four years in the Israel Defence Forces. He was an officer in Sayeret Matkal, an elite and secretive intelligence unit.
- Jeff Foxworthy
Jeffrey M. Foxworthy (born September 6, 1958) is an American comedian, actor and game show host who is known for his work as a stand-up comedian. He is perhaps best known for his "You Might Be a Redneck" jokes.
- James Cooley
Dr. James Cooley (born 1926) is an American mathematician. James William Cooley received a B.A. degree in 1949 from Manhattan College, Bronx, NY, an M.A. degree in 1951 from Columbia University, New York, NY, and a Ph.D. degree in 1961 in applied mathematics from Columbia University. He was a programmer on John von Neumann's computer at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, from 1953 to 1956. He worked on quantum mechanical computations at the Courant Institute, …
- Lee T. Todd Jr.
Lee T. Todd, Jr. (born May 6, 1946 in Earlington, Kentucky) is currently the 11th president of the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Todd is also a well-known inventor and entrepreneur.
- Gregory Chaitin
Gregory John Chaitin is an Argentine-American mathematician and computer scientist. Beginning in the late 1960s, Chaitin made contributions to algorithmic information theory and metamathematics, in particular a new incompleteness theorem similar in spirit to Gödel's incompleteness theorem. He attended the Bronx High School of Science and City College of New York, where he first developed his theorem while still in his teens.
- Jean E. Sammet
Jean E. Sammet (born 1928) is an American computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language. She received her B.A. in Math from Mount Holyoke College in 1948 and her M.A. in Math from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1949. She spent 27 years at IBM where she developed FORMAC, the first widely used computer language for symbolic manipulation of mathematical formulas. She was also a member of the subcommittee which created COBOL.
- Andrei Broder
Andrei Broder is a Research Fellow and Vice President of Emerging Search Technology for Yahoo!. He previously has worked for AltaVista as the vice president of research, and for IBM Research as a Distinguished Engineer and CTO of IBM's Institute for Search and Text Analysis. Broder's research centers around the internet, and internet searching. He is credited with being one of the first people to develop a CAPTCHA, while working for AltaVista.
- Phaedon Avouris
Phaedon Avouris (born 1945) is a Greek chemist at IBM. He is an IBM Fellow and the manager for Nanometer Scale Science and Technology at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. In 2005 he is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University. In 2003 he was awarded the Irving Langmuir Prize by the American Physical Society. This prize is awarded based on contributions in chemistry and physics, …
- Andrew Tridgell
Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell (born February 28, 1967) is an Australian computer programmer best known as the creator of and contributor to the Samba file server, and co-inventor of the rsync algorithm. He is known for his analysis of complex proprietary protocols and algorithms, to allow compatible free software implementations.
- Eugene McDonnell
Eugene Edward McDonnell (b. 18 October, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York, USA) is a pioneer and long-time contributor to the programming languages APL and J. He is a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School. After serving as an infantry corporal in the U.S. Army in World War II, he attended the University of Kentucky, graduating in 1949 summa cum laude, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was awarded a First Year Graduate Fellowship to Harvard University, …
- Frank T. Cary
Frank T. Cary (b. 14 December 1920, Gooding, Idaho - d. 1 January 2006, Darien, Connecticut) was a U.S. Executive and Businessman. Cary served as the Chairman between 1973 to 1983 and CEO between 1973 to 1981 of IBM. While he was not well known outside of IBM during his tenure as Chief Executive he presided over a period of rapid growth in product, revenue and profit.
- Grady Booch
Grady Booch (born February 271955) is a software designer, a software methodologist and a design pattern enthusiast. He is chief scientist of Rational Software (now a part of IBM) and a series editor for Benjamin/Cummings. In 1995 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He was named an IBM Fellow in 2003. Booch is best known for developing the Unified Modeling Language with Ivar Jacobson and James Rumbaugh.
- Rolf Landauer
Rolf Landauer was an IBM physicist who in 1961 demonstrated that when information is lost in an irreversible circuit, the information becomes entropy and an associated amount of energy is dissipated as heat. This principle is relevant to reversible computing, quantum information and quantum computing. Landauer was born on February 4, 1927 in Stuttgart, Germany. Of Jewish parentage, he immigrated to the United States in 1938, graduated in 1943 from Stuyvesant High School, …
- Horst Feistel
Horst Feistel (30 January 1915<sup>(1)</sup>-14 November 1990) was a cryptographer who worked on the design of ciphers at IBM, initiating research that would culminate in the development of the Data Encryption Standard (DES) in the 1970s.
- Stuart Feldman
Stuart Feldman received an A.B. in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University and a Ph.D in Applied Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is best known as the creator of the make computer software for Unix systems. He was also an author of the first Fortran 77 compiler, and he was part of the original group at Bell Labs that created the Unix operating system. Until recently, he was the Vice President of Computer Science at IBM Research.
- Bob Bemer
Robert William Bemer (February 8, 1920 - June 22, 2004) was a computer scientist best known for his work at IBM during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Born in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Bemer graduated from Cranbrook School in 1936 and took an A.B. in Mathematics at Albion College in 1940. He earned a Certificate in Aeronautical Engineering at Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute in 1941.
- Alan Shugart
Alan Field Shugart (September 27, 1930 - December 12, 2006) was a leading computer engineer working in the disk drive industry. He was widely considered a pioneer of the disk drive.
- Kenneth E. Iverson
Kenneth Eugene Iverson (17 December, 1920, Camrose, Alberta, Canada - 19 October, 2004, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was a computer scientist most notable for developing the APL programming language in 1957. He was honored with the Turing Award in 1979 for his contributions to mathematical notation and programming language theory. The Iverson Award for contributions to APL was named in his honor.
- Christopher J. Date
Chris Date (born 1941) is an independent author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant of international renown, specializing in relational database technology.
- Cliff Jones
Professor Clifford "Cliff" Jones FACM FBCS FIET FREng is a British computer scientist, specializing in research into formal methods. He undertook a late DPhil at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory under Tony Hoare, awarded in 1981. He also worked with Dines Bjørner and others on the Vienna Development Method (VDM) at IBM in Vienna. He was a professor at the University of Manchester, worked in industry at Harlequin for a period, …
- Frank Soltis
Frank Soltis, an American computer scientist, is IBM's Chief Scientist for the iSeries computers. Based on his Ph.D. research, his architecture first appeared in the IBM System/38 and later in the IBM AS/400, with a technology-independent machine interface and single-level addressability. Soltis' "By Design" column appears in "iSeries News" magazine. His books include "Inside the AS/400" and "Fortress Rochester, …
- Paul Moskowitz
Dr. Paul A. Moskowitz is a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY. Moskowitz is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York City, received a Ph. D. in Physics from New York University, and has held research and teaching positions at the University of Grenoble, France, the University of Mainz, Germany, and the University of Colorado.
- John Cocke
John Cocke was an American computer scientist recognised for his large contribution to computer architecture and optimizing compiler design. He is considered by many to be "the father of RISC architecture." He attended Duke University, where he received his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1946 and his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1953. Cocke spent his entire career as an industrial researcher for IBM, from 1956 to 1992.