David A. Patterson has been Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley since 1977, after receiving his A.B., M.S., and Ph.D. from UCLA. He is one of the pioneers of both RISC and RAID, both of which are widely used. Past chair of the Computer Science Department at U.C. Berkeley and the Computing Research Association, …

John LeRoy Hennessy, the founder of MIPS Computer Systems Inc., is currently serving as the 10th President of Stanford University. He earned his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University, and his Master's degree and Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Hennessy became a Stanford faculty member in 1977. In 1984, he used his sabbatical year to found MIPS Computer Systems Inc.

Linus Benedict Torvalds ; born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland, is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel. He now acts as the project's coordinator. Linus was inspired by Minix (an operating system developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum) to develop a capable Unix-like operating system that could be run on a PC. Linux now also runs on many other architectures.

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.

Justin Rattner , 59, is vice president and chief technology officer (CTO). He is also an Intel Senior Fellow and head of the Corporate Technology Group. In the latter role, he directs Intel's global research efforts in microprocessors, systems, and communications including the company's disruptive research activity. In 1989, Rattner was named Scientist of the Year by R&D Magazine for his leadership in parallel and distributed computer architecture.

Prof. Jochen Liedtke, Ph.D. was a German computer scientist, noted for his work on microkernels, especially the creation of the L4 microkernel family. Liedtke's work on the Elan programming language in the 1970s led him to create Eumel, an innovative run-time environment for Elan. In 1984, he joined the GMD (Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, or Society for Mathematics and Information technology, …

Brian Randell is a British computer scientist, specializing in research in software fault tolerance and dependability. He is also interested in, and a noted authority on, the early (prior to 1950) history of computers; he was a co-founder of the "IEEE Annals of the History of Computing" journal. Randell's initial work, during 1957–1964 while he was employed at English Electric was on compilers; his work on Algol 60 is particularly known.

Roger Michael Needham CBE FREng FRS (9 February, 1935 - 1 March, 2003) was a British computer scientist. Needham began his undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge in 1953, graduating with a B.A. in 1956 in mathematics and philosophy. His Ph.D. thesis was on applications of digital computers to the automatic classification and retrieval of documents. He worked on a variety of key computing projects in security, operating systems, …

William Allan Wulf (born December 8, 1939) is a computer scientist notable for his work in programming languages and compilers. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he attended the University of Illinois, receiving a BS in Engineering Physics and an MS in Electrical Engineering, then achieved a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.

Reiner Hartenstein (born December 18, 1934 in Berlin) is a German computer scientist. He is a professor of Computer Science (Informatik) at the University of Kaiserslautern. He earned all his academic degrees, including the Ph. D. degree (Dr.-Ing.) from the EE department at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where he later (in the 1960ies) worked on image processing and pattern recognition for Professor Karl Steinbuch, an early pioneer of artificial neural networks.

Richard Peirce Brent is an Australian mathematician and computer scientist, born in 1946. As of October 2005 he is an ARC Federation Fellow at the Australian National University. His research interests include number theory (in particular factorization), random number generators, computer architecture, and analysis of algorithms. In 1973, he published a root-finding algorithm (an algorithm for solving equations numerically) which is now known as Brent's method.

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, …

Douglas W. Jones is a computer scientist at the University of Iowa. His research focuses primarily on computer security, particularly electronic voting. He has also contributed to the field of computer architecture, including an implementation of a one instruction set computer. Jones' involvement with electronic voting research began in 1994, when he was appointed to the Iowa Board of Examiners for Voting Machines and Electronic Voting Systems.

Ken Batcher is a professor of Computer Science at Kent State University. He also worked as a computer architect at Goodyear Aerospace in Akron, Ohio for 28 years. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1969.

Bert Halstead is the chief architect at Curl, Inc., where he has worked for several years on the design and implementation of the Curl content language. Curl is a language that aims to ease the implementation of applications that would otherwise use Java or employ an Ajax paradigm. After receiving his Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979, Halstead became a member of the institution's computer science faculty, …

Enrico Clementi is a pioneer in computational techniques for quantum chemistry and Molecular dynamics. Dr. Clementi was born in Cembra, Italy, in 1931. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Pavia in 1954 and joined IBM Research in 1961. At IBM he was first responsible for atomic calculations, then manager of a scientific computation department until 1974.

Trygve Fossum is a Norwegian computer architect at Intel, having been transferred there from DEC's Alpha project where he was one of the chief architects/designers (before that he worked on the VAX 9000). At Intel he has worked with the Itanium 64-bit processor design.

Director of Engineering at D E Shaw research. Interested in cpu architecture, VLSI/SOC design and EDA tools, new technologies in general.