Seymour Cray

Seymour Cray

male, deceased (1996)
Cray Research, computerdesigner, electrical engineering, supercomputer, electrical engineer, Control Data Corporation…computer pioneer
Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925 - October 5, 1996) was a U.S. electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who founded the company Cray...
Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak

male, 59 years old (Los Gatos, California, United States)
Apple Computer, Apple Inc., Woz, apple, Computer Engineer, computer pioneer…personal computer, computerdesigner, computer scientist, computer programmer
Dr. Stephan Gary "Woz" Wozniak (born August 11 1950 in San Jose, California) is a U.S. computer engineer and the co-founder of Apple Computer (now...
Alan Turing

Alan Turing

male, deceased (1954) (london)
computer scientist, computer pioneer, turing machine, British computer scientist, British cryptographer at Bletchley Park, scientist…theoretical computer science, computerdesigner, father of modern computer science, computer room
This short on-line biography of Alan Turing is based on the entry I wrote for the British Dictionary of National Biography in 1995. The eight parts...
John von Neumann

John von Neumann

male, deceased (1957)
genius, universal constructor, convert to Roman Catholicism, Pancreatic cancer death, Bone cancer death, American…computerdesigner, computer scientist, computer pioneer
John von Neumann (born Margittai Neumann János Lajos on December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; died February 8, 1957 in Washington D.C., U...
Gordon Bell

Gordon Bell

male, 75 years old (San Francisco, California, United States)
Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft employee, digital equipment corporation…Computer Engineer, computerdesigner, computer hardware engineer, computer pioneer, Computer History Museum
C. Gordon Bell (born August 19, 1934) is a computer engineer and manager, an early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) who designed...

John Pinkerton

male, deceased (1997)
cambridge university, computer pioneer, computerdesigner, edsac, University of Cambridge, J. Lyons and Co…LEO computer
John Pinkerton (August 2, 1919 - December 22, 1997), pioneering computer designer. John Pinkerton was the designer of the world's first business...
Harry Huskey

Harry Huskey

male, 93 years old
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, fellow, Association for Computing Machinery, Standards Western Automatic Computer, G15, SEAC…computer pioneer, computer hardware engineer, computerdesigner
Harry Huskey (born January 19, 1916) is a American computer designer pioneer. Huskey was born in the Smoky Mountains region of North Carolina and...
Alan Kotok

Alan Kotok

male, deceased (2006)
video game, Video Game Designer, Hackers Hero of the Computer Revolution, death by myocardial infarction, digital equipment corporation, computer pioneer…computer scientist, computerdesigner, Computer and video game designer, computer game, computer chess
Alan Kotok was an American computer scientist. He was known for his contributions to the Internet and World Wide Web through his work at the World...
John L. Hennessy

John L. Hennessy

male
Stanford University, computer architecture, Stanford University president, RISC, Google advisor, Google boardmember…MIPS Computer Systems, computer scientist, MIPS Computer Systems Inc., Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach, computerdesigner
John LeRoy Hennessy, the founder of MIPS Computer Systems Inc., is currently serving as the 10th President of Stanford University. He earned his...