- Seymour Cray
Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925 - October 5, 1996) was a U.S. electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who founded the company Cray Research. Cray was born in 1925 in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. His father was a civil engineer who fostered Cray's interest in science and engineering. As early as the age of ten he was able to build a device to convert punched paper tape into Morse code signals out of Erector Set components. - Steve Wozniak
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 Apple Inc.), with Steve Jobs. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing greatly to the personal computer revolution of the 1970s. Wozniak created the Apple I and Apple II computers in the mid-1970s. The Apple II gained a sizable amount of popularity, … - Alan Turing
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 correspond roughly to the eight sections of my full biography Alan Turing : the enigma. There are no hyperlinks in the text. For links and for more images, go to the corresponding page of the Alan Turing Internet Scrapbook. Part 8 - Alan Turing 's Crisis - John von Neumann
John von Neumann (born Margittai Neumann János Lajos on December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; died February 8, 1957 in Washington D.C., United States) was a Austria-Hungary-born American mathematician who made contributions to quantum physics, functional analysis, set theory, topology, economics, computer science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics (of explosions), … - Gordon Bell
C. Gordon Bell (born August 19, 1934) is a computer engineer and manager, an early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) who designed several of their PDP machines and later became Vice President of Engineering and oversaw the development of the VAX. - John Pinkerton
John Pinkerton (August 2, 1919 - December 22, 1997), pioneering computer designer. John Pinkerton was the designer of the world's first business computer, the LEO computer, produced by J. Lyons and Co in 1951. The computer was based on the early EDSAC computer at Cambridge University. - Harry Huskey
Harry Huskey (born January 19, 1916) is a American computer designer pioneer. Huskey was born in the Smoky Mountains region of North Carolina and grew up in Idaho. He gained his Master's and then his PhD in 1943 from the Ohio State University on "Contributions to the Problem of Geocze". Huskey taught mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania and then worked part-time on the early ENIAC computer in 1945. - Alan Kotok
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 Wide Web Consortium (W3C), to computer engineering through his work at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), and to gaming for his work on computer game and computer chess programs built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Kotok recorded a video oral history at the Computer History Museum in 2004. - John L. Hennessy
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. - David A. Patterson
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, … - W. Daniel Hillis
William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer designed by Hillis at MIT. He is also co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, Applied Minds, Metaweb Technologies, and author of The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work. - Konrad Zuse
Konrad Zuse was a German engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the completion of the first functional program-controlled computer, the Z3, in 1941 (the program was stored on a tape). In 1998 the Z3 was proven to be Turing-complete. Zuse also designed the first high-level programming language, the Plankalkül, first published in 1948, although this was a theoretical contribution, … - Steve Chen
Steve Chen (born 1944 in Taiwan) is a computer engineer and pioneer. Chen is the founder and CEO of Galactic Computing, a developer of supercomputing blade systems, based in Shenzhen, China. Chen holds a M.S. from Villanova University and a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is best known as the principal designer of the Cray X-MP multiprocessor supercomputer. Chen left Cray Research in 1987. - J. Presper Eckert
John Adam Presper "Pres" Eckert Jr. (born April 9, 1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died June 3, 1995 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) was an American computer pioneer. With John Mauchly he invented the first general-purpose electronic digital computer (ENIAC), presented the first course in computing topics (the Moore School Lectures), founded the first commercial computer company (the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation), … - 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. - John Mauchly
John William Mauchly (August 30 1907 - January 8 1980) was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States. Together they started the first computer company, the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC), and pioneered fundamental computer concepts including the stored program, subroutines, … - John Vincent Atanasoff
John Vincent Atanasoff (October 4,1903 - June 15,1995) was an American physicist of Bulgarian descent. The 1973 decision of the patent suit "Honeywell v. Sperry Rand" named him the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer, a special-purpose machine that has come to be called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer. - Steve Furber
Stephen Byram "Furbie" Furber, FRS, FREng (born 1953 in Manchester, England) is the ICL Professor of Computer Engineering at the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester but is probably best known for his work at Acorn where he was one of the designers of the BBC Micro and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor. Furber was educated at Manchester Grammar School and represented the UK in the International Mathematical Olympiad in Hungary in 1970. - Stan Frankel
Stanley Phillips "Stan" Frankel was an American computer scientist. He was born in Los Angeles, received his PhD in physics from the University of Rochester, and began his career as a post-doc student under J. Robert Oppenheimer at University of California, Berkeley in 1942. Frankel helped develop computational techniques used in the nuclear research taking place at the time. He joined the theoretical division of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos in 1943. - David May
David May is a British chip designer and computer scientist. David May joined the British company INMOS in 1979, based in Bristol. Here he was the architect of the transputer microprocessor, designed to run the occam programming language. He is now a professor, at the University of Bristol. May's Law: Software efficiency halves every 18 months, compensating Moore's Law. - Michael Dhuey
Michael Joseph Dhuey (born 20 July 1958, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an electrical and computer engineer. He is chiefly known as the co-inventor (with Brian Berkeley) of the Macintosh II computer in 1987, the first Macintosh computer with expansion slots. He also helped to develop the hardware for the original iPod in 2001, particularly the battery. He received his computer engineering degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1980, … - Robert Brunner
Robert Brunner received a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Design from San José State University in 1981. After working as a designer and project manager at several high technology companies, he founded Lunar Design in 1984. In 1989, Robert accepted the position of Director of Industrial Design at Apple Computer, where he provided design and direction for all Apple product lines, most notably the PowerBook. - Justin Rattner
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. - Butler Lampson
Butler W. Lampson (born 1943) is a computer scientist, considered to be one of the most significant in the history of the field. Lampson received his Bachelor's degree in Physics from Harvard University in 1964, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967. During the 1960s, Lampson and others were part of Project GENIE at UC Berkeley. - Masatoshi Shima
Masatoshi Shima was at least partly responsible for the design of the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004. He studied organic chemistry at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. With poor prospects for employment in the field of chemistry, he went to work for Busicom, a business calculator manufacturer. There, he learned about software and digital circuit design. When Busicom decided to use LSI circuits in their calculator products, … - Boris Babaian
Boris Artashesovich Babaian (born Baku, 20 December 1933), an ethnic Armenian, is notable as the pioneering creator of supercomputers in the Soviet Union. Babaian graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1957. He completed his Ph.D. in 1964 and his doctorate of science in 1971. From 1956 to 1996, Babaian worked in the Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering, … - Charles P. Thacker
Charles P. (Chuck) Thacker is a technical fellow and computer pioneer. Thacker worked in the 1970s and 1980s at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he served as project leader of the Xerox Alto personal computer system, was co-inventor of the Ethernet LAN, and contributed to many other projects, including the first laser printer. In 1983, Thacker was a founder of the Systems Research Center (SRC) at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), and in 1997, … - Peter Samson
Peter R. Samson (born 1941 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts) is an American computer scientist, best known for creating pioneering computer software. Samson studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) between 1958-1963. He wrote, with characteristic wit, the first editions of the Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) dictionary, a predecessor to the Jargon File. He appears in "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" by Steven Levy. - Maurice Vincent Wilkes
Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes FRS (born June 26, 1913 in Dudley, Staffordshire, England) is a British computer scientist, credited with several important developments in computing. Wilkes studied at St. John's College, Cambridge from 1931 to 1934, continuing to complete a Ph.D. in physics, on the topic of radio propagation of very long radio waves in the ionosphere in 1936. - Bob Colwell
Robert "Bob" P. Colwell (1954-) is an electrical engineer who worked at Intel and is now an independent consultant. He was the chief IA-32 architect on the Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, and Pentium 4 microprocessors. Bob retired from Intel in 2000. He was an Intel Fellow from 1995 to 2000. Bob earned the ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award in 2005, and wrote the "At Random" column for "Computer", a journal published by the IEEE Computer Society. Mr. - Mark Carlson
Mark A. Carlson is a software engineer known in the systems management industry for his pioneering work in management standards and technology. Mark was the first employee of a small startup in Boulder, Colorado called Redcape Policy Software. Sun Microsystems acquired the company and its technology in 1998 and subsequently promoted it as Jiro. He then lead the development of SMI-S for SNIA, serving as the chair of the group overseeing the specification for several years. - Donald B. Gillies
Donald Bruce Gillies (October 151928 - July 171975) was a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, known for his work in game theory, computer design, and minicomputer programming environments. - Robert J. Mical
Robert J. "RJ" Mical created video games at Williams Electronics, helped invent the Amiga computer, co-invented the Atari Lynx and the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer with Dave Needle. According to RJ, he built his first computer, a tic-tac-toe player, when he was 14. - Srinidhi Varadarajan
Srinidhi Varadarajan is the director of Terascale computing facility and an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. He is also the architect of System X, one of the world's fastest and least expensive supercomputers. - John Whitaker Fairclough
John Whitaker Fairclough (August 23, 1930 - June 5, 2003) was a British computer designer, and later government policy advisor. - William J. Coldwell
William J. "Cryo" Coldwell (a.k.a. Bill Coldwell) (born January 28 1966 in Virginia) helped invent a global transparent HTTP cache, co-invented the CSA 40/4 Magnum single-board computer, CSA 12 Gauge, and the MacroSystems Warp Engine for the Amiga computer with Steven L. Kelsey. He worked with Matt Dillon and Michael "Mykes" Schwartz at an Internet service provider start-up BEST Internet, which was later purchased by Verio, which was later purchased by NTT-Japan. - Charles Whitmore Babbage
Charles Babbage FRS (26 December 1791 - 18 October 1871) was an English mathematician, philosopher, mechanical engineer and (proto-) computer scientist who originated the idea of a "programmable" computer. Parts of his uncompleted mechanisms are on display in the London Science Museum. In 1991, working from Babbage's original plans, a difference engine was completed, and functioned perfectly. Built to tolerances achievable in the 19th century, … - Laurent Jentot
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