Georges Doriot

Georges Doriot

male
venture capitalist, Georges F. Doriot, French American, Harvard Business School alumni, Doriot Climatic Chamber Complex, American Research and Development Corporation…digitalequipmentcorporation
Georges F. Doriot (Paris, France, September 1899 - Boston, Massachusetts, USA, June 1987) was one of the first American venture capitalists. In...
Alan Kotok

Alan Kotok

male, deceased (2006)
video game, Video Game Designer, Hackers Hero of the Computer Revolution, death by myocardial infarction, digitalequipmentcorporation, computer pioneer
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...
Louis Monier

Louis Monier

male
Carnegie Mellon University, xerox parc, eBay employee, eBay, Google, dec…digitalequipmentcorporation
Louis Monier is founder of Internet search engine AltaVista. Later, he was chief technical officer at eBay. He currently works at Google. Monier...
Eckhard Pfeiffer

Eckhard Pfeiffer

male, 68 years old
Presario, Cyrix, Tandem Computers, AMD, packard bell, nonstop…digitalequipmentcorporation
Eckhard Pfeiffer is a business executive of German ancestry, and a former CEO of Compaq from 1991-1998. He joined Compaq from Texas Instruments,...

Robert Taylor

male, 77 years old
from Texas, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, information processing, ARPA, Taylor, Robert, Robert W. Taylor…digitalequipmentcorporation
Robert W. Taylor (born 1932) was director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office (1965-69), founder and later manager of Xerox PARC's...

Stephen Tweedie

male
Journaling file system, cambridge university, UKUUG, journaling, USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem…digitalequipmentcorporation
Dr Stephen C. Tweedie is a software developer who is known for his work on the Linux kernel, in particular his work on filesystems. After becoming...
John Vincent Atanasoff

John Vincent Atanasoff

male, deceased (1995)
University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni, computer designer, National Medal of Technology recipient, physicist, Iowa State University faculty, computer pioneer…digitalequipmentcorporation, Aerojet Corporation
John Vincent Atanasoff (October 4,1903 - June 15,1995) was an American physicist of Bulgarian descent. The 1973 decision of the patent suit...
Jon Hall

Jon Hall

male
drexel university, Operating Systems, DEC Alpha, rensselaer polytechnic institute, bachelor of science, master of science…digitalequipmentcorporation, Digital Divide activist
Jon "maddog" Hall is the Executive Director of Linux International, a non-profit organization of computer vendors who wish to support and promote...
Peter Chen

Peter Chen

male
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, American, taiwanese, information management, Academic, Fellow of the IEEE…digitalequipmentcorporation
Dr. Peter Pin-Shan Chen is the originator of the Entity-Relationship Model (ER Model). A graduate of National Taiwan University (B.S. in electrical...
Dick Hustvedt

Dick Hustvedt

male, 63 years old (Concord, Massachusetts, United States)
computer scientist, RBM-1, RAD-75, Richard (Dick) Irvin Hustvedt, RSX-11, OpenVMS…digitalequipmentcorporation
Richard (Dick) Irvin Hustvedt (born February 18, 1946) is a renowned software engineer, designer and developer of several operating systems...