- Ken Olsen
Kenneth Harry Olsen (born on February 20, 1926) is an American engineer who cofounded Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1957 with colleague Harlan Anderson and venture capital provided by Georges Doriot's American Research and Development Corporation. He was born in Stratford, Connecticut. Olsen was a Massachusetts engineer who had been working at MIT Lincoln Laboratory on the TX-2 project.
- 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.
- Luca Cardelli
Luca Cardelli is an Italian computer scientist who is currently an Assistant Director at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. Cardelli is well-known for his research in type theory and operational semantics. Among other contributions he implemented the first compiler for the (non-pure) functional programming language ML and he defined the concept of typeful programming. Recently, he helped develop the Polyphonic C# experimental programming language.
- Paul Vixie
Paul Vixie is the author of several RFCs and well known UNIX system programs, among them SENDS, proxynet, rtty and Vixie cron. While he was employed by DEC, in 1988 he started working on the popular internet domain name server BIND, of which he was the primary author and architect, until release 8. After he left DEC, in 1994 he founded Internet Software Consortium (ISC) together with Rick Adams and Carl Malamud to support BIND and other software for the Internet.
- Leslie Lamport
Dr. Leslie Lamport (born 1941) is an American computer scientist. A graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, he received a B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from Brandeis University, respectively in 1963 and 1972. His dissertation was about singularities in analytic partial differential equations.
- Dave Cutler
David Neil Cutler, Sr. (born March 13, 1942) is a noted software engineer, designer and developer of several operating systems including the RSX-11, VMS and VAXELN systems of Digital Equipment Corporation and Windows NT from Microsoft.
- Brian Reid
Brian Keith Reid (born 1949) is a computer scientist most famous for developing the Scribe word processing system, the subject of his 1980 doctoral dissertation, for which he received the Association for Computing Machinery's Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1982. Scribe was a pioneer in the use of descriptive markup. Reid presented a paper describing Scribe in the same conference session in 1981 in which Charles Goldfarb presented GML, the immediate predecessor of SGML.
- Jim Gray
James Nicholas "Jim" Gray (born 1944, lost at sea January 28, 2007) is an American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1998 "for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation."
- Harlan Anderson
Harlan Anderson (born 1929) is an engineer and entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Other notable entities he has been associated with include Lincoln Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a member of the technical staff. He has also served as director of technology for Time, Inc. [[Image:Mouse_That_Roared_Panel_20060515.jpg|right|thumbnail|150px|Anderson on the PDP-1 panel in Mountain View, 2006.
- Steve Russell
Steve "Slug" Russell is a programmer and computer scientist most famous for creating Spacewar!, one of the earliest videogames, in 1961 with the fellow members of the Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT working on a DEC Digital PDP-1. While there is some debate over priority regarding the concept of computer-based games in general, Spacewar! was unquestionably the first to gain widespread recognition, and is generally recognized as the first of the "shoot-'em' up" genre.
- Georges Doriot
Georges F. Doriot (Paris, France, September 1899 - Boston, Massachusetts, USA, June 1987) was one of the first American venture capitalists. In 1946, he founded American Research and Development Corporation, the first publicly owned venture capital firm.
- 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.
- Louis Monier
Louis Monier is founder of Internet search engine AltaVista. Later, he was chief technical officer at eBay. He currently works at Google. Monier received a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Université de Paris in 1980 and did stints at Carnegie Mellon University, Xerox PARC, and DEC's Western Research Laboratory.
- Eckhard Pfeiffer
Eckhard Pfeiffer is a business executive of German ancestry, and a former CEO of Compaq from 1991-1998. He joined Compaq from Texas Instruments, and established operations from scratch in both Europe and Asia. He was named as one of TIME's "Cyber Elite Top 50" for 1998. His leadership in the early 1990s was successful. At the same time as Compaq began to dominate the server market, …
- Robert Taylor
Robert W. Taylor (born 1932) was director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office (1965-69), founder and later manager of Xerox PARC's Computer Science Laboratory (CSL) (1970-83), and founder and manager of Digital Equipment Corporation's Systems Research Center (1983-96). Bob Taylor was born in Texas, the son of a Methodist minister.
- Stephen Tweedie
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 involved with the development of the ext2 filesystem working on performance issues, he lead the development of the ext3 filesystem which involved adding a journaling layer to the ext2 filesystem. For his work on the journaling layer, he has been described by fellow Linux developer Andrew Morton as "a true artisan".
- 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.
- Jon Hall
Jon "maddog" Hall is the Executive Director of Linux International, a non-profit organization of computer vendors who wish to support and promote Linux based operating systems. The nickname "maddog" was given to him by his students at Hartford State Technical College, where he was the Department Head of Computer Science. He now prefers to be called by this name.
- Peter Chen
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 engineering, 1968) and Harvard University (Ph.D. in computer science/applied mathematics, 1973), Dr. Peter Chen has held the position of M. J. Foster Distinguished Chair Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University since 1983. The ER model serves as the foundation of many systems analysis and design methodologies, …
- Dick Hustvedt
Richard (Dick) Irvin Hustvedt (born February 18, 1946) is a renowned software engineer, designer and developer of several operating systems including the RSX-11, 782 ASMP and VMS (OpenVMS) systems of Digital Equipment Corporation. He also was a principal kernel developer of the Xerox Data Systems (XDS) RAD-75, RBM-1 and CP-V operating systems.
- Paul Flaherty
Paul Andrew Flaherty (1964 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin - March 16, 2006 in Belmont, California) was an American computer scientist. He was a renowned specialist for internet protocols and a co-inventor of the AltaVista search engine. Flaherty received his Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Marquette University, and his Master's Degree and PhD from Stanford University. He joined Digital Equipment Corporation in 1994 and, …
- Len Kawell
Len Kawell is an engineer and entrepreneur who once worked at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), where he was one of the designers of the VAX/VMS operating system. He also played a key role in the development of the MicroVAX computer, VAX Notes, and VMC Mail. Much like DEC co-founders Harlan Anderson and Ken Olsen, Kawell graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in computer science. Kawell was co-founder and president of Glassbook, Inc., …
- Mark Lucovsky
Mark Lucovsky is an American software developer who worked for Microsoft and who is now employed by Google. He is noted for being a part of the team that designed and built the Windows NT operating system. Lucovsky received his bachelor's degree in computer science in 1983 from the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. He worked at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he came to the attention of Dave Cutler and Lou Perazzoli.
- Bert Halstead
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, …
- Terry Shannon
Terry Craig (T.C.) Shannon was an information technology consultant, journalist and author. For over 30 years, he was involved in implementing PDP, VAX, and Alpha computers with their respective operating systems RSX, VAX/VMS; and OpenVMS & Windows NT. He was a respected journalist and analyst, paying particular attention to HP/Compaq and the high-performance computing space, writing a series of newsletters.
- Marc Blank
Marc Blank is an American computer game designer and game programmer. He is best known as part of the team that created one of the first hit text adventure computer games, "Zork". Blank first encountered Don Woods and Will Crowther's "Adventure" game while he was studying at MIT in the mid-1970s, where the game was played on mainframe computers. Blank was frustrated by the computer's tiny vocabulary; when it parsed user inputs very few words were recognized.
- Dan Geer
Dan Geer , co-author of this report , was CTO of @stake Inc. , a vendor that happened to work for Microsoft.
- Wayne Rosing
Wayne Rosing has been involved as a key player in several landmark projects in the computing industry since the late 1970s. Gaining experience as an engineering manager at DEC and Data General in the 1970s, he became a director of engineering at Apple Computer in the early 1980s. There he led the Apple Lisa project, the forerunner to the Macintosh. He then went on to work at Sun Microsystems and headed the spin-off First Person. At Sun Labs, his team developed Java.
- Pat Hanrahan
Pat Hanrahan is a computer graphics researcher and professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University. His research focuses on rendering algorithms, graphics processing units, and scientific illustration and visualization. He received a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Wisconsin in 1985. In the 1980s, he worked at the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Laboratory, …
- Tom Miller
Tom Miller (born in 1950) is a software developer who is employed by Microsoft. Miller worked as a member of the original team of developers who followed Dave Cutler from DEC to Microsoft, where he initially started working in the networking group. After less than two years, Miller moved to the Windows NT team, where he worked with Gary Kimura on file systems. In particular, he wrote the original 50 page specification document for the NT File System.
- James P. Hogan
James Patrick Hogan is a British science fiction author.
- Jay Adelson
Jay Steven Adelson (born September 7,1970) is best known as the founder and chief technology officer of Equinix, Inc., which he founded in 1998. He is currently the CEO of Digg and chairman of Revision3 Corporation. Prior to Equinix, he was one of the founders of the PAIX in 1996, before its purchase by Switch and Data in 2003. In 1993, he ran network operations at Netcom (USA), before leaving for Digital Equipment Corporation to become Operations Manager of the PAIX.
- David C. Evans
David C. Evans (1924-1998) was the founder of the computer science department at University of Utah and co-founder (with Ivan Sutherland) of Evans & Sutherland, a computer firm which is known as a pioneer in the domain of Computer-generated imagery. Evans first worked at the Bendix aviation electronics company, where he helped devise in 1956 what some describe as an early personal computer which ran on an interpretive operating system.
- Richard Merrill
Richard Merrill was a Digital Equipment Corporation employee who invented the FOCAL programming language and programmed the first two interpreters for the language in 1968 and 1969, for the PDP-8. He also developed later versions of the interpreter for the PDP-7 and PDP-9, and he was most likely the author of the PDP-11 FOCAL interpreter. Merrill also designed and programmed the EDIT-8 text editor (using paper-tape).
- John Koza
John R. Koza is a computer scientist and a consulting professor at Stanford University, most notable for his work in pioneering the use of genetic programming for the optimization of complex problems, and for the evolution of computer programs which solve them. He was a cofounder of Scientific Games Corporation, a company which built computer systems to run state lotteries in the United States. He also invented the scratch-off lottery ticket.
- Gary Kimura
Gary Dean Kimura is a Professor for the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington and a software developer who worked for Microsoft. Born in 1956, he was brought up in Seattle, Washington. He graduated from University of Washington in 1984 with a doctorate in computing science. After graduating he went to work for DEC in Seattle for Dave Cutler. On 7 November 1988, he moved with the majority of Cutler's team to Microsoft, …
- Stephen R. Bourne
Steve Bourne is a computer scientist, most famous as the author of the Bourne shell (<code>sh</code>), which is the foundation for the standard command line interfaces to Unix. Bourne has a Bachelor's degree in mathematics from King's College London. He has a Diploma (Master's) and Ph.D. in mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge. Subsequently he worked on an ALGOL 68 compiler at the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory (see ALGOL 68C).
- Theodore Modis
Theodore Modis is a strategic business analyst, futurist, physicist, and international consultant. He went to Columbia University, New York. where he received a Masters in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Physics. Dr Modis carried out research in particle-physics experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratories and CERN, before moving to work at Digital Equipment Corporation for more than a decade as the head of a management science consultants group.
- Lawrence Brakmo
Lawrence Brakmo is currently a member of technical staff at Google. Previously Brakmo was a researcher and project manager at NTT DoCoMo USA Labs. Before that he was affiliated with the Western Research Lab of Digital Equipment Corporation/Compaq/Hewlett-Packard. Brakmo received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Arizona, where he worked on computer systems and computer networks research that included x-Sim and TCP Vegas. His adviser was Larry L. Peterson.
- Eileen Gunn
Eileen Gunn (b. June 23, 1945, Dorchester, Massachusetts) is a science fiction author and editor based in Seattle, Washington, who began publishing in 1978. Her story "Coming to Terms", inspired in part by a friendship with Avram Davidson, won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 2004. Two other stories were nominated for the Hugo Award: "Stable Strategies for Middle Management" (in 1989) and "Computer Friendly" (1990).