Jim Gray

Jim Gray

male, 65 years old
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...
Konrad Zuse

Konrad Zuse

male, deceased (1995)
Konrad Zuse was a German engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the completion of the first functional program-controlled...
Hasso Plattner

Hasso Plattner

male, 65 years old
Hasso Plattner is a cofounder of software giant SAP AG. Today he's Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SAP AG.
Samuel J. Palmisano

Samuel J. Palmisano

male, 58 years old (Southport, Connecticut, United States)
Samuel J. Palmisano (born July 29, 1951) is the current Chairman, CEO, and President of IBM, one of the world's largest IT companies. He was...
Bill Hilf

Bill Hilf

male
Bill Hilf is the general manager of Platform Strategy driving Microsoft's platform strategy efforts across the company. Bill's primary focus is to...
Herman Hollerith

Herman Hollerith

male, deceased (1929)
Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 - November 17, 1929) was an American statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards...
Ivar Jacobson

Ivar Jacobson

male, 70 years old
Ivar Hjalmar Jacobson is a Swedish computer scientist. He got his Master of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers Institute of Technology in Göteborg i...
Wietse Venema

Wietse Venema

male
Wietse Venema is best known for the software TCP Wrapper , which is still widely used today and is included with almost all unix systems. Wietse...
John Backus

John Backus

male, deceased (2007) (San Francisco, California, United States)
John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language...

Mark Pilgrim

male
Mark Pilgrim is the author of Dive into Python, a guide to the Python programming language. He is an advocate of Free Software and Dive into Python...