- Rob Enderle
Rob Enderle, founder of the Enderle Group, is a consultant, writer, and widely quoted technical and legal analyst in the information technology industry. Microsoft, Advanced Micro Devices, the SCO Group, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell are (or have been) among his clients. Enderle has been critical of Apple Computer and Linux, as well as Unix and the open source/free software movements in general.
- Grady Booch
Grady Booch (born February 271955) is a software designer, a software methodologist and a design pattern enthusiast. He is chief scientist of Rational Software (now a part of IBM) and a series editor for Benjamin/Cummings. In 1995 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He was named an IBM Fellow in 2003. Booch is best known for developing the Unified Modeling Language with Ivar Jacobson and James Rumbaugh.
- Ray Ozzie
Ray Ozzie Encyclopedia Search: in Tutorials Encyclopedia Dictionary Entire Web Store
- Thomas J. Watson
Thomas John Watson, Sr. (February 17, 1874 - June 19, 1956) was the president of International Business Machines (IBM), who oversaw that company's growth into an international force from the 1920s to the 1950s. Watson developed IBM's effective management style and turned it into one of the most effective selling organizations yet seen, based largely around punched card tabulating machines.
- John Chambers
John T. Chambers is Chairman of the Board and CEO of Cisco Systems, Inc.. Chambers joined Cisco in 1991 as senior vice president, Worldwide Sales and Operations. Since January 1995, when he assumed the role of CEO, Chambers has grown the company from $1.2 billion in annual revenues to its current run-rate of approximately $30 billion. In November 2006, he was named Chairman of the Board, in addition to his CEO role.
- Jakob Nielsen
Jakob Nielsen (born 1957 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a writer, speaker, and consultant on software and web-design usability. He earned a Ph.D. in user interface design and computer science from the Technical University of Denmark. Nielsen worked at Bellcore, IBM, and as a senior researcher at computer company Sun Microsystems.
- Andrew Morton
Andrew Keith Paul Morton (born 1959 in England) is an Australian software engineer, best known as one of the lead developers on the Linux kernel project. He currently maintains a patchset known as the "mm" tree, which contains not yet sufficiently tested patches that might later be accepted into the official 2.6 kernel maintained by Linus Torvalds. In the late 1980s, he was one of the partners of a company in Sydney, …
- Sam Ruby
Sam Ruby is a prominent software developer who has made significant contributions to many of the Apache Software Foundation's open source software projects, and to the standardization of web feeds via his involvement with the Atom web feed standard and the popular Feed Validator web service. He currently holds a Senior Technical Staff Member position in the Emerging Technologies Group of IBM. He resides in Raleigh, North Carolina.
- Darl McBride
Darl McBride (b. circa 1960) became the CEO of The SCO Group (formerly known as Caldera) on June 28, 2002. During his tenure, Caldera renamed itself The SCO Group, and on March 7, 2003 initiated litigation against IBM regarding the intellectual property status of the Linux operating system.
- 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), …
- 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."
- 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, …
- Hasso Plattner
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 (born July 29, 1951) is the current Chairman, CEO, and President of IBM, one of the world's largest IT companies. He was elected Chairman in October 2002, effective January 1, 2003, and has served as Chief Executive Officer since March 2002. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Palmisano was President and Chief Operating Officer since 2000. Palmisano joined IBM in 1973.
- Bill Hilf
Bill Hilf is the general manager of Platform Strategy driving Microsoft's platform strategy efforts across the company. Bill's primary focus is to champion platform initiatives that cross these groups, while leading long-term strategy planning in the Windows Server and Tools organization.
- Herman Hollerith
Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 - November 17, 1929) was an American statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards in order to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data.
- Ivar Jacobson
Ivar Hjalmar Jacobson is a Swedish computer scientist. He got his Master of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers Institute of Technology in Göteborg in 1962 and a Ph.D. at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1985 on a thesis on Language Constructs for Large Real Time Systems. In 1967 he proposed the use of software components in the development of the new generation of software controlled telephone switches Ericsson was developing.
- Wietse Venema
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 is also the author of the Postfix mail system and the co-author of the very cool suite of utilities called The Coroner's Toolkit or "TCT". He is currently working at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center and he has gratiously agreed to allow us to catch up with him and and see what he's been up to lately.
- John Backus
John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language (FORTRAN) and was the inventor of the Backus-Naur form (BNF), the almost universally used notation to define formal language syntax. He also did research in function-level programming and helped to popularize it. The IEEE awarded Backus the W.W. McDowell Award in 1967 for the development of FORTRAN.
- Mark Pilgrim
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 is published under the GNU Free Documentation License. Mark Pilgrim was formerly an accessibility architect in the IBM Emerging Technologies Group. In March 2007, he started working at Google.
- Paul Rand
Paul Rand (born Peretz Rosenbaum, August 15, 1914 - November 26, 1996) was a well-known American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs. Rand was educated at the Pratt Institute (1929-1932), the Parsons School of Design (1932-1933), and the Art Students League (1933-1934). He was one of the originators of the Swiss Style of graphic design. From 1956 to 1969, and beginning again in 1974, …
- Edwin Black
Edwin Black is an American author and journalist. He has written fifty-six book editions in fourteen languages in sixty-one countries, and published numerous newspaper and magazine articles throughout the United States, Europe and Israel. Black's second nonfiction book was IBM and the Holocaust which in February 2001 was published simultaneously in 40 nations in 9 languages and is now sold in 60 nations in 13 languages.
- Fred Brooks
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best-known for managing the development of OS/360, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book "The Mythical Man-Month". "It is a very humbling experience to make a multi-million-dollar mistake, but it is also very memorable." Brooks received a Turing Award in 1999 and many other awards. Born in Durham, North Carolina, he attended Duke University, …
- Patricia Russo
Patricia Russo (born in 1953, in Trenton, New Jersey) is the current chief executive officer of Alcatel-Lucent, one of the world's largest manufacturing firms. Lucent was a spin-off from AT&T of its Systems and Technology units (AT&T Technologies, Inc., the former Western Electric), and the manufacturing and research and development operations, including Bell Laboratories.
- Howard Aiken
Howard Hathaway Aiken (March 8, 1900, Hoboken, New Jersey-March 14 1973, St. Louis, Missouri) was a pioneer in computing, being the primary engineer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer. He studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and later obtained his Ph.D. in physics at Harvard University in 1939. During this time, he encountered differential equations that he could only solve numerically.
- Theodore Ts'O
Theodore Y. "Ted" Ts'o (born 1968) is a software developer mainly known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, in particular his contributions to file systems. He graduated in 1990 from MIT with a degree in Computing science. After graduation he worked in the "Information Systems & Technology" (IS&T) department at MIT until 1999, where among other things he was project leader of the Kerberos V5 team. After IS&T he went to work for VA Linux Systems for two years.
- William Amelio
William J. AMELIO Presidente y Consejero Delegado William J. Amelio ha sido nombrado Presidente y Consejero Delegado de Lenovo Group Limited. Amelio trabajó anteriormente en Dell Inc., donde ocupó el cargo de Vicepresidente Ejecutivo de la región de Asia Pacífico y Japón desde 2001, siendo responsable de la estrategia y operaciones desarrolladas en dicha región.
- Mark Loughridge
Mark Loughridge (born 1953 or 1954) is currently the chief financial officer and senior vice president of International Business Machines Corporation. He has been with the company since 1977, and has been CFO since May of 2004. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.
- Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., KBE, (born in Mineola, New York on March 1, 1942) was chairman of the board of IBM from April 1993 until his retirement in December 2002. He also served as chief executive officer until March 2002. In January 2003, he assumed the position of chairman of The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm located in Washington, DC. He was formerly CEO of RJR Nabisco, and also held senior positions at American Express and McKinsey & Company.
- Bob Evans
Bob O. Evans (1927?-2 Sept 2004), also known as "Bo" Evans, was an IBM executive and computer scientist. In the 1960s, he led the team of engineers that build the IBM System/360 computer. He later went on to head IBM's Federal Systems Division in Bethesda, Maryland.
- David Litchfield
David Litchfield (born 1975) is a renowned security expert from the United Kingdom, who focuses on the discovery and publication of computer security vulnerabilities with a special focus on database server software. Information Security Magazine voted him as "The World's Best Bug Hunter" for 2003. David has found hundreds of vulnerabilities in many popular products, among which the most outstanding discoveries were in products by Microsoft, Oracle and IBM.
- Alistair Cockburn
Alistair Cockburn (his last name is pronounced "Co-burn" in the Scottish way, with a long 'O' and no 'ck', making it homophonous with that of the actor James Coburn) is one of the initiators of the Agile movement in software development. He was one of more than 15 co-authors, in 2001, of the Agile software development manifesto. In 2005, he helped co-author the agile PM Declaration of Interdependence. Cockburn received his PhD degree from the University of Oslo in 2003.
- 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.
- 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.
- Nathan Myhrvold
Nathan Myhrvold is chief executive officer and founder of Intellectual Ventures, a private firm focused on the funding, creation and commercialization of inventions. Before Intellectual Ventures, Myhrvold spent 14 years at Microsoft Corporation where he retired in May 2000 from his position as chief technology officer.
- Wayne Ratliff
C. Wayne Ratliff (born 1946, Trenton, Ohio) wrote the database program dBASE II. Raised in Ohio and Germany, he now resides in the Los Angeles area. From 1969 to 1982, Ratliff worked for the Martin Marietta Corporation in a progression of engineering and managerial positions. He was a member of the NASA Viking program flight team when the Viking spacecraft landed on Mars in 1976, and wrote the data management system, MFILE, for the Viking lander support software.
- David Barnes
David Barnes was an IBM Team OS/2 member, nicknamed "The OS/2 Evangelist" for his work in the user-level enthusiasm movement. He was also IBM's spokesperson for the 1996 Olympic Games. Barnes has appeared in different IBM commercials, and has often presented new IBM technology in interviews, and at press conferences and conventions. Barnes currently acts as the IBM Extreme Blue site manager.
- Carlos Ghosn
Carlos Ghosn is CEO of Renault and Nissan Motors. He is largely credited with turning around Nissan. As an outsider in charge of one of Japan's largest companies, Ghosn has been extremely successful. He was voted Man of the Year 2003 by "Fortune" magazine's Asian edition and is also on the board of Alcoa, Sony, and IBM. Ghosn became CEO of Renault, Nissan's partner and shareholder, in 2005, succeeding Louis Schweitzer, while remaining CEO of Nissan as well.
- David Mertz
David Mertz (born 1964) is an author and columnist for IBM's developerWorks, Intel Developer Services, O'Reilly's ONLamp, and other online publications. Formerly an academic philosopher who specialized in postmodernism, he is currently vice-president and chief technology officer of the Open Voting Consortium and serves on the IEEE "Voting Systems Electronic Data Interchange" project. He maintains Gnosis Utilities, a widely used public domain Python package.
- Jerry York
Jerome B. York, commonly known as Jerry York, is an American businessman, and the Chairman, President and CEO of Harwinton Capital. He was the former CFO of IBM and Chrysler. He was also CEO of Micro Warehouse and joined the board of directors of Apple Inc. in 1997. He is a chief aide to Kirk Kerkorian and his Tracinda investment company. Most recently, Kerkorian helped elect York to the board of directors of General Motors, …