Gordon Bell

Gordon Bell

male, 75 years old (San Francisco, California, United States)
Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft employee, digital equipment corporation…Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee, computing
C. Gordon Bell (born August 19, 1934) is a computer engineer and manager, an early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) who designed...
Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Hofstadter

male, 64 years old (Bloomington, Indiana, United States)
professor, University of Oregon alumni, Stanford University alumni, philosophy, indiana university bloomington, vegetarian…computing
Douglas Richard Hofstadter is an American academic. He is best known for his book "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid" (abbreviated as "...
Thomas Sterling

Thomas Sterling

male
free software programmer, beowulf, computing, CCT Center for Computation & Technology, LSU Center for Computation & Technology, Beowulf Clusters
Thomas Sterling is an internationally recognized supercomputing expert who is considered the father of Beowulf Clusters along with Donald Becker....

Howard Aiken

male, deceased (1973)
American military personnel of World War II, differential equation, Ph.D., computer pioneer, electrical engineer, University of Wisconsin-Madison…computing
Howard Hathaway Aiken (March 8, 1900, Hoboken, New Jersey-March 14 1973, St. Louis, Missouri) was a pioneer in computing, being the primary...
Brian Randell

Brian Randell

male
English Electric, compiler, fault tolerance, Newcastle University, T. J. Watson Research Center, Thomas J. Watson Research Center…IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, British Computing Society, Computing Laboratory, Professor of Computing Science, computing
Brian Randell is a British computer scientist, specializing in research in software fault tolerance and dependability. He is also interested in,...

Chris Green

male
English, writer, Publications, Today, The Times, VNU…Computing magazine, computing
Chris Green is a British journalist based in London. His work focuses on the areas of business, finance, technology and computer gaming, but has...
Carole Goble

Carole Goble

female
Journal of Web Semantics, myGrid, Principal Investigator, Medical Research Council, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, EPSRC…grid computing, computing
Carole Goble is a full professor in the the School of Computer Science in the University of Manchester , UK , where she has co-led the Information...
Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder

male, 64 years old
American military, Data General, Partners in Health, house, Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction winner, computing
Tracy Kidder (born November 12, 1945 in New York City) is an American author and Vietnam War veteran. Kidder may be best known, especially within...
Maria Klawe

Maria Klawe

female
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, aphasia, fellow, Association for Computing Machinery, Human-Computer Interaction, University of Alberta alumni…Computing Research Association, computing, Association of Computing Machinery
Dr. Maria Klawe became fifth president of Harvey Mudd College in July, 2006. Prior to joining HMC, Maria served as Dean of Engineering and a...

Jim Ellis

male, deceased (2001)
Duke University, computer scientist, Duke University alumni, usenet, Sun Microsystems, computing
James Tice Ellis was a computer scientist best known as the co-creator of Usenet. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Ellis grew up in Orlando, Florida....