Inventor computer pioneers
Below is a listing of computer pioneers that have been tagged as a Inventor. Clicking on any of the below links will open the biography for that person.
 | Aaron Greenspan Creator of Think Computer Corporation and alleged co-inventor of Facebook. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Ada Lovelace World's first computer programmer. Category: Female, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Adam Osborne Inventor of the first portable computer. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Adi Shamir One of the co-inventors of the RSA algorithm. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Alain Glavieux Co-inventor of codes that helped shape digital communication. Category: Inventor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Alan Kay Computer pioneer who help create the idea of a laptop computer, GUI, Ethernet, laser printing, and Smalltalk. Category: Hacker, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Albert Hull American electrical engineer known for inventing the magnetron. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Alessandro Volta Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Alexander Bain Inventor of the electric clock. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Alexander Fraser British-American computer scientist. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Alexander Graham Bell Inventor, engineer, and innovator best known for inventing the telephone. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Alexey Pajitnov Inventor of Tetris. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Allen Dumont American scientist best known for improvements to the cathode ray tube for use in television receivers. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Amanda Chessell Computer scientist and engineer at IBM known for software inventions and innovation of development tools. Category: Engineer, Female, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | An Wang Engineer and inventor, and co-founder of Wang Laboratories. Category: Engineer, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Anders Hejlsberg Author of Turbo Pascal and chief architect of Delphi. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Andrew Bobeck American electrical engineer and inventor of bubble memory. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Andrew Booth Inventor of Booth's multiplication algorithm that led to the invention of drum memory. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Andrew Kay Computer pioneer and founder of Kay Computers. Category: CEO, Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Anthony Barr Computer programming language designer, software engineer, and inventor. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Anthony Wood Pioneer and innovator in TV and digital media and founder and CEO of Roku. Category: CEO, Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Arnold Dumey Inventor of computer hashing and the postal sorting machine. Category: Analyst, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Arthur Clark Science fiction author, inventor, and futurist. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Arthur Scherbius German electrical engineer known for inventing the Enigma machine. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Athanasius Kircher Oriental studies and medicine. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Bashir Rameyev Soviet inventor and scientist and one of the founders of Soviet computing. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Benjamin Franklin Author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, and much more. Category: Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Bernard Kardon American electrical engineer and co-founder of Harman/Kardon. Category: Engineer, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Blaise Pascal Mathematician, writer, child prodigy, and inventor of the Pascaline. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Bob Bemer Father of ASCII, escape character, backslash, and the curly bracket. Category: Coined, Father, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Bob Kahn Internet pioneer, engineer, and computer scientist who helped develop TCP/IP. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Boris Babayan Pioneering creator of supercomputers in Soviet Union. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Brad Templeton Software Architect and early pioneer of Usenet. Category: Chairman, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Brian Carpenter British Internet engineer and former chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Burton Smith Computer architect who has made major contributions to the field of parallel computation. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Carl Petri Helped advance the fields of parallel computing and distributing computing. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Charles Babbage Father of the computer. Category: Father, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Charles Bachman Computer scientist known for his work in computer databases. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Charles Moore Inventor and developer of the Forth programming language. Category: Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Charles Stanhope Scientist and inventor of the printing press. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Charles Thacker American Pioneer computer designer who worked as the project leader of the Xerox Alto. Category: Founder, Hacker, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Charles Thomas Designer of the Arithmometer, the first successful mechanical calculator. Category: Entrepreneur, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Charles Weiss American computer scientist and software designer and one of the first employees of Oracle. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Chester Carlson Inventor of electrophotography. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Christopher Sholes Inventor of the typewriter and the first QWERTY keyboard. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Christopher Strachey British scientist known for CPL and Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages. Category: Coined, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Chuck Hull Inventor of 3D printing and co-founder of 3D systems. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Clair Lake IBM employee who helped develop the Type 1 Total Printing and Listing Tabulator and punch cards. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Claude Perrault Physician, anatomist, inventor, and author who designed a calculating device, called Abaque Rhabdologique. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Cleve Moler American computer programmer and inventor of MATLAB. Category: Chairman, Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Clifford Berry American inventor and co-creator of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Clive Sinclair British inventor, most commonly known for his work in consumer electronics. Category: Entrepreneur, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Daniel Ingalls Pioneer of object-oriented computer programming. Category: Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Dave Boggs American electrical and radio engineer who developed early Internet protocols. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | David Bradley Developer of the three finger salute. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | David Clark American computer scientist known for the Clark-Wilson model. Category: Chairman, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | David Culler Inventor of TinyOS. Category: Director, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | David Huffman Computer science pioneer known for his Huffman coding. Category: Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | David Lee Chinese-American business executive and inventor of the daisywheel printer. Category: CEO, Chairman, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | David Noble Historian, author, and professor of Social and Political Thought. Category: Inventor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | David Packard Co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard (HP) company. Category: CEO, Chairman, Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Dean Kamen Inventor of the Segway. Category: Entrepreneur, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Dennis Hayes Founder of Hayes Microcomputer Products and inventor of the PC Modem. Category: Chairman, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Donald Bitzer American electrical engineer and computer scientist and Father of PLATO. Category: Engineer, Father, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Donald Davies Welsh computer scientist known for helping to invent packet switching. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Dorr Felt American inventor of the Comptometer. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Douglas Engelbart Inventor of the computer mouse. Category: Engineer, Hacker, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Douglas Ross Computer scientist pioneer who is known for the term CAD and as the father of APT. Category: Chairman, Engineer, Father, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Dov Frohman Israeli electrical engineer and former vice president of Intel Corporation. Category: Engineer, Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Dov Moran Israeli engineer known for founding the company who invented the DiskOnKey thumb drive. Category: Chairman, Engineer, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Drew Major Co-founder of Novell and chief architect and developer of NetWare operating system. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Dudley Buck Electrical engineer and inventor of computer components. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Ed Roberts Father of the personal computer. Category: Coined, Father, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Edgar Codd English computer scientist and inventor of the relational model for database management. Category: Analyst, Coined, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Edith Clarke Electrical engineer and the first woman employed as an electrical engineer in the United States. Category: Engineer, Female, Inventor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Edmund Barbour Boston businessman (merchant), philanthropist, genealogist, and inventor first representative of so called direct-multiplication devices. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Edmund Gunter English mathematician known for inventing Gunter's Scale and the first successful analog device. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Edouard-leon Martinville French printer and inventor of the earliest known sound recording device, the phonautograph. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Edward Fredkin Inventor of the trie data structure, the fredkin gate, and Billiard-Ball Computer Model. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Edwin Belin English scientist and one of the early inventors of television. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Edwin Catmull Computer scientist and President of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios. Category: Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Eiichi Goto Japanese computer scientist known for inventing one of the first general-purpose computers in Japan. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Elisha Gray Co-founder of Western Electric Manufacturing company and best known for his development of a telephone prototype. Category: Engineer, Father, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Elon Musk Founder of SpaceX, and co-founder of Tesla Motors. Category: CEO, Chairman, Entrepreneur, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Emanuel Goldberg Inventor of such inventions as microdots, the kinamo movie camera, and the Contax 35mm camera. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Emile Berliner German-born American inventor known for developing the disc record gramophone (phonograph). Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Evan Williams Co-founder of Twitter and blogger. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Feng-hsiung Hsu Computer scientist and author who helped with the creation of IBM Deep Blue chess machine. Category: Grandmaster, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Florian Brody Co-inventor of the first electronic books. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Forrest Parry IBM engineer who invented magnetic stripe cards used for credit cards and identification badges. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Frederic Williams British engineer well known for his contributions to the development of Radar. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Fredrik Bull Information technology pioneer who helped with the development of punched cards. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Friedrich Bauer Computer scientist known for data structure that helped developed the programming languages ALGOL 58 and ALGOL 60. Category: Coined, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Fujio Masuoka Inventor of flash memory and recipient of the IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Gary Kildall American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur who invented the CP/M operating system and gave Bill Gates the world. Category: Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Personality, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Gary Robinson American software engineer, inventor and computer programmer known for fighting spam. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Gary Starkweather Inventor of the laser printer. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Gene Amdahl American computer architect and founder of Amdahl Corporation. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Georg Ohm German physicist and mathematician best known for Ohm's law. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Georg Scheutz Inventor of the Scheutzian calculation engine. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | George Boole Mathematician, logician, and inventor of what is now known as Boolean logic. Category: Founder, Inventor, Logician, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | George Eastman American innovator and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | George Pake Physicist and research executive that help found Xerox. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Georgy Adelson-velsky Soviet computer scientist who helped invent the AVL tree and the development of chess programming. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Giovanni Caselli Inventor of the pantelegraph, the predecessor to the modern fax machine. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Glen Culler Professor of electrical engineering and early innovator in the development of the Internet. Category: Inventor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Gottfried Leibniz German mathematician and philosopher and most prolific inventors of mechanical calculators. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Gottfried Ungerboeck Australian inventor who invented trellis coded modulation. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Grace Hopper Female officer who extended the meaning of debug and is erroneously credited as coining the term bug. Category: Female, Inventor, Manager, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Greg Chesson American computer scientist and UNIX expert known as the godfather of Networking. Category: Engineer, Father, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Guglielmo Marconi Father of long distance radio transmission. Category: Entrepreneur, Father, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Gustav Tauschek Austrian pioneer of Information technology. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Harold Lawson Software engineer and inventor who invented the pointer. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Harold Prewitt Race car driver, American businessman and inventor of personal computer products. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Harry Huskey American computer designer pioneer who worked on the ENIAC, Pilot ACE, and G15 computers. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Hayyim Slonimski Astronomer, inventor, and science author who invented a calculating machine. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Heinrich Hertz German physicist who proved the existence of electromagnetic waves. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Heinz Nixdorf Computing pioneer and businessman responsible for Nixdorf Computer AG. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Helmut Schreyer German inventor, electrical engineer, and computer scientist known for his work on the Z3. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Henry Briggs English mathematician known for changing the original logarithms invented by John Napier. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Henry Phillips Promoter of the Phillips screw and screwdriver. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Henry Samueli Chief technology officer and chairman of the board of Broadcom Corporation. Category: Chairman, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Herb Sutter Prominent C++ expert, book author, and columnist for Dr. Dobb's Journal. Category: Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Howard Aiken Designer behind the IBM Harvard Mark I Computer. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Hubert Booth British engineer who invented the first powered vacuum cleaner. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Hugh Herr American biophysicist and designer of specialized prostheses. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, Professor, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Hugh Loebner Sponsor of the Loebner Price. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, Writer, and sponsor |
 | Ivan Sutherland Inventor of the Sketchpad and co-founder of Evans and Sutherland. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Izrael Staffel Inventor of the Staffel's calculator. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jack Dorsey Creator of Twitter and founder of Square. Category: CEO, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jack Kilby Inventor of the integrated circuit, microchip, and the thermal printer. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jagadish Bose Indian pioneer who investigated the radio and microwave optics and made a significant contribution to plant science. Category: Father, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | James Bryce Supervising engineer of the division that developed time recording machines. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | James Russell Inventor of the digital compact disc. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jan Rajchman American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jean Hoerni Silicon transistor pioneer. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jeanmauriceemile Baudot French telegraph engineer who invented the Baudot Code. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jeff Hawkins Founder of Palm and author of On Intelligence. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Johann Bischoff Architect and planning director to the court who authored an account of the history of computing tools and methods (1804). Category: Director, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Johannes Gutenberg 15th century inventor who revolutionized typography. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Johannes Kepler German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | John Atanasoff Inventor of the first digital computer. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | John Backus Directory of the team that created the first high-level programming language (FORTRAN). Category: Director, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Baird Scottish engineer who invented the world's first mechanical television. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Bardeen Co-inventor of the transistor. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | John Cocke Father of RISC architecture. Category: Father, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Conway Mathematician, contributor to the fields of number theory, game theory, and combinatorics, and inventor of Conway's Game of Life. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, and Writer |
 | John Eckert Electrical engineer and computer pioneer who help invent the ENIAC and UNIVAC. Category: Engineer, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | John Fleming Inventor of the first vacuum tube and diode. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | John Gustafson American computer scientist and business man known for his work in High Performance Computing (HPC). Category: CEO, Director, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Mauchly American physicist who helped develop the ENIAC, EDVAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, Programmer, and Writer |
 | John Napier Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and inventor of Napier's bones. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, and Writer |
 | John Pinkerton British pioneer computer designer. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jorma Rissanen IBM researcher known for inventing the arithmetic coding technique of lossless data compression. Category: Inventor, Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Joseph Henry American scientist who discovered the electromagnetic phenomenon of self-inductance. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Joseph Jacquard Developer of the earliest programmable loom, the Jacquard Loom. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Joseph Licklider Computer scientist who created the idea of a universal network, which led to invention of ARPANET and the Internet. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Joseph Niepce French inventor most well known for taking the first known photograph. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Joseph Weizenbaum German-American author, professor emeritus of computer science at MIT who helped create MICR and created ELIZA. Category: Inventor, Manager, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Julian Assange Editor, activist, computer programmer, and hacker best known as the founder of WikiLeaks. Category: Editor, Founder, Hacker, Inventor, Manager, Personality, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Justin Frankel American computer programmer best known for his work on the Winamp media player application. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Kane Kramer British inventor and businessman and inventor of the digital audio player in 1979. Category: Chairman, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Kapali Eswaran One of the founding members of the IBM System R Project, which formed the genesis of relational database technology. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Karl Braun German inventor, physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics, who helped develop radio and television. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Ken Batcher Emeritus professor of Computer Science at Kent State University and former computer architect at Goodyear Aerospace. Category: Inventor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Ken Goldberg American writer, artist, inventor, and researcher in Robotics. Category: Inventor, Manager, Professor, Researcher, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Ken Olsen Founder and former CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Category: CEO, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Kurt Lehovec Innovated the concept of p-n junction isolation used in every circuit element with a guard ring. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Larry Tesler American computer scientist and inventor of copy and paste. Category: Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Lee Forest American inventor who invented the Audion, a vacuum tube. Category: Father, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Leon Bollee French automobile manufacturer and inventor of one of the first calculators. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Leon Chua Professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at Berkeley and inventor of Chua's circuit. Category: Inventor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Leonard Adleman Widely called the Father of DNA Computing. Category: Director, Father, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, and inventor. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Leslie Berlin Project historian for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University and contributing writer for the New York Times. Category: Female, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Lori Matassa Senior staff platform software architect in Intel's Embedded and Communications Division. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Louis Pouzin Invented the datagram and designed an early packet communications network. Category: Coined, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Lynn Conway American computer scientist, electrical engineer, and inventor who invented the generalized dynamic instruction handling. Category: Engineer, Female, Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Marcian Hoff One of the inventors of the computer microprocessor. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Mark Crispin Which he invented in 1985. Category: Father, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Mark Dean Lead team inventor of the ISA bus at IBM and helped the development of the computer keyboard. Category: African American, Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Mark Kriegsman American entrepreneur, computer programmer, inventor, writer, and Director of Engineering at Veracode. Category: Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Martin Cooper Inventor of the handheld mobile phone, the start of what we know as the cell phone today. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Martin Hellman American cryptologist best known for his invention of public key cryptography. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Marvin Minsky Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and AI specialist. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Matt Cutts American software engineer and former head of the webspam team at Google. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Michael Faraday English scientist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Michael Hart American author, best known as one of the inventors of the electronic book (or ebook). Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Michael Schroeder American computer scientist known for co-inventing the Needham-Schroeder authentication protocol. Category: Chairman, Director, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Nicholas Negroponte American architect and founder of the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC). Category: Chairman, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Niels Bech Leader in the field of electronic digital computers who assisted in the DASK project. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Nikola Tesla Inventor of AC (alternating current), and other inventions. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Norman Margolus Canadian-American computer scientist and physicist. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Norman Nie American social scientist who invented software that automates data analysis. Category: Entrepreneur, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Otto Shweiger Swiss engineer and inventor of the first efficient four function calculator. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Paul Baran Polish American engineer who was a pioneer in the development of computer networks. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Paul Eisler Austrian inventor who invented the printed circuit board. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Paul Galvin One of the two founders of the telecommunications company Motorola. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Paul Mockapetris American Internet pioneer and computer scientist and creator of the Internet Domain Name System. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Percy Ludgate Irish designer of an Analytical Engine for the programmable computer. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Peter Denning American computer scientist and writer known for his pioneering work in virtual memory. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Peter Grunberg German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Peter Landin British computer scientist who was first to realize that the lambda calculus could be used in programming. Category: Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Peter Samson American computer scientist known for creating pioneering computer software. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Philip Estridge Led the development of the original IBM Personal Computer (PC). Category: Father, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Philip Zimmerman Creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Philipp Hahn German priest and clockmaker who designed the first calculator. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Philippe Kahn Innovator and entrepreneur and inventor of the first camera phone. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Philo Farnsworth Inventor and television pioneer. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Pierre Jaquetdroz Swiss-born watchmaker noted for his designs of animated dolls or automata. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Radia Perlman Mother of the Internet. Category: Engineer, Female, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Rajiv Gupta Prior general manager at Hewlett Packard and co-inventor of Hewlett Packard's E-speak project. Category: CEO, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Ralph Baer Father of video games. Category: Engineer, Father, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Ralph Merkle One of the inventors of public key cryptography and inventor of cryptographic hashing. Category: Inventor, Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Ralph Palmer Helped create the IBM 604 Electronic Calculator. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Ralph Slutz Physicist and computer pioneer and one of the first to build a computer with a central memory to store and modify data. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Ramakrishnan Srikant Research scientist at Google with interest in data mining. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Ray Ozzie American software industry entrepreneur and chief technical officer at Microsoft. Category: Entrepreneur, Inventor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Raymond Kurzweil American author, futurist, and inventor of the Kurzweil K250 music keyboard. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Regina Dugan 19th (and the first woman) Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Category: CEO, Director, Engineer, Female, Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Rene Grillet French mechanic and watchmaker and one of the creators of a mechanical calculating machine (17th Century). Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Reynold Johnson Inventor of the disk drive and videocassette tape. Category: Father, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Richard Arkwright Englishman who is often credited with inventing the spinning frame and creator of the modern factory system. Category: Entrepreneur, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Richard Hamming American mathematician and author who invented Hamming codes - computer error-detecting and correcting codes. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Richard Lyon American scientist known for inventing the optical mouse. Category: Engineer, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Richard Stallman American software freedom activist and computer programmer who launched the GNU project. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Robert Adler Austrian-born American inventor with numerous patents, most notably the wireless remote control. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Robert Barton And the co-inventor of dataflow. Category: Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Robert Dennard Inventor of DRAM. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Robert Fano Inventing (with Claude Shannon) Shannon-Fano coding. Category: Director, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robert Hooke English natural philosopher, architect, and polymath. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Robert Moog American pioneer of electronic music who is best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Robert Noyce Inventor of the integrated circuit and co-founder of Intel. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Robert Patrick Architect of the first operating system in the world, GM-NAA I/O. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Robert Pike Canadian software engineer and author known for his work with Plan 9 at Bell Labs. Category: Editor, Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Robert Tarjan American computer scientist who discovered several graph algorithms. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Roger Needham Computer scientist known for the BAN logic and Tiny Encryption algorithm. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Ronald Rivest American born cryptographer and one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm and the symmetric key encryption algorithms RC2. Category: Inventor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Ronald Wayne American electronics industry worker and co-founded Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Rosalind Picard Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT. Category: Director, Female, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Rudolf Bayer UB-tree, and the red-black tree. Category: Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Rudolf Hell Early forerunner to the fax machine. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Russell Ohl American engineer known for patenting the modern solar cell and researching semiconductors. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Samuel Morland 17th century English academic, inventor, spy, diplomat, mathematician, and inventor of adding machines. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Samuel Morse Inventor of Morse code. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Samuel Soule Co-inventor of the first practical typewriter in 1969. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Savvas Chamberlain Inventor, scientist, and professor who invented silicon image sensors. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Semen Korsakov Russian government official, homeopath, and inventor known for his early involvement in information technology. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Seymour Papert MIT mathematician and educator and one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Shafi Goldwasser Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. Category: Female, Inventor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Stanford Ovshinsky Pioneer of modern software development techniques. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Stanley Gill British computer scientist known for inventing the first computer subroutine. Category: Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Stephen Dunwell American electrical engineer who led the engineering effort in the development of IBM's STRETCH. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Stephen Kleene American mathematician and co-founder of the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Steve Capps Computer programmer and engineer known for his work on the Apple Inc. Macintosh computer and Newton OS during the 1980s and 1990s. Category: Engineer, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Steve Crocker Created the first FTC and help create the ARPANET protocols. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Steve Jobs Co-founder of and former CEO of the Apple company. Category: CEO, Director, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Steve Kirsch American computer scientist and entrepreneur known for inventing the optical mouse. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Steve Mann Researcher and inventor known for his work on computational photography and wearable computing. Category: Editor, Father, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Researcher, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Steve Wozniak Co-founder of Apple and Father of the Apple computer. Category: CEO, Father, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Stewart Brand American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. Category: Editor, Founder, Hacker, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Theodore Maiman Inventor of the first laser. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Thomas Edison Inventor of the phonograph, motion picture camera, electric light bulb, and more. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Thomas Fowler English inventor known for inventing a mechanical calculating machine. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Tim Berners-lee Father of the World Wide Web (WWW). Category: Father, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Tito Burattini Scientist, architect, Egyptologist, instrument-maker, traveller, engineer, and creator of the calculating machine. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Tony Fadell Known as the father of the Apple iPod. Category: Entrepreneur, Father, Founder, Inventor, Investor, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Walter Brattain Inventor that helped invent the transistor. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Ward Christensen First BBS (bulletin board system) ever brought online (1978). Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Werner Siemens German inventor and industrialist and founder of the Siemens company. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Willgodt Odhner Swedish engineer and entrepreneur inventor of the Odhner Arithmometer calculator. Category: Engineer, Entrepreneur, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | William Eccles British physicist and inventor of the term diode and the flip-flop circuit. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | William Higinbotham American physicist credited with creating one of the first computer games. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | William Joy Co-founder of Sun Microsystems, helped with the development of BSD, and original author of vi. Category: Editor, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | William Shockley Physicist and co-inventor of the transistor. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | William Sturgeon Physicist and inventor who was first to make electromagnets and inventor of the first practical English electric motor. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |