Computer People - W
Below is a listing of computer pioneers, inventors, and other people who have contributed to the computer industry that have a first or last name beginning with the letter 'W'. Clicking on any of the below links will open a biography for that person.
 | Wallace Eckert Early employee of IBM who recommended interconnecting punched card tabulating machines. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Walter Brattain Inventor that helped invent the transistor. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Walter Mossberg American journalist and writer who is the principal technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Category: Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Ward Christensen First BBS (bulletin board system) ever brought online (1978). Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Wayne Green American publisher, writer and consultant and founder of Byte Magazine. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Wayne Pickette Often called the African American father of the microprocessor. Category: African American, Father, Manager, and Writer |
 | Wen Chow Chinese-born American digital computer pioneer and missile guidance scientist who pioneered using digital computers. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Wenmei Hwu Professor specializing in computer architecture, compiler design, parallel processing and computer microarchitecture. Category: Chairman, Director, Engineer, Manager, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Werner Buchholz American computer scientist who coined the term byte for a unit of digital information. Category: Coined, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Werner Koch German free software activist known as the author of GNU Privacy Guard. Category: Hacker, Manager, and Writer |
 | Werner Siemens German inventor and industrialist and founder of the Siemens company. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Wesley Clark One of the creators of the first mini-computer (LINC laboratory computer). Category: Father, Manager, and Writer |
 | Wietse Venema Dutch programmer, physicist, and Google software engineer. Category: Engineer, Manager, Personality, Physicist, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Wilhelm Rontgen German physicist who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation. Category: Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Wilhelm Schickard German professor of Hebrew and Astronomy and one of the first to design a direct entry calculating clock in the 17th century. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Will Glaser Pioneer who co founded Pandora Radio. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Will Wright Founder of Maxis, now part of Electronic Arts and helped develop such games as SimCity, Sims, and Spore. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Willem Poel Testudo, PTERA, and the ZERO computers. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Willgodt Odhner Swedish engineer and entrepreneur inventor of the Odhner Arithmometer calculator. Category: Engineer, Entrepreneur, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | William Campbell Current chairman of the board and former CEO of Intuit Inc. Category: CEO, Chairman, Manager, and Writer |
 | William Coolidge American physicist known for his work with incandescent electric lighting. Category: Director, Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer |
 | William Davidow American engineer, author, marketing executive, and venture capitalist. Category: Engineer, Investor, Manager, President, Writer, and X |
 | William Eccles British physicist and inventor of the term diode and the flip-flop circuit. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | William English American computer engineer and co-creator of the first computer mouse. Category: Engineer, Manager, Personality, and Writer |
 | William Gibson Speculative fiction novelist who help create cyberpunk subgenre. Category: Coined, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | William Hewlett Co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard (HP) company. Category: CEO, Chairman, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | William Higinbotham American physicist credited with creating one of the first computer games. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | William Inmon American computer scientist often cited as the father of the data warehouse. Category: Coined, Father, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | William Jevons British economist and logician known for marginal utility theory. Category: Logician, Manager, and Writer |
 | William Joy Co-founder of Sun Microsystems, helped with developing BSD, and original author of vi. Category: Editor, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | William Lowe American businessman who managed the team that developed the first IBM personal computer. Category: Father, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | William Millard Founder and chairman of the electronics retailer ComputerLand. Category: Chairman, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | William Norris American computer executive, co-founder and CEO of Control Data Corporation (CDC). Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | William Shockley Physicist and co-inventor of the transistor. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | William Stallings American Computer Science, Cryptography and Security textbook author. Category: Manager, Writer, and X |
 | William Stevens Author of computer science books, in particular books on UNIX and TCP/IP. Category: Manager, President, Programmer, 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 |
 | Winifred Asprey American mathematician and computer scientist. Category: Female, Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
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