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- Kapor, Mitch ; (1950-
) developer of Lotus 1-2-3 along with Jonathan Sachs, and founded
the Lotus Development Corp. in 1982, Kapor Enterprises
- Karmanos, Peter; Founded Compuware in 1973; developer of IBM
systems software, along with Thomas Thewes, Allen B. Cutting
- Katch, David (deceased); Co-founded Boole & Babbage in
1967; pioneered performance management software
- Katz, Charles; (1927- )
- Katz, Philip; (1963 -2000) Inventor
of PKZip
- Kay, Andy; KAYPRO
- Kay, Alan; inventor of smalltalk and dynabook, a visionair
in computing
- Keet, Lee; Co-founded turnkey systems, inc., which sold Taskmaster,
one of the first telecommunications monitors, in 1967
- Kemeny,
John G. (1926-1992) co-developer along with Thomas Kurtz,
of the programming language BASIC and founder of true basic
corporation in 1964
- Kempelen, Wolfgang von; (1734-1804)
- Kepler, Johannes ; astronome
who corresponded with Schickard about a calculator
- Kernighan, Brian W ; developed with Ritchie Unix en C, co-invented
Awk (1977)
- Kilby, Jack Sinclair, (2)
(1923) co-inventor of the integrated circuit at Texas Instruments
independently and at the same time as Robert Noyce did this at Fairchild
Semiconductor; Along with Jerry D. Merryman and James Van Tassel,
Kilby helped invent the first electronic handheld calculator by
adapting the integrated circuit.
- Kilburn, Tom ; invented the binary
adder
- Kildall, Gary; (2)
(1942-1994 ) creator of cp/m operating system for Digital Research
- Kinsberger, Jack van; Member of IBM’s 360 operating system
design team in 1967; technical VP at Boole & Babbage
- Knuth,
Donald Ervin (1938- ) author, mathematician, computer
scientist and pioneer researcher on compilers, attribute
grammars, algorithms and digital typography, (2)
(TeX) , a seven volume series on "The Art of Programming"
- Kolence, Ken; Co-founded Boole & Babbage in 1967; pioneered
performance management software
- Kubie, Elmer; Founded Computer Usage Company, the world’s
first computer software company, with John W. Sheldon in March,
1955
- Kurtz,
Thomas E. ; (1928) co-developer (Kemeny) of BASIC programming
language in 1964 and co-founder of true basic corporation
- Kurtzig, Sandra; Founded Ask Computer Systems in 1971; introduced
first multiterminal mini-based MRP system
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- Lake, Clair D. ; (1888-1958) one of the co-inventors of the
Harvard-IBM MARK I
- Lamport, Leslie
- Lampson, Butler; (1943-) pioneer on operating systems
- Landry, John; Led McCormick & Dodge development team in
release of Millennium environment (1983)
- Lanier,
Jaron - computer scientist, artist and musician
Learn, Dale; Co-founded Information Science, Inc. (InSci), which
sold payroll and human resources software, in 1965
- Langefors, Borje; (1915- )
- Lebedev, Sergei A. 1902-1974;
MESM
computer, Ukraine
- Lecht, Charles (deceased); Pioneered compiler technology,
founded Advanced Computer Techniques in 1962
- Lehmer, Derrick Henry ; (1905-91)
- Lehovec, Kurt
- Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm von;
(1646-1716) the first to discuss the binary system
- Lenat, Doug
- Levin, Leonid
- Licklidder, Joseph C.R. (1914-1990)
instrumental in the construction of the internet (ARPA)
- Lovelace, Augusta Ada Countess of
, (2);
1816-1852 translating a report from French into to English on
a lecture Babbage gave, she added her own lengthy notes to the text,
and has been credited with developing the concepts of "loop"
and "subroutine".
- Lowry, Dave; Founded Data Design Associates to sell accounts
payable software in 1973.
- Ludd, Edward; Alledgedly tried to destroy engines and kind
to prevent loss of job
- Ludgate, Percy E.; (1883-1922)
- Lukoff, Herman; (1923-79)
- Lull, Ramon (1235-1315)
- Lyons, Mike; Software re-engineering pioneer; co-founded Catalyst
Corp. in 1979
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- Machover, Carl ; Pioneer in graphics and image processing
techniques and consultant to CAD and CAM companies
- Maguire, John ; Founded Software AG in 1971; it sold the Adabas
database system in the U.S.
- Mandelbrot, Benoit; Discovered a way to create a complete
graphical image with mathematical formulas, (2)
- Mannhein, Amedee
- Marconi, Guglielmo; Telegraph
system
- Markowitz, Harry ; In the early 1960s, co-founded California
Analysis Centers, Inc. (CACI) which developed Symscript, one
of the earliest software products
- Markkula, A.C. "Mike" Former Intel executive who
invested in Apple early on, essentially becoming a third partner
to Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs.
- Martin, James; Founded Information Engineering approach
- Marquand, Allan; (1853-1924)
- McCarthy,
John (1927- ) co-inventor of artificial intelligence
and LISP, (2)
(AI) 1958
- McCluskey, Edward J.; developed
the Quine-McCluskey method for logic minimization
- McNealy, Scott; co founder
of SUN
- Morse, Samuel ; inventor of
morse alfabeth and electrical telegraph
- Marquand, Allan ; (1853-1924)
logic computers
- Matthaeus, Philip
- Mauchly, John William, (2)
(1907-1980) created with J. Presper Eckert and a 50 member team
the first electronic large scale, general purpose calculator,
known as the ENIAC.
- Mauchly, John V.;
- Mead,
Carver
- Meagher, Ralph Ernest ; (1917- )
- Menabrea, L.F.
- Metcalfe,
Bob - (1946) inventor of ethernet and founder of 3com
corporation
- Metropolis, Nicholas C. ; (1915- )
- Michie, Donald;
- Milner,
Robin (LCF, ML and CCS)
- Millard, William;
- Mills, Harlan
- Miner, Robert (Bob) (1942-1994); Co-founded Oracle Corp.
in 1977; pioneered relationship DBMS
- Miner, Jay (1932-1994); was responsible for the development
of the "Amiga",
along with RJ Mical, Dave Morse and Carl Sassenrath.
- Minsky, Marvin
Lee; (1927- ); pioneer in Artificial Intelligence.
- Mock, Owen; first operating system
- Moers, Calvin;
- Moore, Gordon E.; (1929- )
- Morganthaler, Gary; Pioneered relational DBMS market in the
1970s; while at UC/Berkeley, developed Ingres; co-founded Relational
Technology
- Morland, Samuel (1625-95)
- Molnar, Charles
E.
- Morse, Samuel;
- Muller, Joseph
- Muuss_mike (19nn-2000); creator of "ping" , tccp and CAD
solid modeling.
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- Napier, John; (1550-1617) 'Napier
Bones', logarithms
- Naur, Peter; (1928- )
- Needham, Roger ( 1935-2003); pioneer in operating systems, time
sharing systems, memory protection, local area networks and distributed
systems.
- Negroponte,
Nicholas;
- Nelson, Ted; (1937) inventor of hypertext, originator of
project Xanadu
- Neumann, John von; (1903-57)
computer architecture, (2),(3)
- Newell, Allen; (1927-92)
- Newton, Isaac
- Newman, M.A.H.;
- Noorda, Ray; Noorda Family Trust, Father of the PC LAN
- Norman Nie; Pioneered statistical analysis programming in 1965;
founded SPSS (1975)
- Norris,
William (1911) co-founder of control data corporation
- Noyce, Robert N. (2)
(1927 - 1990) co-inventor of the microchip and founder of fairchild
semiconductor and intel corporations
- Nutt, Roy (deceased); Co-founder of Computer Sciences
Corp. (CSC)
- Nygaard, Kristen; (1926-2002)
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- Odhner, Willgodt Theophil (1845-1905); developed a very succesful
table calculator in use until the early 1980's
- Øersted, Hans Christian (1777-1851);
discovery of the unity of electricity and
magnetism — electromagnetism.
- Ohl, Russel (1975) inventor of
photo voltaic cell
- Olliver, Bernard; (1916-1995) Founder of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
in the early 1950's who directed its research for approximately
30 years.
- Olsen, Kenneth Harry; (1926 - ) member of Whirlwind team, founder
of DEC, (2)
- Opel, John R.; (1925- )
- Oppenheimer, Robert ; mathematician
and one of the scientists producing the atom bombs dropped
on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in 1945
- Orr, Ken; Founded Ken Orr & Assoc.; developed Case methodology
in the 1970s
- Osborne,
Adam - (1939-2003 ) inventor of portable computers, Osborn
I
- Oughtred, William
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- Packard, David; (1912-1996 ) co-founder of Hewlett Packard,
(2)
- Paper, Seymour; designed the LOGO computer language as a learning
tool for children.(1967)
- Page, Peter; Developed Software AG’s Natural, pioneered
4GLS (1979)
- Pascal, Blaise, (2);
(1623-1666) phylosopher, mathematician and inventor of the pascaline
- Pasta, John R.; (1918-81)
- Pastore, Annibale; (1868-1936)
- Paterson, Tim; (1956-) Original developer of DOS for PC's
- Patterson, John Henry; (1844-1922) founder of NCR
- Patrick, Bob; develops first operating system
- Peddle, Chuck
- Perot, H. Ross ;
- Pickette, Wayne D.; inventor
of the principle of the CPU on a chip
- Pinkerton,
John
- Planck, Max
- Poel, William Louis van der; (1926- )
- Porter, Andrew;
- Postley, John; Developed Mark IV (1967), the first million
dollar software product, for Informatics
- Postel, Jonathan (Internet)
- Proulx, Merle; Author of Uccel’s DB4 DBMS and UCC COBOL
(1974)
- Pugh, Emerson W.; (1929- )
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- Rabin, Michael
- Rajchman, John; (1911-89)
- Ramo, Simon; (1913- )
- Rand, James Henry ; (1886-1968)
- Randell, Brian; (1936- )
- Raskin, Jef (1943–2005);
human-computer interface expert best-known for
starting the Macintosh project for Apple Computer in the late 1970s.
- Rees, Mina Spiegel ; (1902- )
- Ritchie, Dennis M.; (1941); developed
in the early 1970s with Kernigan Unix(3) en
C (2) -
developed the UNIX computer operating system, C was devised
as a system implementation language for the nascent Unix operating
system.
- Ridenour, Louis; (1911-59)
- Roberts, H. Edward; with three friends, founded the Micro
Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), the company soon
introduced the Altair
- Rock, Arthur; co-founder Intel,
primary funder Fairchild
- Roberts, Larry; (1937) considered "the father of the internet"
- Rosen, Saul; (1922-91)
- Ross, Douglas; Developed Automatically Programmed Tools (1958),
paving the way for computer-aided manufacturing
- Rothrie, Dr. James B.; Developed distributed database technology
at Computer Corp. of America (1976)
- Rowe, Lawrence; Pioneered relational DBMS market in the 1970s;
while at UC/Berkeley, developed Ingres; co-founded Relational
Technology
- Rutherford, Ernest
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- Sall, John; Co-founded SAS Institute in 1976; developer of
the SAS System
- Sammet, Jean; (1928- ) Early language compiler programmer;
author of a book on history of computer languages, she was the first
female president of ACM
- Sassenrath, Carl; one of the designers of the Amiga OS
- Scheutz, Georg Pehr; (1785-1873) (2)
Difference Engine, Sweden
- Scheutz, Edvard,(1785-1873) Sweden (2)
Difference Engine modelled after Babbage's designs, Sweden
with Edvard Raphael (1821-1881)
- Schickard, Wilhelm (1592-1635)
- Schott, Gaspard (1608-66)
- Schrayer, Michael; electric pencil, first word processor
- Schreyer, Helmut; (1912-1984) helped Konrad Zuse design and
build his electro-mechanical computers
- Shannon, Claude Elwood; (1916-
1999) digital design systems; (2)
- computer pioneer, (3)
information theory
- Shaw, Cliff J.; (1922-91)
- Shaw Billings, John Shaw ; (1839-1913)
- Shockley, William Bradford;
(1910-1989) British co-inventor of the transistor, with John
Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three shared a nobel prize in physics
in 1956.
- Sholes, Christopher; 5.25" disk
- Shugart, Alan; 5.25" disk; (2)
- co-founder of seagate technology corporation
- Simon, Herbert Alexander ; (1916-2001) pioneer
in Artificial Intelligence
- Sinclair, Clive (1940-); invented the ZX80, the price
of computers dropped below $100 (1)
(personal
computers)
- Sippl, Roger J.; Founded Informix in 1980; developed DBMS application
tools
- Skoll, Jeff; first full time employee
and first president of eBay, an auction site
- Slutz, Ralph J.;
- Smith, Burton
- Stallman, Richard (1953-); Open Source Software, the
GNU project
- Stanhope, Charles 3rd earl of
- Stibitz, George Robert ; (2)
(1914-1995) computernetworks, datacommunication, used
Boolean logic to add, subtract, multiply, and divide complex numbers.
This Complex Number calculator, completed in 1939, provided the
foundation for digital computers
- Stonebraker, Michael; Pioneered relational DBMS market in the
1970s; while at UC/Berkeley, developed Ingres; co-founded Relational
Technology
- Stroustrup, Bjarne (1950), invented the C++ programming language
- Sutherland,
Ivan (1938-); electronics engineer, computer graphics
and virtual reality pioneer, (2)
(graphics)
- Strachey,
Christopher; 1916-75) denotational semantics
- Svoboda, Antonin; (1907-80)
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- Tarjan, Robert
- Tarski, Alfred; ( 1901-I983)
- Teal, Gordon; (1907) transistor, perfected a way of making
transistors out of silicate, one of the most common elements, instead
of using germanium, which is expensive
- Tesla, Nikola; (1856-1943) Tesla
coils, umpty inventions with electricity, a modern day Leonardi
da Vinci
- Thompson, Kenneth (1943-) , (2)
Unix
- Tompson, Joseph John,
- Tramiel, Jack; Commodore PET, the C64 computer a multimillion
seller
- Torres y Quevedo, Leonardo; (1852-1936)
- Torvalds, Linus; (2)
(Linux organisation)
- Trevisa
- Treybig, Jimmy; Founder of
Tandem computers
- Turing, Alan Mathison; (1912-1954)
Treatise on On computable numbers, (2)
(Colossus and code-breaking)
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- Ulam, Stanley M.;
- Utman, Richard; (1926- )
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- Verea, Ramon; (1838-99)
- Veit, Stan; (1919-) Pioneer in
the PC arena, setting up one of the first computer outlets in the
US, publisher
- Viehe, F.W.; core memory
- Volta, Allessandro; electrical current
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- Wall, Larry (); developer of programming language Perl, playing
a vital role in or for the internet.
- Wang, An; (1920-1990) Magnetic Core
Memory, (2)
- Wang, Charles ; Founded Computer Associates (1975), first software
company to exceed $500M
- Ware, Willis Howard ; (1920- )
- Warnock, John E.; invented Post-Script PDL (Page Description
Language) a major factor leading to the desktop publishing revolution.
He and Charles Geschke were the founders of Adobe Systems
- Watt, James; improved and made the steam engine multi purpose
- Watson, Bill; Founded Software International to sell general
ledger software (early 1970s)
- Watson, Thomas John ; (1874-1956) president of the International
Business Machines (IBM) Corp. who built up the company during WWII
and also invested in Howard Aiken's plan to build the Harvard MARK
I calculator
- Watson, Jr., Thomas John ; (1914-1992) He took over his father's
position as president of IBM in 1952, convinced that the company
should build and market computers. He eventually led the company
to having total domination of the computer market
- Werner, Lee;
- Weizenbaum, Joseph; (1923- )
- Wheeler, David John ; (1927-2004)
- Wiberg, Martin; (1826-1905)
- Wiener,
Norbert; (1894-1964) mathematician, pioneer of cybernetics
and artificial intelligence
- Wijngaarden, Arie van; (1933-87)
- Wilkes, Maurice; (1913- ) (2)
(EDSAC)
EDSAC 2
- Williams, Hugh; One of the members of the IBM team which developed
the plan for unbundling software from hardware in 1969
- Wilkinson,
J.H. numerical analysis
- Williams, Frederic Calland;
(1911-1977) RAM - Williams Tube (CRT), (2)
- Wirth, Niclaus; (1934) Pascal, Modula-2 programming languages,
(2)
Oberon an object oriented operating system
- Wolfram, Stephen
(Mathematica)
- Wong, Eugene; Pioneered relational DBMS market in the 1970s;
while at UC/Berkeley, developed Ingres; co-founded Relational Technology
- Woodger, Michael;
- Wooldridge, Dean Everett ; (1913- )
- Wozniak, Stephen,(1950- ) (2),
(3),
co founder of Apple
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- Yamachita, Hideo (1899-1993); Japanese engineer considered
the father of Japan's computer industry. He led the team in 1950
that created Japan's first large electronic computer, the Tokyo
Automatic Calculator (TAC), with vacuum tubes
- Yourdon, Ed; Developed the concept of structured programming,
Case methodologies (1976)
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Zemanek, Heinz; (1920- )
Zuse, Konrad,(1910-1995) (2)(3)
, inventor of Z1 - Z4 wartime computers with binary arithmatic
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