A

• Aiken, Howard A.;(1900-73) Harvard Mark I
  
• Alkhowarizmi; mathematics, (2), ancient mathematician, the number 0
  
• Allen, Paul; (1953) co founder of Microsoft
  
• Amdahl, Gene Myron; (1922- ) computer architect
  
• Andreessen, Marc (1971)- co-founder of netscape corporation
  
• Andrews, Earnest Galen;(1898-1980)
  
• Aristoteles, ; Greek phylosopher
  
• Artybasheff, Boris; (1899-1965)
  
• Atanasoff, John V.; (1903-1995 ) first electronic computer
  
• Atkinson, Bill; hypercard
  
• Auerbach, Isaac Levin ; (1921-92)

B

• Babaian, Boris A.; (1933) Russian supercomputers
  
• Babbage, Charles; (1791-1871) differential machine, analytical machine
  
• Bachmann, C.W.; Bachmann diagrammes. (2) (databases)
  
• Backus, John W.; (1924 - ) developer of Fortran, (2)
  
• Baer, Ralph
  
• Bain, Alexander
  
• Baird, John Logie -  inventor of mechanical television, radar and fiber optics
• Ballmer, Steve; co-founder Microsoft
  
• Bardeen, John (1908-1991) co-inventor of the transresistor, or transistor
  
• Barron, Ian
  
• Barth, Carl George Lange (1860-1939)
  
• Bartik, Jean; (1924- ) revamping the ENIAC to be a stored program computer, wrote the code
  
• Baum, Lyman Frank (1856-1919)
  
• Bech, Niels; (1920-75)
  
• Bell, Alexander; telephone
  
• Bell, Chester Gordon; (1934 - ) minicomputer developer, (2) (Digital), founded the Computer Museum in Boston with his wife, Gwen
  
• Bemer, Bob (Robert William); (1920 - ) One of the developers of COBOL and the ASCII naming standard for IBM (1960s); inventor of the ESCape sequence, the universal switching mechanism for all computer-controlled communications
  
• Berners-Lee, Tim; (2) developer and promotor of the World Wide Web (www.)
  
• Bernouilli; bernouilli numbers, prime numbers
  
• Berry, Clifford;(1918-1963) together with John Atanasoff designed the first machines to use electronic techniques in digital calculation
  
• Bigelow, Julian; (1913- )
  
• Billings, John Shaw; (1839-1913)
  
• Bjerknes, Vilhelm; (1862-1951)
  
• Blumenthal, William Michael ; (1926- )
  
• Blumlein, Alan; invented stereo sound, surround sound
  
• Bohr, Niels
  
• Bollee, Leon; (1870-1913)
  
• Boole, George; (1815-1864) binairy logics. proposition logic
  
• Booth, Andrew Donald ; (1918- ) magnetic drum memories, tried to construct a floppy disk with oxide coated paper.
• Booch, Grady; co developed UML
  
• Boyer, Joseph; (1848-1905)
  
• Bradley, David J.
  
• Brainerd, John Grist ; (1904-88)
  
• Brainerd, Paul; (1947) founder of the Aldus Corp creator of Aldus PageMaker
  
• Brattain, Alexander
  
• Brattain, Walter; (1902-1987) co-invented the transistor, with John Bardeen and William Shockley
  
• Brattain, Shockley en Bardeen; inventors of the transistor; they shared a Nobel Prize in physics in 1956.
  
• Braun; astrolabus
  
• Braun, Antonius
  
• Braun, Ferdinand
  
• Bricklin, Daniel, (2) - (1951) inventor of Visicalc spreadsheets, Bob Frankston, wrote the code for Visicalc
  
• Briggs, Henry; (1561-1630) logarithm table
  
• Brody, Florian T.; groundbreaking work on CD-ROM (1984)
  
• Brooks Jr., Frederick Phillips; (1931 - ) Managed the development of the 360 operating system software for IBM (1960s); wrote The Mythical Man-Month about software project managementBrown, Sir Thomas
  
• Brown, Gordon S. ; (1907- )
  
• Brown, Theodore; (1888-1973)
  
• Brown, Thomas
  
• Brown, Walter; Co-founder of Atlantic Software, principal contributor to Informatics accounting packages
  
• Bryce, James Wares ; (1880-1949)
  
• Bush, Vannevar, Vannevar Bush
  
• Buerghi, Joseph
  
• Burks, Arthur Walter ; (1915- )
  
• Burroughs, William Seward; (1855-1898)created and patented a printing adding machine in 1888
  
• Bush, Vannevar; (1890-1974)
  
• Bushnell, Allen
  
• Bushnell, Nolan; creator of Pong

C

• Canion, Rod; Insource Technology, co-founder of compaq computers
  
• Carpenter, Richard; Founded Index Technology to deliver
• Case tools in 1983
  
• Carr, John Weber ; (1923- )
  
• Cary, Frank Taylor ; (1920- )
  
• Casselli, Giovanni
  
• Cerf, Vinton (1943) co-developed the TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol) for the Internet
  
• Charney, Jule Gregory ; (1917-81)
  
• Chatfield, Glenn; Founded Duquesne Systems to provide productivity tools for IBM systems in 1970
  
• Chadwick, James; 1847-1922, discovered the electron
  
• Chernick, Aubrey; Founded Candle Corp. in 1977; developed Omegamon, first realtime performance monitor for MVS
  
• Chevion, Dov; (1917-83)
  
• Clark, Edith (1883-1959); excelled in breaking down complex mathematical constellations into simple graphical presentations
  
• Clark, Jim - co-founder of silicon graphics and netscape corporation, (2) (Silicon Graphics and Netscape)
  
• Codd, Dr. Edgar F. ; Inventor of relational database theory in the 1970s
  
• Gerald Cohen; Designed early non-procedural language; founded Information Builders in 1975
  
• Colmar, Thomas de; one of the first marketable mechanical calculators
  
• Larry Constantine; Invented data flow diagrams, presented first paper on concepts of structured design in 1974
  
• Cook, Bob; Founded VM Software to develop software for IBM VM in 1981
  
• Comrie, Leslie John ; (1893-1950)
  
• Cook, Stephen
  
• Coombs, Allen W. M.;
  
• Copernicus, Nicolaus ; revolutionubus, mathematician and astronomer
  
• Corbato, Fernando Jose ; (1926- )
  
• Crandall, Rick; Founded Comshare, one of the early time-sharing companies, in 1966; it later became a software company selling executive  support software
  
• Cray, Seymour; (1925-1996) Cray supercomputers,also founded the Control Data Corp along with Eckert, William Norris and six others
  
• Christen, Ward; (1); first operational bulletin board
  
• Cullinane, John; Founded Cullinane Corp., which sold the IDMS database system, in 1968; it was the first software product company to go public (in 1978)
  
• Cunningham, Peter; Founded INPUT, one of the first market research firms to focus on the software and software products market, in 1974
  
• Curtiss, John Hamilton ; (1909-77)

D

• d'Ocagne, Maurice; (1862-1938)
  
• Dahl, Ole-Johan; (1931-2002 ) Simula
  
• Davies, Donald W.; packet-switching, internet
  
• Dantzig, George Bernard ; (1914- )
  
• Davinci, Leonardo; inventor, polymath
  
• Deeds, Edward Andrew ; (1874-1960)
  
• DeForest, Lee; triode electronic switch
  
• DeMarco, Tom; Case methodology pioneer, author and consultant in the 1970s
  
• Descartes, Rene; philosopher
  
• Dewey, Melvil
  
• Dick, Alfred Blake (1856-1934)
  
• Dick, Jr., Alfred Blake ; (1894-1954)
  
• Diebold, John; (1926- )
  
• Dijkstra, Edsger; (1930-2002) computer science, encryption, programming methodology
  
• Dougarty

E

• Eastman, George - (2); philanthropist and founder of kodak
  
• Eckert, John P. ; (1919-1995) co inventor of one of the first fully electronical digital computer, along with Cray, William Norris and six others, (2) ,(3)
  
• Eckert, Wallace John ; (1902-71)
  
• Ed, Rob
  
• Edison,Thomas Alva; invented the frigidaire and made the lamp commercialy viable
  
• Einstein, Albert
  
• Ellis, Jim;(1956-2001) co-created usenet the second most important internet application
• Ellison, Lawrence (Larry); Co-founded Oracle Corp in 1977; pioneered relational DBMS
  
• Engel, Jr., Frank August ; (1917- )
  
• Engelbart, Douglas; (2) (1925) - pioneer in human-computer communications, developer of the mouse and graphical user interface, (3)
  
• Ershov, Andrei P. (1931-1988); theoretical programming
  
• Estridge, Don; (1938-85) projectleader for the IBM PC/XT/AT (1981-1985)
  
• Evans, Robert Overton ; (1927- )
  
• Everett, Robert Rivers ; (1921- )

F

• Fairchild, George Winthrop; (1854-1924)
  
• Fano, Robert Mano; (1917- )
  
• Fantl. Leo
  
• Faraday, Michael
  
• Fast, August
  
• Feigenbaum, Edward A. (AI)
  
• Felstein, Lee; inventor Video Circuit Board, Osborne 1 along with Adam Osborne, Expander Computer, Sol computer
  
• Felt, Dorr Eugene ; (1862-1930)
  
• Ferguson, Dave; Author, in the late 60's, of PI-Sort, the first software product successfully sold against a free IBM sort program
  
• Fischer, Emst Georg (1852-1935)
  
• Flanders, Donald Alexander ; (1900-58)
  
• Flemming, John Ambrose; inventor of the vacuum tube diode
  
• Flint, Charles Ranlett; founding father of IBM (l850-1934)
  
• Flowers, Thomas;(1905-1998) Colossus engineer
  
• Floyd, Robert W. Forrest, Lee de
  
• Forrester, Jay Wright; (2) (1918 - ) - inventor of magnetic-core memory, led the team that created Whirlwind
  
• Forest, Lee de (1873 - 1961)
  
• Forster, James Franklin ; (1908-72)
  
• Fourier, Baron Jean-Baptiste-Joseph; (1768-1830); mathematician
  
• Frank, Werner; Co-founded Informatics, the company which sold Mark IV, the first million dollar software product, in 1962
  
• Bob Frankston, wrote the code for Visicalc
  
• Frege, G.
  
• Freytag Löringhoff, Dr. Bruno Baron von; reconstructor of Schickards calculator
  
• Friedman, William Frederick ; (1891-1969)
  
• Fylstra, Dan; (1); Viscalc the first spreadsheet program

G

• Galler, Bernard Aaron; (1928- )
  
• Galvin
  
• Gates, Jim
  
• Gates, Wiiliam H. III (Bill); (1955) one of the founders of Microsoft, DOS, Windows, (2) (see also interview and unofficial information)
  
• Geissler Igelshieb, Heinrich
  
• Gianello Toriano
  
• Geschke, Charles M. founder of Adobe Systems in 1982 who, along with John Warnock, created "the desktop publishing" environment
  
• Gill, Stanley; (1926-75)
  
• Glushkov, Victor Mikhaylovich ; (1923-82)
  
• Goetz, Marty; Co-founded Applied Data Research (ADR) in 1959; received the first patent issued on a software product
  
• Goldstine, Herman Heine ; (1913- ) helped design the ENIAC, wrote one of the most complete computer history books.
  
• Goldstein,  Bernie; Founded Broadview Associates (1970s), the first investment banking firm to focus on software industry mergers and acquisitions
  
• Good, I. J. ;
  
• Goodman, Richard; (1911-66)
  
• Goodnight, Dr. James; Co-founded SAS Institute in 1976; developer of the SAS System
  
• Gore, John K. ; ( 1845- l910)
  
• Gödel, Kurt
  
• Grad, Burt; One of the members of the IBM team which developed the plan for unbundling software from hardware in 1969
  
• Grant, George Barnard; (1849-1917)
  
• Green, John
  
• Green, Julien; (1924- )
  
• Grillet, Rene (1600s)
  
• Gore ,John K. ( 1845- l910)
  
• Goto, Eiichi; inventor of analogue computer
  
• Griswold, Ralph E.; (1934- )
  
• Grosch, Herb; Director in 1960 of the U.S. government’s Center for Computer Science and Technology (now called NIST, National Institute of Standards and Technology)
• Grove, Andrew, co-founder Intel
  
• Groves, Leslie Richard ; (1896-1970)
  
• Gudden, John Bernard

H

• Hamming, Richard W.;
  
• Harris, Dr. Larry; Founded AICorp in 1975; developed AI-based natural language technology
  
• Harron, Ducos de;
  
• Harris, Peter; Founded ADPAC Corporation in 1963
  
• Hartree, Douglas Rayner ; (1897-1958)
  
• Hawking, Stephen;
  
• Hazen, Harold Locke ; (1901-80)
  
• Heisenberg, Werner;
  
• Hell, Rudolf (1901-2002); inventor of fax machine
  
• Henry, Joseph;
  
• Herbrand, Jacques;
  
• Heron of Alexandria; Greek mechanician and inventor
  
• Herschel, John;
  
• Herz, Heinrich;
  
• Hewlett, William R.; (1913) co-founder of Hewlett Packard, (2)
  
• Hill, Richard; Co-founded Informatics, the company which sold Mark IV, the first million dollar software product, in 1962
  
• Hills, Danny
  
• Hoare, C. A. R.; (CSP) 
  
• Hoerni, Jean;
  
• Hoff, Ted; Marcian Ted Hoff - (1937) developer of the microprocessor, see also W.D. Pickette, (2)
  
• Holberton, Betty (1927) one of a team of 5 programmers on the ENIAC
  
• Hollerith, Herman, (2) (1860-1929) tabulator machine
• Holt, Ray (19..) invented central processor in 1971 - as member of a team for the F14A, see also W.D. Pickette, Hoff, Ted
  
• Hopper, Grace; (1906-1992) Created together with other engineers COBOL, Naval officer and computer scientist who led the effort in the 1960s to develop COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language)
  
• Hoover, Bill; President from 1964 to 1995 of Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) which was an early entrant (late 1960s) in the software products market; it ultimately became a multi-billion dollar software services company
  
• Househoulder, Alston Scott ; (1904-1993)
  
• Huffman, David A.; Discovered a fast and efficient method of compression
  
• Hull, Clark; (1884-1952)
  
• Hurd, Cuthbert C.; (1911- )
  
• Huskey, Harry Douglas ; (1916- )
  
• Hyatt, Gilbert; co-inventor of the microprocessor in 1968, patent awarded in 1990

I

• Ichbiah, Dr. Jean; Principal designer, Ada language (1977)
  
• Imlay, John; In 1971, became CEO of Management Science America (MSA), the first applications software supplier to exceed $100M in annual revenues
  
• Iverson, Kenneth E.; invented APL in 1962
  
• Irvine, John;
  
• Iwatani, Toru; Inventor of Pac Man video game

J

• Jacobs, Walter W.; (1914-82)
  
• Jaquard, Joseph Marie; (1752-1834) French weaver who built a fully automated loom programmed by punched cards.
  
• Jaquet-Droz, Pierre en Henry; (1700s) punch card weaving
  
• Jerger, Doug; Co-founder of Fortex, an early accounting software products company
  
• Jevons, William Stanley; (1835-82)
  
• Johnson, Luanne James; Founded Argonaut Information Systems to sell payroll and accounts payable software in 1971
  
• Jobs, Steven Paul ; (1955- ) co founded Apple and founded Next
  
• Johnson, Reynold B. ; (1906- )
  
• Jones, Fletcher (deceased); Co-founder of Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC); one of the initiators of SHARE and the SHARE Operating System (SOS)
  
• Jones, T. Capers ; Developed first large-scale estimating package for IBM (1972)
  
• Jones, Dr. Kirk; Pioneered business planning software; principal designer of IFPS (1975)
  
• Josephson, Brian D.; Josephson switch, hyper speed switching on molecular/atomaire level