Writer computer pioneers
Below is a listing of computer pioneers that have been tagged as a Writer. 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 |
 | Aaron Levie American entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of cloud company Box. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Aaron Swartz American computer programmer, writer, and Internet activist. Category: Convict, Editor, Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Abhay Bhushan Author of FTP. Category: Chairman, Engineer, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Abraham Lempel Father of LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms. Category: Father, Manager, Scientist, 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 |
 | Adele Goldberg Computer scientist who helped develop Smalltalk. Category: Female , Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Adi Shamir One of the co-inventors of the RSA algorithm. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Adrian Carmack One of the founders of iD Software. Category: Coined, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Al Alcorn Pong. Category: Engineer, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Al Gore American politician, advocate, author, philanthropist, and environmental activist. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Al Lowe American programmer, and game designer known for the Leisure Suit Larry game series. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Alain Colmerauer One of the earliest linguistic formalisms used in developing the TAUM-METEO machine. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Alain Glavieux Co-inventor of codes that helped shape digital communication. Category: Inventor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Alan Cooper Father of Visual Basic. Category: Father, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Alan Cox Linux developer and Free Software Foundation award recipient. Category: Engineer, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Alan Emtage Developer for Archie the first search engine. Category: Manager, Twitter, 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 |
 | Alan Kotok Computer scientist, hacker, and developer. Category: Engineer, Hacker, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Alan Miller Pioneer and influential figure in the video game industry and early game designer and programmer for Atari 2600 games. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Alan Perlis Well-known and respected computer scientist known for his work with computer programming languages. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Alan Schaaf Founder of Imgur, the world's largest image hosting site. Category: Founder, Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Alan Shugart Pioneer of the computer disk drive and founder of Seagate Technology. Category: CEO, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Alan Turing Developer of the Turing Machine and Turing Test. Category: Analyst, Father, Logician, Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Albert Einstein Respected theoretical physicist. Category: Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Albert Gonzalez Computer hacker and computer criminal. Category: Hacker, Manager, 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 |
 | Alex Holden Ukrainian IT researcher who found 1.2 billion stolen passwords. Category: Hacker, Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Alexander Bain Inventor of the electric clock. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Alexander Brudno Computer scientist who discovered the alpha-beta algorithm. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Alexander Douglas Developer of the first graphical computer game, OXO. Category: Manager, Professor, 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 Ivanov Russian computer programmer and hacker. Category: Convict, Hacker, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Alexey Lyapunov Soviet mathematician and pioneer of computer science. Category: Founder, Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Alexey Pajitnov Inventor of Tetris. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Alexis Ohanian American entrepreneur and angel investor best known for investing in Reddit. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Alfred Aho Canadian computer scientist and author known for the Aho-Corasick string matching algorithm. Category: Manager, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Allen Adham Egyptian American businessman and co-founder of video game developer Silicon & Synapse now Activision Blizzard. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Allen Coombs Key designer of the Colossus computer. Category: Engineer, 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 |
 | Allen Newell Computer science and cognitive psychology researcher. Category: Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Allen Stern Tech blogger and entrepreneur who lost over 125-pounds while offering weight-loss tips and recipes to thousands on the Internet. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Alonzo Church Founder of theoretical computer science. Category: Founder, Logician, Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, 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 |
 | Amber Macarthur Canadian television and netcasting personality well known for the Call for Help series. Category: Female , Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Amir Pnueli Respected computer scientist who focused on temporal logic and model checking. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Amy Briggs American computer programmer and interactive fiction game creator. Category: Engineer, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | An Wang Engineer and inventor, and co-founder of Wang Laboratories. Category: Engineer, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Anand Shimpi American businessman and founder of AnandTech website. Category: CEO, Editor, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Anatoliy Morozov Ukrainian scientist in the field of cybernetics and chief designer of the RADA system. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Anders Hejlsberg Author of Turbo Pascal and chief architect of Delphi. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Andi Gutmans Israeli programmer and entrepreneur and PHP developer (created PHP 3 in 1997). Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Andreas Bechtolsheim Co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Category: Engineer, Founder, Investor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Andreas Raab German computer scientist who developed new concepts and applications in 3D graphics and key contributor to the Squeak platform. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Andrei Ershov Pioneer in the field of theoretical and systems programming. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Andrew Baron Creator of Rocketboom, Know Your Meme and the video aggregator site, Magma. Category: Manager, Twitter, 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 Chi-chih Yao Computer scientist and computational theorist who created Yao's Principle. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Andrew Grove Former CEO of Intel. Category: CEO, Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Andrew Kaluzniacki Software engineer and game engine developer. Category: Engineer, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Andrew Kay Computer pioneer and founder of Kay Computers. Category: CEO, Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Andrew Mccollum Co-founder of Facebook and an angel investor. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Andrew Ng Associate professor of the Department of Computer Science at Stanford and co-founder of Coursera. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Professor, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Andrew Plotkin Interactive fiction writer known as Zarf. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Andrew Sullivan British author, editor, and one of the first political bloggers. Category: Editor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Andrew Tanenbaum American computer scientist best known as the author of MINIX. Category: Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Andy Bryant American businessperson and Chairman of multinational semiconductor company Intel. Category: Chairman, Manager, and Writer |
 | Andy Hertzfeld One of the original Apple Macintosh developers. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Andy Rubin Co-founder and former CEO of Danger Inc. and Android Inc. Category: CEO, Engineer, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Angie Hicks Co-founder and CMO of Angie's List. Category: Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Anthony Barr Computer programming language designer, software engineer, and inventor. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
| Anthony Casalena Created Squarespace. Category: Manager, Personality, 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 |
 | Antoni Kilinski Helped develop the computer science curriculum. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Antonin Svoboda Computer scientist, engineer, and researcher credited for fault-tolerant computer systems. Category: Engineer, Manager, Mathematician, Researcher, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Arash Ferdowsi Iranian-American computer entrepreneur and co-founder of online storage service Dropbox. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Arianna Huffington Greek-American author and syndicated columnist. Category: Editor, Female , Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Armas Markkula Angel investor and second CEO of Apple Computer. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Investor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Arnold Dumey Inventor of computer hashing and the postal sorting machine. Category: Analyst, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Arthur Burks Mathematician who helped design the ENIAC. Category: Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Arthur Clark Science fiction author, inventor, and futurist. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Arthur Rock Venture capitalist and investor. Category: Investor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Arthur Samuel Big contributor to the world of artificial intelligence (AI) and one of the first to use hash tables. Category: Manager, Programmer, 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 |
 | August-wilhelm Scheer Founder and director of IDS Scheer AG. Category: Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | August Dvorak Educational psychologist best known for creating the Dvorak simplified keyboard. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Azim Premji Indian business tycoon, philanthropist, and chairman of Wipro Limited. Category: Chairman, Manager, and Writer |
 | Bailey Diffie American cryptographer and pioneer of public-key cryptography. Category: Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Barbara Liskov First women in the United States to be awarded a Ph.D. from a computer science department. Category: Female , Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Barbara Simons American computer scientist and former president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Category: Director, Female , Founder, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Barrett Brown American activist, author, and founder of Project PM. Category: Convict, Director, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Barry Boehm American software engineer known for his many contributions to software engineering. Category: Director, Engineer, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Barry Lam Founder and Chairman of Quanta Computer. Category: Chairman, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Barry Leiba Developer at IBM Research that helped develop Spam Guru and is involved with the IETF. Category: Manager, Researcher, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Bashir Rameyev Soviet inventor and scientist and one of the founders of Soviet computing. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Becky Worley American journalist and broadcaster best known for being TechLive's Computer Security Analyst. Category: Analyst, Female , Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Ben Forta Author and senior technical evangelist for Adobe Systems. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Ben Hammersley British Internet technologist, journalist, author, and broadcaster. Category: Editor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Ben Shneiderman American computer scientist, and professor for Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. Category: Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Ben Silbermann Co-founder and CEO of Pinterest. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Benjamin Franklin Author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, and much more. Category: Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Beny Alagem An Israeli American entrepreneur, developer, and the founder of Packard Bell Electronics. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Bernard Galler American mathematician and computer scientist who worked in developing large-scale operating systems and computer languages. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Bernard Kardon American electrical engineer and co-founder of Harman/Kardon. Category: Engineer, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Bernd Fix German hacker known for his computer virus research. Category: Hacker, Manager, and Writer |
 | Bernhard Thalheim Computer scientist and professor of Information Systems Engineering known for conceptual modeling and its foundation. Category: Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Bertrand Meyer Author, and consultant who created the Eiffel programming language. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Bill Atkinson Computer engineer at Apple who help create MacPaint, QuickDraw, and HyperCard. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Bill Duvall Receiver of the first computer network communication, ARPANET. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Bill Gates Founder of Microsoft. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Bill Gosper American mathematician and programmer and one of the founders of the hacker community with Richard Greenblatt. Category: Founder, Hacker, Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Bill Kendrick American software developer known for creating and maintaining Tux Paint. Category: Editor, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Bill Moggridge British designer, author, and educator who designed one of the first laptop computer. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Bill Pytlovany Computer and network security program developer know as author of WinPatrol program. Category: Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Bjarne Stroustrup Computer scientist, known as the creator of the C++ computer programming language. Category: Entrepreneur, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Blaise Pascal Mathematician, writer, child prodigy, and inventor of the Pascaline. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Blake Ross American software developer known for his work on the Mozilla web browser and for starting the Mozilla Firefox project. Category: Director, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Bob Bates American computer games designer. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Bob Bemer Father of ASCII, escape character, backslash, and the curly bracket. Category: Coined, Father, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Bob Evans Computer pioneer and corporate executive at IBM. Category: Chairman, Manager, and Writer |
 | Bob Kahn Internet pioneer, engineer, and computer scientist who helped develop TCP/IP. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Bob Rosenschein American-Israeli Internet entrepreneur and founder of Answers.com. Category: CEO, Chairman, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Bob Wallace American computer scientist, software pioneer and Microsoft's ninth employee. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Bonnie Ross General manager at Microsoft Game Studios and studio head of 343 Industries. Category: Female , Manager, and Writer |
 | Boris Babayan Pioneering creator of supercomputers in Soviet Union. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Borje Langefors Swedish engineer and computer scientist who made systems development a science. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Brad Fitzpatrick Creator of LiveJournal and author of various free software projects such as OpenID and memcached. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Brad Templeton Software Architect and early pioneer of Usenet. Category: Chairman, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Bram Cohen Author of the P2P BitTorrent protocol. Category: Founder, Hacker, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Brendan Eich Software developer and creator of JavaScript. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Brian Carpenter British Internet engineer and former chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Brian Eno Creator of the six-second start-up music sound of the Windows 95 operating system and the Prophecy Theme in the film Dune. Category: Composer, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Brian Fargo American video game designer, producer, programmer, executive, and founder of developers Interplay Entertainment. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Brian Fox Entrepreneur, free software supporter, and original author of the GNU Bash shell. Category: African American, Entrepreneur, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Brian Kernighan Canadian computer scientist who coined the term Unix and helped with the development of Unix, AWK, and AMPL. Category: Coined, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Brian Moriarty American video game developer. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Brian Reynolds American videogame designer known for his online social games on Facebook. Category: CEO, Chairman, Director, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Brian Tong Former host and senior editor for CNET TV's the Apple Byte, Prizefight, Tap That App & How-To's. Category: Editor, Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Bruce Eckel Author and lecturer who has written numerous books and articles on computer programming. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Bruce Schneier American computer security specialist, cryptographer, and writer. Category: Founder, Manager, Researcher, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Burton Smith Computer architect who has made major contributions to the field of parallel computation. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Butler Lampson Computer scientist who help with the development of the first personal computer. Category: Founder, Hacker, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Cali Lewis American podcaster and Internet personality. Category: Female , Founder, Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Carl Button British game artist, 2D/3D generalist, designer, and editor. Category: Editor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Carl Petri Helped advance the fields of parallel computing and distributing computing. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Carl Sagan Astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences. Category: Editor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Carl Sassenrath Designer of operation systems and computer programming languages. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Carol Bartz Former president and CEO of Yahoo! Category: CEO, Chairman, Female , Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Carol Shaw American software engineer and the first female video game designer. Category: Engineer, Female , Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Carolyn Meinel American hacker and author and specialist in script kiddie hacking. Category: Female , Founder, Hacker, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Caterina Fake American businesswoman known for co-founding the websites Flickr and Hunch. Category: Female , Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Chad Davis American hacker and founding member of the globalHell syndicate of hackers. Category: Founder, Hacker, Manager, and Writer |
 | Chad Hurley Co-founder of YouTube. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Chandu Thota Computer engineer, author, and entrepreneur. Category: Engineer, Entrepreneur, Manager, Programmer, 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 Flint American businessman who founded the company that became IBM. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Charles Geschke Co-founder of Adobe. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Charles Hamblin Australian philosopher, logician, and computer pioneer who is known for the introduction of Reverse Polish Notation. Category: Logician, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Charles Hoare Computer scientist who developed the Quicksort algorithm. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Charles Molnar Co-developer of one of the first minicomputers, the LINC. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Charles Moore Inventor and developer of the Forth programming language. Category: Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Charles Peddle Main designer of the 6502 microprocessor. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Charles Simonyi Software executive who oversaw the creation of Microsoft Office. Category: 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 |
 | Charley Kline Sent the first letters of the word 'LOGIN' to start Computer Networking. Category: Investor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Cher Wang Taiwanese entrepreneur and co-founder and chairperson of HTC Corporation. Category: Entrepreneur, Female , Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Chester Carlson Inventor of electrophotography. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Chris Dewolfe American entrepreneur and former CEO and co-creator of Myspace. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Chris Pirillo Founder and maintainer of Lockergnome. Category: Founder, Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Chris Wetherell CEO of Avocado and developer who help start Google Reader. Category: CEO, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Christopher Poole American entrepreneur and founder of website 4chan. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Christopher Sholes Inventor of the typewriter and the first QWERTY keyboard. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Christopher Stone Co-founder and creative director of Twitter. Category: Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Christopher Strachey British scientist known for CPL and Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages. Category: Coined, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Christopher Weaver Software developer and game programmer and contributor to the real-time sports simulation technology. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Chuck Hull Inventor of 3D printing and co-founder of 3D systems. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Cindy Bates Vice president of SMB (Small-to-Midsized Business) at Microsoft Company. Category: Female , Manager, President, Twitter, 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 |
 | Claude Shannon Father of information theory. Category: Engineer, Father, Founder, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Clay Shirky American writer, consultant, lecturer, and teacher. Category: Manager, President, Twitter, 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 |
 | Corrado Bohm Computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Rome. Category: Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Craig Barrett Former Chairman and CEO of Intel. Category: CEO, Chairman, Manager, and Writer |
 | Craig Federighi Senior vice president of Software Engineering at Apple Inc. Category: Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Craig Neidorf American hacker and founding editor of Phrack Magazine. Category: Convict, Editor, Founder, Hacker, Manager, and Writer |
 | Craig Newmark Founder of Craigslist. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Craig Reynolds Creator of Boids artificial life simulation. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Cuthbert Hurd Computer scientist who helped IBM develop the first general-purpose computer. Category: Entrepreneur, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Cyril Cleverdon British librarian and computer scientist who is best known for his work on the evaluation of information retrieval systems. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Dabbala Reddy Indian American computer scientist and artificial intelligence pioneer. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Dale Dougherty Founder, President, and CEO of Maker Media and founder of MAKE Magazine. Category: CEO, Coined, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Dale Heatherington Co-founder Hayes Microcomputer Products, a US based manufacturer of modems. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Dan Bricklin Creator of VisiCalc. Category: Entrepreneur, Father, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Dan Farmer American computer security researcher who created Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks (SATAN). Category: Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Dan Gillmor American technology writer, columnist, and teacher of digital media entrepreneurship. Category: Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Dan Gookin Author of the first for dummies books including DOS for Dummies. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Dan Kaminsky American security researcher and chief scientist of White Ops. Category: Hacker, Manager, Researcher, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Dan Kaufman Director of the Information Innovation Office at DARPA. Category: Director, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Dana Scott Professor of computer science, philosophy, and mathematical logic. Category: Editor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Dana Ulery Pioneer in scientific computing applications and the first woman engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Category: Engineer, Female , Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Danah Boyd Social media scholar, youth researcher and advocate who works at Microsoft Research. Category: Female , Manager, Researcher, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Danese Cooper Open source diva and American computer programmer. Category: Director, Female , Manager, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Daniel Ek Swedish entrepreneur, founder and CEO of the music streaming service Spotify. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Daniel Friedman American computer scientist, author and programming language researcher. Category: Editor, Manager, Professor, Programmer, Researcher, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Daniel Hess American composer and video game sound designer. Category: Composer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Daniel Ingalls Pioneer of object-oriented computer programming. Category: Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Daniel Kottke Early Apple computer engineer who help assemble and test the first Apple I. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Daniel Mccracken American Computer scientist, pioneer, and programmer. Category: Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Danny Cohen Internet pioneer and network specialist who designed the first real-time visual flight simulator. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, Personality, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Dave Boggs American electrical and radio engineer who developed early Internet protocols. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Dave Raggett Developing HTTP, XHTML, and HTML. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Dave Winer American software developer, entrepreneur, and writer. Category: Editor, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | David Bailey Senior scientist of Computational Research Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | David Baszucki Massively multiplayer online game, physics-based sandbox and user-generated content site. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, Twitter, 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 Crane Making games for the Atari 2600. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | David Culler Inventor of TinyOS. Category: Director, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | David Cutler Father of Windows NT. Category: Engineer, Father, Manager, and Writer |
 | David Deutsch British physicist who is known for the Quantum Turing machine. Category: Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | David Evans Founder of the computer science department at the University of Utah. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | David Ferrucci American Computer Scientist who led the IBM team in the development of IBM Watson. Category: Manager, Researcher, Scientist, and Writer |
 | David Filo Co-founder of Yahoo!. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | David Hansson Danish computer programmer and creator of Ruby on Rails web development framework and the Instiki wiki. Category: Hacker, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | David Hilbert German mathematician known for discovering invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry. Category: Founder, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | David Huffman Computer science pioneer known for his Huffman coding. Category: Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | David Karp American web developer and founder of blogging platform, Tumblr. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | David Kravitz Software engineer and one of the original developers of Snapchat. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | David Lee Chinese-American business executive and inventor of the daisywheel printer. Category: CEO, Chairman, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | David Litchfield British computer security expert, database authority and author. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Hacker, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | David Morse Co-founder of Amiga. Category: Founder, Manager, 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 |
 | David Parnas Pioneer of software engineering. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | David Patterson American computer pioneer who coined and contributed to RISC. Category: Coined, Manager, President, Professor, and Writer |
 | David Reed Known for his work with computer networking, TCP/IP, User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Multiversion concurrency control. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | David Smith Author of the Melissa virus that he released to the world in 1999. Category: Convict, Manager, and Writer |
 | David Warthen American technologist and co-founder of Ask Jeeves. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | David Wheeler First computer scientist who completed a PhD in computer science. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | David Wise British video game music composer known for his work on Nintendo's Donkey Kong Country series. Category: Composer, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | David Young American computer scientist and mathematician. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Dean Kamen Inventor of the Segway. Category: Entrepreneur, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Demis Hassabis British artificial intelligence researcher, neuroscientist, computer game designer and gamer. Category: Founder, Gamer, Manager, Programmer, Researcher, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Dennis Crowley American Internet entrepreneur known for co-founding Foursquare and Dodgeball. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Dennis Fong Entrepreneur and retired celebrity pro computer gamer. Category: Coined, Entrepreneur, Founder, Gamer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Dennis Hayes Founder of Hayes Microcomputer Products and inventor of the PC Modem. Category: Chairman, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Dennis Ritchie Creator of the C programming language and developer of UNIX. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Derek Gehl Internet marketing strategist, software developer, e-commerce columnist and seminar speaker. Category: Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Derrick Lehmer American mathematician. Category: Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Desiree Wrigley CEO and co-founder at GiveForward Inc. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Dick Costolo American businessman, entrepreneur, and CEO of Twitter. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Dimitri Bertsekas Applied mathematician and computer scientist known for Convex optimization and Approximate Dynamic Programming. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Dimitry Golubov Ukrainian hacker and founder of the Internet Party of Ukraine. Category: Convict, Founder, Hacker, Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Don Libes Computer scientist at NIST and creator of STEP and Expect software programs. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Don Syme Australian born computer scientist and creator of the F# programming language. Category: Manager, Programmer, Researcher, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Donald Bitzer American electrical engineer and computer scientist and Father of PLATO. Category: Engineer, Father, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Donald Chamberlin American computer scientist known for SQL. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Donald Davies Welsh computer scientist known for helping to invent packet switching. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Donald Knuth Father of analysis of algorithms, creator of the TeX computer typesetting system and metafont font. Category: Father, Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Donald Michie British researcher in artificial intelligence. Category: Founder, Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Donald Shell American computer scientist and creator of the Shell sort sorting algorithm. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Donn Parker Security researcher and consultant. Category: Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Donna Dubinsky American Businesswoman who helped with the development of PDAs at Palm. Category: CEO, Female , Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Dorr Felt American inventor of the Comptometer. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Douglas Crockford Influential American computer programmer. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Douglas Engelbart Inventor of the computer mouse. Category: Engineer, Hacker, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Douglas Hofstadter American author, professor, and cognitive scientist. Category: Manager, Personality, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Douglas Lenat Prominent researcher in artificial intelligence. Category: CEO, Manager, Researcher, 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 Houston American Internet entrepreneur known for founding the online backup service Dropbox. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, 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 |
 | Dries Buytaert Open-source software programmer known as founder and lead developer of the Drupal CMS (content management system). Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Dudley Buck Electrical engineer and inventor of computer components. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Dustin Moskovitz Co-founder of the social networking website Facebook. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Ed Bott Award-winning journalist and one of the most recognized voices in the computing world. Category: Editor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Ed Colligan Former President and CEO of Handspring. Category: CEO, Manager, President, 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 Berkeley Co-founder of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). Category: Founder, Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Edmund Clarke FORE system professor and computer scientist who developed a method for verifying hardware and software designs. Category: Manager, Professor, Scientist, 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 |
 | Edsger Dijkstra Developer of ALGOL and the shortest path algorithm. Category: Editor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Edward Feigenbaum Father of expert systems. Category: Father, Founder, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Edward Fredkin Inventor of the trie data structure, the fredkin gate, and Billiard-Ball Computer Model. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Edward Shortliffe Canadian-born American physician and computer scientist known for his work in artificial intelligence in medicine. Category: Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Edward Snowden American computer professional who leaked classified information from NSA to mainstream media. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Edward Tufte American statistician and professor. Category: Coined, Manager, Professor, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Edward Yourdon Developer of structured analysis technique. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Edweard Muybridge English photographer best known for his photographic studies of motion and in motion-picture projection. Category: Manager 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 |
 | Edwin Turney Co-founder of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, President, 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 |
 | Einar Stefferud Internet pioneer, entrepreneur, and computer researcher, who helped develop the Internet. Category: Entrepreneur, Manager, Researcher, 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 |
 | Elizabeth Feinler American information scientist and former director of the Network Information Systems Center. Category: Director, Female , Manager, Scientist, 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 |
 | Emil Post Influential mathematician and logician. Category: Logician, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Emile Berliner German-born American inventor known for developing the disc record gramophone (phonograph). Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Enid Mumford British social scientist and computer scientist known for her work on human factors. Category: Female , Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Enrico Fermi Father of the atomic bomb. Category: Father, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Eric Bina Co-creator of Mosaic and the co-founder of Netscape. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Eric Chahi Computer game designer and programming language author. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Eric Raymond American computer programmer, author, and open source software advocate. Category: Hacker, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Eric Schmidt CEO of Google. Category: CEO, Director, Engineer, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Erik Cassel Administrator, and VP of Engineering of ROBLOX, a massively multiplayer online game, physics-based sandbox and user-generated content site. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Erik Selberg American software developer known for the creation of MetaCrawler. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Ethan Zuckerman American Internet activist, media scholar, blogger, and author. Category: Coined, Director, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Eugene Kleiner One of the founders of Fairchild Semiconductor. Category: Founder, Investor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Evan Williams Co-founder of Twitter and blogger. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Evelyn Berezin American computer engineer known for designing one of the first word processors. Category: Engineer, Female , Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Evelyn Granville One of the first African-American women to receive a Ph.D in mathematics. Category: African American, Female , Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Federico Faggin Italian physicist and engineer who helped design the first commercial microprocessor. Category: CEO, Engineer, Founder, Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer |
 | Felix Kjellberg Swedish video game commentator on YouTube. Category: 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 |
 | Fernando Corbato Computer scientist and pioneer of time-sharing operating systems that helped inspire Unix and other operating systems. Category: Father, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Fletcher Jones Founder of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). Category: Founder, Manager, 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 |
 | Frances Allen American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Category: Female , Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Francis Bacon Scientist, statesman, jurist, author, orator, and Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Frank Frankovsky Director of Hardware Design and Supply Chain at Facebook. Category: Director, Manager, and Writer |
 | Frank Pearce Co-founder and executive vice president of product development of Blizzard Entertainment. Category: Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Fred Baker American engineer who specializes in developing computer network protocols. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Fred Cohen Coined the term computer virus. Category: Coined, Manager, and Writer |
 | Frederic Williams British engineer well known for his contributions to the development of Radar. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Frederick Brooks Software engineer and computer scientist known for managing the development of IBM's System/360. Category: Engineer, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Fredrik Bull Information technology pioneer who helped with the development of punched cards. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Fredrik Idestam Finnish businessman and engineer known for founding Nokia. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Fredrik Neij Co-founder of The Pirate Bay and owner of the web host PRQ which hosted The Pirate Bay. Category: Founder, Manager, Personality, 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 |
 | Gabe Newell Producer of the first three releases of Windows and co-founder of Valve. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Garrett Gruener Information technology specialist and founder of Ask.com. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Garry Kasparov Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion. Category: Grandmaster, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Gary Hendrix American businessman and founder of Symantec Corporation. Category: Founder, 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 Mcgraw American computer scientist and Internet technology author. Category: Manager, Personality, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Gary Mckinnon Scottish system administrator and hacker. Category: Hacker, Manager, and Writer |
 | Gary Price Co-founder of infodocket.com and fulltextreports.com. Category: Founder, Manager, 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 |
 | Gary Thuerk Father of spam. Category: Father, Manager, and Writer |
 | Gary Wang Chinese entrepreneur and founder of Tudou.com, a Chinese video sharing company. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Gaston Gonnet Uruguayan-Canadian computer scientist known for his work with the Maple computer algebra system. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Gene Amdahl American computer architect and founder of Amdahl Corporation. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Gene Golub Renowned numerical analyst, professor, and author. Category: Analyst, Editor, Founder, Manager, President, Professor, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Geoffrey Dummer Electronics engineer and the first person to conceptualize and build a prototype of an integrated circuit. Category: Engineer, 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 Dantzig Mathematical scientist best known for linear programming. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, 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 Fairchild Businessman and investor and best known as the chairman of IBM. Category: Chairman, Investor, Manager, and Writer |
 | George Grant Founder of Grant Calculating Machine Company and developer of several calculating machines. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | George Necula Best known for his Ph.D. thesis work first describing proof-carrying code. Category: Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | George Pake Physicist and research executive that help found Xerox. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | George Perlegos Electrical engineer who participated in the development of the first cell flash memory from Intel and helped develop EEPROM. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | George Stibitz Computer pioneer recognized as the fathers of the modern first digital computer. Category: Father, Manager, and Writer |
 | Georgii Lopato Computer pioneer recognized as the fathers of the modern first digital computer, the Minsk. Category: Father, Manager, 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 |
 | Gerald Estrin UCLA professor who led the development of the WEIZAC, the first large-scale electronic computer outside of the United States. Category: Engineer, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Gerald Lawson Founder of Videosoft and best known for creating one of the earliest arcade games. Category: African American, Engineer, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Gerald Weinberg American computer scientist, author, and teacher. Category: Founder, Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Gerard Salton Was best known for developing Vector Space Model for information retrieval. Category: Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Gerrot Blaauw One of the principal designers of the IBM System/360. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Gertrude Blanch American mathematician who did pioneering work in numerical analysis and computation. Category: Director, Female , Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Gina Trapani American web developer, tech blogger, writer, and founder of the Lifehacker blog. Category: Female , Founder, Hacker, Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Ginny Strazisar Wrote the first Internet working router. Category: Female , Manager, 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 |
 | Glenn Ricart Computer scientist who help create the original Internet (ARPANET). Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Gordon Bell American computer engineer, manager, entrepreneur, and investor who oversaw the development of the VAX. Category: Engineer, Entrepreneur, Investor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Gordon Brown Originated many of the concepts behind automatic-feedback control systems. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Gordon Eubanks Microcomputer pioneer and author of CBASIC. Category: CEO, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Gordon French Computer programmer and engineer who co-founded the Homebrew Computer Club. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, Personality, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Gordon Moore Co-founder and former CEO of Intel. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Gottfrid Warg Swedish computer specialist and co-founder of the BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay together with Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde. Category: Founder, Manager, Personality, 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 |
 | Grady Booch American software engineer known for developing UML (Unified Modeling Language). Category: Engineer, Manager, Scientist, Twitter, 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 |
 | Guido Van Rossum Author of the Python programming language. Category: Engineer, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Gustav Tauschek Austrian pioneer of Information technology. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Guy Kawasaki Silicon valley venture capitalist, author, and Apple Fellow. Category: Director, Investor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Guy Steele Often called The Great Quux. Category: Hacker, Manager, Programmer, Researcher, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Hakon Wium Lie Web pioneer and creator of CSS. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Hans Anvin Swedish computer programmer known for his contributions to free and open source projects. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Hans Reiser American computer programmer, creator of ReiserFS computer file system and convicted murderer. Category: Convict, Entrepreneur, Father, Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Harald Alvestrand Norwegian computer scientist and author of several important RFCs. Category: Chairman, Editor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Harlan Anderson Co-founder of DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation). Category: Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Harlan Mills Founder of Software Engineering Technology, Inc. Category: Founder, Manager, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Harold Cohen Painter, scholar, artist, and computer scientist who created AARON. Category: Manager, Scientist, 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 Goode American statistician, mathematician, electrical and chemical engineer, professor, and author. Category: Chairman, Engineer, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Harry Huskey American computer designer pioneer who worked on the ENIAC, Pilot ACE, and G15 computers. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Harry Mccracken Technology writer and editor. Category: Editor, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Haskell Curry Pioneer of combinatorial logic. Category: Logician, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Hasso Plattner Co-founder of software giant SAP AG. Category: Chairman, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Hayyim Slonimski Astronomer, inventor, and science author who invented a calculating machine. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Hector De Jesus Ruiz Chairman and CEO of Advanced Nanotechnology Solutions and former CEO of AMD. Category: CEO, Chairman, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Hector Monsegur American computer hacker and co-founder of the hacking group LulzSec, turned FBI informant. Category: Founder, Hacker, 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 |
 | Heinz Zemanek Austrian computer pioneer best known for developing the first transistorized computer on the European continent. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Helmut Hoelzer Nazi Germany V-2 rocket engineer. Category: Engineer, 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 Perot Founder of EDS and Perot Systems. Category: Chairman, Founder, Investor, Manager, 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 Schildt American computer programmer and computing author. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Herb Sutter Prominent C++ expert, book author, and columnist for Dr. Dobb's Journal. Category: Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Herbert Freeman Computer scientist who made contributions to computer graphics. Category: Founder, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Herbert Grosch Computer scientist best known for Grosch's law, which states economy is as the square root of the speed. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Herbert Simon Pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Herman Goldstine Mathematician and computer scientist who helped develop the ENIAC. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Herman Hollerith Founder of IBM. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Herman Lukoff Computer pioneer who helped develop the ENIAC and the EDVAC computers. Category: Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Hermann Bottenbruch Co-author of the computer programming language ALGOL 58. Category: Coined, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Hermann Zapf German typeface designer whose work includes Palatino and Optima typefaces. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Howard Aiken Designer behind the IBM Harvard Mark I Computer. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Howard Cunningham American programmer who developed the first wiki. Category: Manager, Programmer, 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 |
 | Hugh Ross Early pioneer in the history of British computing. Category: Manager, Personality, and Writer |
 | I Bernard Cohen Professor of the history of science at Harvard and author of numerous books on the history of science and computers. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Igor Aleksander Emeritus professor of Neural System Engineering and Electronics Engineering at Imperial College. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Igor Sysoev Russian software developer known for creating Nginx. Category: Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Isaac Asimov American author and professor known for his science fiction books. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Isaac Newton English mathematician and physicist known for Universal gravitation and Calculus. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer |
 | 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 Dennis Computer scientist and retired MIT professor who help develop the Multics project. Category: Founder, Hacker, Manager, Professor, Scientist, Writer , and sponsor |
 | 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 |
 | Jack Ma Chinese entrepreneur and executive chairman of Alibaba Group. Category: Chairman, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jack Tramiel Founder of Commodore International. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jack Tretton Former President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Jack Wolf American researcher in information theory and coding theory. Category: Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Jacob Auch Instrument, clock-maker, and author of Handbuch für Landuhrmacher. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Jacob Ziv Israeli computer scientist who developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms. Category: Manager, Scientist, 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 |
 | Jake Lodwick American software engineer best known for co-founding Vimeo. Category: CEO, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jake Winebaum American entrepreneur and founder of FamilyFun magazine, Business.com, and Brighter.com. Category: Chairman, Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jakob Nielsen Computer engineer and web usability consultant. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | James Bryce Supervising engineer of the division that developed time recording machines. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | James Burke British broadcaster, author, futurist, and science historian. Category: Father, Founder, Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
 | James Clark American entrepreneur and founder of Netscape and Silicon Graphics. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | James Foley Co-author of several widely-used textbooks in the field of computer graphics. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | James Goodnight CEO of SAS Institute software company. Category: CEO, Manager, and Writer |
 | James Gosling Father of the Java programming language. Category: Father, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | James Gray Scientist best known his transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | James Martin Father of Computer Aided Systems Engineering (CASE). Category: Father, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | James Pomerene Electrical engineer and computer pioneer who helped build a parallel stored program computer. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | James Rand American industrialist who revolutionized the business record industry and founded American Kardex. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | James Ready American businessman and technologist and founder of MontaVista Software. Category: Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | James Russell Inventor of the digital compact disc. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | James Thomas Computer scientist, visionary, and research and development leader in the field of computer graphics. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | James Wilkinson English scientist, mathematician, and discoverer of many significant algorithms. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jan Koum American computer engineer and Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of WhatsApp. Category: CEO, Director, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Hacker, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jan Rajchman American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jane Jensen American game designer and writer known for the Gabriel Knight adventure games. Category: Director, Father, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jane Moran Global CIO of consumer goods manufacturer Unilever. Category: Female , Manager, and Writer |
 | Janus Friis Danish entrepreneur and co-founder of Skype and KaZaA. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jarkko Oikarinen Initial developer of IRC. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Jaron Lanier American computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and author. Category: Composer, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jason Scott American archivist, filmmaker and technology historian. Category: Director, Editor, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jason Shellen Thing Labs and developed Blogger. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jawed Karim Co-founder of YouTube. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jay Forrester Computer engineer who developed the aircraft flight simulator which later evolved to become the Whirlwind digital computer. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jay Miner Father of the Amiga. Category: Father, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jean Bartik One of the world's first computers and computer programmers. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Jean Fourier Known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series and their applications of heat transfers and vibrations. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Jean Hoerni Silicon transistor pioneer. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jean Ichbiah Designed the keyboard layout of FITALY. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jean Sammet American computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language. Category: Engineer, Female , Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jeanmauriceemile Baudot French telegraph engineer who invented the Baudot Code. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jef Raskin Known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Jeff Bezos Founder, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of Amazon. Category: CEO, Chairman, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Jeff Hawkins Founder of Palm and author of On Intelligence. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jeff Taylor American Internet entrepreneur and founder of the online job site Monster.com. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jeffrey Chu Computer engineer who's team designed the first American electronic computer, the ENIAC. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jeffrey Parson Creator of the B variant of the Blaster worm. Category: Convict, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jeffrey Raikes Chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Category: Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Jeffrey Skoll Canadian engineer and Internet entrepreneur known for being the first employee and president of eBay. Category: Chairman, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jeffrey Ullman Computer scientist, author, and professor at Stanford University. Category: Analyst, Founder, Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jen-hsun Huang Taiwanese-American entrepreneur and co-founder of Nvidia. Category: CEO, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Jenni Flinders American born vice president of the U.S. Partner Group at Microsoft. Category: Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jennifer Pahlka Founder and Executive Director of Code for America and U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer. Category: Director, Female , Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jeremy Stoppelman Co-founder and CEO of Yelp. Category: CEO, Director, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jeri Ellsworth American self-taught computer chip designer and entrepreneur. Category: Entrepreneur, Female , Hacker, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jerry Sanders Founder and former CEO of AMD. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jerry Shen Entrepreneur and creator of fantasy sports app Bignoggins. Category: Director, Entrepreneur, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jerry Yang Co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Category: CEO, Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jim Aspnes Professor in Computer Science at Yale University and creator of TinyMUD. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Jim Ellis Computer scientist who help create Usenet. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jim Hall Computer programmer and advocate for free software known for his work on FreeDOS. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jimmy Wales American Internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and promoter of Wikipedia. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Joe Belfiore Corporate vice president of Operating Systems Group and Windows Phone at Microsoft. Category: Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Joe Ossanna Electrical engineer and computer programmer known for his work with Unix operation system. Category: Engineer, Manager, Programmer, 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 |
 | Johann Gauss German mathematician and physical scientist called the Prince of Mathematicians. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, 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 Barlow American poet, essayist, and founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | John Bennet Australia professor of computer science and the founding president of the Australian Computer Society. Category: Founder, Manager, President, Professor, and Writer |
 | John Carmack American game programmer and founder of Id Software. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | John Chambers Chairman of the board and CEO of Cisco. Category: CEO, Chairman, Director, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | John Cocke Father of RISC architecture. Category: Father, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Collison Irish student and Internet entrepreneur known for co-founding Stripe. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Twitter, 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 Diebold Consultant and writer who championed the widespread use of computing and automated technology. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | John Doerr American venture capitalist widely regarded as one of the top technology venture capitalists in the world. Category: Investor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | John Draper Programmer phone phreak. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | John Dvorak American columnist and broadcasters in the areas of technology and computing. Category: Editor, Manager, Personality, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | John Eckert Electrical engineer and computer pioneer who help invent the ENIAC and UNIVAC. Category: Engineer, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | John Eulenberg Professor Emeritus at Michigan State who created Stevie Wonder's first talking and signing computer (1975). Category: Manager, Professor, Twitter, 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 Hollar President and CEO of the Computer History Museum. Category: CEO, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | John Hopcroft American theoretical computer scientist known for his textbooks on theory of computation. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Impagliazzo Historian, author, and professor of the computing sciences. Category: Editor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | John Kemeny Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist and co-developer of the BASIC computer programming language. Category: Manager, Mathematician, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Markoff New York Times journalist and author of Takedown book about Kevin Mitnick. Category: Editor, Hacker, Manager, Twitter, 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 Mcafee American computer programmer and founder of McAfee and one of the first to design antivirus software. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | John Mccarthy American computer scientist who coined the term artificial intelligence (AI) and created Lisp. Category: Coined, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Napier Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and inventor of Napier's bones. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, and Writer |
 | John Nash American mathematician known for Nash equilibrium and Nash embedding theorem. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Neumann Helped developed von Neumann architecture. Category: Manager, Mathematician, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Opel Computer businessman who served as the president of IBM. Category: CEO, Chairman, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | John Ousterhout Professor of computer science at University of California where he created Tcl scripting language and Tk platform. Category: Chairman, Founder, Manager, President, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | John Pasta American computer scientist known for co-originating the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam experiment. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Pavlik American academic and author who publishes on new media, journalism, and health communication. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | John Pinkerton British pioneer computer designer. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | John Resig Computer programmer and entrepreneur known as the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library. Category: Entrepreneur, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | John Romero Co-founder of id Software and designer for many of their games, including Wolfenstein 3D, Dangerous Dave, Doom, and Quake. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | John Sall Co-founder and executive vice president of SAS Institute. Category: Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | John Scully Former CEO of Apple between 1977 and 1983. Category: CEO, Coined, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | John Shedletsky American game developer and designer and former creative director at ROBLOX. Category: Director, Engineer, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | John Shoch American computer scientist who helped develop PUP, an important predecessor of TCP/IP. Category: Investor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Thomson Former vice president at IBM and former CEO of Symantec. Category: African American, CEO, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | John Tukey American statistician best known for the development of the FFT algorithm and box plot. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | John Vittal Computer programmer who's credited with transforming the old e-mail system into the highly user-friendly tool. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | John Walker Computer programmer and founder of Autodesk and co-author of AutoCAD. Category: Founder, Hacker, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | John Warnock Co-founder of Adobe. Category: CEO, Chairman, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Johnathan Wendel Considered to be the world's first prominent and accomplished professional computer gamer. Category: Founder, Gamer, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jolie Odell Internet personality known for her blog and writing work with Mashable and VentureBeat. Category: Female , Manager, Personality, and Writer |
 | Jon Hall Executive director of Linux International. Category: Director, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jon Kraft Co-founder, and CEO of Pandora Media. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
| Jon Radoff American author, entrepreneur, and game designer. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Gamer, Manager, Twitter, and Writer | |
 | Jon Tetzchner Founder and former CEO of Opera Software who left company in the year 2011. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jonathan Blow American independent videogame developer and creator of the game Braid. Category: Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jonathan Ive English designer and the former senior vice president of industrial design at Apple Inc. Category: Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Jonathan Postel American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet. Category: Editor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jorma Rissanen IBM researcher known for inventing the arithmetic coding technique of lossless data compression. Category: Inventor, Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Joseph Canion American computer scientist and co-founder of Compaq Computer Corporation. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Joseph Clement British engineer and designer of the first calculating device. Category: Engineer, Manager, 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 |
 | Joshua Lederberg American molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the US space program. Category: Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Joshua Schachter Creator of Delicious, GeoURL, and co-creator of Memepool. Category: Investor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Joyce Reynolds Computer scientist who helped develop Internet protocols. Category: Editor, Female , Manager, Scientist, 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 |
 | Julian Bigelow American computer engineer known for designing one of the first computers, the IAS. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Juris Hartmanis Computer scientist, computational theorist, and former professor at Cornell University. Category: Manager, Professor, Scientist, 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 |
 | Justin Kan American Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Justin.tv and TwitchTV. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Justin Rattner Corporate vice president, chief technology officer (CTO) and director of Intel Labs. Category: Director, Manager, President, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Justine Ezarik American Internet personality, lifecaster, and viral video comedian. Category: Female , Manager, Personality, 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 |
 | Kara Swisher American technology columnist and writer for the Wall Street Journal. Category: Editor, Female , Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Karen Jones Computer scientist who developed the concept of IDF (inverse document frequency). Category: Female , Manager, Professor, 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 |
 | Karl Ganzhorn German physicist who dealt with applied physics and computer development. Category: Director, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Karlheinz Brandenburg Audio engineer who has contributed to the audio compression format MPEG Audio Layer 3. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Kathleen Antonelli One of the six original programmers of the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Keith Uncapher Founder of ISI and developer of the Internet. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, 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 Kutaragi Former Chairman and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment and Father of the PlayStation. Category: CEO, Chairman, Father, Manager, and Writer |
 | Ken Mccarthy American entrepreneur and Internet commercialization pioneer. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Twitter, Writer , and sponsor |
 | Ken Olsen Founder and former CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Category: CEO, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Ken Thompson Developer of Unix, B programming language, and Multics. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Ken Williams Co-founder of On-Line System, which became Sierra On-Line. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Kenneth Iverson Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the APL programming language in 1962. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Kevin Hughes One of the pioneers of the World Wide Web in the United States, started Hawaii's first Web servers. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Kevin Kelly Founder, and executive editor of WIRED magazine and former editor and publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. Category: Editor, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Kevin Mitnick Computer security consultant, author, and hacker. Category: Convict, Hacker, Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Kevin Poulsen Former black hat hacker known for his telephone takeover hack to win a Porsche 944 S2 car. Category: Editor, Hacker, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Kevin Rose Co-founder of Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Kevin Systrom American entrepreneur and software engineer who co-founded Instagram. Category: CEO, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Kevin Warwick British scientist and professor of cybernetics known for his studies in the field of robotics. Category: Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Kim Dotcom German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur also known as Kimble. Category: Convict, Entrepreneur, Founder, Hacker, Manager, and Writer |
 | Kim Komando Host of an American talk radio program The Kim Komando Show which covers personal computers. Category: Female , Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Kim Stevenson Vice president and chief information officer of Intel. Category: Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Kimberly Bryant Senior biotech manager and founder of Black Girls Code. Category: African American, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Kirk Lafler American engineer, programmer, author, entrepreneur, consultant, and founder of Software Intelligence Corporation. Category: Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Klaus Samelson German mathematician, physicist, and computer pioneer in the area of programming language translation. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Konrad Zuse Developer of the Z1, the first programmable computer. Category: Father, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Kristen Nygaard Computer scientist who developed SIMULA I and SIMULA-67 - the first object-oriented programming languages. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Kurt Godel Austrian American logician, mathematician, and philosopher best known for his two incompleteness theorems. Category: Logician, Manager, Mathematician, 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 |
 | Lap Hui Chinese American tech entrepreneur and co-founder of eMachines and Everex. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Larry Constantine American software engineer and professor at the University of Madeira Portugal. Category: Engineer, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Larry Ellison Founder of Oracle. Category: Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Larry Page Co-founder of Google. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Larry Press Professor of Information Systems at California State University. Category: Editor, Manager, Professor, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Larry Roberts Creator of the ARPANET (predecessor to the modern Internet). Category: Chairman, Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Larry Sanger American online knowledge organizer and co-founder of Wikipedia. Category: Editor, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Larry Smarr Physicist and leader in scientific computing, supercomputer applications, and Internet infrastructure. Category: Director, Manager, Physicist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Larry Tesler American computer scientist and inventor of copy and paste. Category: Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Larry Wall Original developer of Perl. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Lars Rasmussen Danish-born computer scientist, software developer and co-founder of Google Maps. Category: Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Laszlo Kalmar Hungarian mathematician considered the founder of mathematical logic and theoretical computer science. Category: Founder, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Laszlo Kozma Hungarian electrical engineer and designer of the first Hungarian digital computer, 1957. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Laurence Spitters American industrialist and investor who co-founded Memorex (1961). Category: Founder, Investor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Laurie Hendren Pioneer in the field of compiler and object-oriented programming language analysis. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Lawrence Roberts One of the four fathers of the Internet who help create the ARPANET. Category: CEO, Director, Father, Manager, and Writer |
 | Lawrence Rowe Computer scientist and founding director of the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center (BMRC). Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Lee Boysel American engineer who developed four-phase logic and built first integrated circuit. Category: Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Lee Felsenstein One of the original founders of the Homebrew computer club. Category: Editor, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Lee Forest American inventor who invented the Audion, a vacuum tube. Category: Father, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Lee Mcmahon American computer scientist best known for his contributions to early versions of the Unix operating system. Category: Editor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Lee Sanghyeok Professional League of Legends computer game player. Category: Gamer, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Leo Fantl Father of business computing responsible for the many advanced payroll applications he helped deliver. Category: Father, Manager, and Writer |
 | Leo Laporte American technology broadcaster, author, speaker, and entrepreneur. Category: Editor, Entrepreneur, Manager, Personality, Twitter, 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 |
 | Leonard Bosack Co-founder of Cisco Systems responsible for pioneering the commercialization of local area network (LAN) technology. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Leonard Kleinrock Developer of packet switching that help create the Internet we know today. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Leonard Shustek Chairman of the board of trustees of the Computer History Museum located in Mountain View, California. Category: Chairman, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, and inventor. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Leonid Khachiyan Soviet mathematician who helped advance the field of linear programming. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Leonid Levin Soviet-American computer scientist known for his work in randomness in computing and algorithmic complexity. Category: Manager, 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 |
 | Leslie Comrie Astronomer and a pioneer in mechanical computation, first to use punched cards. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Leslie Lamport American computer scientist best known as the initial developer of the document preparation system LaTeX. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Linus Torvalds Original developer of Linux. Category: Hacker, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Lois Haibt Computer scientist known for being a member of the ten-person team at IBM that developed FORTRAN. Category: Female , Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Lori Matassa Senior staff platform software architect in Intel's Embedded and Communications Division. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Lorinda Cherry Computer programmer who worked at Bell Labs as an assembly language programmer. Category: Female , Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Lotfali Zadeh Mathematician, computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher and founder of fuzzy mathematics. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Researcher, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Lou Montulli Programmer known for his work in producing web browsers, namely Lynx and Netscape. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, Personality, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Louis Couffignal French Mathematician and Cybernetics pioneer and author of La cybernétique (1978). Category: Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Louis Gerstner Chairman of the board and chief executive officer of IBM from April 1993 until 2002. Category: CEO, Chairman, Manager, and Writer |
 | Louis Pouzin Invented the datagram and designed an early packet communications network. Category: Coined, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Louis Ridenour American physicist instrumental in U.S. development of radar. Category: Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer |
 | Luanne Johnson Founded Argonaut Information Systems to sell payroll and accounts payable software in 1971. Category: Female , Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Lydia Kavraki Greek-American computer scientist known for her work on motion planning and bioinformatics. Category: Female , Manager, Professor, Scientist, 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 |
 | Lynn Gref Technologist and systems engineer, who has done pioneering work in missile systems. Category: Director, Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Maksym Yastremski Ukrainian hacker and top online seller of stolen credit card information. Category: Convict, Hacker, Manager, and Writer |
 | Malcolm Mcilroy Mathematician, engineer, and programmer known for Unix pipelines and software componentry. Category: Chairman, Editor, Engineer, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Manuel Blum Computer scientist known for his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Manuel Fernandez Founder of the Gavilan Computer Corporation which developed one of the first portable laptop computers. Category: CEO, Chairman, Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Marc Andreessen Co-author of mosaic the first widely used web browser. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Marc Benioff Chairman and CEO of Salesforce. Category: CEO, Chairman, Coined, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Marc Canter CEO of Broadband Mechanics and previously founder of MacroMind, the company that became Macromedia. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Marc Ewing Creator and originator of the Red Hat brand of software who was involved in the 86open project in the mid-90s. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Marc Mcdonald American software developer known for being Microsoft's first salaried employee. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Marcian Hoff One of the inventors of the computer microprocessor. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Marissa Mayer Former Google vice president and Yahoo CEO. Category: CEO, Engineer, Female , Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Mark Abene Infosec expert, computer programmer, cryptographer, and hacker. Category: Convict, Founder, Hacker, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Mark Blank American software engineer and game developer. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Mark Crispin Which he invented in 1985. Category: Father, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Mark Cuban American businessman, entrepreneur, investor, and owner of NBA's Dallas Mavericks. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Manager, Twitter, 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 Hurd Co-president, director, and board member of Oracle Corporation. Category: CEO, Chairman, Director, Manager, President, 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 |
 | Mark Mccahill American programmer who has been involved in developing and popularizing many Internet technologies. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Mark Pincus Internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Zynga, which makes online social games. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Mark Pinsker Russian mathematician who fields of study included information theory, probability theory and coding theory. Category: Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Mark Tebbe Professor at University of Chicago and co-founder of Answers.com. Category: Chairman, Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Mark Zuckerberg Co-creator of Facebook. Category: Entrepreneur, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Markus Neteler Coordinator of GRASS GIS and promoter of Free Software GIS development. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Markus Persson Developer of the game Minecraft. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Marlyn Wescoff One of the original developers of the ENIAC computer. Category: Female , Manager, and Writer |
 | Marques Brownlee American video producer, tech-reviewer, and YouTube star. Category: African American, Manager, Personality, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Marshall Rose Network engineer, protocol developer, and contributor to the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Martha Fox English businesswoman, charity trustee, and co-founder of lastminute.com. Category: Female , Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Martin Campbell-kelly English computer scientist and historian. Category: Manager, Scientist, 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 Fowler Pioneer of modern software development techniques. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Martin Goetz Computer software pioneer known for the development of the commercial software industry. Category: Father, Manager, and Writer |
 | Martin Graetz Co-creator of Spacewar!, one of the earliest digital computer games. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Martin Hellman American cryptologist best known for his invention of public key cryptography. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Martin Odersky German computer scientist and Professor of programming methods at EPFL in Switzerland who specializes in code analysis. Category: Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Marvin Minsky Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and AI specialist. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Mary Buckles Published the first paper on video game aesthetics. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Mary Foley Writer for the tech industry, including ZDNet and frequent quest on radio, TV, and podcasts. Category: Female , Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Mary Jepsen Leader of the Display Division at Google X Lab and co-founder of One Laptop per Child. Category: Female , Founder, Manager, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Mary Keller First American woman to earn a PhD in Computer Science. Category: Female , Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Masatoshi Shima One of the designers of the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Mat Honan Media innovator, and senior writer with WIRED magazine. Category: Founder, Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Matt Cutts American software engineer and former head of the webspam team at Google. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Matt Mullenweg American online social media entrepreneur and founding developer of WordPress. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Maurice Wilkes British computer scientist credited with several important developments in computing specifically microcomputing. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Max Hopper American IT manager considered the father of airline automation in travel agencies. Category: Chairman, Father, Manager, and Writer |
 | Max Palevsky American art collector, venture capitalist, philanthropist, and computer technology pioneer with Packard Bell. Category: Investor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Max Vision Former computer security consultant and convicted online hacker. Category: Hacker, Manager, and Writer |
 | Maxwell Newman British mathematician and codebreaker and one of the creators of Colossus, the first operational electronic computer. Category: Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Meg Whitman American business executive and president of Hewlett-Packard. Category: CEO, Chairman, Female , Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Megan Smith Vice president, Google[x] at Google and former vice president of business development. Category: CEO, Manager, Personality, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Mg Siegler American venture capitalist and writer and columnist for TechCrunch. Category: Investor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Michael Calce Canadian computer hacker known for creating denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) at age 15. Category: Convict, Hacker, Manager, and Writer |
 | Michael Dell Founder of Dell computers. Category: CEO, Chairman, Entrepreneur, Founder, 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 Hawley Educator, scientist, artist, and researcher working in the field of digital media. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Researcher, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Michael Lazaridis Greek Canadian businessman and founder of Research In Motion (BlackBerry handhelds). Category: Chairman, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Michael Muuss Author of the freeware network tool ping which has been implemented on many operating systems. Category: Hacker, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Michael Rabin Israeli computer scientist known for the Miller-Rabin primality test. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Michael Robertson Founder and former CEO of MP3.com, a popular Internet music site. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, Twitter, 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 |
 | Michael Stonebraker Computer scientist, and one of the world's foremost experts in database technology. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Miguel Icaza Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Mihai Parparita Software engineer at Google and founding member of the Google Reader development team. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Mike Bergman Web Scientist and 'deep web' researcher. Category: CEO, Editor, Founder, Manager, Researcher, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Mike Berlyn American video game designer and writer. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Mike Culbert Apple engineer and vice president of architecture at Apple Computers who played key role in the Apple Newton. Category: Engineer, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Mike Lesk Computer scientist who helped develop Unix. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Mike Mccue Former directory of Twitter and founder of Paper Software, Tellme Networks, and Flipboard. Category: Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Mike Morhaime Co-founder, CEO, and president of video game developer Blizzard Entertainment. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Mikhail Donskoy Soviet and Russian computer scientist known as a developer of a chess program, Kaissa. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Mikko Hypponen Computer security expert and columnist for Wired. Category: Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Mina Rees American mathematician, and the first female President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Category: Female , Manager, Mathematician, President, and Writer |
 | Minh Nguyen Disputed co-founder of Plaxo and murder suspect. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Mitchell Kapor Founder of Lotus Development Corporation and designer of Lotus 1-2-3. Category: Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Mochio Umeda Japanese IT enterprise management consultant, author, and one of the most well-known commentators on IT. Category: Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Molly Holzschlag American author, lecturer, and advocate for the Open Web. Category: Female , Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Molly Wood Executive editor at CNET.com. Category: Editor, Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Morgan Sparks American scientist and engineer who helped develop the microwatt bipolar junction transistor. Category: Engineer, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Morris Chang Founding chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. Category: Chairman, Father, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Morton Meyerson Former president and vice chairman of Electronic Data Systems, Inc. Category: Chairman, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Moxie Marlinspike Pioneer of modern software development techniques. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Muni Sakya Nepalese computer programmer credited with helping bring Information Technology to Nepal. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Murali Chemuturi Indian software development expert and author. Category: Manager, Personality, and Writer |
 | Myron Krueger American computer artist who developed early interactive works. Category: Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
 | N Murthy Indian businessman and co-founder of Infosys. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Nate Silver American statistician, sabermetrician, psephologist, and writer of FiveThirtyEight blog. Category: Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Nathan Emberton Founder of Computer Hope. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Nathan Myhrvold Former chief technology officer at Microsoft and co-founder of Intellectual Ventures. Category: Founder, Manager, Personality, and Writer |
 | Nathan Rochester Designer of the IBM 701, programmer of the first assembler, and helped create the artificial intelligence field. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Nathaniel Borenstein American computer scientist and one of the original designers of the MIME protocol. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Neil Sloane British-US mathematician known for being the creator of the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. Category: Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Neil Tyson American astrophysicist and science communicator and former host of NOVA ScienceNow. Category: African American, Director, Manager, Personality, Physicist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Nicholas Metropolis Greek American physicist and one of the scientists during the Manhattan Project. Category: Manager, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Nicholas Negroponte American architect and founder of the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC). Category: Chairman, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Nick Woodman American businessman, entrepreneur and Founder and CEO of GoPro. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Niels Bech Leader in the field of electronic digital computers who assisted in the DASK project. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Niklaus Wirth Computer scientist who programmed the Pascal language. Category: Coined, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Nikola Tesla Inventor of AC (alternating current), and other inventions. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Nikolay Brusentsov Russian computer scientist known for building a ternary computer, Setun. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Noah Glass Founder of Twitter. Category: Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Noam Chomsky Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and historian. Category: Father, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Nobuo Mii Computer pioneer who made various contributions to computers. Category: Investor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Nolan Bushnell American engineer and entrepreneur who founded both Atari and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain. Category: Chairman, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Father, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
| Norbert Weiner American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at MIT and originator of cybernetics. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Researcher, and Writer | |
 | Norman Abramson American computer scientist known for developing the ALOHAnet system for wireless communication. Category: Engineer, 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 |
 | Ole-johan Dahl Norwegian computer scientist considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming. Category: Father, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Oliver Selfridge Pioneer of artificial intelligence called the father of machine perception. Category: Father, Manager, and Writer |
 | Oliver Standingford Oversaw the first computer used for commercial business applications. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Omer Reingold Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley. Category: Engineer, Manager, Professor, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Oren Etzioni American entrepreneur, professor and CEO of the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence. Category: CEO, Coined, Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Professor, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Otto Shweiger Swiss engineer and inventor of the first efficient four function calculator. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Otto Steiger Verea, and Bollée), but first commercially-successful. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Owen Mock Computer software designer and programmer who pioneered computer operating systems in the 1950s. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Pafnuty Chebyshev Statistics, mechanics, and analytical geometry. Category: Father, Founder, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Patrick Gelsinger Chief executive officer at VMware and former president and chief operating officer at EMC Corporation. Category: Manager, President, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Patrick Mcgovern Chairman, and founder of IDG (International Data Group). Category: Chairman, Editor, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Patrick Norton Former managing editor and co-host of The Screen Savers. Category: Editor, Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Patrick Volkerding Software engineer and founder of the Slackware Linux distribution. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Paul Allen Co-founder of Microsoft. Category: Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Paul Baran Polish American engineer who was a pioneer in the development of computer networks. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Paul Brainerd Pioneer in the field of computer-aided editing, design, and publishing and co-founder of Aldus. Category: Coined, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Paul Ceruzzi Curator of Computing at the Smithsonians's Museum in Washington D.C. and author of many books on computer history. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Paul Cress Canadian computer scientist who led a team of programmers developing Fortran language. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Paul Demaine Leading figure in the early development of computer-based automatic indexing. Category: Founder, 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 Graham Venture capitalist, and essayist known for his work on Lisp (a family of computer programming languages). Category: Founder, Hacker, Investor, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Paul King Australian software developer, scientist, and entrepreneur. Category: Entrepreneur, Manager, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Paul Laughton Former systems programmer for IBM one of Apple Computers first programmers. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Paul Maritz Former senior executive at Microsoft. Category: CEO, 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 |
 | Paul Otellini American businessman and current president of Intel. Category: Director, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Paul Otlet Father of information science who created the Universal Decimal Classification. Category: Entrepreneur, Father, Manager, and Writer |
 | Paul Rand American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs. Category: Director, Manager, and Writer |
 | Paul Thelen Founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Big Fish Games. Category: CEO, Chairman, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Paul Thurrott Technology blogger, author, podcaster, and news editor for Windows IT Pro magazine. Category: Editor, Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Per Hansen Danish-American computer scientist known for concurrent programming theory. Category: Coined, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Percy Ludgate Irish designer of an Analytical Engine for the programmable computer. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Pete Cashmore Scottish entrepreneur, founder, and CEO of Mashable. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Peter Bentley British author, computer scientist, and contributing editor for WIRED UK magazine. Category: Editor, Manager, Personality, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Peter Chen American computer scientist known for development of the Entity-Relationship Model. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Peter Denning American computer scientist and writer known for his pioneering work in virtual memory. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Peter Diamandis American engineer, physician, author, Intel entrepreneur and founder of X PRIZE Foundation. Category: CEO, Chairman, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
| Peter Eckersley Pioneer best known for helping to create Let's Encrypt while at EFF. Category: Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer | |
 | Peter Elias Pioneer in the field of information theory and coding theory. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Peter Franaszek American information theorist who set the direction for modern constrained coding. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Peter Grunberg German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Peter Karmanos CEO of Compuware Corporation and owner of hockey franchises. Category: CEO, Manager, and Writer |
 | Peter Kirstein British computer scientist who played a role in the creation of the Internet. Category: Manager, Scientist, 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 Molyneux English video game designer and game programmer. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Peter Naur Danish pioneer in computer science and programmer. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Peter Neuman Computer science researcher who worked on the Multics operating system. Category: Coined, Founder, Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Peter Norton American programmer, software publisher, author, and philanthropist. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Peter Norvig Pioneer of information processing and artificial intelligence. Category: Director, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Peter Samson American computer scientist known for creating pioneering computer software. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Peter Schnell German entrepreneur who founded Software AG Foundation. Category: Chairman, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Peter Sunde Founder of Flattr and ex-spokesperson Pirate Bay. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Peter Tattam Software developer known for authoring Trumpet Winsock. Category: Director, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Peter Weinberger Computer scientist who helped write the AWK programming language. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Petro Vlahos Hollywood special effects pioneer who defined the color-difference bluescreen process. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Phil Farrand American computer programmer, webmaster, and author. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Phil Fish French-Canadian game designer working with Polytron and creator of the game Fez. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Philibert Docagne French engineer and mathematician. Category: Engineer, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Philip Emeagwali Nigerian-born computer scientist known for his use of a Connection Machine supercomputer. Category: African American, Engineer, Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, Twitter, 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 |
 | Phillip Katz Computer programmer known as the co-creator of the ZIP file format. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Phillip Rosedale American entrepreneur and founder of Linden Lab's Second Life virtual world. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Twitter, 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 |
 | Pierre Omidyar French-born entrepreneur, founder, and chairman of the eBay auction site. Category: Chairman, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Pieter Abeele Software developer, and founder of the PowerPC version of Gentoo Linux. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Quentin Staffordfraser British computer scientist who helped create the first webcam. Category: Manager, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Radia Perlman Mother of the Internet. Category: Engineer, Female , Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Rahul Sood Founder of VoodooPC and former chief technology officer for HP Global Voodoo Business Unit. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Rajeev Sangal Professor and author known for his work in processing of human languages in Computational Paninian Grammar (CPG) framework. Category: Manager, Professor, Programmer, 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 Griswold American computer scientist noted for his research into high-level programming languages and symbolic computation. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Ralph Meagher Culminating with the ILLIAC IV supercomputer, the largest and fastest in the world. Category: 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 |
 | Ramanathan Guha Co-leaders of the AI Cyc project. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Ramon Llull Poet, theologian, mystic, mathematician, logician, and martyr who is called a pioneer of computation theory. Category: Logician, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Randy Eisenman Founder of Satori Capital and Handango in 1999 where he served as president and chief executive officer. Category: Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Randy Pausch American professor of computer science and human computer interaction at CMU. Category: Founder, Manager, President, Professor, and Writer |
 | Randy Wigginton Programmer and one of Apple Computer's first employee number 6. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Ransom Love Co-founder of the late Caldera company. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Rasmus Lerdorf Danish programmer with Canadian citizenship best known as the creator of the PHP scripting language. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Ray Ozzie American software industry entrepreneur and chief technical officer at Microsoft. Category: Entrepreneur, Inventor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Ray Tomlinson American programmer who implemented an e-mail system on the ARPANET. Category: Manager, Personality, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Raymond Boyce American computer scientist known for co-developing SQL database language. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Raymond Holt Pioneering computer designer and businessman in Silicon Valley that developed the first microprocessor chip set for F-14 Tomcat. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Raymond Kurzweil American author, futurist, and inventor of the Kurzweil K250 music keyboard. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Raymond Noorda American computer businessman and CEO of Novell from the years 1982 to 1994. Category: CEO, Manager, and Writer |
 | Reed Hastings Computer scientist, entrepreneur, and co-founder and CEO of Netflix. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Scientist, 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 |
 | Reid Hoffman American entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author known as the co-founder of LinkedIn. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Rene Descartes French philosopher, mathematician, and writer dubbed the father of modern philosophy. Category: Father, Manager, Mathematician, 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 |
 | Renukanth Subramaniam British hacker and founder of DarkMarket, Internet cybercrime forum. Category: Convict, Founder, Hacker, 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 Branson English business magnate and investor and founder of Virgin Group. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Richard Brodie Author original creator of Microsoft Word. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Richard Canning EDP Analyzer. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Richard Crandall Chief Scientist at NeXT and Apple's Chief Cryptographer. Category: Manager, Physicist, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Richard Feynman American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics. Category: Manager, Physicist, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Richard Greenblatt American computer programmer and one of the founders of the hacker community with Bill Gosper. Category: Founder, Hacker, Manager, Programmer, 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 Harper British sociologist and principle researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge. Category: Manager, Professor, Researcher, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Richard Karp Computer scientist and computational theorist known for his research in the theory of algorithms. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Richard Lyon American scientist known for inventing the optical mouse. Category: Engineer, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Richard Mason Consultant, and author known for his work in ethics of information and the history of information systems in organizations. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Richard Schulze Founder and past chairman of Best Buy. Category: Chairman, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Richard Skrenta Computer programmer and creator of search engine blekko. Category: Entrepreneur, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Richard Stallman American software freedom activist and computer programmer who launched the GNU project. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Richard Stearns Computer scientist who established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Richard Yoo American entrepreneur and founder of web hosting company Rackspace. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Rob Auten Author of video games including Battlefield: Hardline and Gears of War: Judgement. Category: Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Rob Barnaby Computer programmer, author and developer of the word processor Wordstar. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Rob Hartill Web designer and computer programmer known for his work on the IMDb (Internet Movie Database) website. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Rob Kalin Online handmade and vintage marketplace founded in the year 2005. Category: Founder, Manager, Twitter, 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 Cailliau Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who helped develop the World Wide Web. Category: Engineer, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robert Cohn Company that commercialized voice mail. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Robert Dennard Inventor of DRAM. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Robert Enderle American technology analyst and labeled as the most quoted technology analysts in the media. Category: Analyst, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Robert Everett Named the MIT Whirlwind Project in 1945. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robert Fano Inventing (with Claude Shannon) Shannon-Fano coding. Category: Director, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robert Floyd Computer scientist who designed the Floyd-Warshall algorithm. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robert Frankston Co-creator of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Robert Gentleman Canadian statistician known as one of the creators of the R (programming language). Category: Director, Manager, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Robert Griesemer Computer programmer who works at Google and one of the first designers of the Go programming language. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Robert Hooke English natural philosopher, architect, and polymath. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
| Robert Krakoff Founder of the Razer company. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer | |
 | Robert Lansdown Computer graphics pioneer and polymath and Professor Emeritus at Middlesex University Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Robert Martin Consulting firm that specializes in training clients in Java, C++, OOP. Category: Editor, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Robert Metcalfe Founder of 3Com. Category: Coined, Founder, Hacker, Manager, and Writer |
 | Robert Miner Co-founder of Oracle Corporation, and developer of its relational database management system. Category: Founder, 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 Morris Best known for creating the Morris Worm, the first Internet worm. Category: Convict, Father, Founder, Manager, Scientist, 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 Prim Computer scientist who developed two different algorithms for finding a minimum spanning tree in a weighted graph. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robert Scoble American blogger, author, and technical evangelist who runs Scobleizer. Category: Manager, Twitter, Writer , and sponsor |
 | Robert Stein Computer pioneer who founded the Voyager Company. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Robert Tarjan American computer scientist who discovered several graph algorithms. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robert Taylor Internet pioneer and director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office from 1965 through 1969. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Roberta Williams American video game creator and designer and co-founder of Sierra Entertainment. Category: Female , Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Robin Milner British computer scientist who developed LCF, one of the first tools for automated theorem proving. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Roger Hui Computer scientist and co-developer of the J programming language and recipient of the Kenneth E. Iverson Award Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Roger Moore Professor of spoken language processing in the Speech and Hearing Research Group at the University of Sheffield. Category: Manager, Professor, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Roger Needham Computer scientist known for the BAN logic and Tiny Encryption algorithm. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Roger Sippl Entrepreneur, and innovator who founded Informix Software and pioneered SQL relational databases. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, 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 Schafer American electrical engineer known for his work with signal processing. Category: Editor, Engineer, Manager, President, Professor, and Writer |
 | Ronald Stamper British computer scientist known for his work in organisational semiotics and as creator of the MEASUR methodology. Category: Manager, Scientist, 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 |
 | Ross Ihaka Associate Professor of statistics and one of the creators of the R programming language. Category: Manager, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Ross Ulbricht Founder of the online black market Silk Road. Category: Convict, Founder, Manager, 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 |
 | Russel Ackoff Systems thinking and management science. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Russell Ohl American engineer known for patenting the modern solar cell and researching semiconductors. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Ryan Block Technology journalist, critic, former editor of Engadget, and co-founder of gdgt. Category: Editor, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Ryan Shrout Founder, owner, operator, and editor-in-chief of PC Perspective. Category: Editor, Founder, Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
| S Scott Crump Pioneer of modern 3D printing technology. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer | |
 | Saadia Muzaffar Marketing, sales, and business executive and organizer of Startup Weekends. Category: Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Sabeer Bhatia Indian American who founded the Hotmail e-mail service. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Safra Catz Israeli-born American business executive at Oracle Corporation. Category: CEO, Female , Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Salman Khan American educator, entrepreneur, and founder of the Khan Academy. Category: Analyst, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
| Sam Altman Former CEO of OpenAI and president of Y Combinator. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer | |
 | Sam Schillace One of the founders of Writely, which was sold to Google for Google Docs. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Samuel Caldwell American electrical engineer known for his pioneering work with early computers. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Samuel Hopkins First person granted U.S. patent. Category: Manager, President, 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 Palmisano President and chief executive officer of IBM from 2000-2012. Category: Chairman, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Samuel Soule Co-inventor of the first practical typewriter in 1969. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Samy Kamkar Computer security researcher known for creating Evercookie. Category: Founder, Manager, Researcher, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Sander Kaasjager Dutch professional game player of the first person shooter game Painkiller. Category: Gamer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Sandra Kurtzig Software management firm and former CEO of the ASK Group. Category: CEO, Female , Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Sandra Lerner Co-founder of Cisco Systems and founder of Urban Decay cosmetics. Category: Female , Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Sarah Lane American television and Internet personality. Category: Female , Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
| Satoshi Nakamoto Creator of bitcoin. Category: Manager and Writer | |
 | Satya Nadella Indian-American business executive and current CEO (chief executive officer) of Microsoft. Category: CEO, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Saul Rosen Lead software designer for the world's first transistorized computer, the Philco TRANSAC S-2000. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Savvas Chamberlain Inventor, scientist, and professor who invented silicon image sensors. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Scott Cook Founder of Intuit in 1983, and currently chairman of the board of Intuit. Category: Chairman, Director, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Scott Fahlman First person to use a smiley emoticon. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Scott Forstall Senior vice president of iOS Software at Apple Inc. Category: Director, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Scott Guthrie Known for his work on ASP.NET. Category: Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Scott Mcnealy American businessman and co-founded computer technology company Sun Microsystems in 1982. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Scott Mueller Author of books about personal computers and one of the most trusted authoritative hardware voices in the industry. Category: Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Sebastian Thrun Founder of Google X, home to projects like the Google self-driving car and Google Glass. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Sellam Ismail Operator of VintageTech, a consultancy specializing in obsolete computers. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Semen Korsakov Russian government official, homeopath, and inventor known for his early involvement in information technology. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Sergey Brin Co-founder of Google. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Sergio Verdu Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University who teaches and conducts research on Information Theory. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Seymour Cray Founder of Cray. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, 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 |
 | Seymour Rubinstein PC software industry pioneer who helped develop WordStar, HelpDesk, Quattro Pro. Category: Director, Manager, and Writer |
 | Shafi Goldwasser Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. Category: Female , Inventor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Shawn Fanning Computer programmer and co-founder of Napster. Category: Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Sheryl Sandberg American businesswoman and chief operating officer of Facebook. Category: Female , Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Shigeru Miyamoto Video game designer and producer known for many successful video game franchises, including Donkey Kong. Category: Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Shiraz Shivji African born electrical engineer and chief designer of the Atari ST computer. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Shuling Garver Engineering manager for Intel and the first franchisee for Engineering for Kids. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Shyam Sankar Director of Forward Deployed Engineering at Palantir Technologies. Category: Director, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Sidney Harman American business man who with Bernard Kardon made the first integrated hi-fi receiver and founded Harman Kardon. Category: Chairman, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Sidney Meier Canadian programmer and video game designer known for video game Civilization. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Simon Phipps And open source advocate and founder of IBM's Java Technology Center. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Simon Travaglia Author of BOFH (the Bastard Operator from Hell) series. Category: Analyst, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Sky Dayton American entrepreneur, founder of EarthLink, co-founder of eCompanies and founder and chairman of Boingo. Category: Chairman, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Solomon Golomb American engineer, mathematician, and professor known for his development of mathematical games. Category: Coined, Engineer, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, and Writer |
 | Sophia Bekele Business and corporate executive and Executive Director and Founder of DotConnectAfrica Trust. Category: CEO, Director, Female , Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Stanford Ovshinsky Pioneer of modern software development techniques. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Stanley Frankel American computer scientist who designed the LGP-30 single-user desk computer in 1956. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Stanley Gill British computer scientist known for inventing the first computer subroutine. Category: Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Stephanie Shirley British businesswoman and philanthropist who is best known for founding the software company F.I. Group. Category: Female , Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Stephen Cook American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician and one of the forefathers of computational complexity theory. Category: Father, Manager, Mathematician, 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 Hawking British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author. Category: Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer |
 | Stephen Keckler Senior Director of Architecture Research at NVIDIA who's interested in technology-scalable architectures. Category: Director, Manager, Professor, 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 |
 | Stephen Robertson British computer scientist known for work on information retrieval and inverse document frequency. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
| Stephen Wilhite Creator of the GIF image format. Category: Manager and Writer | |
 | Stephen Wolfram Founder of Wolfram|Alpha. Category: Founder, Manager, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Steve Ballmer CEO of Microsoft. Category: CEO, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Steve Bristow Former VP of Engineering at Atari who helped design the Atari 2600. Category: Engineer, Manager, 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 Case Co-founder of America Online (AOL). Category: CEO, Chairman, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Steve Chen Co-founder of YouTube. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Steve Crocker Created the first FTC and help create the ARPANET protocols. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Steve Dorner American software engineer known for developing the Eudora e-mail client in 1988. Category: Director, Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Steve Garfield Videographer, video blogging pioneer and co-founder of New Mediacracy podcast. Category: Founder, Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Steve Gibson Computer enthusiast, software engineer and security researcher. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, Personality, Researcher, Twitter, 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 Mcconnell Author of software engineering textbooks including Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Steve Meretzky American computer game developer and interactive fiction writer. Category: Gamer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Steve Russell Computer scientist who helped create Spacewar!, one of the earliest videogames. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Steve Wolff One of the fathers of the Internet and developer of NSFNET. Category: Director, Father, Manager, President, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Steve Wozniak Co-founder of Apple and Father of the Apple computer. Category: CEO, Father, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Steven Bourne British computer scientist known for authoring the Bourne shell. Category: Manager, Mathematician, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Steven Coons Computer Graphics early pioneer, author, and former Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Steven Punter Also known as Punter or Old Punter. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Steven Sinofsky President of the Windows Division at Microsoft from July 2009 through his departure on November 12, 2012. Category: Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Stewart Brand American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. Category: Editor, Founder, Hacker, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Stewart Cheifet Television host and producer of Computer Chronicles. Category: Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Stu Galley American computer programmer and interactive fiction game author. Category: Editor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Stuart Cheshire Senior Scientist at Apple Computer and author of Mac multi-player game Bolo who Pioneered Zeroconf networking. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Stuart Feldman Creator of the computer software program Make for UNIX systems and author of the first Fortran 77 compiler. Category: Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Stuart Moulthrop Author of hypertext fiction works Victory Garden. Category: Founder, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Stuart Russell Innovator in the philosophy and practice of Artificial Intelligence. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Sue Gardner Canadian journalist and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation (2007-2013). Category: Director, Female , Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Sugata Mitra Professor at Newcastle University in England known for his Hole in the Wall project. Category: Manager, Professor, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Susan Decker American business executive and former president of Yahoo! Inc. Category: Analyst, Director, Investor, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Susan Dumais Principal Researcher in the CLUES (Context, Learning, and User Experience for Search) Group of Microsoft Research. Category: Female , Manager, Professor, Researcher, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Susan Kare Artist and graphic designer who created many of the interface elements for the Apple Macintosh in the 1980s. Category: Director, Female , Manager, and Writer |
 | Susan Wojcicki American businesswoman and CEO of YouTube. Category: CEO, Female , Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Sven Jaschan Self-confessed author of the NetSky and Sasser computer worm. Category: Convict, Hacker, Manager, and Writer |
 | Sviatoslav Pestov Creator of Factor, a scripting language for a video game which was later incorporated into Java. Category: Editor, Manager, and Writer |
 | T Jones American software engineer, computer programmer, entrepreneur, and author. Category: Engineer, Entrepreneur, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Ted Dabney Co-founder of Atari in 1971, which started as Syzygy. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Ted Nelson American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information who coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia. Category: Coined, Manager, and Writer |
 | Tedd Waitt American billionaire philanthropist who was a co-founder of Gateway, Inc. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Theodore Maiman Inventor of the first laser. Category: Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Theodore Tso American software developer known for his work on the Linux kernel. Category: Director, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Thomas Cover Information theorist and professor at Stanford University. Category: Manager, President, Professor, and Writer |
 | Thomas Edison Inventor of the phonograph, motion picture camera, electric light bulb, and more. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Thomas Flowers English engineer who during World War II designed Colossus. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Thomas Fowler English inventor known for inventing a mechanical calculating machine. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Thomas Kurtz Co-developer of the BASIC computer programming language. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Thomas Lane Computer scientist and open source software advocate. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Thomas Nicely Publicly disclosed the Pentium FDIV bug. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Thomas Pabst German doctor who founded the online publication Tom's Hardware. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Thomas Siebel American business executive, software developer and investor. Category: Chairman, Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Thomas Watson Early chairman and CEO of IBM. Category: CEO, Chairman, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Thomas Watson Jr Jr. an American businessman, political figure, and philanthropist and 2nd president of IBM. Category: Father, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Tiffany Shlain American Internet pioneer, filmmaker, author, and founder of the Webby Awards. Category: CEO, Director, Female , Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Tilly Blyth Computer historian and keeper of technologies and engineering at the Science Museum. Category: Editor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Tim Berners-lee Father of the World Wide Web (WWW). Category: Father, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Tim Bray Canadian software developer who helped create XML. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Tim Cook CEO of Apple after taking over from Steve Jobs on August 24, 2011. Category: CEO, Director, Manager, and Writer |
 | Tim O'reilly Founder of O'Reilly Media. Category: Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Tim Paterson Original author of MS-DOS. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Tim Roughgarden Computer scientist interested in analysis, design, applications of algorithms and game theory. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Tim Westergren Co-founder of Pandora and creator of Genome project. Category: Founder, 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 |
 | Tom Anderson Co-founder of Myspace. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Tom Demarco American author, teacher, software engineer and early creator of structured analysis. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Tom Hall American game designer who founded id Software where he served as creative director and designer. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Tom Jennings Technician, and creator of FidoNet, the first file networking and message system for BBSes. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Tom Kilburn English engineer who worked on the world's first stored-program computer, the SSEM. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Tom Merritt Broadcaster and technology journalist. Category: Editor, Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Tony Fadell Known as the father of the Apple iPod. Category: Entrepreneur, Father, Founder, Inventor, Investor, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Tony Hsieh Venture capitalist and Internet entrepreneur who founded Zappos.com. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Tony Sale Manager of the Colossus computer replica. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Toru Iwatani World's most popular arcade game. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Trevor Pearcey British-born Australian computer scientist who developed CSIRAC computer. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Tsutomu Shimomura Computer security expert who helped the FBI arrest Kevin Mitnick. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Ursula Burns Madam chairman (or chairperson) and CEO of Xerox and the first the African-American woman CEO. Category: African American, CEO, Chairman, Female , Manager, and Writer |
 | Valentin Turchin Soviet and American computer scientist and cybernetician who developed the Refal programming language. Category: Father, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Valerie Landau American software designer, author, and educator and director of Round World Media. Category: Director, Female , Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Vannevar Bush American engineer and science administrator know for work on analog computing and memex. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Vasily Gorshkov Russian Computer programmer and hacker. Category: Hacker, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Vern Paxson Professor of Computer Science at Berkeley and Internet researcher. Category: Coined, Manager, Professor, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Veronica Belmont Co-host of Revision3 Tekzilla. Category: Editor, Female , Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Victor Alhadeff Business executive known as the founder and CEO of Egghead Software. Category: CEO, Chairman, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Victor Hayes Senior research fellow at the Delft University of Technology, often called the father of Wi-Fi. Category: Chairman, Father, Manager, and Writer |
 | Vida Ilderem Vice president of Intel Labs and director of the Integrated Platform Research Lab. Category: Director, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Vilhelm Bjerknes Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who helped found the modern practice of weather forecasting. Category: Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Vinod Khosla American businessman, billionaire and co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Category: CEO, Chairman, Founder, Investor, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Vint Cerf Father of the Internet. Category: Father, Founder, Manager, Personality, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Virginia Rometty American business executive and the first CEO of IBM. Category: CEO, Chairman, Female , Manager, and Writer |
 | Vladimir Levenshtein Russian scientist known for the Levenshtein algorithm, and the Levenshtein distance. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Vladimir Levin Russian-born Jewish computer programmer and hacker. Category: Hacker, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | 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, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Ward Christensen First BBS (bulletin board system) ever brought online (1978). Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | 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 the use of 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, Twitter, and Writer |
 | 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, Twitter, and Writer |
 | 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, Twitter, and Writer |
 | 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 the development of 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, Twitter, and Writer |
 | 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 |
 | Xeni Jardin American digital media commentator, tech culture journalist, weblogger, and founder of Boing Boing. Category: Editor, Female , Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Yancey Strickler American Internet entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Kickstarter. Category: CEO, Editor, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Yogen Dalal Engineer, entrepreneur, venture capitalist and co-author of the TCP specification. Category: Engineer, Entrepreneur, Investor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Yukihiro Matsumoto Japanese computer scientist and software programmer known as the lead designer of the Ruby programming language. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Zeev Suraski Israeli programmer who created PHP 3 in 1997, a server-side scripting computer programming language. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |