President computer pioneers

Below is a listing of computer pioneers that have been tagged as a President. Clicking on any of the below links will open the biography for that person.

Abhay BhushanAbhay Bhushan
Author of FTP.
Category: Chairman, Engineer, Manager, President, and Writer
Al GoreAl Gore
American politician, advocate, author, philanthropist, and environmental activist.
Category: Director, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
Alfred AhoAlfred Aho
Canadian computer scientist and author known for the Aho-Corasick string matching algorithm.
Category: Manager, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer
Andrew KayAndrew Kay
Computer pioneer and founder of Kay Computers.
Category: CEO, Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer
Andy RubinAndy Rubin
Co-founder and former CEO of Danger Inc. and Android Inc.
Category: CEO, Engineer, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
Anthony WoodAnthony Wood
Pioneer and innovator in TV and digital media and founder and CEO of Roku.
Category: CEO, Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer
Armas MarkkulaArmas Markkula
Angel investor and second CEO of Apple Computer.
Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Investor, Manager, President, and Writer
Bailey DiffieBailey Diffie
American cryptographer and pioneer of public-key cryptography.
Category: Manager, President, and Writer
Barbara SimonsBarbara Simons
American computer scientist and former president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Category: Director, Female , Founder, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin
Author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, and much more.
Category: Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer
Bill GatesBill Gates
Founder of Microsoft.
Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer
Bob KahnBob Kahn
Internet pioneer, engineer, and computer scientist who helped develop TCP/IP.
Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer
Carol BartzCarol Bartz
Former president and CEO of Yahoo!
Category: CEO, Chairman, Female , Manager, President, and Writer
Christopher WeaverChristopher Weaver
Software developer and game programmer and contributor to the real-time sports simulation technology.
Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer
Cindy BatesCindy Bates
Vice president of SMB (Small-to-Midsized Business) at Microsoft Company.
Category: Female , Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
Clay ShirkyClay Shirky
American writer, consultant, lecturer, and teacher.
Category: Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
Craig FederighiCraig Federighi
Senior vice president of Software Engineering at Apple Inc.
Category: Manager, President, and Writer
Dale DoughertyDale Dougherty
Founder, President, and CEO of Maker Media and founder of MAKE Magazine.
Category: CEO, Coined, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer
Dan BricklinDan Bricklin
Creator of VisiCalc.
Category: Entrepreneur, Father, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
David LeeDavid Lee
Chinese-American business executive and inventor of the daisywheel printer.
Category: CEO, Chairman, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer
David PackardDavid Packard
Co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard (HP) company.
Category: CEO, Chairman, Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer
David PattersonDavid Patterson
American computer pioneer who coined and contributed to RISC.
Category: Coined, Manager, President, Professor, and Writer
Dov FrohmanDov Frohman
Israeli electrical engineer and former vice president of Intel Corporation.
Category: Engineer, Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer
Ed ColliganEd Colligan
Former President and CEO of Handspring.
Category: CEO, Manager, President, and Writer
Edwin CatmullEdwin Catmull
Computer scientist and President of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios.
Category: Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer
Edwin TurneyEdwin Turney
Co-founder of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer
Federico FagginFederico Faggin
Italian physicist and engineer who helped design the first commercial microprocessor.
Category: CEO, Engineer, Founder, Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer
Frank PearceFrank Pearce
Co-founder and executive vice president of product development of Blizzard Entertainment.
Category: Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
Gene GolubGene Golub
Renowned numerical analyst, professor, and author.
Category: Analyst, Editor, Founder, Manager, President, Professor, Researcher, and Writer
Gordon BellGordon Bell
American computer engineer, manager, entrepreneur, and investor who oversaw the development of the VAX.
Category: Engineer, Entrepreneur, Investor, Manager, President, and Writer
Gordon EubanksGordon Eubanks
Microcomputer pioneer and author of CBASIC.
Category: CEO, Manager, President, and Writer
Gordon MooreGordon Moore
Co-founder and former CEO of Intel.
Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer
Grace HopperGrace 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
Hector De Jesus RuizHector De Jesus Ruiz
Chairman and CEO of Advanced Nanotechnology Solutions and former CEO of AMD.
Category: CEO, Chairman, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer
Herman LukoffHerman Lukoff
Computer pioneer who helped develop the ENIAC and the EDVAC computers.
Category: Manager, President, and Writer
Jack TrettonJack Tretton
Former President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America.
Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer
Jake WinebaumJake Winebaum
American entrepreneur and founder of FamilyFun magazine, Business.com, and Brighter.com.
Category: Chairman, Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
James ReadyJames Ready
American businessman and technologist and founder of MontaVista Software.
Category: Founder, Manager, President, and Writer
Jeff BezosJeff Bezos
Founder, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of Amazon.
Category: CEO, Chairman, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer
Jeffrey RaikesJeffrey Raikes
Chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Category: Manager, President, and Writer
Jeffrey SkollJeffrey 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
Jen-hsun HuangJen-hsun Huang
Taiwanese-American entrepreneur and co-founder of Nvidia.
Category: CEO, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer
Jenni FlindersJenni Flinders
American born vice president of the U.S. Partner Group at Microsoft.
Category: Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
Joe BelfioreJoe Belfiore
Corporate vice president of Operating Systems Group and Windows Phone at Microsoft.
Category: Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
John BennetJohn Bennet
Australia professor of computer science and the founding president of the Australian Computer Society.
Category: Founder, Manager, President, Professor, and Writer
John ChambersJohn Chambers
Chairman of the board and CEO of Cisco.
Category: CEO, Chairman, Director, Manager, President, and Writer
John DvorakJohn Dvorak
American columnist and broadcasters in the areas of technology and computing.
Category: Editor, Manager, Personality, President, Twitter, and Writer
John HollarJohn Hollar
President and CEO of the Computer History Museum.
Category: CEO, Manager, President, and Writer
John KemenyJohn Kemeny
Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist and co-developer of the BASIC computer programming language.
Category: Manager, Mathematician, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer
John NeumannJohn Neumann
Helped developed von Neumann architecture.
Category: Manager, Mathematician, President, Scientist, and Writer
John OpelJohn Opel
Computer businessman who served as the president of IBM.
Category: CEO, Chairman, Manager, President, and Writer
John OusterhoutJohn 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 SallJohn Sall
Co-founder and executive vice president of SAS Institute.
Category: Founder, Manager, President, and Writer
John ScullyJohn Scully
Former CEO of Apple between 1977 and 1983.
Category: CEO, Coined, Manager, President, and Writer
John ThomsonJohn Thomson
Former vice president at IBM and former CEO of Symantec.
Category: African American, CEO, Manager, President, and Writer
John WarnockJohn Warnock
Co-founder of Adobe.
Category: CEO, Chairman, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer
Jonathan IveJonathan Ive
English designer and the former senior vice president of industrial design at Apple Inc.
Category: Manager, President, and Writer
Joseph CanionJoseph Canion
American computer scientist and co-founder of Compaq Computer Corporation.
Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer
Joshua LederbergJoshua Lederberg
American molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the US space program.
Category: Manager, President, and Writer
Justin RattnerJustin Rattner
Corporate vice president, chief technology officer (CTO) and director of Intel Labs.
Category: Director, Manager, President, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer
Kim StevensonKim Stevenson
Vice president and chief information officer of Intel.
Category: Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
Louis RidenourLouis Ridenour
American physicist instrumental in U.S. development of radar.
Category: Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer
Lynn ConwayLynn 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
Marc BenioffMarc Benioff
Chairman and CEO of Salesforce.
Category: CEO, Chairman, Coined, Manager, President, and Writer
Marissa MayerMarissa Mayer
Former Google vice president and Yahoo CEO.
Category: CEO, Engineer, Female , Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
Mark HurdMark Hurd
Co-president, director, and board member of Oracle Corporation.
Category: CEO, Chairman, Director, Manager, President, and Writer
Marques BrownleeMarques Brownlee
American video producer, tech-reviewer, and YouTube star.
Category: African American, Manager, Personality, President, Twitter, and Writer
Meg WhitmanMeg Whitman
American business executive and president of Hewlett-Packard.
Category: CEO, Chairman, Female , Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
Megan SmithMegan Smith
Vice president, Google[x] at Google and former vice president of business development.
Category: CEO, Manager, Personality, President, Twitter, and Writer
Mike CulbertMike 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 MorhaimeMike Morhaime
Co-founder, CEO, and president of video game developer Blizzard Entertainment.
Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
Mina ReesMina Rees
American mathematician, and the first female President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Category: Female , Manager, Mathematician, President, and Writer
Mochio UmedaMochio Umeda
Japanese IT enterprise management consultant, author, and one of the most well-known commentators on IT.
Category: Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
Morton MeyersonMorton Meyerson
Former president and vice chairman of Electronic Data Systems, Inc.
Category: Chairman, Manager, President, and Writer
Nate SilverNate Silver
American statistician, sabermetrician, psephologist, and writer of FiveThirtyEight blog.
Category: Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
Noam ChomskyNoam Chomsky
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and historian.
Category: Father, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer
Patrick GelsingerPatrick Gelsinger
Chief executive officer at VMware and former president and chief operating officer at EMC Corporation.
Category: Manager, President, Programmer, and Writer
Paul OtelliniPaul Otellini
American businessman and current president of Intel.
Category: Director, Manager, President, and Writer
Philip EstridgePhilip Estridge
Led the development of the original IBM Personal Computer (PC).
Category: Father, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer
Philip ZimmermanPhilip Zimmerman
Creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP).
Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer
Randy EisenmanRandy 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 PauschRandy Pausch
American professor of computer science and human computer interaction at CMU.
Category: Founder, Manager, President, Professor, and Writer
Regina DuganRegina 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
Reynold JohnsonReynold Johnson
Inventor of the disk drive and videocassette tape.
Category: Father, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer
Richard BransonRichard Branson
English business magnate and investor and founder of Virgin Group.
Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
Richard HammingRichard 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
Ronald SchaferRonald Schafer
American electrical engineer known for his work with signal processing.
Category: Editor, Engineer, Manager, President, Professor, and Writer
Saadia MuzaffarSaadia Muzaffar
Marketing, sales, and business executive and organizer of Startup Weekends.
Category: Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
Safra CatzSafra Catz
Israeli-born American business executive at Oracle Corporation.
Category: CEO, Female , Manager, President, and Writer
Sam AltmanSam Altman
Former CEO of OpenAI and president of Y Combinator.
Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer
Samuel HopkinsSamuel Hopkins
First person granted U.S. patent.
Category: Manager, President, and Writer
Samuel PalmisanoSamuel Palmisano
President and chief executive officer of IBM from 2000-2012.
Category: Chairman, Manager, President, and Writer
Satya NadellaSatya Nadella
Indian-American business executive and current CEO (chief executive officer) of Microsoft.
Category: CEO, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
Scott ForstallScott Forstall
Senior vice president of iOS Software at Apple Inc.
Category: Director, Manager, President, and Writer
Scott GuthrieScott Guthrie
Known for his work on ASP.NET.
Category: Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
Scott MuellerScott Mueller
Author of books about personal computers and one of the most trusted authoritative hardware voices in the industry.
Category: Manager, President, and Writer
Sheryl SandbergSheryl Sandberg
American businesswoman and chief operating officer of Facebook.
Category: Female , Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
Simon PhippsSimon Phipps
And open source advocate and founder of IBM's Java Technology Center.
Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer
Stanley GillStanley Gill
British computer scientist known for inventing the first computer subroutine.
Category: Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer
Stephanie ShirleyStephanie 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 HawkingStephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author.
Category: Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer
Steve WolffSteve Wolff
One of the fathers of the Internet and developer of NSFNET.
Category: Director, Father, Manager, President, Researcher, and Writer
Steven BourneSteven Bourne
British computer scientist known for authoring the Bourne shell.
Category: Manager, Mathematician, President, Scientist, and Writer
Steven SinofskySteven Sinofsky
President of the Windows Division at Microsoft from July 2009 through his departure on November 12, 2012.
Category: Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
Stuart FeldmanStuart Feldman
Creator of the computer software program Make for UNIX systems and author of the first Fortran 77 compiler.
Category: Manager, President, and Writer
Susan DeckerSusan Decker
American business executive and former president of Yahoo! Inc.
Category: Analyst, Director, Investor, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
Thomas CoverThomas Cover
Information theorist and professor at Stanford University.
Category: Manager, President, Professor, and Writer
Thomas WatsonThomas Watson
Early chairman and CEO of IBM.
Category: CEO, Chairman, Manager, President, and Writer
Thomas Watson JrThomas Watson Jr
Jr. an American businessman, political figure, and philanthropist and 2nd president of IBM.
Category: Father, Manager, President, and Writer
Tom AndersonTom Anderson
Co-founder of Myspace.
Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
Tony FadellTony Fadell
Known as the father of the Apple iPod.
Category: Entrepreneur, Father, Founder, Inventor, Investor, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
Victor AlhadeffVictor Alhadeff
Business executive known as the founder and CEO of Egghead Software.
Category: CEO, Chairman, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer
Vida IlderemVida Ilderem
Vice president of Intel Labs and director of the Integrated Platform Research Lab.
Category: Director, Manager, President, and Writer
Vint CerfVint Cerf
Father of the Internet.
Category: Father, Founder, Manager, Personality, President, Scientist, and Writer
William CoolidgeWilliam Coolidge
American physicist known for his work with incandescent electric lighting.
Category: Director, Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer
William DavidowWilliam Davidow
American engineer, author, marketing executive, and venture capitalist.
Category: Engineer, Investor, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer
William HewlettWilliam Hewlett
Co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard (HP) company.
Category: CEO, Chairman, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer
William LoweWilliam Lowe
American businessman who managed the team that developed the first IBM personal computer.
Category: Father, Manager, President, and Writer
William StevensWilliam Stevens
Author of computer science books, in particular books on UNIX and TCP/IP.
Category: Manager, President, Programmer, and Writer

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