| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Ilesanmi Adesida |
Educator |
c. 1949 |
|
Dean, College of Engineering, UIUC |
| Robert Adler |
Physicist |
4-Dec-1913 |
15-Feb-2007 |
Invented wireless remote control |
| Zhores I. Alferov |
Scientist |
15-Mar-1930 |
|
Developed solar cells for the Sputnik program |
| Paul Allaire |
Business |
21-Jul-1938 |
|
Twice CEO of Xerox |
| Lew Allen, Jr. |
Military |
30-Sep-1925 |
4-Jan-2010 |
Director of the NSA, 1973-77 |
| Paul Allen |
Business |
21-Jan-1953 |
|
Co-Founder of Microsoft |
| Gene Amdahl |
Engineer |
16-Nov-1922 |
10-Nov-2015 |
Parallel computing pioneer |
| Neil Armstrong |
Astronaut |
5-Aug-1930 |
25-Aug-2012 |
First man on the Moon |
| Norman Augustine |
Business |
27-Jul-1935 |
|
CEO of Martin Marietta, 1987-97 |
| John Bardeen |
Physicist |
23-May-1908 |
30-Jan-1991 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
| Craig R. Barrett |
Business |
29-Aug-1939 |
|
Chairman of Intel |
| Donald R. Beall |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Rockwell, 1988-98 |
| Stephen D. Bechtel |
Business |
24-Sep-1900 |
14-Mar-1989 |
Ran Bechtel from 1936-60 |
| Arnold Beckman |
Inventor |
10-Apr-1900 |
18-May-2004 |
Philanthropist who invented pH meter |
| J. Robert Beyster |
Business |
26-Jul-1924 |
22-Dec-2014 |
Founder of SAIC |
| James Blinn |
Computer Programmer |
c. 1948 |
|
3D computer imaging pioneer |
| Erich Bloch |
Business |
9-Jan-1925 |
|
Director of NSF, 1984-90 |
| Nicolaas Bloembergen |
Physicist |
11-Mar-1920 |
|
Nonlinear optics |
| H. Kent Bowen |
Educator |
c. 1941 |
|
Baker Foundation Professor at HBS |
| Willard S. Boyle |
Physicist |
19-Aug-1924 |
7-May-2011 |
Digital photography |
| Peter R. Bridenbaugh |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Former EVP at Alcoa |
| Fred Brooks |
Computer Programmer |
19-Apr-1931 |
|
Father of the IBM System 360 |
| Rodney Brooks |
Scientist |
30-Dec-1954 |
|
Robotics and artificial intelligence researcher |
| Robert A. Brown |
Educator |
22-Jul-1951 |
|
President, Boston University |
| François J. Castaing |
Business |
1945 |
|
Former EVP at Chrysler |
| Ed Catmull |
Business |
31-Mar-1945 |
|
Pixar Co-Founder, Disney Animation president |
| Vint Cerf |
Scientist |
23-Jun-1943 |
|
Co-Designed Internet's TCP-IP protocol |
| G. Wayne Clough |
Educator |
c. 1942 |
|
Secretary of the Smithsonian |
| Vance D. Coffman |
Business |
3-Apr-1944 |
|
CEO of Lockheed Martin, 1998-2004 |
| Karl T. Compton |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1887 |
22-Jun-1954 |
Bikini Island atomic tests |
| Philip M. Condit |
Business |
2-Aug-1941 |
|
CEO of Boeing, 1996-2003 |
| Harry Coover |
Chemist |
6-Mar-1919 |
19-Mar-2011 |
Invented Super Glue |
| Alan Cottrell |
Scientist |
17-Jul-1919 |
15-Feb-2012 |
Metallurgist at Cambridge |
| James Q. Crowe |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of Level 3 Communications |
| Malcolm R. Currie |
Business |
13-Mar-1927 |
|
CEO of Hughes Aircraft, 1988-92 |
| Dave Cutler |
Computer Programmer |
13-Mar-1942 |
|
Father of Windows NT |
| Mark Dean |
Engineer |
2-Mar-1957 |
|
Computer architecture |
| Earnest W. Deavenport, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
CEO of Eastman Chemical, 1994-2001 |
| W. Edwards Deming |
Mathematician |
14-Oct-1900 |
20-Dec-1993 |
Quality Control guru |
| Nicholas M. Donofrio |
Business |
7-Sep-1945 |
|
EVP at IBM |
| Donald W. Douglas |
Business |
6-Apr-1892 |
1-Feb-1981 |
Founder of Douglas Aircraft Co. |
| E. Linn Draper, Jr. |
Business |
6-Feb-1942 |
|
CEO, American Electric Power, 1993-2003 |
| Daniel C. Drucker |
Engineer |
1918 |
25-Aug-2001 |
Drucker's stability postulate |
| James J. Duderstadt |
Educator |
5-Dec-1942 |
|
President, University of Michigan, 1988-96 |
| William F. Durand |
Engineer |
5-Mar-1859 |
9-Aug-1958 |
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics |
| Robert J. Eaton |
Business |
13-Feb-1940 |
|
CEO of Chrysler, 1993-98 |
| John Presper Eckert |
Computer Programmer |
9-Apr-1919 |
3-Jun-1995 |
ENIAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I computers |
| Doug Engelbart |
Computer Programmer |
30-Jan-1925 |
2-Jul-2013 |
Pioneer of human-computer interaction |
| Leo Esaki |
Physicist |
12-Mar-1925 |
|
Electron tunneling |
| Thomas E. Everhart |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1932 |
|
President of CalTech, 1987-97 |
| Ed Felten |
Computer Programmer |
25-Mar-1963 |
|
Broke SDMI |
| George M. C. Fisher |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Kodak, 1993-2000 |
| Richard H. Gallagher |
Engineer |
17-Nov-1927 |
30-Sep-1997 |
Finite element method |
| Hector Garcia-Molina |
Educator |
c. 1954 |
|
Stanford EECS Professor |
| Alice P. Gast |
Educator |
25-May-1958 |
|
President, Lehigh University |
| Bill Gates |
Business |
28-Oct-1955 |
|
Co-Founder of Microsoft |
| Chuck Geschke |
Business |
11-Sep-1939 |
|
Co-Founder of Adobe |
| Ivan Getting |
Inventor |
18-Jan-1912 |
11-Oct-2003 |
Global Positioning System |
| Ivar Giaever |
Physicist |
5-Apr-1929 |
|
Tunneling through superconductors |
| Robert R. Gilruth |
Engineer |
18-Oct-1913 |
17-Aug-2000 |
NASA scientist |
| Ronald E. Goldsberry |
Business |
12-Sep-1942 |
|
Former VP, Ford |
| Richard J. Goldstein |
Engineer |
c. 1936 |
|
Fluid mechanics |
| Ralph E. Gomory |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| Mary L. Good |
Educator |
20-Jun-1931 |
|
Donaghey Professor, U. Arkansas |
| Bill Gordon |
Astronomer |
8-Jan-1918 |
16-Feb-2010 |
Designed Arecibo radio telescope |
| James Gosling |
Computer Programmer |
19-May-1955 |
|
Creator of Java |
| Wilson Greatbatch |
Inventor |
6-Sep-1919 |
27-Sep-2011 |
Implantable pacemaker |
| Donald P. Greenberg |
Educator |
c. 1933 |
|
Prof. of Computer Graphics, Cornell |
| Michael D. Griffin |
Government |
1-Nov-1949 |
|
NASA Administrator |
| Andy Grove |
Business |
2-Sep-1936 |
|
CEO of Intel, 1987-98 |
| Edward E. Hagenlocker |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Vice Chairman of Ford, 1996-99 |
| Jeff Hawkins |
Inventor |
1-Jun-1957 |
|
Inventor of the Palm Pilot and Treo |
| Martin Hellman |
Inventor |
2-Oct-1945 |
|
Public key cryptographer |
| John L. Hennessy |
Educator |
c. 1953 |
|
President of Stanford University |
| Stanley Hiller, Jr. |
Inventor |
15-Nov-1924 |
20-Apr-2006 |
Helicopter designer |
| James Hillier |
Physicist |
22-Aug-1915 |
15-Jan-2007 |
Electron microscope |
| Danny Hillis |
Business |
25-Sep-1956 |
|
Co-Founder, Thinking Machines |
| Peter B. Hirsch |
Scientist |
16-Jan-1925 |
|
Electron microscopy in metallurgy |
| Nicholas J. Hoff |
Engineer |
3-Jan-1906 |
4-Aug-1997 |
Aluminum in aircraft design |
| Charles O. Holliday, Jr. |
Business |
1948 |
|
CEO of DuPont, 1998-2008 |
| Nick Holonyak |
Physicist |
3-Nov-1928 |
|
Light-emitting diodes |
| Leroy Hood |
Biologist |
10-Oct-1938 |
|
Systems biology and Human Genome Project |
| Grace Murray Hopper |
Computer Programmer |
9-Dec-1906 |
1-Jan-1992 |
Computer programming pioneer |
| Evelyn Hu |
Physicist |
c. 1947 |
|
Nanoscale device fabrication |
| Lee Iacocca |
Business |
15-Oct-1924 |
|
Former chairman, Chrysler Corporation |
| Shirley A. Jackson |
Physicist |
5-Aug-1946 |
|
NRC Chairman, 1995-99 |
| Irwin M. Jacobs |
Business |
18-Oct-1933 |
|
Co-Founder of Qualcomm |
| Steve Jobs |
Business |
24-Feb-1955 |
5-Oct-2011 |
Co-Founder of Apple Computer |
| Barry C. Johnson |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Villanova Dean of Engineering, 2002-06 |
| Kelly Johnson |
Engineer |
27-Feb-1910 |
21-Dec-1990 |
Lockheed Skunk Works plane designer |
| Anita K. Jones |
Educator |
c. 1942 |
|
Professor at University of Virginia |
| Bill Joy |
Computer Programmer |
8-Nov-1954 |
|
BSD designer, C shell, vi, Java |
| William H. Joyce |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
CEO of Union Carbide, 1995-2001 |
| Joseph M. Juran |
Scientist |
24-Dec-1904 |
28-Feb-2008 |
The Pareto Principle |
| Brewster Kahle |
Business |
22-Oct-1960 |
|
Founder of the Internet Archive |
| Robert E. Kahn |
Scientist |
23-Dec-1938 |
|
Co-Inventor, Internet's TCP-IP protocol |
| Paul G. Kaminski |
Military |
16-Sep-1942 |
|
CEO of Technovation, Inc. |
| Theodore von Kármán |
Mathematician |
11-May-1881 |
7-May-1963 |
Kármán vortices |
| Alan Kay |
Computer Programmer |
17-May-1940 |
|
Father of Object-Oriented Programming |
| Brian Kernighan |
Computer Programmer |
1942 |
|
The C Programming Language, awk |
| Jack S. Kilby |
Inventor |
8-Nov-1923 |
20-Jun-2005 |
Electrical engineering pioneer |
| Jeong H. Kim |
Business |
c. 1961 |
|
President of Bell Laboratories |
| Oliver D. Kingsley, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
President and COO of Exelon, 2003-04 |
| Donald E. Knuth |
Computer Programmer |
10-Jan-1938 |
|
The Art of Computer Programming |
| Chris Kraft |
Engineer |
28-Feb-1924 |
|
Long-time voice of NASA's Mission Control |
| Kent Kresa |
Business |
24-Mar-1938 |
|
CEO of Northrop Grumman, 1990-2003 |
| Herbert Kroemer |
Physicist |
25-Aug-1928 |
|
Pioneer in laser technology |
| Ellen J. Kullman |
Business |
1956 |
|
CEO of DuPont |
| Ray Kurzweil |
Inventor |
12-Feb-1948 |
|
Age of Spiritual Machines |
| Edwin H. Land |
Inventor |
7-May-1909 |
1-Mar-1991 |
Polaroid Land Camera |
| Robert S. Langer |
Chemist |
29-Aug-1948 |
|
Institute Professor at MIT |
| Tom Leighton |
Mathematician |
c. 1956 |
|
Co-founder of Akamai |
| Kenneth Levy |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Founder of KLA Instruments |
| Peter W. Likins |
Educator |
1936 |
|
President, University of Arizona, 1997-2006 |
| Jack E. Little |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
President of Shell Oil, 1998-99 |
| Theodore Maiman |
Physicist |
11-Jul-1927 |
5-May-2007 |
Built the first working laser |
| Robert W. Mann |
Inventor |
1924 |
16-Jun-2006 |
Prosthetic devices |
| John William Mauchly |
Physicist |
30-Aug-1907 |
8-Jan-1980 |
ENIAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I computers |
| John McCarthy |
Computer Programmer |
4-Sep-1927 |
24-Oct-2011 |
Created LISP programming language |
| Eugene R. McGrath |
Business |
1942 |
|
CEO of Consolidated Edison, 1997-2005 |
| Carver A. Mead |
Engineer |
1-May-1934 |
|
Microelectronics |
| Robert Mehrabian |
Business |
31-Jul-1941 |
|
CEO of Teledyne |
| Teresa H. Meng |
Business |
c. 1961 |
|
Co-Founder, Atheros Communications |
| Richard A. Meserve |
Attorney |
20-Nov-1944 |
|
President of the Carnegie Institution |
| Bob Metcalfe |
Business |
1946 |
|
Co-Inventor of Ethernet |
| Ruben Mettler |
Business |
23-Feb-1924 |
23-May-2006 |
CEO of TRW, 1969-77 |
| Raymond D. Mindlin |
Engineer |
17-Sep-1906 |
22-Nov-1987 |
Mindlin's problem |
| Marvin Minsky |
Scientist |
9-Aug-1927 |
|
Father of Artificial Intelligence |
| Chad Mirkin |
Chemist |
23-Nov-1963 |
|
International Institute for Nanotechnology |
| Benjamin F. Montoya |
Military |
24-May-1935 |
|
US Navy Civil Engineer, Rear Admiral |
| Gordon Moore |
Business |
3-Jan-1929 |
|
Co-founder of Intel, laid down Moore's Law |
| C. D. Mote, Jr. |
Educator |
c. 1937 |
|
President, University of Maryland |
| Alan Mulally |
Business |
4-Aug-1945 |
|
CEO of Ford Motor Company, 2006-14 |
| Arun Netravali |
Business |
26-May-1946 |
|
Chief Scientist at Lucent, 2002-03 |
| Robert Noyce |
Inventor |
12-Dec-1927 |
3-Jun-1990 |
Co-Inventor, integrated circuit |
| Ray Ozzie |
Computer Programmer |
20-Nov-1955 |
|
Microsoft Chief Software Architect, 2006-10 |
| Larry Page |
Business |
26-Mar-1973 |
|
Co-Founder of Google |
| Bradford W. Parkinson |
Engineer |
16-Feb-1935 |
|
Global Positioning System |
| Elizabeth Paté-Cornell |
Educator |
17-Aug-1948 |
|
Risk analysis expert, Stanford professor |
| Arno Penzias |
Astronomer |
26-Apr-1933 |
|
Detected primordial radiation |
| Henry Petroski |
Educator |
6-Feb-1942 |
|
Engineering professor |
| Thomas H. Pigford |
Engineer |
21-Apr-1922 |
27-Feb-2010 |
Nuclear chemical engineer |
| E. Gail de Planque |
Physicist |
c. 1944 |
|
Nuclear physicist |
| James D. Plummer |
Educator |
3-Dec-1944 |
|
Dean of Stanford's Engineering School |
| John W. Poduska |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
Founder of Apollo Computer |
| Charles W. Pryor, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Former Westinghouse executive |
| Raj Reddy |
Educator |
13-Jun-1937 |
|
Professor of Computer Science, CMU |
| Cordell Reed |
Business |
26-Mar-1938 |
|
Former Senior VP, ComEd |
| Eric Reissner |
Mathematician |
5-Jan-1913 |
1-Nov-1996 |
Reissner shear-deformation plate theory |
| Dennis Ritchie |
Computer Programmer |
9-Sep-1941 |
12-Oct-2011 |
Co-Creator of UNIX |
| Ron Rivest |
Computer Programmer |
1947 |
|
The R in RSA |
| Steven B. Sample |
Educator |
29-Nov-1940 |
|
President, University of Southern California |
| Henry Samueli |
Business |
20-Sep-1954 |
|
Co-Founder of Broadcom |
| Linda S. Sanford |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
Senior VP Enterprise at IBM |
| Gabriel Schmergel |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
CEO of Genetics Institute, Inc., 1981-97 |
| Eric Schmidt |
Business |
27-Apr-1955 |
|
CEO of Google, 2001-11 |
| William R. Sears |
Engineer |
1-Mar-1913 |
12-Oct-2002 |
Airfoil engineer |
| Claude Shannon |
Scientist |
30-Apr-1916 |
24-Feb-2001 |
Pioneer in information theory |
| Dan Shechtman |
Chemist |
24-Jan-1941 |
|
Discovered quasicrystals |
| Alan Shugart |
Inventor |
27-Sep-1930 |
12-Dec-2006 |
SCSI interface |
| Igor Sikorsky |
Business |
25-May-1889 |
26-Oct-1972 |
Helicopter magnate |
| George E. Smith |
Scientist |
10-May-1930 |
|
Digital photography |
| Philip Sporn |
Engineer |
25-Nov-1896 |
23-Jan-1978 |
American Electric Power Company |
| Richard Stallman |
Computer Programmer |
16-Mar-1953 |
|
Founder, GNU software project |
| Chauncey Starr |
Physicist |
14-Apr-1912 |
17-Apr-2007 |
Electric Power Research Institute |
| Anne Stevens |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of Carpenter Technology |
| H. Guyford Stever |
Educator |
24-Oct-1916 |
9-Apr-2010 |
President of CMU, 1965-72 |
| Bjarne Stroustrup |
Computer Programmer |
1950 |
|
Inventor of C++ programming language |
| Ronald D. Sugar |
Business |
1948 |
|
CEO of Northrop Grumman |
| John H. Sununu |
Government |
2-Jul-1939 |
|
George H.W. Bush's Chief of Staff |
| Ivan Sutherland |
Engineer |
16-May-1938 |
|
Father of computer graphics |
| Frederick Terman |
Scientist |
7-Jun-1900 |
19-Dec-1982 |
Stanford Research Park |
| Ken Thompson |
Computer Programmer |
4-Feb-1943 |
|
Co-creator of UNIX |
| Sebastian Thrun |
Scientist |
1967 |
|
Stanford AI Laboratory |
| Chang-Lin Tien |
Educator |
24-Jul-1935 |
29-Oct-2002 |
Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1990-97 |
| Gary L. Tooker |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Chairman of Motorola, 1996-99 |
| Charles H. Townes |
Physicist |
28-Jul-1915 |
27-Jan-2015 |
Invention of the maser and laser |
| Daniel C. Tsui |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1939 |
|
Fractional quantum Hall effect |
| Charles Vest |
Educator |
9-Sep-1941 |
12-Dec-2013 |
President of MIT, 1990-2004 |
| Andrew J. Viterbi |
Engineer |
9-Mar-1935 |
|
Viterbi Algorithm |
| John Warnock |
Computer Programmer |
6-Oct-1940 |
|
Co-Founder of Adobe |
| Alvin M. Weinberg |
Physicist |
20-Apr-1915 |
18-Oct-2006 |
Nuclear scientist |
| Jack Welch |
Business |
19-Nov-1935 |
|
CEO of GE, 1981-2001 |
| John A. White |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Chancellor, University of Arkansas |
| George M. Whitesides |
Chemist |
3-Aug-1939 |
|
Harvard chemist, highest H-Index |
| Donald C. Winter |
Government |
c. 1947 |
|
US Secretary of the Navy, 2006-09 |
| Niklaus Wirth |
Computer Programmer |
15-Feb-1934 |
|
Inventor of Pascal, Modula-2 |
| Steve Wozniak |
Computer Programmer |
11-Aug-1950 |
|
Co-Founder of Apple Computer |
| A. Thomas Young |
Business |
1938 |
|
President of Martin Marietta, 1990-95 |
| John A. Young |
Business |
24-Apr-1932 |
|
CEO of Hewlett Packard, 1978-92 |
| William D. Young |
Scientist |
c. 1944 |
|
Monogram Biosciences |
| Vladimir Zworykin |
Inventor |
30-Jul-1889 |
29-Jul-1982 |
Patented color televison |
