Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Founded in 1963 with the merger of the Institute of Radio Engineers and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
| 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 |
| Howard Aiken |
Physicist |
8-Mar-1900 |
14-Mar-1973 |
Designer of early computers |
| Ernst F. W. Alexanderson |
Inventor |
25-Jan-1878 |
14-May-1975 |
Developed radio and television at GE and RCA |
| Hannes Alfvén |
Physicist |
30-May-1908 |
2-Apr-1995 |
Renegade Swedish astrophysicist |
| Gene Amdahl |
Engineer |
16-Nov-1922 |
10-Nov-2015 |
Parallel computing pioneer |
| Gil Amelio |
Business |
1-Mar-1943 |
|
CEO of Apple, 1996-97 |
| Anousheh Ansari |
Business |
12-Sep-1966 |
|
Telecom executive, space tourist |
| Teruaki Aoki |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Senior EVP at Sony, 2000-05 |
| John Atanasoff |
Inventor |
4-Oct-1903 |
15-Jun-1995 |
Atanasoff-Berry Computer |
| Norman Augustine |
Business |
27-Jul-1935 |
|
CEO of Martin Marietta, 1987-97 |
| Ralph Baer |
Inventor |
8-Mar-1922 |
6-Dec-2014 |
Inventor of the home video game console |
| Paul Baran |
Engineer |
29-Apr-1926 |
26-Mar-2011 |
Packet-sharing in computer communications |
| Robert L. Barnett |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
EVP at Motorola, 2003-05 |
| Eleanor Baum |
Educator |
c. 1939 |
|
Dean of Engineering, Cooper Union |
| Tim Berners-Lee |
Computer Programmer |
8-Jun-1955 |
|
Inventor of the World Wide Web |
| Erich Bloch |
Business |
9-Jan-1925 |
|
Director of NSF, 1984-90 |
| Nicolaas Bloembergen |
Physicist |
11-Mar-1920 |
|
Nonlinear optics |
| Grady Booch |
Computer Programmer |
27-Feb-1955 |
|
Unified Modeling Language |
| Amar Bose |
Inventor |
2-Nov-1929 |
12-Jul-2013 |
Inventor of Bose speakers |
| James R. Boyd |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
VP of Ashland, 1986-2002 |
| Willard S. Boyle |
Physicist |
19-Aug-1924 |
7-May-2011 |
Digital photography |
| Walter H. Brattain |
Physicist |
10-Feb-1902 |
13-Oct-1987 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
| William R. Brody |
Educator |
4-Jan-1944 |
|
President, Salk Institute |
| Fred Brooks |
Computer Programmer |
19-Apr-1931 |
|
Father of the IBM System 360 |
| Charles F. Brush |
Inventor |
17-Mar-1849 |
15-Jun-1929 |
Street lights |
| 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 |
| Leon Chua |
Scientist |
28-Jun-1936 |
|
Hypothesized the memristor |
| Edward Condon |
Physicist |
2-Mar-1902 |
26-Mar-1974 |
Quantum Mechanics |
| William D. Coolidge |
Physicist |
23-Oct-1873 |
4-Feb-1975 |
Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes |
| Seymour Cray |
Inventor |
28-Sep-1925 |
5-Oct-1996 |
Inventor of Cray supercomputers |
| Malcolm R. Currie |
Business |
13-Mar-1927 |
|
CEO of Hughes Aircraft, 1988-92 |
| Kenneth C. Dahlberg |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
CEO of SAIC |
| Aart J. de Geus |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of Synopsys |
| Mark Dean |
Engineer |
2-Mar-1957 |
|
Computer architecture |
| Dorothy Denning |
Scientist |
12-Aug-1945 |
|
Professor, interest in encryption |
| Ray Milton Dolby |
Inventor |
18-Jan-1933 |
12-Sep-2013 |
Inventor of Dolby stereo |
| Nicholas M. Donofrio |
Business |
7-Sep-1945 |
|
EVP at IBM |
| Allen B. DuMont |
Inventor |
29-Jan-1901 |
14-Nov-1965 |
TV picture tube and TV network |
| Roger Easton |
Inventor |
30-Apr-1921 |
8-May-2014 |
Global Positioning System |
| 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 |
| Thomas E. Everhart |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1932 |
|
President of CalTech, 1987-97 |
| Bob Frankston |
Computer Programmer |
14-Jun-1949 |
|
Programmer of Visicalc |
| John Gage |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Sun Microsystems |
| Owen K. Garriott |
Astronaut |
22-Nov-1930 |
|
Skylab, Spacelab astronaut |
| C. Daniel Gelatt |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
President of NMT Corporation |
| Ivan Getting |
Inventor |
18-Jan-1912 |
11-Oct-2003 |
Global Positioning System |
| Ivar Giaever |
Physicist |
5-Apr-1929 |
|
Tunneling through superconductors |
| Bill Gordon |
Astronomer |
8-Jan-1918 |
16-Feb-2010 |
Designed Arecibo radio telescope |
| 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 |
| Narendra K. Gupta |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
Co-Founder, Integrated Systems Inc. |
| Patrick T. Harker |
Educator |
19-Nov-1958 |
|
President, University of Delaware |
| Martin Hellman |
Inventor |
2-Oct-1945 |
|
Public key cryptographer |
| John L. Hennessy |
Educator |
c. 1953 |
|
President of Stanford University |
| Keith Henson |
Victim |
1942 |
|
Scientology Victim |
| William Hewlett |
Business |
20-May-1913 |
12-Jan-2001 |
Co-Founder of Hewlett-Packard |
| James Hillier |
Physicist |
22-Aug-1915 |
15-Jan-2007 |
Electron microscope |
| Tomlinson Holman |
Engineer |
7-Jun-1946 |
|
THX sound system |
| Nick Holonyak |
Physicist |
3-Nov-1928 |
|
Light-emitting diodes |
| Grace Murray Hopper |
Computer Programmer |
9-Dec-1906 |
1-Jan-1992 |
Computer programming pioneer |
| Evelyn Hu |
Physicist |
c. 1947 |
|
Nanoscale device fabrication |
| Irwin M. Jacobs |
Business |
18-Oct-1933 |
|
Co-Founder of Qualcomm |
| Kristina M. Johnson |
Educator |
c. 1958 |
|
Provost of Johns Hopkins University |
| Anita K. Jones |
Educator |
c. 1942 |
|
Professor at University of Virginia |
| Brian D. Josephson |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1940 |
|
Discovered the Josephson Effect |
| 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. |
| Jack S. Kilby |
Inventor |
8-Nov-1923 |
20-Jun-2005 |
Electrical engineering pioneer |
| Garry Kitchen |
Computer Programmer |
c. 1958 |
|
Keystone Capers |
| Donald E. Knuth |
Computer Programmer |
10-Jan-1938 |
|
The Art of Computer Programming |
| Herbert Kroemer |
Physicist |
25-Aug-1928 |
|
Pioneer in laser technology |
| Edwin H. Land |
Inventor |
7-May-1909 |
1-Mar-1991 |
Polaroid Land Camera |
| Alfred Lee Loomis |
Physicist |
4-Nov-1887 |
1-Aug-1975 |
Millionaire scientist |
| John William Mauchly |
Physicist |
30-Aug-1907 |
8-Jan-1980 |
ENIAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I computers |
| Steve McConnell |
Computer Programmer |
c. 1963 |
|
Author of Code Complete |
| Teresa H. Meng |
Business |
c. 1961 |
|
Co-Founder, Atheros Communications |
| William D. Mensch |
Engineer |
9-Feb-1945 |
|
Co-Designer, 6502 microprocessor |
| Ruben Mettler |
Business |
23-Feb-1924 |
23-May-2006 |
CEO of TRW, 1969-77 |
| Marvin Minsky |
Scientist |
9-Aug-1927 |
|
Father of Artificial Intelligence |
| Gordon Moore |
Business |
3-Jan-1929 |
|
Co-founder of Intel, laid down Moore's Law |
| Mike Muuss |
Computer Programmer |
16-Oct-1958 |
20-Nov-2000 |
Ping |
| 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 |
| James E. Oberg |
Historian |
7-Nov-1944 |
|
Space exploration historian |
| Jorma Ollila |
Business |
15-Aug-1950 |
|
CEO of Nokia, 1992-2006 |
| John B. Peatman |
Educator |
? |
|
Engineering Professor at Georgia Tech |
| Arno Penzias |
Astronomer |
26-Apr-1933 |
|
Detected primordial radiation |
| Charles E. Phillips, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
President of Oracle, 2003-10 |
| James D. Plummer |
Educator |
3-Dec-1944 |
|
Dean of Stanford's Engineering School |
| James Rainwater |
Physicist |
9-Dec-1917 |
31-May-1986 |
Determined shapes of nuclei |
| Raj Reddy |
Educator |
13-Jun-1937 |
|
Professor of Computer Science, CMU |
| L. Rafael Reif |
Educator |
21-Aug-1950 |
|
President of MIT |
| Henry Samueli |
Business |
20-Sep-1954 |
|
Co-Founder of Broadcom |
| Claude Shannon |
Scientist |
30-Apr-1916 |
24-Feb-2001 |
Pioneer in information theory |
| William Shockley |
Physicist |
13-Feb-1910 |
12-Aug-1989 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
| George E. Smith |
Scientist |
10-May-1930 |
|
Digital photography |
| Gene Spafford |
Computer Programmer |
c. 1957 |
|
Spaf |
| Percy Spencer |
Scientist |
19-Jul-1894 |
8-Sep-1970 |
Invented the microwave oven |
| Elmer Sperry |
Inventor |
12-Oct-1860 |
10-Jun-1930 |
Gyroscopic compass |
| Philip Sporn |
Engineer |
25-Nov-1896 |
23-Jan-1978 |
American Electric Power Company |
| Daniel C. Stanzione |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
COO of Lucent, 1997-2000 |
| Ivan Sutherland |
Engineer |
16-May-1938 |
|
Father of computer graphics |
| Andrew Tanenbaum |
Computer Programmer |
16-Mar-1944 |
|
Creator of Minix |
| James V. Taranik |
Geologist |
23-Apr-1940 |
21-Jun-2011 |
Desert Research Institute |
| Frederick Terman |
Scientist |
7-Jun-1900 |
19-Dec-1982 |
Stanford Research Park |
| Nikola Tesla |
Inventor |
10-Jul-1856 |
7-Jan-1943 |
Invented alternating current |
| Norman Thagard |
Astronaut |
3-Jul-1943 |
|
Shuttle astronaut |
| 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 |
| Murray Turoff |
Scientist |
13-Feb-1936 |
|
Computer conferencing and instant messaging |
| Petr Ufimtsev |
Physicist |
8-Jul-1931 |
|
Physical Theory of Diffraction |
| John H. van Vleck |
Physicist |
13-Mar-1899 |
27-Oct-1980 |
Quantum theory of paramagnetism |
| Andrew J. Viterbi |
Engineer |
9-Mar-1935 |
|
Viterbi Algorithm |
| John von Neumann |
Mathematician |
28-Dec-1903 |
8-Feb-1957 |
Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory |
| Hans von Spakovsky |
Government |
11-Mar-1959 |
|
FEC Commissioner |
| Steven M. West |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
COO of nCUBE, 2001-03 |
| Robert Woodrow Wilson |
Astronomer |
10-Jan-1936 |
|
Detected primordial radiation |
