People from United States
326 profiles
Technology
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-born creator of Microsoft Word and Excel who flew twice to space
Born 1948
Technology
Charles Geschke
Co-founder of Adobe who co-created PostScript and PDF
1939 – 2021
Science
Butler Lampson
Xerox PARC engineer behind the personal computer and many networking ideas
Born 1943
Technology
Brian Armstrong
Co-founder and CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase
Born 1983
Science
Bob Kahn
Co-inventor of TCP/IP and architect of the internet’s design
Born 1938
Technology
Biz Stone
Twitter co-founder and creative director
Born 1974
Technology
Bill Joy
Co-founder of Sun Microsystems and author of the vi editor and BSD Unix
Born 1954
Technology
Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft and one of the world’s leading philanthropists
Born 1955
Technology
Ben Silbermann
Co-founder and executive chairman of Pinterest
Born 1982
Technology
Arthur Rock
Pioneer venture capitalist who funded Intel and Apple
Born 1926
Technology
Andy Jassy
CEO of Amazon who founded and built Amazon Web Services
Born 1968
Technology
Andy Hertzfeld
Software wizard of the original Macintosh team
Born 1953
Technology
Andy Grove
Hungarian-born Intel CEO who turned it into the world’s largest chipmaker
1936 – 2016
Technology
An Wang
Chinese-American inventor of core-memory technology and founder of Wang Laboratories
1920 – 1990
Technology
Alexis Ohanian
Co-founder of Reddit and founder of the venture firm Seven Seven Six
Born 1983
Technology
Adele Goldberg
Xerox PARC researcher who co-developed Smalltalk
Born 1945
Technology
Jim Clark
Founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape and Healtheon
Born 1944
Technology
Vinod Khosla
Indian-American co-founder of Sun Microsystems and founder of Khosla Ventures
Born 1955
Science
Terry Winograd
Stanford professor who built SHRDLU and advised Google’s founders
Born 1946
Technology
Ted Nelson
Visionary who coined the words “hypertext” and “hypermedia”
Born 1937
Science
Stephen Wolfram
Creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha
Born 1959
Sanjay Ghemawat
Google engineer who co-designed MapReduce, Bigtable and the Google File System
Technology
Ryan Dahl
Creator of Node.js and Deno
Born 1981
Science
Rodney Brooks
Australian roboticist who co-founded iRobot, maker of the Roomba
Born 1954