Director computer pioneers
Below is a listing of computer pioneers that have been tagged as a Director. Clicking on any of the below links will open the biography for that person.
 | Al Gore American politician, advocate, author, philanthropist, and environmental activist. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, President, Writer, and X |
 | Andrew Ng Associate professor of the Department of Computer Science at Stanford and co-founder of Coursera. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Professor, Writer, and X |
 | August-wilhelm Scheer Founder and director of IDS Scheer AG. Category: Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, 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, Writer, and X |
 | Barry Boehm American software engineer known for his many contributions to software engineering. Category: Director, Engineer, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Bill Moggridge British designer, author, and educator who designed one of the first laptop computer. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, 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, Writer, and X |
 | Bob Wallace American computer scientist, software pioneer and Microsoft's ninth employee. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Brian Reynolds American videogame designer known for his online social games on Facebook. Category: CEO, Chairman, Director, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Writer, and X |
 | Charles Flint American businessman who founded the company that became IBM. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Christopher Stone Co-founder and creative director of Twitter. Category: Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Dan Gillmor American technology writer, columnist, and teacher of digital media entrepreneurship. Category: Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Dan Kaufman Director of the Information Innovation Office at DARPA. Category: Director, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Danese Cooper Open source diva and American computer programmer. Category: Director, Female, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, Writer, and X |
 | David Culler Inventor of TinyOS. Category: Director, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Elizabeth Feinler American information scientist and former director of the Network Information Systems Center. Category: Director, Female, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Eric Schmidt CEO of Google. Category: CEO, Coined, Director, Engineer, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Ethan Zuckerman American Internet activist, media scholar, blogger, and author. Category: Coined, Director, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Frank Frankovsky Director of Hardware Design and Supply Chain at Facebook. Category: Director, Manager, and Writer |
 | Gabe Newell Producer of the first three releases of Windows and co-founder of Valve. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | 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 |
 | Gertrude Blanch American mathematician who did pioneering work in numerical analysis and computation. Category: Director, Female, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Guy Kawasaki Silicon valley venture capitalist, author, and Apple Fellow. Category: Director, Investor, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Jake Winebaum American entrepreneur and founder of FamilyFun magazine, Business.com, and Brighter.com. Category: Chairman, Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Writer, and X |
 | Jan Koum American computer engineer and Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of WhatsApp. Category: CEO, Director, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Hacker, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Jane Jensen American game designer and writer known for the Gabriel Knight adventure games. Category: Director, Father, Manager, Programmer, Writer, and X |
 | Jason Scott American archivist, filmmaker and technology historian. Category: Director, Editor, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Jennifer Pahlka Founder and Executive Director of Code for America and U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer. Category: Director, Female, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Jeremy Stoppelman Co-founder and CEO of Yelp. Category: CEO, Director, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jerry Shen Entrepreneur and creator of fantasy sports app Bignoggins. Category: Director, Entrepreneur, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Jerry Yang Co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Category: CEO, Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, 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 |
 | John Backus Directory of the team that created the first high-level programming language (FORTRAN). Category: Director, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Carmack American game programmer and founder of Id Software. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Writer, and X |
 | John Chambers Chairman of the board and CEO of Cisco. Category: CEO, Chairman, Director, Manager, President, 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 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, Writer, and X |
 | John Shedletsky American game developer and designer and former creative director at ROBLOX. Category: Director, Engineer, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Jon Hall Executive director of Linux International. Category: Director, Manager, and Writer |
 | Justin Rattner Corporate vice president, chief technology officer (CTO) and director of Intel Labs. Category: Director, Manager, President, Scientist, Writer, and X |
 | Karl Ganzhorn German physicist who dealt with applied physics and computer development. Category: Director, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Larry Smarr Physicist and leader in scientific computing, supercomputer applications, and Internet infrastructure. Category: Director, Manager, Physicist, Writer, and X |
 | Lars Rasmussen Danish-born computer scientist, software developer and co-founder of Google Maps. Category: Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Scientist, Writer, and X |
 | 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 |
 | Leonard Adleman Widely called the Father of DNA Computing. Category: Director, Father, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Lynn Gref Technologist and systems engineer, who has done pioneering work in missile systems. Category: Director, Engineer, Manager, 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 |
 | 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, Writer, and X |
 | Mark Tebbe Professor at University of Chicago and co-founder of Answers.com. Category: Chairman, Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Michael Hawley Educator, scientist, artist, and researcher working in the field of digital media. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Researcher, Scientist, Writer, and X |
 | Michael Schroeder American computer scientist known for co-inventing the Needham-Schroeder authentication protocol. Category: Chairman, Director, Founder, Inventor, 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 |
 | Moxie Marlinspike Pioneer of modern software development techniques. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Neil Tyson American astrophysicist and science communicator and former host of NOVA ScienceNow. Category: African American, Director, Manager, Personality, Physicist, Writer, and X |
 | Oren Etzioni American entrepreneur, professor and CEO of the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence. Category: CEO, Coined, Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Professor, Writer, and X |
 | Paul Otellini American businessman and current president of Intel. Category: Director, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Paul Rand American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs. Category: Director, Manager, and Writer |
 | Peter Norvig Pioneer of information processing and artificial intelligence. Category: Director, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Peter Tattam Software developer known for authoring Trumpet Winsock. Category: Director, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | 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 |
 | Robert Fano Inventing (with Claude Shannon) Shannon-Fano coding. Category: Director, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, 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 Taylor Internet pioneer and director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office from 1965 through 1969. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Rosalind Picard Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT. Category: Director, Female, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, Writer, and X |
 | Sam Schillace One of the founders of Writely, which was sold to Google for Google Docs. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Scott Cook Founder of Intuit in 1983, and currently chairman of the board of Intuit. Category: Chairman, Director, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Scott Forstall Senior vice president of iOS Software at Apple Inc. Category: Director, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Seymour Rubinstein PC software industry pioneer who helped develop WordStar, HelpDesk, Quattro Pro. Category: Director, Manager, and Writer |
 | Shyam Sankar Director of Forward Deployed Engineering at Palantir Technologies. Category: Director, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Sophia Bekele Business and corporate executive and Executive Director and Founder of DotConnectAfrica Trust. Category: CEO, Director, Female, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Stephen Keckler Senior Director of Architecture Research at NVIDIA who's interested in technology-scalable architectures. Category: Director, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Steve Dorner American software engineer known for developing the Eudora e-mail client in 1988. Category: Director, Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Steve Jobs Co-founder of and former CEO of the Apple company. Category: CEO, Director, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Steve Wolff One of the fathers of the Internet and developer of NSFNET. Category: Director, Father, Manager, President, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Sue Gardner Canadian journalist and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation (2007-2013). Category: Director, Female, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Susan Decker American business executive and former president of Yahoo! Inc. Category: Analyst, Director, Investor, Manager, President, Writer, and X |
 | 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 |
 | Theodore Tso American software developer known for his work on the Linux kernel. Category: Director, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Tiffany Shlain American Internet pioneer, filmmaker, author, and founder of the Webby Awards. Category: CEO, Director, Female, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Tim Cook CEO of Apple after taking over from Steve Jobs on August 24, 2011. Category: CEO, Director, Manager, and Writer |
 | Tom Hall American game designer who founded id Software where he served as creative director and designer. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Valerie Landau American software designer, author, and educator and director of Round World Media. Category: Director, Female, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Vida Ilderem Vice president of Intel Labs and director of the Integrated Platform Research Lab. Category: Director, Manager, President, 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 |
 | Will Wright Founder of Maxis, now part of Electronic Arts and helped develop such games as SimCity, Sims, and Spore. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | William Coolidge American physicist known for his work with incandescent electric lighting. Category: Director, Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer |