Computer technology innovators / the editors of Salem Press.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Howard H. Aiken -- Frances E. Allen -- Paul Allen -- John Vincent Atanasoff -- Charles Babbage -- John Backus -- Ralph H. Baer -- Steve Ballmere -- Clifford E. Berry -- Anita Borg -- Paul Brainerd -- Ursula Burns -- Vannevar Bush -- Nolan Bushnell -- Rod Canion -- Safra A. Catz -- John T. Chambers -- Tim Cook -- Seymour Cray -- Ted Dabney -- Weili Dai -- Michael Dell -- J. Presper Eckert -- Brendan Eich -- Larry Ellison -- Douglas C. Engelbart -- Thelma Estrin -- Federico Faggin -- David Ferrucci -- Carly Fiorina -- Tommy Flowers -- Bill Gates -- Charles Geschke -- James Gosling -- Helen Greiner -- Wendy Hall -- Mike Hammond -- Jim Harris -- Bill Hewlett -- Kazuo Hirai -- Betty Holberton -- Grace Hopper -- Feng-hsiung Hsu -- Frederick Jelinek -- Steve Jobs -- Bill Joy -- Peter Karmanos Jr. -- John G. Kemeny -- Tom Kilburn -- Jack Kilby -- Thomas Kurtz -- Sandra L. Kurtzig -- Ken Kutaragi -- Duy-Loan Le -- Rasmus Lerdorf -- Barbara Liskov -- Liu Chuanzhi -- Ada Lovelace -- Mike Markkula -- Mich Mathews -- John Mauchly -- John McCarthy -- Scott McNealy -- Bob Miner -- Charles H. Moore -- Gordon E. Moore -- Nathan P. Myhrvold -- Nicholas P. Negroponte -- Allen Newell -- William C. Norris -- Robert Noyce -- Kristen Nygaard -- Ed Oates -- Kenneth H. Olsen -- Ray Ozzie -- David Packard -- Seymour Papert -- Blaise Pascal -- Rosalind Picard -- Hasso Plattner -- Kim Polese -- Dennis Ritchie -- Virginia Rometty -- Guido van Rossum -- Jean Sammet -- Lucy Sanders -- Linda S. Sanford -- Michael Saylor -- Eric Schmidt -- Claude Shannon -- Stan Shih -- Alan Shugart -- Barbara Simons -- Charles Simonyi -- George Stibitz -- Bjarne Stroustrup -- Robert Taylor -- Ken Thompson -- Janie Tsao -- Alan Turing -- John von Neumann -- Ted Waitt -- Larry Wall -- An Wang -- Charles Wang -- John Warnock -- Padmasree Warrior -- Thomas J. Watson, Sr. -- Maurice Wilkes -- Frederic Williams -- Niklaus Wirth -- Beatrice Worsley -- Steve Wozniak -- Konrad Zuse -- TImeline -- Biographical directory.

More than 120 biographies in each of these titles showcase pioneers and current achievers in the world of computer technology and the Internet. Readers will recognize Steve Jobs, Charles Babbage, Bill Gates, and Ada Lovelace as appropriate inclusions in Computer Technology Innovators, and will be intrigued by interesting lesser-knowns such as Charles Simonyi, developer of Microsoft Office, and Helen Greiner, cofounder of iRobot. Internet Innovators focuses on dot-com developers such as Internet founder Vinton Cerf, Ebay's Pierre Omidyar, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, and Wikipedia's Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales. The volumes feature alphabetical access to entries, and individually authored 2,000-word essays on each person (students looking for quick information will find all of the figures briefly described in an appended biographical dictionary). Subsections cover "Early Life," "Life's Work," and "Personal Information" and offer black-and-white sketches instead of photographs. Some entries are supplemented with an inset box synopsizing pertinent information from the general essay, such as details about Arianna Huffington's sale of the Huffington Post to AOL in February 2011 for $315 million. In general, the narrative writing style will keep students engaged through the entire essay.