Computer architecture

Anant Agarwal

Anant Agarwal is an MIT computer architect and serial entrepreneur who designed the Raw multicore chip, founded Tilera, and led edX from 2012 until its 2021 sale.

Andrew Donald Booth

Andrew Donald Booth was a British computer scientist who devised the Booth multiplication algorithm, still used in processors, and built early computers at Birkbeck College.

Carel S. Scholten

Carel S. Scholten was a Dutch computer engineer who co-built the ARRA computers and co-designed the Electrologica X1, host of the world's first ALGOL 60 compiler.

Charles P. Thacker

Charles P. Thacker was an American computer scientist who led the hardware design of the Xerox Alto, the first modern personal computer, and co-invented Ethernet.

Christina Delimitrou

Christina Delimitrou is a Greek computer systems researcher and MIT associate professor known for applying machine learning to cloud resource management, who received a 2025 PECASE award.

David A. Patterson (American computer scientist)

David A. Patterson is an American computer scientist who led the RISC project at UC Berkeley, co-invented RAID storage, and shared the 2017 Turing Award with John Hennessy.

David Patterson (computer scientist)

David Andrew Patterson is an American computer scientist who led the Berkeley RISC project, co-invented RAID, and shared the 2017 Turing Award with John Hennessy.

Edward H. Sussenguth

Edward H. Sussenguth was an American computer scientist and IBM researcher, a Harvard-trained National Academy of Engineering member who won the 1989 IEEE Simon Ramo Medal.

H. T. Kung

H. T. Kung (孔祥重), full name Hsiang-Tsung Kung, is a computer scientist, the William H. Gates Professor at Harvard, known for systolic arrays and concurrency control.

Henry Hoffmann, often called Hank Hoffmann, is an American computer scientist at the University of Chicago known for research on self-aware and adaptive computing systems and for receiving a PECASE award.

James Evans Robertson

James Evans Robertson (1924–1993) was an American computer scientist at the University of Illinois, known for the SRT division method and ORDVAC and ILLIAC I circuitry.

Jeffrey P. Buzen

Jeffrey P. Buzen is a computer scientist whose 1971 Harvard thesis produced Buzen's algorithm and the central server model, and who co-founded BGS Systems in 1975.

John David Kubiatowicz

John David Kubiatowicz is an American computer scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley, known for the Alewife multiprocessor, OceanStore, and Tapestry, and a 2000 PECASE award.

John Gustafson (computer scientist)

John L. Gustafson is an American computer scientist known for Gustafson's law of parallel speedup, winning the inaugural Gordon Bell Prize in 1988, and inventing the posit number format.

Josiah Hester

Josiah Hester is a Native Hawaiian computer scientist and associate professor at Georgia Tech known for battery-free computing, intermittent systems, and wearable health sensing devices.

Masatoshi Shima

Masatoshi Shima (嶋正利), born 1943 in Shizuoka, Japan, is a computer engineer who designed the logic of the Intel 4004, the 8080, and the Zilog Z80, sharing the 1997 Kyoto Prize.

Pat Holmes Sterbenz

Pat Holmes Sterbenz (born 1927) is an American mathematician whose 1974 Prentice-Hall book Floating-Point Computation first published Sterbenz's lemma, a key exactness result in floating-point arithmetic.

Robert Everett (computer scientist)

Robert Rivers Everett (1921–2018) was an American computer scientist who helped build MIT's Whirlwind computer, led the SAGE air defense system, and served as president and CEO of The MITRE Corporation from 1969 to 1986.

Sophie Wilson

Sophie Wilson, also known as Sophie Mary Wilson, is a British computer scientist who designed the ARM instruction set and co-designed the BBC Micro with Steve Furber.

Steve Furber

Steve Furber, or Stephen Byram Furber, is a British computer engineer born in 1953 who co-designed the BBC Micro and ARM processor and later led the SpiNNaker project at Manchester.

Susan J. Eggers

Susan J. Eggers is an American computer architect who developed simultaneous multithreading, adopted by Intel as Hyper-Threading, during her faculty career at the University of Washington.

Tom Kilburn

Tom Kilburn was a British engineer who, with G.C. Tootill, built the Manchester Baby, the world's first stored-program computer, and led the Mark 1 and Atlas machines.

Wesley A. Clark

Wesley A. Clark (1927–2016) was an American computer scientist who designed the LINC, widely recognized as the first personal computer, and shaped the TX-0 and TX-2 at MIT.