American technology writers

William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's wealthiest person for 18 out of 24 years between 1995 and 2017, including 13 years consecutively from 1995 to 2007. Gates became the first centibillionaire in 1999, when his net worth briefly surpassed US$100 billion. According to Forbes, as of February 2026, his net worth stood at US$107.7 billion, making him the 18th-wealthiest individual in the world.

German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)

American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)

American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language

American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (1895–1983)

American writer (1923–2007)

Paul Gardner Allen was an American businessman, computer programmer, and investor. He co-founded Microsoft Corporation with his childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975, which was followed by the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. Allen discovered the wrecks of various famous warships, like the IJN Musashi and USS Indianapolis, and was ranked as one of the richest people in American history by Forbes, with an estimated net worth of $20.3 billion at the time of his death in October 2018.

American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986-2013)

American political scientist, political economist, and author

chief executive officer and president of National Public Radio

American technology executive, activist, and author

American computer programmer

American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)

American writer, futurist and businessman

Michael Saul Dell is an American billionaire businessman and investor. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Dell Technologies, one of the world's largest technology infrastructure companies.

software engineer, businessman, former Google CEO

American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor (born 1948)

American-Dutch computer scientist

American programmer & open source advocate (1957-)

American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology and literary critic (1895-1990)

American economist

American computer scientist (1931–2022); author of The Mythical Man-Month and 'No Silver Bullet' (1986), which distinguished essential from accidental complexity in software engineering

Mark Cuban is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is the former principal owner and current minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and co-owner of 2929 Entertainment. From 2012 to 2025, he was also one of the main "sharks" on the ABC reality television series Shark Tank.

American science fiction writer (born 1959)

American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction writer (1944–2024)

American computer scientist (born 1943)

American artificial intelligence researcher

American computer scientist

American co-founder of LinkedIn, venture capitalist, and author

Irish-American author and publisher

English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist

American software engineer

American computer scientist (born 1945)

Community Class speaker at MIT, working on human-centered AI and podcaster

American businessman and author

American politician and businessman

American author and entrepreneur

American biologist, college professor and eco-socialist

American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher (born 1946)

Taiwanese businessman

hacking experience with Kevin Lee Poulsen

American technology writer

American physicist (1921–2010)

American programmer, software publisher

Greek computer scientist (b. 1949)

American writer

American author and commentator

German-American science and science-fiction writer (1906–1969)

American blogger

programmer, creator of jQuery

American writer (born 1938)

American computer scientist

Swiss-American journalist

American computer scientist

American journalist

American chemist (1959-)

Greek academic (1936-2001)

American business writer (1929-2021)

American writer and media theorist

American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist