STEM-Computer Scientist
Cheryl A. Swanier (1967- )
Dr. Cheryl A. Swanier is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and the Henry N. and Alice Carson Tisdale Endowed...
William Murrell (1955- )
William Murrell is an entrepreneur and computer scientist who started Boston’s largest Black-owned computer store and pioneered Black-themed websites in...
Barry Cooper (1956- )
Barry Cooper is a journalist, technology entrepreneur, and CEO who founded BlackVoices.com, a groundbreaking website in the early days of...
Derrick Brown (1969- )
Derrick Brown is a computer scientist, engineer, and technology entrepreneur who pioneered Black-related websites and search engines in the 1990s....
Lisa Gelobter (1971- )
Lisa Gelobter is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and technology executive. Gelobter worked on several pioneering internet technologies, and she is...
David Rice Hedgley Jr. (1937- )
Pioneering computer scientist and mathematician David R. Hedgley Jr., hailed as the “Father of 3D Graphics” was born in Chicago,...
Gladys Mae West (1930- )
Dr. Gladys West is a mathematician whose calculations and computer programming helped construct a geoid (a mathematical model of the...
Deborah J. Danner (1950-2016)
On October 18, 2016, Deborah Danner, a 66-year-old African American woman, was fatally shot in her Bronx apartment by Sergeant...
Marsha Rhea Williams (1948- )
In 1982, Dr. Marsha Rhea Williams became the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in Computer Science. A successful educator and...
