Hendrick Bode (Bode Plot)
Harry Nyquest (Nyquist Frequency)
Barney Oliver (pulse-code modulation & founded HP labs)
John Pierce (Pierce Oscillator & science fiction)
Ralph Hartley (Hartley transform!)
Walter Shewhart (Statistical quality control / Shewhart cycle)
It was my honor to have met several of these people in sometimes odd circumstances.
I'm happy to see developers looking at security as pervasive: "everything encrypted" is important since an intruder may be inside the system. Or as Shannon wrote in this paper, "assume the enemy knows the system being used." (He then writes about the importance of key selection.)
