Honored Persons Database
Displaying 1 – 20 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Ronald Linn Rivest
One of the inventors of the RSA algorithm (along with Adi Shamir and Len Adleman), Rivest has made ingenious contributions to making public-key cryptography useful in practice. He also invented the symmetric...
Alan Curtis Kay
Pioneer of object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design, Kay is an American computer scientist also known for coining the phrase, "The best way to predict the future is to invent...
Aaron Levie
Co-founder and CEO of BOX, Levie launched the company from his college dorm room with his friend and co-founder, Dylan Smith who is the CFO. He grew up in Seattle where he...
Hugh McGregor Ross
One of the principal architects of the Universal Character Set ISO/IEC 10646, Ross was an early pioneer in the history of British computing. Born in Nairobi, Kenya, he worked for Ferranti from...
Ralph E. Griswold
Co-creator of SNOBOL and pioneer in string processing languages, Griswold made lasting contributions to non-numerical computation. He worked for Bell Labs in 1962, where he studied ideas for non-numerical computation. SNOBOL was...
Lisa T. Su
Inducted into the WITI Hall of Fame in 2021, Su became Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Since taking the helm in 2014, she led a major transformation...
Louis Pouzin
Invented the datagram and designed the first packet communications network, CYCLADES, Pouzin also created the first forms of command-line interface. His work was broadly used by Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, and many...
Aaron Marcus
Pioneer in computer-based design, Marcus founded Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A) in 1982, one of the first independent, computer-based design firms in the world. An American user-interface and information-visualization designer, as well...
Elaine J. Weyuker
Leading researcher on rigorous software testing, including industrial evaluations of the comparative effectiveness and costs of such testing methods, Weyuker is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow (since 2003), and an AT&T...
Shu-Ching Chen
Collaborator with FIU's International Hurricane Research Center (IHRC), Chen is recognized for applying his research to real-world problems, including LiDAR data filtering that has revolutionized the acquisition of digital elevation data for...
William (Bill) Douglas Gropp
Co-creator of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) and the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation (PETSc), Gropp has served as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, holding...
Gregory John Chaitin
One of the founders of algorithmic information theory and a key figure in metamathematics, Chaitin is an Argentine-American mathematician and computer scientist born in Argentina. Beginning in the late 1960s, he made...
Peter John Landin
One of the first to realize that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, Landin made contributions essential to the development of both functional programming and denotational semantics....
Rudolf Bayer
Inventor of B-Trees and UB-Trees, Bayer is one of the most influential figures in the history of data structures and database systems. Rudolf Bayer was born in 1939 in Landshut, Germany. He...
Seymour Papert
One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence and an inventor of the Logo programming language, Papert was among the most influential thinkers in education and computing. At MIT, he created the Epistemology...
Ashok N. Srivastava
Leader of the Intelligent Data Understanding group at NASA Ames Research Center, Srivastava performed research and development of advanced machine learning and data mining algorithms in support of NASA missions. He has...
Ida Rhodes
A member of the influential circle of women at the heart of early computer development in the United States, Rhodes was an American mathematician who shaped the field during its foundational years.
Naveen Selvadurai
Co-founder of the location-based social networking site Foursquare.com, Selvadurai is a US internet entrepreneur born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He graduated with degrees from King's College London in the UK and...
Anthony A. Storey
Prime mover in creating the Enterprise Java Beans industry specification that brought Java into the server environment, Storey has also been a widely recognized expert in online transaction processing and the vital...
Edward Nash Yourdon
Pioneer of structured analysis and object-oriented design methodologies, Yourdon was known as one of the lead developers of the structured analysis techniques of the 1970s, as co-developer of the Yourdon/Whitehead method for...