Honored Persons Database
Displaying 1 – 20 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Charles R. Trimble
Developer of the Global Positioning System (GPS) for commercial and consumer applications, Trimble founded Trimble Navigation Limited (TNL) in 1978 along with two partners from Hewlett-Packard, initially operating from Los Altos, California....
Adriaan van Wijngaarden
One of the founding fathers of informatica (computer science) and designer of ALGOL, van Wijngaarden was a pioneering figure in the history of computing. Adriaan's education was in mechanical engineering, for which...
Andrew James Viterbi
Inventor of the Viterbi algorithm, used for decoding convolutionally encoded data and still widely used in cellular phones for error correcting codes, as well as for speech recognition, DNA analysis, and many...
Luke Nosek
Co-founder of PayPal and creator of the company's "instant transfer" product, Nosek is a Polish-born American entrepreneur. He received a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign....
Qiang Yang
Leader of research teams that won the 2004 and 2005 ACM KDDCUP international competitions on data mining, Yang has served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at...
James (Jim) Richard Goodman
Contributor to shared-memory multiprocessor system design, Goodman is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and has served as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Auckland in Auckland,...
Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp
Known for his work in information theory and combinatorial game theory, Berlekamp was one of the inventors of the Welch–Berlekamp and Berlekamp–Massey algorithms, which are used to implement Reed–Solomon error correction. While an...
John Vittal
Developer of MSG, the first modern email program, Vittal is recognized as the person responsible for transforming the old email system into the highly user-friendly tool of today. A computer programmer who...
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...
Pal Spilling
Co-developer of the Internet Protocol and other early computer network protocols, Spilling was a Norwegian Internet pioneer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo and the UNIK Graduate Center at Kjeller...
Roger Michael Needham
Head of Cambridge University Computing Laboratory and designer of influential cryptography and security systems, Needham was a major figure in computer science. A Mathematics and Philosophy graduate from Cambridge University in the...
Sajal K. Das
Pioneer in research on wireless sensor networks and pervasive and mobile computing, Das has served as the Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair Professor and chair of the Computer Science department at the...
Mike Saranga
Designer and implementer of IBM's Program Fetch and co-developer of IBM's relational databases, Saranga brought 36 years of extensive experience in system architecture, product development, and executive management. He spent 30 years...
Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum
Developer of groundbreaking techniques in cartography and co-founder of Numerix, Feigenbaum was also a mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants. He was...
Per Brinch Hansen
A noted pioneer of concurrent programming and operating systems (kernels), Brinch Hansen coined the then-Danish word for computer: Datamat (English: datamaton). In the 1960s, Brinch Hansen worked at the Danish computer company...
Cornelis (Kees) H.A. Koster
Creator of the original Compiler Description Language, Koster was also one of the editors of the original Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68. He was a professor in the Department of Informatics...
Ted Dabney
Co-founder of Syzygy and Atari, Dabney met Nolan Bushnell while working at Ampex, and the two jointly created Syzygy. Their first product, Computer Space, was manufactured and sold by Nutting Associates. Following...
Susan T. Dumais
Researcher whose work at Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies) into the vocabulary problem in information retrieval led to the invention of Latent Semantic Indexing, Dumais has served as a Principal Researcher in the...
Joan L. Mitchell
A key contributor to the JPEG image compression algorithm and MPEG video standards, Mitchell became an IBM Fellow in 2001. Working at IBM with William B. Pennebaker, she helped fine-tune the JPEG...
August-Wilhelm Scheer
Developer of the ARIS framework for business process description and modeling, Scheer is recognized as a foundational figure in business informatics. He has served as Professor Emeritus at the University of Saarland,...