Honored Persons Database
Displaying 21 – 40 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
John Paul Rodker Morrison
Inventor of flow-based programming (FBP), Morrison is a British-born Canadian computer programmer. FBP defines applications using the metaphor of a "data factory." It views an application not as a single, sequential process,...
James William Cooley
Co-developer of the Fast Fourier Transform, Cooley made one of the most significant contributions to mathematics and digital signal processing in the twentieth century. Cooley was born and raised in New York City....
Carl Machover
Inducted into the FAMLI Computer Graphics Hall of Fame, Machover is recognized as a computer graphics pioneer and graphics "evangelist." He has served as president of Machover Associates Corp (MAC), a computer graphics...
Michael Gleicher
Recognized for developing better ways to synthesize human motions to make animated characters that are better able to communicate, Gleicher has served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at...
Nicholas (Nick) John Pippenger
Co-inventor of extendible hashing, Pippenger is recognized for a number of fundamental results widely used in theoretical computer science, database processing, and compiler optimization. He held a B.S. degree in Natural Sciences...
John Sall
Co-developer of the SAS System and co-founder of SAS Institute Inc., Sall has made extensive programming contributions in econometrics, time series, and matrix algebra. Born in Rockford, Illinois, he is an American...
Brian David Josephson
Winner of a 1/2 share of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering theoretical work on superconductivity, Josephson is a Welsh physicist known for his prediction of the eponymous Josephson effect....
Peter Harris
Builder of a product that takes existing COBOL programs and produces structured system charts and supporting documentation for program maintenance, Harris also founded ADPAC, a leading software provider to corporations worldwide. While he...
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
A University Professor at Columbia University and holder of the Mikati Foundation Professorship in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Sciences, Vunjak-Novakovic built one of the most prolific research programs in tissue engineering and...
Frances Spence (née Bilas)
One of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer, Spence was born Frances Bilas in Philadelphia in 1922. She attended Temple University but then was awarded a scholarship to Chestnut Hill College,...
Ken Thompson
Co-creator of the UNIX operating system, Thompson is an American pioneer of computer science notable for his work with the B programming language and his shepherding of the Unix and Plan 9...
Jack Keil Wolf
Known for his work in coding theory as applied to magnetic storage, Wolf made pioneering and sustained contributions to information theory and digital information storage. He was also an expert in signal...
Stephen J. Fink
One of the primary developers and maintainers of the T.J. Watson Libraries for Analysis (WALA), which provides static analysis capabilities for Java bytecode and related languages, Fink has been a research scientist...
Edwin Earl Catmull
A pioneer of computer graphics and former President of both Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Animation Studios, Catmull has contributed to many important developments in computer graphics. He was born in...
Kathleen (Kathe) Spracklen
Co-programmer of the Chafitz ARB Sargon 2.5, the first commercial dedicated chess computer with an Auto Response Board, Spracklen is an American mathematician, computer scientist, and microcomputer chess pioneer. Born in Grand Rapids,...
Ronald (Ron) Lewis Graham
Credited by the American Mathematical Society as "one of the principal architects of the rapid development worldwide of discrete mathematics in recent years," Graham was also a leading figure in scheduling theory,...
Philip S. Yu
Holder of over 300 U.S. patents in data mining, database systems, Internet applications and technologies, Yu is recognized as an IBM Master Inventor and one of the most prolific inventors in computing....
Brenda L. Dietrich
Leader of the emerging technologies team in the IBM Watson group, Dietrich has brought a business perspective to projects at the forefront of applied mathematics. She has served as Vice President of...
Leslie Lamport
Known for his seminal work in distributed systems and as the initial developer of LaTeX, Lamport is a prominent computer scientist and mathematician. A graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, he...
Doris L. Carver
Researcher of system reengineering, software requirements methodologies, and formal model transformations, Carver directed the Software Engineering Laboratory at LSU, where she published over 80 technical papers and received funding from NSF, NASA,...