Honored Persons Database
Displaying 201 – 220 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Daniel Teichroew
Pioneer of the ISDOS Project, Teichroew led a pioneering team which attempted to design and implement the Problem Statement Language (PSL) and Problem Statement Analyser (PSA) as a way of automating the...
Sidney (Sid) K. Meier
Founder of Firaxis Games and creator of "Civilization," Meier has made landmark contributions to the video game industry. In 1982, along with Bill Stealy, he co-founded MicroProse, where the "Civilization" franchise first...
Shuman Ghosemajumder
Creator of the first real-time collaborative graphic design application, Ghosemajumder is a Canadian technologist, entrepreneur, and author. He was born in Stuttgart, Germany and grew up in London, Ontario, Canada. In 1996 he...
Carl Georg Lange Barth
Improver and popularizer of the industrial use of compound slide rules in scientific management, Barth was a Norwegian-American mathematician and mechanical engineer. He was born in Christiania, Norway, and graduated from the...
Gary Mokotoff
Pioneer of the computer software industry for the IBM 1401, Mokotoff is the co-creator of the 1401 Autocoder and sole author of SPS1 and SPS2. He joined IBM in 1959. From 1959 to...
Harry Lewis Nelson
Co-discoverer of the 27th Mersenne prime in 1979, which was at that time the largest known prime number, Nelson is also recognized as one of the world's foremost experts in writing optimized...
David Albert Huffman
Best known for his legendary Huffman code, a compression scheme for lossless variable length encoding, Huffman joined the faculty at MIT in 1953. He was awarded the Louis E. Levy Medal in...
Joel McCormack
Key software designer at NCR, McCormack designed the NCR Corporation version of the p-code machine, a kind of stack machine popular in the 1970s as the preferred way to implement new computing...
Tōru Iwatani
Creator of Pac-Man, one of the most popular arcade games of all time, Iwatani is a Japanese video game designer. He was born in the Meguro ward of Tokyo, Japan, and joined...
Lawrence Moser Breed
Creator of the first computer animation language and system, Breed built it as an undergraduate at Stanford University in 1961 and used it at Stanford football half-times to coordinate images produced by...
Charles A. Csuri
Pioneer in digital fine art and computer animation, Csuri was best known for pioneering the field of computer graphics, computer animation, and digital fine art, creating his first computer art in 1964....
Edward Fredkin
A pioneer of reversible computing and cellular automata, Fredkin was also an early pioneer of digital physics, later using the term digital philosophy (DP) to describe his work. While Konrad Zuse's book,...
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...
Ronald (Ron) Fagin
Pioneer in database theory and finite model theory, Fagin is an American computer scientist and IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center, best known for introducing the Fourth Normal Form and...
Wendy W Hall
Leader of the team that invented the Microcosm hypermedia system before the World Wide Web existed, Hall has been a pioneering figure in multimedia, hypermedia, and web science. Born in west London,...
David L. Mills
Inventor of the Network Time Protocol, the fuzzball router, and the Exterior Gateway Protocol, Mills was an American computer engineer and Internet pioneer. He earned his PhD in Computer and Communication Sciences...
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,...
Alan Jay Perlis
A pioneer in advanced programming techniques and compiler construction, Perlis was the first recipient of the ACM Turing Award in 1966, sometimes called the "Nobel Prize of Computing." Perlis was born on April...
Edith Clarke
Pioneer of electrical engineering and the inventor of the Clarke calculator, Clarke broke barriers as the first woman to earn an M.S. in electrical engineering from MIT. Clarke studied mathematics and astronomy at...
Karlheinz Brandenburg
Inventor of the MP3 data format, Brandenburg developed the audio compression format together with other researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute at Erlangen. He has served as a Professor at the Technical University...