Honored Persons Database
Displaying 221 – 240 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...
Eugene Wong
Instrumental in building an Internet backbone for Asia and a pioneering contributor to relational database management, Wong has also inaugurated major initiatives in microsystems, information technology, nanotechnology, service-sector engineering, and biotechnology. Wong received...
Jerome Svigals
One of the world's first digital programmers, Svigals worked on developing the first electronic computer as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1950. Born in 1926 in the Bronx, New York,...
Rajiv Gupta
Co-inventor and general manager of Hewlett Packard's E-speak project, Gupta also contributed as one of the developers of the IA-64 architecture. An IIT Kharagpur alumnus, Gupta received his Ph.D. in compiler optimization...
Carol Shaw
Best known for creating River Raid (1982), the vertically scrolling shooter for the Atari 2600 released through Activision, Shaw is regarded as a pioneering figure in video game design. She joined Atari,...
Herbert Reuben Grosch
Formulator of Grosch's Law, the landmark aphorism about computer economy and speed, Grosch was one of the earliest and most colorful figures in computer science. Born in Canada, he moved to the United...
Mark Allen Weiss
Writer of highly acclaimed Data Structures textbooks used at hundreds of universities worldwide, Weiss has served as a Professor and Associate Director in the School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida...
Patrick Henry Winston
Researcher in machine learning and human intelligence, Winston was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He served as Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997,...
Jie Liu
Leader of Microsoft Research's Sensing and Energy Research Group (SERG), Liu has conducted fundamental and applied research in sensing and energy-efficient computing with applications in sensor networks, data centers, and mobile computing....
Douglas Donald Troxel
Developer of COMPAREX, an industry-standard mainframe product, Troxel founded SERENA Consulting in 1980 and grew it into a publicly traded software company without venture capital. Raised on a farm near Lake City, Iowa,...
Robert (Bob) Nimrod Miner
Architect of Oracle's relational database management system and co-founder of Oracle Corporation, Miner led product design and development from 1977 until 1992. In December 1992, he left that role and spun off...
Glenn John McQueen
Supervisor of computerized animation on Pixar's early films and hailed as one of the best animators in the field, McQueen's work was central to the studio's success. A Canadian supervisor of digital...
Isaac L Auerbach
Founder of Auerbach Associates and publisher of the influential Auerbach Reports on computer issues, Auerbach was a leading figure in the information processing industry. Isaac Auerbach earned a BS at Drexel University in...
Bruce G. Buchanan
A key figure in the development of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Buchanan is University Professor of Computer Science Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. He received a B.A. degree in Mathematics...
Jean David Ichbiah
Chief designer of the Ada programming language, Ichbiah was a French-born computer scientist who led the design of Ada (from 1977–1983), a general-purpose, strongly typed programming language with certified validated compilers. At...
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...
Liane Tarouco
A pioneer in the development of the Internet in Brazil, Tarouco educated a generation of engineers and network specialists across that country, South America, Europe, and Africa. She authored the first book...
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...
Tim William Bray
Co-inventor of the XML web standard, Bray has been a major contributor to XML and Atom web standards. Right out of college, Bray joined Digital Equipment Corporation in Toronto as a software specialist....
Robert Endre Tarjan
Renowned for fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures, Tarjan is an American computer scientist. He discovered several important graph algorithms, including Tarjan's off-line least common ancestors...