Honored Persons Database
Displaying 221 – 240 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
W. Bruce Croft
A leading contributor to research in information retrieval and the theoretical development and practical use of Bayesian inference networks and language modelling for retrieval, Croft has served as a distinguished Professor in...
Frank van Ham
Designer of interactive information visualizations and one of the main researchers behind IBM's Many Eyes project, van Ham has more than a decade of experience in designing and deploying interactive information visualizations....
Harold (Bud) Lawson
Creator of the pointer variable in programming languages and contributor to PL/I, Lawson has been active in the field of computing since 1958 with broad international experience in industrial and academic environments....
Amir Pnueli
Pioneer of temporal logic in computing science, Pnueli made a major breakthrough in the verification and certification of concurrent and reactive systems with his landmark 1977 paper "The Temporal Logic of Programs,"...
Roger R. Schell
Regarded as the "father" of the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (the "Orange Book"), Schell is one of the foremost contributors to, and authorities on, "high assurance" computer security. He has served...
Hugh Darwen
Chief architect on Business System 12, a database management system that faithfully embraced the principles of the relational model, Darwen has been recognized as a significant figure in the history of the...
Cyril Cleverdon
Best known for his work on the evaluation of information retrieval systems, Cleverdon was a British librarian and computer scientist born in Bristol, England. He worked at the Bristol Libraries from 1932...
Max D Hopper
Pioneer of the first airline passenger reservation system, Hopper was recognized as the "father of airline automation in travel agencies." He founded the consulting firm Max D. Hopper Associates, specializing in strategic...
Gary Harpst
Co-founder of Solomon Software and designer of its pioneering accounting products, Harpst grew up in Findlay, Ohio and graduated from Ohio State University with B.A. and M.B.A. degrees in Business and Computer...
Richard Matthew Stallman
Founder of the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, Stallman also launched the free software movement and was the main author of the GNU General Public License for open...
Dario de Judicibus
Founder of the Reuse Shop, the first IBM group to create software libraries of building blocks that could be used to develop products, de Judicibus is a prolific inventor and pioneer in...
Richard D. Greenblatt
Co-founder of the hacker community and the main implementer of Maclisp on the PDP-6, Greenblatt is also known for writing Mac Hack, the first computer program to play tournament-level chess and the...
Ethel Cox Marden
Participant in the creation of the first computer languages, Marden went to work for the National Bureau of Standards after World War II, serving as a mathematician and administrator. She served as...
Vipin Kumar
Developer of the isoefficiency metric for evaluating the scalability of parallel algorithms, Kumar holds the William Norris Endowed Chair in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota,...
Nancy Hafkin
A pioneer of networking and electronic communications in Africa, Hafkin spearheaded the Pan African Development Information System (PADIS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) from 1987 until 1997. She...
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...
Michael (Mike) A. Kaczmarski
Co-creator of the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager product family and leader of the redesign of the TotalStorage Productivity Center, Kaczmarski is an acknowledged IBM expert in storage management. Part of the IBM...
Radia Joy Perlman
Inventor of the spanning-tree protocol, which is fundamental to the operation of network bridges, Perlman is a software designer and network engineer sometimes referred to as the "Mother of the Internet," though...
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...
Charlie Catlett
Member of the original team that deployed and managed the NSFNet to promote advanced research and education networking, Catlett attended the University of Illinois initially majoring in Electrical Engineering. But after his...