Honored Persons Database
Displaying 241 – 260 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
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....
Aviel (Avi) David Rubin
Leader of the research team that successfully cracked the security code of Texas Instruments' RFID chip, Rubin is an American computer programmer and scientist with expertise in systems and networking security. He...
Arundhati Bhattacharya
The first woman to serve as Chairperson of the State Bank of India, Bhattacharya became chairperson and chief executive officer of Salesforce, India. In 2016, Forbes ranked her 25th on its list...
Richard E. Pattis
Author of the Karel programming language, Pattis published "Karel the Robot: A Gentle Introduction to the Art of Programming." He received his MS from Stanford University and has served as a professor...
Naveen Selvadurai
Co-founder of the location-based social networking site Foursquare.com, Selvadurai is a US internet entrepreneur born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He graduated with degrees from King's College London in the UK and...
Marsha J. Berger
Pioneer of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) and Cartesian mesh finite difference methods for numerical PDEs, Berger's block-structured AMR approach, beginning with her thesis, is now considered one of the seminal ideas in...
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...
King-Sun Fu
A pioneer in the field of pattern recognition and machine intelligence, Fu is considered to be the "father of automatic pattern recognition," and was widely recognized for his extensive contributions to the...
William (Bill) Yeager
Inventor of the multi-protocol router and network operating system, Yeager is best known for creating a packet-switched, "Ships in the Night," multiple-protocol router in 1981, during his 20-year tenure at Stanford's Knowledge...
Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale
Developer of the "migratable objects" parallel programming model and its implementation in the Charm++ parallel programming system, Kale has served as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at...
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...
Steven (Steve) Shih Chen
Co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube, Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan. When he was eight years old, he and his family immigrated to the...
László Kalmár
Pioneer in mathematical logic and theoretical computer science, Kalmár defined what are known as elementary functions, number-theoretic functions (i.e. those based on the natural numbers) built up from the notions of composition...
David Neil Cutler, Sr.
Developer of several operating systems including RSX-11M, VMS, VAXELN, and Windows NT, Cutler is a pioneering software engineer. Cutler's software career started at a small company he founded called Agrippa-Ord, located in Monument...
Gregg M. Townsend
Implementer of noteworthy aspects of the Icon runtime system and developer of the Arizona webcam, Townsend worked at the University of Arizona for a total of 36 years, retiring in 2009, but...
Ken W. Kolence
Co-founder of Boole & Babbage, the first software product firm in Silicon Valley, Kolence is recognized as a software industry pioneer and computer executive. He received his Master's degree in Math, with...
Kirk Paul Lafler
Author of *PROC SQL: Beyond the Basics Using SAS* and a data scientist, Lafler is an educator, developer, programmer, and consultant. He teaches as a lecturer and adjunct professor at San Diego...
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....
Randy Cartwright
Creator of Animation Timer, a stopwatch application for Apple iPhones, Cartwright is a veteran Disney animator and filmmaker. Born in Virginia, Cartwright graduated from UCLA in 1974, where he made his student animated...
Calvin (Kelly) C. Gotlieb
Known as the "father" of computing in Canada, Gotlieb started working with computing equipment in the 1940s. He was one of the driving forces behind the University of Toronto's being a leader...