Honored Persons Database
Displaying 261 – 280 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Douglas Gene Carlston
Founder and CEO of Tawala Systems, which enables ordinary people to use the web more easily and effectively, Carlston launched the company in September 2005, based in San Rafael, California, and conceived...
Ralph Edward Gomory
Credited with many fundamental contributions to advanced technology — including the single-transistor memory cell, high-density storage devices, silicon processing methods, and relational database theory — Gomory is an American applied mathematician and...
John Richard Rice
Founder of the ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Rice was an American mathematician and computer scientist who served as the W. Brooks Fortune Distinguished Emeritus of Computer Science and a Professor of...
Donald J. Haderle
Known as the "Father of DB2" for leading the architecture and design of DB2, one of the first commercial relational database management systems (RDBMS), Haderle is an American computer scientist and IBM...
Ralph C. Merkle
Co-inventor of public key cryptography, Merkle is a researcher who also works as a speaker on molecular nanotechnology and cryonics. He appeared as a character in the science fiction novel *The Diamond...
Elmer C. Kubie
Co-founder of Computer Usage Company (CUC), the first independent company to market computer software, Kubie helped transform how software was developed and sold. He and John W. Sheldon founded CUC (1955–1986), sometimes...
Mary Coombs
Recognized as the first female commercial programmer, Coombs was employed in 1952 as the first woman to work as a programmer on the LEO computers. A British computer programmer and schoolteacher, her...
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...
Robert W. Wisniewski
Manager of the Blue Gene software project at IBM Research — an initiative dedicated to exploring the frontiers in supercomputing, computer architecture, software for massively parallel systems, and the use of computation...
Susan L. Graham
Co-builder of the Berkeley Pascal system and the widely used program profiling tool Gprof, Graham is an American computer scientist who has served as the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the Computer...
John McCarthy
Inventor of the Lisp programming language, McCarthy was also responsible for coining the term "Artificial Intelligence" in his 1955 proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth Conference. An American computer scientist and cognitive scientist,...
Jules I. Schwartz
Author of JOVIAL, the first computer software designed for use by the military, Schwartz composed this high-order programming language in 1959 for use in the electronics of military aircraft. Born in Philadelphia, PA,...
Barry Schrager
Co-designer and developer of early commercial computer security software products, Schrager is recognized as one of the people who started the concept of data security when he founded and became the first...
John D. Carmack
Co-founder and leading programmer of id Software and lead engineer of Armadillo Aerospace, Carmack is a pioneering figure in computer graphics and game development. Softdisk, a computer company in Shreveport, Louisiana, hired...
William Harvey Inmon
Recognized by many as the father of the data warehouse, Inmon wrote the first book, held the first conference (with Arnie Barnett), wrote the first column in a magazine, and was the...
William (Danny) Daniel Hillis
Co-founder of Thinking Machines Corporation, Hillis developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer he designed at MIT. He also co-founded the Long Now Foundation, Applied Minds, and Metaweb, and authored The Pattern...
Andrew James Viterbi
Inventor of the Viterbi algorithm, used for decoding convolutionally encoded data and still widely used in cellular phones for error correcting codes, as well as for speech recognition, DNA analysis, and many...
Adi Shamir
Co-inventor of the RSA public-key cryptosystem, Shamir is an Israeli cryptographer whose initial in "RSA" stands for his name. He is also one of the inventors of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme. His...
Mary Tsingou
One of the first programmers on the MANIAC computer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Tsingou is best known for coding the celebrated computer experiment conducted with Enrico Fermi, John Pasta, and Stanislaw...
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....