Honored Persons Database
Displaying 261 – 280 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Steve Dorner
Developer of the Eudora e-mail client, Dorner is an American software engineer who created it in 1988 as part of his work as a staff member at the University of Illinois at...
James (Jim) F. Blinn
Creator of the pre-encounter animations for the Voyager project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Blinn is one of the founders of the computer graphics industry. He has spent his career expanding industry...
Bailey Whitfield Diffie
Pioneer of public-key cryptography, Diffie co-authored the landmark 1976 paper "New Directions in Cryptography," which introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographic keys, going far toward solving one of the fundamental...
Daniel Singer Bricklin
Co-creator of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program available for personal computers, Bricklin co-founded Software Arts, Inc. with Frankston in 1979 and began selling VisiCalc that same year. He was given a Grace...
Stanisław Marcin Ulam
Originator of the concept of the technological singularity, Ulam was also a renowned mathematician of Polish-Jewish origin who participated in America's Manhattan Project, originated the Teller–Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons, suggested the...
Andrew Hinchley
Recognized as one of the 25 founders of the Internet, Hinchley was formally honored at a ceremony at Stanford University. He has worked on the sharing and exchange of clinical information in...
William (Will) Ralph Wright
Creator of SimCity, one of the most influential computer games ever made, Wright is an American video game designer and co-founder of the game development company Maxis, now part of Electronic Arts...
Paul Tseng
The first to establish the convergence of the affine scaling algorithm for linear programming in the presence of degeneracy, Tseng was recognized by his peers to be one of the leading optimization...
Alfred Zalmon Spector
Responsible for IBM software product families such as CICS, WebSphere, and MQSeries, Spector is an American computer scientist and research manager. Spector received his Bachelor of Arts degree in applied Mathematics from Harvard...
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
A pioneer in the theory of computation, Yao is recognized for fundamental contributions including the complexity-based theory of pseudorandom number generation, cryptography, and communication complexity. Yao used the minimax theorem to prove...
Gabe Logan Newell
Producer of the first three releases of Windows, Newell later founded Valve, producing one of the best-selling PC games ever, Half-Life.
Keith Brown
Technical author on Microsoft Windows Security, Brown wrote the SSPI workbench tool and has been the security columnist for MSDN Magazine since 1998.
Jiawei Han
Co-author of the widely-used textbook "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" and a leading researcher in data mining, data warehousing, and database systems, Han has served as Abel Bliss Professor in the Department...
Shikoh Gitau
The first African to win the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, Gitau received that honor at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, recognized for her inventions and thesis work. A Kenyan...
Jerome (Jerry) Howard Saltzer
Contributor to the End-to-end principle in systems design — one of the important underlying principles governing the operation of the Internet — Saltzer is a computer scientist who made many notable contributions....
Larry Wall
Creator of Perl, Wall is one of the most influential figures in the open-source software movement. Wall studied linguistics and music at Seattle Pacific University, where he graduated in 1976. He later attended...
James Martin
Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his book *The Wired Society: A Challenge for Tomorrow*, Martin was a British Information Technology consultant and author who was one of the first to promote...
Ben Forta
Author of numerous technical books on ColdFusion, SQL, and Regular Expressions, Forta has also served as Senior Technical Evangelist for Adobe Systems, particularly ColdFusion and Flex, and has been the owner of...
Ray Ozzie
Creator of Lotus Notes and founder of Groove Networks, Ozzie has been a central figure in collaborative software development. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science in 1979 from the University of...
Eugene Edward McDonnell
Designer of IBM's first Time-Sharing system, which became a very early host to IVSYS, a predecessor of APL, McDonnell was a Computer Science pioneer and long-time contributor to the programming languages APL...