Honored Persons Database
Displaying 281 – 300 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
John Couch
One of the primary software architecture designers of the HP AMIGO/300 software environment — a precursor to the Xerox Alto and the Macintosh — Couch also served as Apple's first Vice President...
Martin Edward Hellman
Co-inventor of public key cryptography, Hellman co-authored with Whitfield Diffie the landmark 1976 paper *New Directions in Cryptography*. It introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographic keys, which went far toward...
Matti Makkonen
Known as the father of SMS (Short Message Service) — i.e., text messaging — Makkonen was an engineer in the field of Mobile Communications. Born in Suomussalmi, Finland, he was employed (among...
Shu-Ching Chen
Collaborator with FIU's International Hurricane Research Center (IHRC), Chen is recognized for applying his research to real-world problems, including LiDAR data filtering that has revolutionized the acquisition of digital elevation data for...
Alan Emtage
Alan Emtage conceived and implemented the first version of Archie, a pre-Web internet search engine for locating material in public FTP archives.
Sandra L. Kurtzig
The first woman to take a high-tech company public, Kurtzig founded ASK Computer Systems Inc. and developed Manman, an ERP program that ran on Hewlett-Packard minicomputers and helped manufacturing companies plan materials...
Cristina Videira Lopes
Founder of the group that developed Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) and starter of aspectj.org, Lopes has served as an Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of California, Irvine. She received her B.S....
Randy Bush
Founder of the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), an NSF-supported pro bono effort to help develop and deploy networking technology in projects throughout the world, Bush has worked with the computer industry...
Ben Shneiderman
Known for experimentation on the use of flowcharts and information visualization in programming, Shneiderman conducted experiments in his earlier work on studying programmers which suggested that flowcharts were not helpful for writing,...
Edith Clarke
Pioneer of electrical engineering and the inventor of the Clarke calculator, Clarke broke barriers as the first woman to earn an M.S. in electrical engineering from MIT. Clarke studied mathematics and astronomy at...
James A. Gosling
Credited as the inventor of the Java programming language, Gosling is best known as the father of Java.
Frank Land
Pioneering IT use in business and the teaching of systems analysis in universities, Land began his career in computing as an analyst programmer with LEO—the Lyons Computer—in 1952. He left in 1968,...
Joseph Hardin
Leader of the Comprehensive Collaborative Framework (CHEF) project, which developed an open source framework and tools for course management systems, workgroup support, and support of online research, Hardin has served as Director...
John Vittal
Developer of MSG, the first modern email program, Vittal is recognized as the person responsible for transforming the old email system into the highly user-friendly tool of today. A computer programmer who...
Richard F. Clippinger
Co-developer of numeric methods for solving ordinary and partial differential equations on the ENIAC, EDVAC, and ORDVAC computers, Clippinger was a computing laboratory staff member at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, who...
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...
Brian Keith Reid
Known for developing the Scribe word processing system and pioneering the use of descriptive markup, Reid earned his B.S. in physics from the University of Maryland, College Park, and then worked in...
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...
David (Dave) B. Lindquist
Responsible for the strategy and architecture of IBM's Cloud technology (SmartCloud software), Smarter Infrastructure, and Integrated Service Management solutions, Lindquist has served as an IBM Fellow, Chief Technology Officer of Software Group,...
David Elliott Bell
Co-developer of the highly influential Bell-LaPadula security model, Bell is a mathematician and computer security pioneer. His management experience has ranged from line management up to executive and Board of Directors responsibilities....