Honored Persons Database
Displaying 301 – 320 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Michael (Mike) F. Cowlishaw
Designer and implementer of the IBM REXX programming language, Cowlishaw is best known as a programmer and writer. He joined IBM in 1974 as an electronic engineer and retired from IBM in...
Evan Sharp
Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Pinterest, Sharp designed the Pinterest grid for the initial product launch. Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool that skyrocketed in popularity due to its innovative concept...
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...
Donald Ervin Knuth
Author of the landmark series *The Art of Computer Programming*, Knuth is renowned for his contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages. He has served as Professor...
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...
Ken Coar
Co-creator of the Apache Incubator project, the gateway for open-source projects intended to become fully fledged Apache Software Foundation projects, Coar is recognized primarily for his participation in the creation of The...
Barbara Liskov
A pioneer in object-oriented programming, Liskov's work in programming methodology has affected all aspects of modern computing, including programming languages, object-oriented programming, and software robustness to hacking. She designed CLU, an object-oriented...
Alan Jay Perlis
A pioneer in advanced programming techniques and compiler construction, Perlis was the first recipient of the ACM Turing Award in 1966, sometimes called the "Nobel Prize of Computing." Perlis was born on April...
Elizabeth M. Belding
Founder and Director of the Mobility Management and Networking (MOMENT) Laboratory, Belding has served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and as...
Lester (Les) Donald Earnest
Developer of the "first pen-based computer system that reliably recognized cursive writing" and the first spell checker, Earnest began his career as a computer programmer in 1954 during a stint as a...
Eugene (Spaf) Howard Spafford
Co-developer of a number of "firsts" in computer security, Spafford is a leading computer security expert and historically significant Internet figure, renowned for first analyzing the Morris Worm and his prominent role...
Roger D. Moore
Co-recipient of the 1973 Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery, Moore was recognized — along with Larry Breed and Richard Lathwell — for their work in the design...
Robert E. Cook
Founder of VM Software (later renamed Systems Center), a provider of software utilities for IBM's VM operating system, Cook built his first company into a firm listed on both the Nasdaq and...
Brenda L. Dietrich
Leader of the emerging technologies team in the IBM Watson group, Dietrich has brought a business perspective to projects at the forefront of applied mathematics. She has served as Vice President of...
Richard Phillips Feynman
Nobel Prize winner in Physics (1965), Feynman made landmark contributions to quantum electrodynamics, the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well...
Adele Goldberg
Co-developer of the programming language Smalltalk-80 and various concepts related to object-oriented programming, Goldberg conducted this work as a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the 1970s. She...
Louis Pouzin
Invented the datagram and designed the first packet communications network, CYCLADES, Pouzin also created the first forms of command-line interface. His work was broadly used by Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, and many...
Werner L. Frank
Co-founder of Informatics General Corporation, one of the first viable software companies, Frank is a pioneering figure and longtime contributor to the United States and international computer industry. Born in the small...
Anthony A. Storey
Prime mover in creating the Enterprise Java Beans industry specification that brought Java into the server environment, Storey has also been a widely recognized expert in online transaction processing and the vital...
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...