Honored Persons Database
Displaying 321 – 340 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Enid Mumford
A pioneer in early studies on the use of large-scale computing, Mumford demonstrated that the underlying cause of failed computer implementations was an inability to overcome human factors associated with the implementation...
Karen Spärck Jones
Pioneer of inverse document frequency (IDF) weighting in information retrieval, Spärck Jones introduced a concept now used in most search engines today. A British computer scientist, she was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England...
Mochio Umeda
One of the most well-known commentators on IT and Web 2.0 issues in Japan, Umeda is also the author of the best-selling book "Web Shinkaron (Theory of Web Evolution)." He is a...
Janet Emerson Bashen
Regarded as the first African American woman to obtain a web-based software patent, Bashen earned that distinction through her invention of LinkLine, a web-based EEO software application designed to assist with equal...
Gordon Matthews
Founder of ECS Communications (later VMX), one of the first companies to pioneer the commercialization of voicemail for corporate use, Matthews was an American inventor and businessman. He also invented systems to...
Jack Elton Bresenham
Developer of Bresenham's Line Algorithm in 1962, Bresenham is recognized as a pioneer in computer graphics. The algorithm is one of the earliest discovered in the field and determines which points in...
Roy Nutt
A major contributor in the creation of IBM's FORTRAN, the first high-level scientific and engineering programming language, Nutt was also an American businessman and computer pioneer who co-founded Computer Sciences Corporation. He...
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.
Peter Pin-Shan Chen
Known for the development of Entity-Relationship Modeling, Chen is an American computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University. Born in Taichung, Taiwan, he received a B.S. in electrical...
Sajal K. Das
Pioneer in research on wireless sensor networks and pervasive and mobile computing, Das has served as the Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair Professor and chair of the Computer Science department at the...
Eugene Wong
Instrumental in building an Internet backbone for Asia and a pioneering contributor to relational database management, Wong has also inaugurated major initiatives in microsystems, information technology, nanotechnology, service-sector engineering, and biotechnology. Wong received...
Barry M. Leiner
Instrumental in establishing the Internet Activities Board (IAB), which led the effort to set technical standards for the Internet, Leiner was a government scientist and Program Manager at the U. S. Defense...
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...
Steve Mann
Pioneer in the development of wearable computers and reality mediators in research towards cybernetics, Mann has been one of the founding members of the Wearable Computers group in the Media Lab at...
Timothy Wilking Finin
Co-leader of the work on KQML, a language and protocol for communication among software agents and knowledge-based systems, Finin has served as an American Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at...
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...
Dharma P. Agrawal
Leader of the University of Cincinnati - BlueTooth (UCBT) Bluetooth package, Agrawal was a communications scientist who specialized in wireless sensor networks. He served as the Ohio Board of Regents Distinguished Professor...
Thomas M. Cover
Known for developing the relationship between information theory and statistics, Cover served as past President of the IEEE Information Theory Society and was a Fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics and...
Charles Antony Richard Hoare
Developer of Quicksort, one of the world's most widely used sorting algorithms, Hoare also developed Hoare logic for verifying program correctness, and the formal language Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) to specify the...
Kevin A. Stoodley
Conceiver and developer of the Testarossa dynamic compilation infrastructure, which along with the J9 JVM project became the basis for all of IBM's Java language implementations, Stoodley has served as Chief Technical...