Honored Persons Database
Displaying 341 – 360 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Alan Kotok
Co-developer of what is sometimes called the first video game (Spacewar!), Kotok was also part of the team that wrote the Kotok-McCarthy program which took part in the first chess match between...
Jignesh M. Patel
Founder of Locomatix, a "location aware services" technology named one of the 20 hottest startups by MobileBeat in 2010 and highlighted in the Innovation Showcase at CTIA, Patel is a Professor of...
Luke Nosek
Co-founder of PayPal and creator of the company's "instant transfer" product, Nosek is a Polish-born American entrepreneur. He received a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign....
Nathaniel S. Borenstein
One of the original designers of the MIME protocol for formatting multimedia Internet electronic mail, Borenstein has served as Chief Scientist at email management company Mimecast and founded NetPOS.com and First Virtual...
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...
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...
Peter James Denning
Pioneer of virtual memory systems and co-founder of CSNET, Denning is best known for discovering the locality principle and designing the working set model for program behavior. He took an early interest in...
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...
David Karp
Founder of the short-form blogging platform Tumblr, Karp is an American web developer and entrepreneur. According to Forbes, his net worth exceeded $200 million, and Tumblr was valued at $800 million. On...
Grady Booch
Developer of the Unified Modeling Language, Booch got his first programming experience on a Fortran IV while in high school. Graduating from military academy in 1977, he worked as a software project...
August-Wilhelm Scheer
Developer of the ARIS framework for business process description and modeling, Scheer is recognized as a foundational figure in business informatics. He has served as Professor Emeritus at the University of Saarland,...
Makoto Murata
Participant in the W3C XML Working Group that designed XML 1.0, Murata is a Japanese computer scientist who joined the group in 1997. Jon Bosak, James Clark, and Tim Bray were also...
Anthony James Barr
Creator of the Statistical Analysis System (SAS) programming language, Barr conceived a database architecture for SAS inspired by the Formatted File System (FFS) he had worked on at the Pentagon. As a physics...
Ray Harishankar
Significant contributor to IBM's leadership position in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), reusable asset-based development approaches leveraging SOA, and in the creation of highly reusable IT assets, Harishankar has served as an IBM...
Robert C. Pike
A member of the Unix team at Bell Labs, Pike was involved in the creation of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems, as well as the Limbo programming...
Roger Michael Needham
Head of Cambridge University Computing Laboratory and designer of influential cryptography and security systems, Needham was a major figure in computer science. A Mathematics and Philosophy graduate from Cambridge University in the...
Ole-Johan Dahl
One of the fathers of object-oriented programming and Simula, Dahl produced the initial ideas for object-oriented (OO) programming in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Center (NR) as part of the Simula...
Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale
Developer of the "migratable objects" parallel programming model and its implementation in the Charm++ parallel programming system, Kale has served as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at...
Joseph (J. C. R.) Carl Licklider
Pioneer who led the development that led to ARPANet, Licklider was known simply as J.C.R. or "Lick" and was an American computer scientist considered one of the most important figures in computer...
Robert Mano Fano
Known principally for his work in information theory and the invention of Shannon-Fano coding, Fano was a computer scientist and professor emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of...