Honored Persons Database
Displaying 361 – 380 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Jacob Ziv
Co-developer of the LZ77 lossless data compression algorithm, Ziv made foundational contributions to information theory. From 1955 to 1959, he was a Senior Research Engineer in the Scientific Department Israel Ministry of Defense,...
Manuel Blum
Recipient of the 1995 Turing Award for his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking, Blum is a computer scientist whose work has...
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...
Florian Brody
Co-inventor of Voyager's Expanded Books, the first electronic books to be read on a laptop, Brody is an international marketing executive and digital media specialist with over 25 years of experience. He...
Laszlo (Les) A. Belady
Author of the most-cited paper in software over two decades, Belady's 1966 article on Virtual Memory Systems set a landmark acknowledged by the Citation Index Classic. A design engineer and veteran senior...
Tamara (Tammy) G. Kolda
Developer of the MATLAB Tensor Toolbox, Kolda has served as a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the Informatics and Systems Assessments department at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California. Her...
John Matthew Vlissides
Co-author, as one of the "Gang of Four", of the influential software engineering textbook Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Vlissides referred to himself as "#4 of the Gang of Four...
Dana L. Ulery
The first woman engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ulery is an American computer scientist and pioneer in scientific computing applications. She began her career in 1961, designing and developing algorithms...
Branimir Makanec
A pioneer of computer popularization in Croatia, Makanec established the Multimedia Center of the Zagreb University Referral Center (MMC). The MMC was an open-type computer center intended to be used for non-numerical...
Daniel (Danny) Mark Lewin
Co-creator of innovative Internet infrastructure services that produced an entirely new industry segment and forever changed the way people and companies distribute content, data, and applications, Lewin co-founded Akamai Technologies. An American-Israeli...
John Buxton
Pioneer of computer simulation, Buxton gained world renown for his fundamental scientific contributions to computer simulation, programming language design, and software implementation technology. He was founding professor of computer science at both...
Mark Allen Weiss
Writer of highly acclaimed Data Structures textbooks used at hundreds of universities worldwide, Weiss has served as a Professor and Associate Director in the School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida...
Peter M. Schnell
Founder of Software AG, Schnell established the company in 1969. He developed the ADABAS Data Management System and the NATURAL Fourth Generation Language, which became foundational contributions to enterprise software. In 1992,...
Peter R. Jennings
Author of the first commercially successful chess program for microcomputers, Jennings is a Canadian physicist, interdisciplinary scientist, inventor, software developer, computer chess programmer, businessman, and paraglider. Born in England, his family moved...
Meg Whitman
Longtime chief executive of eBay and Hewlett Packard, Whitman held senior business leadership positions at some of the most prominent companies in American technology and media, including The Walt Disney Company and...
William (Will) Crowther
Co-creator of Colossal Cave Adventure, a seminal computer game that created the text adventure genre, Crowther is also recognized for an earlier technical achievement: his implementation of a distributed distance vector routing...
Ronald Linn Rivest
One of the inventors of the RSA algorithm (along with Adi Shamir and Len Adleman), Rivest has made ingenious contributions to making public-key cryptography useful in practice. He also invented the symmetric...
Lois Haibt
The only female member of the ten-person team that invented FORTRAN, Haibt is an American computer scientist perhaps most famous for her role in creating the first successful high-level programming language. She...
Stephen Cole Kleene
American mathematician who helped lay the foundations for theoretical computer science, Kleene was best known as a founder of the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory. One of many distinguished...
Heinz G. Schwaertzel
Head of Central Research at Siemens AG in Munich, Schwaertzel has served as President of Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) from 1987–1991. He initiated DFKI (German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence) in Saarbrücken...