Honored Persons Database
Displaying 361 – 380 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Don Cassel
Developer of one of the first online interactive courses at Humber College for Microsoft Access using WebCT, Cassel created a significant tool for developing and delivering distance learning for the college. Cassel joined...
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,...
Vannevar Bush
The first presidential science advisor, Bush was an American engineer and science administrator known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb as a...
Norman Abramson
Developer of the ALOHAnet system for wireless computer communication and inventor of the first random access protocol, Abramson was an American engineer and computer scientist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and...
Stephen (Steve) T. Kent
Designer and developer of user authentication and access control systems as well as other network security systems, Kent has served as Vice President and Chief Scientist for Information Security at BBN Technologies....
Michael Stern Hart
Inventor of the electronic book (or e-book) and founder of Project Gutenberg, Hart made e-books freely available via the Internet. An American author and inventor, he attended the University of Illinois, graduating...
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...
Jozef Gruska
A pioneer in the theory of quantum computing and organizing activities in the field, Gruska graduated in mathematics from Commenius University in Bratislava and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the...
Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou
CTO of PatternInsight, a spin-off from her research group that has deployed software quality and security solutions used by many large commercial companies, Zhou co-founded the startup in 2007. She received several grants...
Brendan Eich
Creator of the JavaScript scripting language, Eich is a computer programmer and chief technology officer of Mozilla Corporation. He worked with MicroUnity Systems Engineering writing microkernel and DSP code, and doing the...
Paul Tseng
The first to establish the convergence of the affine scaling algorithm for linear programming in the presence of degeneracy, Tseng was recognized by his peers to be one of the leading optimization...
Ralph C. Merkle
Co-inventor of public key cryptography, Merkle is a researcher who also works as a speaker on molecular nanotechnology and cryonics. He appeared as a character in the science fiction novel *The Diamond...
Raymond Samuel Tomlinson
Creator of email, Tomlinson implemented the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to the ARPANet in 1971. Email had previously been sent on other networks such...
Keith Brown
Technical author on Microsoft Windows Security, Brown wrote the SSPI workbench tool and has been the security columnist for MSDN Magazine since 1998.
Georgy Adelson-Velsky
Co-inventor of the AVL tree and head developer of the Kaissa chess computer, Adelson-Velsky made foundational contributions to both computer science and computer chess. In 1962, Georgy and E.M. Landis published a...
William (Velvel) Morton Kahan
One of the foremost experts on floating-point computations, Kahan is recognized for his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis and has dedicated himself to "making the world safe for numerical computations." Among his...
Burton J. Smith
Primary architect of the Denelcor Heterogeneous Element Processor (HEP), Smith was a pioneering computer architect who served as a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. He earned a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of...
Borje Langefors
Pioneer of the first theoretical approach to systems development practices, Langefors was the first computer scientist to develop a coherent model of the development of computer-based information systems in the early 1960s....
Peter Harris
Builder of a product that takes existing COBOL programs and produces structured system charts and supporting documentation for program maintenance, Harris also founded ADPAC, a leading software provider to corporations worldwide. While he...
Jie Liu
Leader of Microsoft Research's Sensing and Energy Research Group (SERG), Liu has conducted fundamental and applied research in sensing and energy-efficient computing with applications in sensor networks, data centers, and mobile computing....