Honored Persons Database
Displaying 401 – 420 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Ken Orr
Leading researcher in the development of automated tools for business requirements, database design, and advanced client/server prototyping, Orr is an internationally recognized expert on business process reengineering, technology transfer, software engineering, data...
Ethel Cox Marden
Participant in the creation of the first computer languages, Marden went to work for the National Bureau of Standards after World War II, serving as a mathematician and administrator. She served as...
Susan T. Dumais
Researcher whose work at Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies) into the vocabulary problem in information retrieval led to the invention of Latent Semantic Indexing, Dumais has served as a Principal Researcher in the...
Lars Wirzenius
Co-founder of the Linux Documentation Project, Wirzenius has been programming computers since 1984. He worked on Linux documentation, including the Linux System Administrator's Guide, and was the co-moderator of the comp.os.linux.announce newsgroup....
Kenneth (Ken) H. Perlin
Developer of Perlin noise and innovative computer-user interfaces such as zooming user interfaces, Perlin is one of the most respected figures in the field of computer graphics for his work both in...
David C. Walden
A member of the small team of engineers that developed the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, Walden is recognized as one of the first Internet programmers. After three years at MIT...
Hugh Darwen
Chief architect on Business System 12, a database management system that faithfully embraced the principles of the relational model, Darwen has been recognized as a significant figure in the history of the...
Douglas Donald Troxel
Developer of COMPAREX, an industry-standard mainframe product, Troxel founded SERENA Consulting in 1980 and grew it into a publicly traded software company without venture capital. Raised on a farm near Lake City, Iowa,...
Shu-Ching Chen
Collaborator with FIU's International Hurricane Research Center (IHRC), Chen is recognized for applying his research to real-world problems, including LiDAR data filtering that has revolutionized the acquisition of digital elevation data for...
Tim William Bray
Co-inventor of the XML web standard, Bray has been a major contributor to XML and Atom web standards. Right out of college, Bray joined Digital Equipment Corporation in Toronto as a software specialist....
Bill Hilf
Leader of product planning, product management and technical product management for Microsoft's Cloud computing platform, Windows Azure, Hilf has also served as a Senior Vice President at Hewlett-Packard for the HP Helion...
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...
Ben Forta
Author of numerous technical books on ColdFusion, SQL, and Regular Expressions, Forta has also served as Senior Technical Evangelist for Adobe Systems, particularly ColdFusion and Flex, and has been the owner of...
Christopher (Chris) A. Welty
One of the developers of Watson, the IBM artificially intelligent computer system that defeated the best players on the American game show Jeopardy!, Welty is an American computer scientist best known for...
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...
Ruth M. Davis
Chair of The Aerospace Corporation and deputy undersecretary of defense for research and advanced technology, Davis was an American computer scientist and civil servant associated with several major US government research projects. She...
Peter Norton
Creator of Norton Utilities, Norton is recognized as a pioneer in DOS-based utilities software. Before discovering microcomputers, Norton spent a dozen years working on mainframes and minicomputers for companies including Boeing and Jet...
Marvin L. Stein
One of the founding faculty members of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota, Stein served as its Director from 1958 to 1970. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he entered...
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...
George Joseph Laurer
Developer of the Universal Product Code (UPC), Laurer created the pattern of stripes that brought supermarkets into the digital age. A 36-year veteran of the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), he developed...