Honored Persons Database
Displaying 421 – 440 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Joseph (Joe) Frederick Traub
Co-pioneer of information-based computational complexity, Traub was the Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He held positions at Bell Laboratories,...
Stephanie Shirley
Founder of F International, a software company initially employing only women, Shirley built her vision that software could provide an outlet for the skills and creative ability of housebound women into a...
Lawrence (Larry) H. Landweber
Creator of THEORYNET, an electronic mail system serving over 100 researchers in computer science, Landweber is also best known for founding the Computer Science Network (CSNET) project in 1979, which later developed...
Linus Benedict Torvalds
Creator of the Linux kernel and key catalyst of the open source movement, Torvalds initiated one of the most influential software projects in history.
Roger R. Schell
Regarded as the "father" of the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (the "Orange Book"), Schell is one of the foremost contributors to, and authorities on, "high assurance" computer security. He has served...
Jim Knopf (aka Button)
Considered by many to be one of the "fathers" of shareware (so named by fellow software veteran Peter Norton), Knopf worked as an IBM software engineer in Seattle, Washington, where he wrote...
Mary Kenneth Keller
The first woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science in the United States, Keller was also among the first people of any gender to receive such a doctorate. Her degree was...
Paul Alexander Desmond DeMaine
A leading figure in the early development of computer-based automatic indexing and information retrieval and one of the founders of academic computer science in the 1960s, DeMaine was born in South Africa...
Geoff Huston
Leader of the initial construction of the Internet in Australia in the late 1980s, Huston is widely regarded as the preeminent researcher on IPv4 exhaustion, routinely referenced by international agencies and frequently...
Ted Dabney
Co-founder of Syzygy and Atari, Dabney met Nolan Bushnell while working at Ampex, and the two jointly created Syzygy. Their first product, Computer Space, was manufactured and sold by Nutting Associates. Following...
Richard (Dick) Mandelbaum
Co-founder of NYSERNet, the first nongovernment Internet service provider (ISP), Mandelbaum started out as a Theoretical Mathematician and became a Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering. He has also served...
Ralph E. Griswold
Co-creator of SNOBOL and pioneer in string processing languages, Griswold made lasting contributions to non-numerical computation. He worked for Bell Labs in 1962, where he studied ideas for non-numerical computation. SNOBOL was...
Chandu Thota
A widely recognized expert in mapping, geo-spatial applications, and scalable web services, Thota is a software entrepreneur notable for starting a service called Dealmap, which launched DealExchange to help publishers and local...
Ray Ozzie
Creator of Lotus Notes and founder of Groove Networks, Ozzie has been a central figure in collaborative software development. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science in 1979 from the University of...
Jennifer Rexford
Noted for research in internet routing, network measurement and management, Rexford has served as a Professor in the Computer Science department at Princeton University. From 1996–2004, she was a member of the...
Frances (Fran) Elizabeth Allen
Pioneer in optimizing compilers and the first woman to win the Turing Award, Allen was also the first female IBM Fellow. Allen was an expert in the field of optimizing compilers. As a...
Josephine M. Cheng
Developer of IBM's database technology for the web, allowing people to access huge amounts of data via the Internet previously accessible only through proprietary systems, Cheng has been an IBM Fellow (2000)...
Antonin Svoboda
Czech computer scientist and creator of fault-tolerant computer design, Svoboda was one of the most influential scientists in the 20th century. He was born in Prague in 1907. Attending a series of...
William (Will) Ralph Wright
Creator of SimCity, one of the most influential computer games ever made, Wright is an American video game designer and co-founder of the game development company Maxis, now part of Electronic Arts...
A.J. Han Vinck
Recipient of the IEEE ISPLC2006 Achievement award for his contributions to Power Line Communications, Vinck has also held a chair for Digital Communications at the Institute for Experimental Mathematics at the University...