Honored Persons Database
Displaying 441 – 460 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
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...
Orna Berry
The first woman to serve as chief scientist and head of the industrial R&D operation of the Israeli Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labour, Berry took on that role in 1996. An...
Amar Mukherjee
Pioneer in Switching Theory and the first to develop an algorithm for the minimization of EXOR-AND-type logic networks, Mukherjee was internationally recognized for his contributions to Hardware Algorithms for Non-numeric Computation, VLSI...
Marlyn Meltzer (née Wescoff)
One of the original programmers of the ENIAC, the world's first electronic computer, Meltzer was selected for this role in 1945. A graduate of Temple University in 1942, she was hired by...
Clifford (Cliff) B. Jones
Team member on the Vienna Development Method (VDM) at IBM in Vienna, Jones is a British computer scientist known for his work on one of the longest-established formal methods for the development...
Ravi Sandhu
Inventor of 29 security technology patents and leader of multiple teams conducting research on many aspects of cyber security, Sandhu has served as Executive Director of the Institute for Cyber Security at...
Rama Chellappa
Pioneer researcher in image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition, Chellappa has served as a Minta Martin Professor of Engineering (from 2005) and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and...
Ramakrishnan Srikant
Key architect for IBM Intelligent Miner, Srikant contributed the association rules and sequential patterns modules to the product. Dr. Srikant has served as a Principal Research Scientist at Google. He previously managed the...
Claude Elwood Shannon
Developer of Information Theory, the basis for the design of communication systems and networks, Shannon also noted the importance of Boolean theory for the design of logic circuits whilst still a student...
Rajeev Sangal
Noted for Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, and speech research in Indian Languages, Sangal founded and has served as director of the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT-H), India. IIIT-H is...
Kevin A. Stoodley
Conceiver and developer of the Testarossa dynamic compilation infrastructure, which along with the J9 JVM project became the basis for all of IBM's Java language implementations, Stoodley has served as Chief Technical...
Frederick (Fred) Jacob Damerau
Pioneer in natural language processing and data mining, Damerau spent over four decades at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown, New York. Born in Parma, Ohio, son of the...
Allan Alcorn
Designer of the video arcade game Pong, one of the earliest and most popular arcade video games, Alcorn is an American pioneering engineer and computer scientist born and raised in San Francisco,...
James (Jim) F. Blinn
Creator of the pre-encounter animations for the Voyager project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Blinn is one of the founders of the computer graphics industry. He has spent his career expanding industry...
Myron Krueger
Considered one of the first generation virtual reality and augmented reality researchers, Krueger is an American computer artist who developed early interactive works. While earning a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the...
Max Rafael Levchin
Co-developer of PayPal and co-creator of the Gausebeck-Levchin test, one of the first commercial implementations of a CAPTCHA, Levchin is a Ukrainian-born American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur widely known as one...
Eugene Edward McDonnell
Designer of IBM's first Time-Sharing system, which became a very early host to IVSYS, a predecessor of APL, McDonnell was a Computer Science pioneer and long-time contributor to the programming languages APL...
W. (Rick) Richards Adrion
Founder of the Applied Computing Systems Institute of Massachusetts, Adrion has served as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He served as PI for an NSF REU Site,...
Jonathan Bruce Postel
A significant contributor to the development of the Internet, Postel was involved in early work on the ARPANET while at UCLA. He later moved to the Information Sciences Institute at the University...
Patrick Volkerding
Founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution, Volkerding has served as Slackware's "Benevolent Dictator for Life" (BDFL), and is also known informally as "The Man". He has also contributed to the...