Honored Persons Database
Displaying 441 – 460 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Richard (Rick) Thomas Watson
Co-leader of the Global Text Project, which provides free electronic textbooks for students in the developing world, Watson has held the J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Chair for Internet Strategy in the Department...
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...
Robert Mano Fano
Known principally for his work in information theory and the invention of Shannon-Fano coding, Fano was a computer scientist and professor emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of...
Martin Richards
Creator of the BCPL programming language, Richards is a computer scientist whose work has had lasting influence on modern programming. In 1959 he came to Cambridge to read Mathematics, followed by the...
Aleksandr Semenovich Kronrod
Known for the Gauss–Kronrod quadrature formula, which he published in 1964, Kronrod was a Soviet mathematician and computer scientist. Earlier in his career, his computations informed theoretical physics. He was also known...
Dennis Crowley
Co-founder of the popular social networking sites Dodgeball and Foursquare, Crowley is an American Internet entrepreneur born in Medway, Massachusetts who graduated from nearby Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, Massachusetts in...
Anita Borg
Developer of a patented method for generating complete address traces for analyzing and designing high-speed memory systems, and of MECCA, an email and Web-based system for communicating in virtual communities, Borg was...
Thomas Eugene Kurtz
Co-developer of the BASIC programming language, Kurtz transformed computing education for generations of users. In 1951, Dr. Kurtz's first experience with computing came at the Summer Session of the Institute for Numerical Analysis...
Fred M. Gibbons
Co-founder and CEO of Software Publishing Corporation (SPC), best known for its pioneering Harvard Graphics business and presentation graphics program, Gibbons cofounded the Mountain View, California-based company in 1980 along with two...
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...
Robert William Bemer
Best known as "The Father of ASCII," Bemer made foundational contributions to computing through his work on COBOL and the ASCII character codeset. Bemer began his career as an aerodynamicist at Douglas Aircraft...
Roy Nutt
A major contributor in the creation of IBM's FORTRAN, the first high-level scientific and engineering programming language, Nutt was also an American businessman and computer pioneer who co-founded Computer Sciences Corporation. He...
Michael Gleicher
Recognized for developing better ways to synthesize human motions to make animated characters that are better able to communicate, Gleicher has served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at...
Allen Newell
Pioneer in artificial intelligence, Newell made basic contributions to AI and the psychology of human cognition, for which he and Herbert Simon were awarded the ACM's A.M. Turing Award in 1975. He...
Howard (Ward) G. Cunningham
Programmer and inventor of the wiki, Cunningham started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the website of his software consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham (commonly known by its domain...
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,...
Richard (Rich) Hilleman
Creator of the original Madden Football game for video game consoles, Hilleman is an American computer game and video game producer best known for his work at Electronic Arts. Apart from Madden,...
Jun Murai
Considered "the father of Japan's Internet," Murai is a Japanese computer scientist and professor at Keio University. He founded JUNET, a computer network established by three universities — Tokyo University, Tokyo Institute...
Anil K. Jain
Internationally recognized for contributions to pattern recognition, computer vision, and biometric recognition, Jain has served as a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Michigan State University...
Ken Coar
Co-creator of the Apache Incubator project, the gateway for open-source projects intended to become fully fledged Apache Software Foundation projects, Coar is recognized primarily for his participation in the creation of The...