Honored Persons Database
Displaying 461 – 480 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Sandra L. Kurtzig
The first woman to take a high-tech company public, Kurtzig founded ASK Computer Systems Inc. and developed Manman, an ERP program that ran on Hewlett-Packard minicomputers and helped manufacturing companies plan materials...
John LeRoy Hennessy
Co-founder of MIPS Computer Systems Inc., Hennessy is known for developing the MIPS architecture and pioneering RISC chips. He has also served as the 10th President of Stanford University. He earned his...
Jignesh M. Patel
Founder of Locomatix, a "location aware services" technology named one of the 20 hottest startups by MobileBeat in 2010 and highlighted in the Innovation Showcase at CTIA, Patel is a Professor of...
Lynn Conway
Pioneer of the Mead and Conway revolution in VLSI design, Conway transformed the field of electronic chip design and automation. Conway joined Xerox PARC in 1973, where she led the "LSI Systems" group...
Stephen (Steve) Walker
Member of the team that developed ARPAnet, the breakthrough packet switching system that evolved into the Internet, Walker is an American engineer who is nationally recognized for his pioneering work on the...
Andrei Zary Broder
Co-inventor of the first practical test to prevent robots from masquerading as humans and accessing web sites — often referred to as CAPTCHA — Broder has served as a Distinguished Scientist at...
Susan Kare
Creator of many of the interface elements for the Apple Macintosh, Kare is an artist and graphic designer whose iconic work includes the Lasso, the Grabber, and the Paint Bucket icons, and...
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr.
Manager of the development of OS/360, Brooks was also known for writing candidly about the process in his seminal book *The Mythical Man-Month*. "It is a very humbling experience to make a...
Barbara Liskov
A pioneer in object-oriented programming, Liskov's work in programming methodology has affected all aspects of modern computing, including programming languages, object-oriented programming, and software robustness to hacking. She designed CLU, an object-oriented...
Erich Gamma
Design leader of Eclipse's Java Development Tools (JDT), Gamma is a Swiss computer scientist and co-author of the best-selling and influential software engineering textbook, "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" (Addison-Wesley,...
Karen Spärck Jones
Pioneer of inverse document frequency (IDF) weighting in information retrieval, Spärck Jones introduced a concept now used in most search engines today. A British computer scientist, she was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England...
David R. Karger
Developer of the fastest minimum spanning tree algorithm to date, Karger is also known for Karger's algorithm, a Monte Carlo method to compute the minimum cut of a connected graph. His work...
Peter James Denning
Pioneer of virtual memory systems and co-founder of CSNET, Denning is best known for discovering the locality principle and designing the working set model for program behavior. He took an early interest in...
Joan L. Mitchell
A key contributor to the JPEG image compression algorithm and MPEG video standards, Mitchell became an IBM Fellow in 2001. Working at IBM with William B. Pennebaker, she helped fine-tune the JPEG...
Fernanda Bertini Viégas
Co-creator of Many Eyes, the ground-breaking open public data visualization and analysis platform, Viégas is a Brazilian-born scientist and computational designer whose work focuses on the social, collaborative, and artistic aspects of...
John A Gosden
Pioneer of LEO software development and EDP standards, Gosden was a key figure in the world's first business computing applications. John joined J. Lyons as a trainee programmer in 1953 just a few...
Tim Paterson
Author of MS-DOS, Paterson is a software developer whose work shaped the foundation of personal computing. In 1978 he designed a schematic of Microsoft's Z-80 SoftCard, which had a Z80 CPU and ran...
David Lorge Parnas
Originator of the concept of information hiding in modular programming, Parnas is a Canadian early pioneer of software engineering whose work became a foundational element of object-oriented programming. He has also been...
Wendy W Hall
Leader of the team that invented the Microcosm hypermedia system before the World Wide Web existed, Hall has been a pioneering figure in multimedia, hypermedia, and web science. Born in west London,...
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...