Honored Persons Database
Displaying 461 – 480 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Gregg M. Townsend
Implementer of noteworthy aspects of the Icon runtime system and developer of the Arizona webcam, Townsend worked at the University of Arizona for a total of 36 years, retiring in 2009, but...
Elmer C. Kubie
Co-founder of Computer Usage Company (CUC), the first independent company to market computer software, Kubie helped transform how software was developed and sold. He and John W. Sheldon founded CUC (1955–1986), sometimes...
Brian Keith Reid
Known for developing the Scribe word processing system and pioneering the use of descriptive markup, Reid earned his B.S. in physics from the University of Maryland, College Park, and then worked in...
Valerie Barr
Researcher in software testing, gender and science issues, and computer science curriculum development, Barr has served as Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Union College, Schenectady, New York, since September 2004....
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....
Elizabeth (Liz) L. Burd
Leader of Durham's Technology Enhanced Learning research group, a group of 20 research staff and students, Burd has also served as director of the UK's Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning—Active...
Joyce K. Reynolds
Co-developer of protocols underlying the Internet, Reynolds was most notably the author or co-author of the RFCs introducing and specifying the Telnet protocol. She was active in the development of the protocols underlying...
Jiawei Han
Co-author of the widely-used textbook "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" and a leading researcher in data mining, data warehousing, and database systems, Han has served as Abel Bliss Professor in the Department...
Clare-Marie Karat
Author of the "Computer User's Bill of Rights" and creator of a cost-benefit methodology for analyzing the return on investment in usability, Karat is a leading figure in Human Computer Interaction research....
Bruce Eckel
Author of "Thinking in Java" and "Thinking in C++", Eckel has written numerous books and articles about computer programming. He has also given frequent lectures and seminars for computer programmers. His best...
Hakon Wium Lie
Proposer of the concept of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Wium Lie worked as an employee at W3C, where he developed CSS into a W3C Recommendation. Wium Lie proposed the Acid2 test, which was...
Pieter Van den Abeele
Founder of the PowerPC version of Gentoo Linux, Van den Abeele spearheaded the Gentoo architectures and platforms effort together with Daniel Robbins. He received a scholarship from Apple Computer for founding Gentoo...
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...
Werner L. Frank
Co-founder of Informatics General Corporation, one of the first viable software companies, Frank is a pioneering figure and longtime contributor to the United States and international computer industry. Born in the small...
Sam Ruby
Co-developer and principal maintainer of the Feed Validator — a tool used to check the validity of HTML, CSS, XML documents, and RSS feeds — Ruby has made significant contributions to web...
Lorinda Cherry
A longtime member of the original Unix Lab at Bell Labs, Cherry devoted much of her career to developing mathematical tools and utilities for text formatting and analysis, and influenced the creation...
John Paul Rodker Morrison
Inventor of flow-based programming (FBP), Morrison is a British-born Canadian computer programmer. FBP defines applications using the metaphor of a "data factory." It views an application not as a single, sequential process,...
Marcelli Wein
A member of the pioneer group that initiated Computer Graphics projects at the NRC, developing the use of interactive graphics systems and computer animation, Wein is an international leader in Computer Graphics...
Shikoh Gitau
The first African to win the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, Gitau received that honor at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, recognized for her inventions and thesis work. A Kenyan...
Jozef Gruska
A pioneer in the theory of quantum computing and organizing activities in the field, Gruska graduated in mathematics from Commenius University in Bratislava and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the...