Honored Persons Database
Displaying 481 – 500 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
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...
Edgar (Ted) Frank Codd
Inventor of the relational model for database management, Codd established the theoretical basis for relational databases while working for IBM. He made other valuable contributions to computer science, but the relational model,...
Maja Mataric
A founding pioneer of the field of socially assistive robotics, Matarić held the Chan Soon-Shiong Endowed Chair and served as Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, with...
Lisa P. Jackson
The first African American to serve as administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Jackson held that position from 2009 to 2013, following her nomination by President-elect Barack Obama and confirmation...
Yoelle Maarek
The first engineering hire of Google Israel, Maarek established the company's development center in Haifa in 2006 and led the team that launched Google Suggest worldwide on the Google homepage in 2008....
Kenneth (Ken) H. Perlin
Developer of Perlin noise and innovative computer-user interfaces such as zooming user interfaces, Perlin is one of the most respected figures in the field of computer graphics for his work both in...
David Neil Cutler, Sr.
Developer of several operating systems including RSX-11M, VMS, VAXELN, and Windows NT, Cutler is a pioneering software engineer. Cutler's software career started at a small company he founded called Agrippa-Ord, located in Monument...
Matthias Ettrich
Founder of the LyX project, an open source document processor popular among technical authors and scientists for its advanced mathematical modes, Ettrich is a German computer scientist and software engineer known for...
Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum
Developer of groundbreaking techniques in cartography and co-founder of Numerix, Feigenbaum was also a mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants. He was...
Eunice E. Santos
A leading expert and researcher in the areas of large-scale distributed processing, computational modeling, complex adaptive systems, and human modeling with applications to the biological, physical, and social sciences, Santos has served...
Gennaro (Jerry) A. Cuomo
Co-founding father of IBM WebSphere Software, Cuomo has served as Chief Technology Officer of WebSphere, a business unit within IBM Software Group (SWG). He has been working for IBM since 1987 and...
Clifford Ivar Nass
Co-creator of The Media Equation theory, which holds that people tend to treat computers and other media as if they were either real people or real places, Nass was a renowned authority...
T. Capers Jones
Associated with the function point model of cost estimation, Jones is a specialist in software engineering methodologies. He has also collected data on software quality, software risks, and software best practices. He...
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...
Yevgeny Valentinovich Kaspersky
Co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, producer of antivirus software and computer security products, Kaspersky is recognized as a leading figure in information security. Kaspersky graduated from the Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science,...
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...
Edith Clarke
Pioneer of electrical engineering and the inventor of the Clarke calculator, Clarke broke barriers as the first woman to earn an M.S. in electrical engineering from MIT. Clarke studied mathematics and astronomy at...
Andries (Andy) van Dam
Co-contributor to the first hypertext system and co-founder of the precursor to ACM SIGGRAPH, van Dam is a Dutch-born American professor of computer science and former Vice-President for Research at Brown University...
Mochio Umeda
One of the most well-known commentators on IT and Web 2.0 issues in Japan, Umeda is also the author of the best-selling book "Web Shinkaron (Theory of Web Evolution)." He is a...
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...