Honored Persons Database
Displaying 481 – 500 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp
Known for his work in information theory and combinatorial game theory, Berlekamp was one of the inventors of the Welch–Berlekamp and Berlekamp–Massey algorithms, which are used to implement Reed–Solomon error correction. While an...
Frank Land
Pioneering IT use in business and the teaching of systems analysis in universities, Land began his career in computing as an analyst programmer with LEO—the Lyons Computer—in 1952. He left in 1968,...
Daniel A. Hitchcock
Leader of the effort to expand the Magnetic Fusion Energy Computing Center into NERSC, widely regarded as the best-managed High Performance Computing Center in the world, Hitchcock joined the Department of Energy...
John F. Shoch
Contributor to the development of computer networking — particularly the PARC Universal Protocol (PUP), an important predecessor of TCP/IP — Shoch attended Stanford, where he earned a B.A. in political science (1971);...
Richard E. Crandall
Developer of the irrational base discrete weighted transform, an important method of finding very large primes, Crandall made significant contributions to computational number theory. He served, at various times, as Chief Scientist...
Vannevar Bush
The first presidential science advisor, Bush was an American engineer and science administrator known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb as a...
Irene Greif
Inventor of the Version Manager — consistently designated by analysts as the most significant group-enabling feature in spreadsheets — Greif is an American computer scientist and a founder of the field of...
Sergio Verdu
Known for pioneering the field of multiuser detection, Verdú has served as the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he has taught and conducted research on Information Theory...
Paul Levine
Producer of Telco central office-based voice mail, Levine has served as an Instructor at the Boston University School of Management and a member of the ITEC faculty, and as a Venture Partner...
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...
James A. Gosling
Credited as the inventor of the Java programming language, Gosling is best known as the father of Java.
Edward Nash Yourdon
Pioneer of structured analysis and object-oriented design methodologies, Yourdon was known as one of the lead developers of the structured analysis techniques of the 1970s, as co-developer of the Yourdon/Whitehead method for...
Emil Leon Post
Best known for his work in the field that eventually became known as computability theory, Post made foundational contributions to mathematical logic and the theory of computation. In his doctoral thesis, Post proved,...
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...
Annie Easley
A significant contributor to the early development of NASA's rocket technologies, Easley spent decades as a NASA engineer whose work in programming, energy-conversion, and shuttle launches helped address the agency's need for...
Larry Wall
Creator of Perl, Wall is one of the most influential figures in the open-source software movement. Wall studied linguistics and music at Seattle Pacific University, where he graduated in 1976. He later attended...
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...
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...
Robert Endre Tarjan
Renowned for fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures, Tarjan is an American computer scientist. He discovered several important graph algorithms, including Tarjan's off-line least common ancestors...
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...