Honored Persons Database
Displaying 521 – 540 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
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,...
Victor Shoup
Co-developer of the Cramer–Shoup cryptosystem, the first efficient asymmetric encryption scheme proven to be secure against adaptive chosen ciphertext attack using standard cryptographic assumptions, Shoup is a computer scientist and mathematician. He...
Raymond (Ray) Kurzweil
Inventor and developer of Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Text-To-Speech Synthesis, Speech Recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments, Kurzweil is an American author, inventor, and futurist. He grew up in the New York...
Gene Howard Golub
Co-publisher of an algorithm with William Kahan in 1970 that made the computation of the singular value decomposition (SVD) feasible and that is still used today, Golub was one of the preeminent...
Jean David Ichbiah
Chief designer of the Ada programming language, Ichbiah was a French-born computer scientist who led the design of Ada (from 1977–1983), a general-purpose, strongly typed programming language with certified validated compilers. At...
Jeff De Luca
Primary architect of Feature Driven Development (FDD), De Luca created this lightweight methodology for developing computer software with reduced management overhead, time and money circa 1999. He is a global information technology...
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...
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...
Jan Camenisch
Co-inventor of Identity Mixer, a unique cryptographic protocol suite for privacy-preserving authentication and transfer of certified attributes, Camenisch is a leading scientist in the area of privacy and cryptography. He has served...
Hamid Pirahesh
Major contributor to query language industry standards, Pirahesh is an IBM Fellow, ACM Fellow, and Senior Manager at IBM Research at IBM Almaden in San Jose, California. He has been responsible for...
Charles (Chuck) H. Moore
Inventor of the Forth programming language, Moore is recognized as one of the most influential figures in programming language history. Born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, in 1938, Moore grew up in Flint,...
Eugene Wong
Instrumental in building an Internet backbone for Asia and a pioneering contributor to relational database management, Wong has also inaugurated major initiatives in microsystems, information technology, nanotechnology, service-sector engineering, and biotechnology. Wong received...
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...
Peter C. Patton
Responsible for the development of the Intranet and Internet programs at the University of Pennsylvania, Patton has had over 50 years of experience in the computer industry, with involvement in computer hardware...
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....
Muffy Calder
Chief Scientific Advisor to the Scottish Government from 2012 to 2015, Calder was a Canadian-born British computer scientist and Professor of Formal Methods at the University of Glasgow. She also served as...
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...
Anders Hejlsberg
Co-designer of Turbo Pascal, Delphi, and C#, Hejlsberg is a Danish software engineer who has shaped several of the most widely used programming languages and development tools in the history of commercial...
Steven B. Lipner
Responsible for defining, supporting, and applying Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) process, Lipner has had forty years' experience in cybersecurity and has been named as inventor on twelve U.S. patents and two...
Ray Harishankar
Significant contributor to IBM's leadership position in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), reusable asset-based development approaches leveraging SOA, and in the creation of highly reusable IT assets, Harishankar has served as an IBM...