Honored Persons Database
Displaying 521 – 540 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Lucinda (Lucy) M. Sanders
Bell Labs Fellow and CEO and Co-founder of the National Center for Women and Information Technology, Sanders has worked to expand the talent pool in the computing field while building on a...
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
A pioneer in the theory of computation, Yao is recognized for fundamental contributions including the complexity-based theory of pseudorandom number generation, cryptography, and communication complexity. Yao used the minimax theorem to prove...
Balakrishnan Prabhakaran
Known for his work in 3D video, animations, and deformable 3D models — a form of multimedia data widely used in entertainment and medical fields — Prabhakaran has served as a Professor...
Oleg Vishnepolsky
Author of IBM's S2 Spreadsheet and of TCP/IP stacks for OS/2 and IBM POS terminals, Vishnepolsky is one of the early Internet technologists, with a 20-plus year track record of technological advancements,...
Michael Oser Rabin
Author of the landmark joint paper "Finite Automata and Their Decision Problems," which introduced nondeterministic machines and had a lasting impact on automata theory, Rabin and co-author Dana S. Scott were cited...
Amar Mukherjee
Pioneer in Switching Theory and the first to develop an algorithm for the minimization of EXOR-AND-type logic networks, Mukherjee was internationally recognized for his contributions to Hardware Algorithms for Non-numeric Computation, VLSI...
Danny Cohen
Developer of the first real-time visual flight simulator on a general purpose computer, Cohen later adapted it to run over the ARPANET. Born in Israel, he was also well known for coining...
Calvin Northrup Mooers
Known for his work in information retrieval and for the programming language TRAC, Mooers was a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended the University of Minnesota and received a bachelor's degree in...
Tan Tin Wee
Founder of the multilingual Internet domain name system (IDN), Tan is recognized as a key mover in the internationalisation of the Internet domain naming system, allowing online addresses to accommodate more than...
Nancy Jane Hafkin
A pioneer and innovator in networking, development information, and electronic communications in Africa, Hafkin spurred the Pan African Development Information System (PADIS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) from...
Eric Horvitz
Recognized for playing a significant role in establishing the credibility of artificial intelligence, Horvitz has also helped establish the link between artificial intelligence and decision science. Horvitz coined the concept of bounded...
Frederic Alois Friedel
Co-founder of the chess database company ChessBase, Friedel is a German graduate linguist, science, chess, and computer chess journalist. He co-founded ChessBase in 1986 with game database developer Matthias Wöllenweber. He studied...
Dave Winer
Pioneer in the development of weblogs, RSS, and web content management, Winer has been a leading web writer and innovator since the early days of the internet. In 1979, Winer worked for Personal...
Kesav Vithal Nori
One of the creators of the Pascal P4 compiler, Nori is well-known for this work done together with Nikolaus Wirth. He has served as Executive Director and Executive Vice President of Tata...
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
A University Professor at Columbia University and holder of the Mikati Foundation Professorship in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Sciences, Vunjak-Novakovic built one of the most prolific research programs in tissue engineering and...
John David McAfee
Writer of the first commercial anti-virus software in 1987, McAfee founded McAfee Associates to sell his creation. McAfee became the company's most vocal critic in later years, urging consumers to uninstall the company's...
Adin D. Falkoff
Collaborator on the design, development, and usage of the APL programming language, Falkoff was predominantly known for his work on APL and related systems for IBM. Born in New Jersey, he received...
James William Cooley
Co-developer of the Fast Fourier Transform, Cooley made one of the most significant contributions to mathematics and digital signal processing in the twentieth century. Cooley was born and raised in New York City....
Hong-Jiang Zhang
A leader in establishing Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) into a world-class basic research center in computer science, Zhang has been a prominent researcher in media computing, more specifically in video and image...
Jakob Nielsen
Founder of the "discount usability engineering" movement for fast and cheap improvements of user interfaces, Nielsen invented several usability methods, including heuristic evaluation — a usability inspection method for computer software that...