Honored Persons Database
Displaying 541 – 560 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
David C. Walden
A member of the small team of engineers that developed the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, Walden is recognized as one of the first Internet programmers. After three years at MIT...
James David Foley
Co-author of several widely-used textbooks in the field of computer graphics — with over 400,000 copies in print and translated into ten languages — Foley is a Professor and the Stephen Fleming...
Stefan Pappe
Leader of the design for the Common Cloud Management Platform and delivery of IBM cloud solutions to clients, Pappe was named an IBM Fellow in 2011—the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or...
Robert Clay Prim
Co-developer of Prim's algorithm for finding a minimum spanning tree in a weighted graph, Prim made foundational contributions to computer network design. An American mathematician and computer scientist, he was born in...
Bjarne Stroustrup
Designer and implementer of the C++ programming language, Stroustrup is a computer scientist most notable for the creation and development of the widely used C++. He has served as Professor and holder...
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...
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...
Kilnam Chon
Developer of the first Internet in Asia, called SDN, Chon is a pioneering computer scientist and network engineer. He was born and raised in Japan and completed his education in the US....
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...
Richard Matthew Stallman
Founder of the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, Stallman also launched the free software movement and was the main author of the GNU General Public License for open...
Pal Spilling
Co-developer of the Internet Protocol and other early computer network protocols, Spilling was a Norwegian Internet pioneer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo and the UNIK Graduate Center at Kjeller...
Lynn Conway
Pioneer of the Mead and Conway revolution in VLSI design, Conway transformed the field of electronic chip design and automation. Conway joined Xerox PARC in 1973, where she led the "LSI Systems" group...
Wendy W Hall
Leader of the team that invented the Microcosm hypermedia system before the World Wide Web existed, Hall has been a pioneering figure in multimedia, hypermedia, and web science. Born in west London,...
Oliver Selfridge
An innovator in early computer science and artificial intelligence, Selfridge helped shape the foundations of machine learning and AI. Credited with coining the term "intelligent agents" for software programs capable of observing and...
Martin Charles Golumbic
Contributor to fundamental research in artificial intelligence in the area of complexity and spatial-temporal reasoning, Golumbic is a mathematician and computer scientist best known for his work in algorithmic graph theory and...
Robert Cailliau
Co-developer of the World Wide Web, Cailliau is a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who, together with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, helped bring the web into existence. Born in Tongeren, Belgium, he...
Anthony Finkelstein
Recognized internationally for his contributions to software engineering and requirements engineering, Finkelstein graduated from the LSE with a Masters in systems, then went on to take a PhD at the Royal College...
Nicholas (Nick) John Pippenger
Co-inventor of extendible hashing, Pippenger is recognized for a number of fundamental results widely used in theoretical computer science, database processing, and compiler optimization. He held a B.S. degree in Natural Sciences...
Michael T. Goodrich
Pioneer and research leader on efficient parallel and distributed solutions, Goodrich has served as a Chancellor's Professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science of the Donald Bren School of Information...
David Neil Laurence Levy
Developer of the Chess module for the TI-99/4A Home Computer Project in collaboration with Texas Instruments, Levy is a Scottish International Master of chess, a businessman noted for his involvement with computer...