Honored Persons Database
Displaying 61 – 80 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Shashi Shekhar
Major contributor to data engineering and database systems, including the Connectivity-Clustered Access Method (CCAM), a new storage and access method for spatial networks, Shekhar is a McKnight Distinguished University Professor at the...
John Theurer Diebold
An early champion of widespread use of computing and automated technology, Diebold helped shape how businesses understood and adopted automation. Diebold was born in Weehawken, New Jersey. He graduated from Swarthmore College in...
Timothy (Tim) John Berners-Lee
Creator of the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee is a British engineer and computer scientist who made the first proposal for it in March 1989. On 25 December 1990, with the help of...
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...
Marsha J. Berger
Pioneer of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) and Cartesian mesh finite difference methods for numerical PDEs, Berger's block-structured AMR approach, beginning with her thesis, is now considered one of the seminal ideas in...
Daniel E. Cooke
Inventor of the SequenceL functional programming language, Cooke discovered the computational laws that led to its creation and implemented several early interpreters for the language. During his tenure at Texas Tech University,...
James A. Gosling
Credited as the inventor of the Java programming language, Gosling is best known as the father of Java.
Neil James Alexander Sloane
Contributor to the fields of combinatorics, error-correction coding, and sphere packing, Sloane's research has ranged far and wide, including coding theory, sphere packing, lattices and quadratic forms, packing lines, and planes, spherical...
Jie Liu
Leader of Microsoft Research's Sensing and Energy Research Group (SERG), Liu has conducted fundamental and applied research in sensing and energy-efficient computing with applications in sensor networks, data centers, and mobile computing....
Ralph C. Merkle
Co-inventor of public key cryptography, Merkle is a researcher who also works as a speaker on molecular nanotechnology and cryonics. He appeared as a character in the science fiction novel *The Diamond...
Edson Hendricks
Developer of RSCS (later known as VNET), fundamental software that powered the world's largest network (or network of networks) prior to the Internet, Hendricks is an IBM computer scientist whose work directly...
Marie desJardins
Researcher focused on understanding trust among agents in online communities, desJardins has led the Multi-Agent, Planning and Learning Lab (MAPLE) at UMBC, which focuses on developing A.I. solutions to real world problems....
Richard Wesley Hamming
Known for his work on numerical methods, automatic coding systems, and error-detecting and error-correcting codes, Hamming was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer science and telecommunications. Hamming's contributions...
Toru Takahashi
Writer of the first Japanese book on the Internet, Takahashi is sometimes known as the "Mother of the Internet" in Japan. He was instrumental in bringing the Internet to Japan and promoting...
Howard Frank
Conductor of the original topological analysis for the ARPAnet, Frank evaluated the network's performance and reliability and studied how the technology could be applied to the larger world. Having earned his Ph.D....
Marshall T. Rose
A network protocol and software engineer who contributed extensively to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Rose has played a central role in shaping the Internet and network applications. His work on...
Martin M. Wattenberg
Co-creator of IBM's Many Eyes, a ground-breaking public visualization platform and experiment in open, public data visualization and analysis, Wattenberg is an American scientist and artist known for his work with data...
Leon D. Harmon
Codeveloper of the Photomosaic and pioneer of computerized human-face identification, Harmon worked at Bell Labs where he pursued research in human perception, computer vision, and graphics. He started his career as a...
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...
Georgy Adelson-Velsky
Co-inventor of the AVL tree and head developer of the Kaissa chess computer, Adelson-Velsky made foundational contributions to both computer science and computer chess. In 1962, Georgy and E.M. Landis published a...