Honored Persons Database
Displaying 61 – 80 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Frank Moss
Involved in advanced development projects in the areas of networking and distributed computing, Moss is a researcher, technology and biotechnology entrepreneur, academician, and author born in Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended the...
Mary Lou Soffa
Developer of software tools for debugging and testing programs to eliminate or reduce false alarms and improve operating efficiency, Soffa is an American computer scientist also noted for her research on compilers,...
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...
Daniel D. McCracken
Author of "A Guide to Fortran Programming" (Wiley, 1961) and its successors — the standard textbooks on that language for over two decades — McCracken was one of computing's most prolific educators....
Frederick (Jeff) Johns Rulifson
Leader of the team that implemented the oN-Line System (NLS), which foreshadowed many future developments in modern computing and networking, Rulifson is an American computer scientist born in Bellefontaine, Ohio. His father...
Brian Wilson Kernighan
Co-author of the first book on the C programming language and programmer of well-known Unix utilities such as ditroff and cron, Kernighan worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and...
Stephen Warshall
Developer of the transitive closure algorithm known as Warshall's algorithm, Warshall made foundational contributions to graph analysis for finding shortest paths in a weighted graph. Born in New York City, Warshall went to...
Donald Peter Greenberg
Pioneer developer of software that influenced many architectural software (CAAD) products still in use today, Greenberg also initiated the first computer-aided architectural design studio in the United States in 1984. An internationally...
Jesse James Garrett
Publisher of the diagram "The Elements of User Experience," a foundational model of user-centered design, Garrett is a user experience designer and co-founder of Adaptive Path, a user experience strategy and design...
Patrick Henry Winston
Researcher in machine learning and human intelligence, Winston was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He served as Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997,...
Charles Simonyi
Overseer of Microsoft's flagship Office applications Word and Excel, Simonyi also directed development of Excel's predecessor Multiplan. In 1981, he applied directly to Bill Gates for a job at Microsoft. With Multiplan,...
Fernanda Bertini Viégas
Co-creator of Many Eyes, the ground-breaking open public data visualization and analysis platform, Viégas is a Brazilian-born scientist and computational designer whose work focuses on the social, collaborative, and artistic aspects of...
Ken Coar
Co-creator of the Apache Incubator project, the gateway for open-source projects intended to become fully fledged Apache Software Foundation projects, Coar is recognized primarily for his participation in the creation of The...
Don Coppersmith
Co-designer of the Data Encryption Standard (DES), Coppersmith is one of the world's leading researchers in cryptography. He was part of the IBM team that developed DES. Used in financial and Internet...
Claude Elwood Shannon
Developer of Information Theory, the basis for the design of communication systems and networks, Shannon also noted the importance of Boolean theory for the design of logic circuits whilst still a student...
Kurt Gödel
Known for his two incompleteness theorems, Gödel heavily influenced the sciences and mathematics. Published in 1931 when he was 25 years of age, one year after finishing his doctorate at the University...
Neil Bartlett
Key contributor to IBM's risk analytics business, Bartlett has served as an IBM Fellow, Chief Technology Officer, and Head of Development for the Risk Analytics division of IBM. His innovative work in...
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...
Sidney (Sid) K. Meier
Founder of Firaxis Games and creator of "Civilization," Meier has made landmark contributions to the video game industry. In 1982, along with Bill Stealy, he co-founded MicroProse, where the "Civilization" franchise first...
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...