Honored Persons Database
Displaying 601 – 620 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
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...
Karl Kempf
Pioneer in applying advanced mathematics to industrial and engineering challenges, Kempf is best known for heading a group of mathematicians at Stanford University who built computer models allowing Intel to design financial...
Herbert Alexander Simon
One of the most influential social scientists of the twentieth century, Simon was an American political scientist, economist, and psychologist whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, computer science, public...
Eunice E. Santos
A leading expert and researcher in the areas of large-scale distributed processing, computational modeling, complex adaptive systems, and human modeling with applications to the biological, physical, and social sciences, Santos has served...
Randy Howard Katz
Co-developer of the redundant array of independent disks (RAID) concept for computer storage, Katz is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department....
Patrick Cousot
Co-inventor of Abstract Interpretation, a theory of sound approximation of mathematical structures, Cousot developed this influential technique in formal methods together with his wife Radhia in 1975. In the 2000s, he worked...
Gabe Logan Newell
Producer of the first three releases of Windows, Newell later founded Valve, producing one of the best-selling PC games ever, Half-Life.
Carl Machover
Inducted into the FAMLI Computer Graphics Hall of Fame, Machover is recognized as a computer graphics pioneer and graphics "evangelist." He has served as president of Machover Associates Corp (MAC), a computer graphics...
Armando Fox
Co-founder of the Berkeley RAD Lab and co-designer of the Intel Pentium Pro microprocessor, Fox has served as an Adjunct Associate Professor at UC Berkeley. Prior to that he joined Stanford as...
Tim Roughgarden
Noted for his work in network data loss, Roughgarden introduced novel techniques that quantified the lost efficiency associated with the uncoordinated behavior of network users who acted in their own self-interest, building...
Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum
Author of MINIX, a clone of UNIX for the IBM PC, Tanenbaum wrote the operating system in 1987 to help students and others learn how an operating system worked. In the early 1990s,...
Rajiv Gupta
Co-inventor and general manager of Hewlett Packard's E-speak project, Gupta also contributed as one of the developers of the IA-64 architecture. An IIT Kharagpur alumnus, Gupta received his Ph.D. in compiler optimization...
Daniel Teichroew
Pioneer of the ISDOS Project, Teichroew led a pioneering team which attempted to design and implement the Problem Statement Language (PSL) and Problem Statement Analyser (PSA) as a way of automating the...
Larry Wall
Creator of Perl, Wall is one of the most influential figures in the open-source software movement. Wall studied linguistics and music at Seattle Pacific University, where he graduated in 1976. He later attended...
Venu Govindaraju
Co-developer of handwriting recognition at the core of the first handwritten address interpretation system used by the US Postal Service, Govindaraju is an Indian-American computer scientist and educator whose primary contributions are...
Raymond (Ray) F. Boyce
Co-developer of SQL, the first commercially successful language for relational databases, Boyce's work established the standard for relational database query languages still in use today. He was also known for his research...
David M. Young
Founder of the Center for Numerical Analysis at The University of Texas at Austin, Young was also known for establishing the Successive Overrelaxation (SOR) method. Professor Young's career and many contributions almost exactly...
Max D Hopper
Pioneer of the first airline passenger reservation system, Hopper was recognized as the "father of airline automation in travel agencies." He founded the consulting firm Max D. Hopper Associates, specializing in strategic...
Gregory John Chaitin
One of the founders of algorithmic information theory and a key figure in metamathematics, Chaitin is an Argentine-American mathematician and computer scientist born in Argentina. Beginning in the late 1960s, he made...
Alan Cox
Maintainer of the Linux kernel's network stack, Cox later became a maintainer of the production version of the kernel itself, one of the most critical roles in Linux development.