Honored Persons Database
Displaying 621 – 640 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Robert Jay Creasy
Project leader of the first full virtualization hypervisor, the IBM CP-40, Creasy later saw his work develop into IBM's highly successful line of mainframe VM operating systems — a family of IBM...
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....
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....
Charles A. Csuri
Pioneer in digital fine art and computer animation, Csuri was best known for pioneering the field of computer graphics, computer animation, and digital fine art, creating his first computer art in 1964....
Brendan Eich
Creator of the JavaScript scripting language, Eich is a computer programmer and chief technology officer of Mozilla Corporation. He worked with MicroUnity Systems Engineering writing microkernel and DSP code, and doing the...
Jennifer Rexford
Noted for research in internet routing, network measurement and management, Rexford has served as a Professor in the Computer Science department at Princeton University. From 1996–2004, she was a member of the...
David F. Redmiles
Author of over 100 research publications integrating the areas of software engineering, human-computer interaction, and computer-supported cooperative work, Redmiles has served as a Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University...
Timothy Wilking Finin
Co-leader of the work on KQML, a language and protocol for communication among software agents and knowledge-based systems, Finin has served as an American Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at...
Margaret Hamilton
Award-winning NASA computer scientist and mathematician who developed the Apollo program's on-board flight software, Hamilton is also recognized as the individual who coined the term "software engineering." Born in 1938, Hamilton graduated from...
Glenn John McQueen
Supervisor of computerized animation on Pixar's early films and hailed as one of the best animators in the field, McQueen's work was central to the studio's success. A Canadian supervisor of digital...
Qiang Yang
Leader of research teams that won the 2004 and 2005 ACM KDDCUP international competitions on data mining, Yang has served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at...
Frederica Darema
Proposer of the Single Program, Multiple Data (SPMD) programming model, Darema introduced SPMD in 1984, establishing what has become the most common style of parallel programming. In computing, Single Program, Multiple Data...
Jack Keil Wolf
Known for his work in coding theory as applied to magnetic storage, Wolf made pioneering and sustained contributions to information theory and digital information storage. He was also an expert in signal...
Cristina Videira Lopes
Founder of the group that developed Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) and starter of aspectj.org, Lopes has served as an Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of California, Irvine. She received her B.S....
Peter Naur
Contributor to the creation of the ALGOL 60 programming language, Naur won the 2005 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his work on defining it. In particular, his role as editor of the...
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...
Dean Everett Wooldridge
Co-founder of the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation, which was awarded the prime contract for overall systems engineering and technical direction of the nation's Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Program, Wooldridge was a prominent engineer in...
Enid Mumford
A pioneer in early studies on the use of large-scale computing, Mumford demonstrated that the underlying cause of failed computer implementations was an inability to overcome human factors associated with the implementation...
Charles (Charlie) William Bachman
Pioneer of database technology, Bachman spent his entire career as an industrial researcher rather than in academia. Born in Manhattan, Kansas, in 1924, Bachman's father was a football coach and minor league baseball...
Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum
Developer of groundbreaking techniques in cartography and co-founder of Numerix, Feigenbaum was also a mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants. He was...