Honored Persons Database
Displaying 641 – 660 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Anita Borg
Developer of a patented method for generating complete address traces for analyzing and designing high-speed memory systems, and of MECCA, an email and Web-based system for communicating in virtual communities, Borg was...
Margaret R. Fox
Member of the technical staff of the Electronic Computer Laboratory at the National Bureau of Standards, Fox graduated from Wisconsin State College in 1940 and joined the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1943,...
Tom Gilb
Developer of software metrics, software inspection, and evolutionary processes, Gilb is an American systems engineer, consultant, and author known for bringing quantitative measurement approaches to software development. Since quantitative measurements are essential...
Ida Rhodes
A member of the influential circle of women at the heart of early computer development in the United States, Rhodes was an American mathematician who shaped the field during its foundational years.
Raymond Samuel Tomlinson
Creator of email, Tomlinson implemented the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to the ARPANet in 1971. Email had previously been sent on other networks such...
Joshua Lederberg
American molecular biologist known for his work in genetics, artificial intelligence, and space exploration, Lederberg was just 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for...
Minos Garofalakis
ACM Distinguished Scientist (2011), Garofalakis is a Professor of Computer Science at the ECE Department of the Technical University of Crete, and the Director of the Software Technology and Network Applications Laboratory...
Bob Blainey
Leader in breakthrough innovation in compiler technology, IBM's Java technology, and next-generation systems, Blainey has served as an IBM Fellow and the technical architect of the Hardware Acceleration Laboratory in IBM's Software...
Aleksandr Semenovich Kronrod
Known for the Gauss–Kronrod quadrature formula, which he published in 1964, Kronrod was a Soviet mathematician and computer scientist. Earlier in his career, his computations informed theoretical physics. He was also known...
Arundhati Bhattacharya
The first woman to serve as Chairperson of the State Bank of India, Bhattacharya became chairperson and chief executive officer of Salesforce, India. In 2016, Forbes ranked her 25th on its list...
Igor Aleksander
A pioneer in artificial intelligence and neural networks, Aleksander was born in Croatia, educated in Italy and South Africa, and completed a PhD at Queen Mary College, University of London. In 1984...
David Neil Cutler, Sr.
Developer of several operating systems including RSX-11M, VMS, VAXELN, and Windows NT, Cutler is a pioneering software engineer. Cutler's software career started at a small company he founded called Agrippa-Ord, located in Monument...
Niklaus Emil Wirth
Designer of programming languages including Pascal, EULER, ALGOL-W, and Modula, Wirth won the Turing Award in 1984 for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages. He was a Swiss computer scientist who...
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...
Cesar A. Gonzales
Co-inventor of patented still-frame and motion video compression techniques that IBM contributed to the JPEG and MPEG international standards, Gonzales played a central role in bringing about the worldwide leap into digital...
Thomas Eugene Kurtz
Co-developer of the BASIC programming language, Kurtz transformed computing education for generations of users. In 1951, Dr. Kurtz's first experience with computing came at the Summer Session of the Institute for Numerical Analysis...
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...
Icer Addis
Author of the NESticle, Genecyst, and Callus emulators, Addis is considered a legendary figure in the emulation scene. He co-founded Bloodlust Software with his friend Ethan Petty. Working independently under the Bloodlust...
Fernando (Corby) J. Corbato
Pioneer in the development of general-purpose, large-scale, time-sharing and resource-sharing computer systems, Corbató received the ACM Turing Award in 1990 for these foundational contributions. Fernando (Corby) J. Corbató was born on July 1,...
Hakon Wium Lie
Proposer of the concept of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Wium Lie worked as an employee at W3C, where he developed CSS into a W3C Recommendation. Wium Lie proposed the Acid2 test, which was...