Honored Persons Database
Displaying 661 – 680 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Barry Leiba
Developer of Ultimail, an early integrated multimedia e-mail system created with his team at IBM Research, Leiba is a computer scientist and software researcher. His work focused for many years on electronic...
Tan Tin Wee
Founder of the multilingual Internet domain name system (IDN), Tan is recognized as a key mover in the internationalisation of the Internet domain naming system, allowing online addresses to accommodate more than...
Bruce G. Buchanan
A key figure in the development of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Buchanan is University Professor of Computer Science Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. He received a B.A. degree in Mathematics...
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.
Craig Partridge
Designer of how Internet email is routed, Partridge has made notable contributions to internetworking, including working with Phil Karn on TCP round-trip time estimation and designing and building the world's fastest router...
Stephen (Steve) Walker
Member of the team that developed ARPAnet, the breakthrough packet switching system that evolved into the Internet, Walker is an American engineer who is nationally recognized for his pioneering work on the...
Virgil Dorin Gligor
Researcher in computer security addressing problems of trustworthy computing in the presence of malware and malicious insiders, and in next-generation secure Internet design, Gligor is a Romanian-American Professor of Electrical and Computer...
Victor R. Basili
Recognized for measuring, evaluating, and improving the software development process, Basili has served as an Emeritus Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, both at...
Alfred Vaino Aho
Co-author of the AWK programming language and numerous landmark computer science textbooks, Aho is widely recognized as a foundational figure in programming languages and compiler design. He conducted research at Bell Labs...
Amar Mukherjee
Pioneer in Switching Theory and the first to develop an algorithm for the minimization of EXOR-AND-type logic networks, Mukherjee was internationally recognized for his contributions to Hardware Algorithms for Non-numeric Computation, VLSI...
John A Gosden
Pioneer of LEO software development and EDP standards, Gosden was a key figure in the world's first business computing applications. John joined J. Lyons as a trainee programmer in 1953 just a few...
Keith Brown
Technical author on Microsoft Windows Security, Brown wrote the SSPI workbench tool and has been the security columnist for MSDN Magazine since 1998.
Valerie Barr
Researcher in software testing, gender and science issues, and computer science curriculum development, Barr has served as Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Union College, Schenectady, New York, since September 2004....
Gary Kildall
Creator of CP/M, the first disk-based OS for microcomputers, Kildall built a precursor to MS-DOS. CP/M became a fertile ground for the development of application software for microcomputers that became precursors to...
Kerrie L. Holley
Co-patent owner of the computer industry's first SOA method and SOA maturity model, Holley is an IBM Fellow, software architect, author, researcher, consultant, and inventor recognized internationally for his innovative work in...
Alan Cooper
Inventor of Visual Basic, Cooper is sometimes called "the father of Visual Basic," although much of the work on Visual Basic was done by Microsoft's internal development group. Cooper was the leading...
Katherine (Kathy) Anne Yelick
Co-inventor of Unified Parallel C (UPC), a programming language extension designed for high-performance computing on large-scale parallel machines, Yelick is an internationally recognized expert in high performance computing. Yelick has served as a...
Brian Randell
Developer of a compiler for the English Electric KDF9, an early stack machine, Randell is a British computer scientist and Emeritus Professor at the School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, U.K. He...
James (J.H.) Hardy Wilkinson
A prominent researcher in numerical analysis to facilitate the use of the high-speed digital computer, Wilkinson received the Turing Award in 1970 "for his research in numerical analysis to facilitate the use...
Mary Coombs
Recognized as the first female commercial programmer, Coombs was employed in 1952 as the first woman to work as a programmer on the LEO computers. A British computer programmer and schoolteacher, her...