Honored Persons Database
Displaying 681 – 700 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Sally A. Fincher
Researcher known for working on several major computing education projects, such as the Bootstrapping Research in Computer Science Education series and the UK "Sharing Practice" project (http://www.sharingpractice.ac.uk), Fincher has served as Professor...
Andries (Andy) van Dam
Co-contributor to the first hypertext system and co-founder of the precursor to ACM SIGGRAPH, van Dam is a Dutch-born American professor of computer science and former Vice-President for Research at Brown University...
Naveen Selvadurai
Co-founder of the location-based social networking site Foursquare.com, Selvadurai is a US internet entrepreneur born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He graduated with degrees from King's College London in the UK and...
Scott W. Ambler
Leader in the development of several software processes — including Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Enterprise Unified Process (EUP), and Agile Unified Process (AUP) methodologies — Ambler is a Canadian software...
Shigeru Miyamoto
Lead game designer for Nintendo since its inception in 1974, Miyamoto was born and raised in the Kyoto Prefecture, where the natural surroundings inspired much of his later work. He is mainly...
Werner Zorn
One of the fathers of networking in Germany, Zorn oversaw the first email link between Germany and the US CSNET in August 1984 and the spread of CSNET in Germany, while serving...
Craig W. Reynolds
Creator of the Boids artificial life simulation (1986), Reynolds is an artificial life and computer graphics expert. Reynolds worked on the film Tron (1982) as a scene programmer, and on Batman Returns...
Orna Berry
The first woman to serve as chief scientist and head of the industrial R&D operation of the Israeli Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labour, Berry took on that role in 1996. An...
Hans Peter Luhn
Creator of the Luhn algorithm and KWIC (Key Words In Context) indexing, Luhn was a computer scientist for IBM whose work is in wide use today. The Luhn algorithm, or Luhn formula,...
Paul Alexander Desmond DeMaine
A leading figure in the early development of computer-based automatic indexing and information retrieval and one of the founders of academic computer science in the 1960s, DeMaine was born in South Africa...
Saul Rosen
Chief software designer for the world's first transistorized computer, the Philco TRANSAC S-2000, Rosen left a significant mark on early computing history. Born in Port Chester, NY, Rosen was elected to Phi Beta...
John D. Carmack
Co-founder and leading programmer of id Software and lead engineer of Armadillo Aerospace, Carmack is a pioneering figure in computer graphics and game development. Softdisk, a computer company in Shreveport, Louisiana, hired...
Robert (Bob) Nimrod Miner
Architect of Oracle's relational database management system and co-founder of Oracle Corporation, Miner led product design and development from 1977 until 1992. In December 1992, he left that role and spun off...
John Norris Maguire
Founder of Software AG of North America, Inc. and overseas distributor of the Adabas system — a commercial relational database management system (DBMS) first developed for IBM 360 computers — Maguire built...
Anthony A. Storey
Prime mover in creating the Enterprise Java Beans industry specification that brought Java into the server environment, Storey has also been a widely recognized expert in online transaction processing and the vital...
Andrei Petrovich Ershov
Pioneer of Soviet computer science, Ershov was responsible for the languages ALPHA and Rapira, AIST-0 the first Soviet time-sharing system, the electronic publishing system RUBIN, and MRAMOR, a multiprocessing workstation. He was...
Dave Hitz
Co-founder of NetApp, a worldwide major supplier of network-based storage systems for the computer industry, Hitz helped establish the company in 1992 along with James Lau and Michael Malcolm. The company began...
Allen Newell
Pioneer in artificial intelligence, Newell made basic contributions to AI and the psychology of human cognition, for which he and Herbert Simon were awarded the ACM's A.M. Turing Award in 1975. He...
Mary Beth Rosson
Co-developer of the task-artifact framework for design, an "action science" approach to human-computer interaction (HCI), Rosson has served as Associate Dean of Information Sciences and Technology and Professor at the Penn State...
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...