Honored Persons Database
Displaying 681 – 700 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Albert (Al) Vezza
Founder of Infocom, one of the earliest computer game companies, Vezza has also been recognized as one of the earliest Internet leaders. A computer science professor, he served as the Assistant Director...
Carlo Heinrich Séquin
Pioneer in computer processor design, Séquin is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked with computer graphics, geometric modelling, and on the development of computer...
Angel Angelov
Founder of the Institute of Engineering Cybernetics and Robotics in Bulgaria, Angelov is recognized for pioneering computer science applications to particle accelerators and broader industrial control systems. Microprocessor-based control and pattern recognition...
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,...
Tim William Bray
Co-inventor of the XML web standard, Bray has been a major contributor to XML and Atom web standards. Right out of college, Bray joined Digital Equipment Corporation in Toronto as a software specialist....
Bruce Lindsay
Participant in the development of System R (the first Relational DBMS prototype) and R* (a distributed RDBMS), Lindsay is a recognized expert on many aspects of relational database technology, including distributed DBMS,...
Michael Hawley
Architect of MIT's "Things That Think" research program, Hawley also founded MIT's Go Expeditions program. His work at MIT had, in his own words, "sought to creatively stretch digital infrastructures, embedding intelligence...
Donald Becker
Co-creator of the Beowulf clustering software, Becker is known throughout the international community of operating system developers for his contributions to networking software. The Beowulf clustering software connected many inexpensive PCs to...
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
A University Professor at Columbia University and holder of the Mikati Foundation Professorship in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Sciences, Vunjak-Novakovic built one of the most prolific research programs in tissue engineering and...
Jerome Svigals
One of the world's first digital programmers, Svigals worked on developing the first electronic computer as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1950. Born in 1926 in the Bronx, New York,...
Paul Tseng
The first to establish the convergence of the affine scaling algorithm for linear programming in the presence of degeneracy, Tseng was recognized by his peers to be one of the leading optimization...
Carol Shaw
Best known for creating River Raid (1982), the vertically scrolling shooter for the Atari 2600 released through Activision, Shaw is regarded as a pioneering figure in video game design. She joined Atari,...
Terry Allen Winograd
Developer of SHRDLU, an early natural language understanding computer program, Winograd is known within the philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence fields for his work on natural language. He wrote SHRDLU as...
Jie Liu
Leader of Microsoft Research's Sensing and Energy Research Group (SERG), Liu has conducted fundamental and applied research in sensing and energy-efficient computing with applications in sensor networks, data centers, and mobile computing....
Douglas Donald Troxel
Developer of COMPAREX, an industry-standard mainframe product, Troxel founded SERENA Consulting in 1980 and grew it into a publicly traded software company without venture capital. Raised on a farm near Lake City, Iowa,...
Yakov Rekhter
One of the leading architects and a major software developer of the NSFNET Backbone Phase II, Rekhter also co-designed the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the core routing protocol of the Internet. Rekhter joined...
Stefan Pappe
Leader of the design for the Common Cloud Management Platform and delivery of IBM cloud solutions to clients, Pappe was named an IBM Fellow in 2011—the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or...
Mary Lou Soffa
Developer of software tools for debugging and testing programs to eliminate or reduce false alarms and improve operating efficiency, Soffa is an American computer scientist also noted for her research on compilers,...
Ling Liu
Head of the Distributed Data Intensive Systems Lab (DiSL) research group at Georgia Institute of Technology, Liu is known for producing a number of open-source software systems, including WebCQ, XWRAPElite, PeerCrawl, GTMobSIM,...
Donald F. Ferguson
Chief Architect for IBM's Software Group, Ferguson provided overall technical leadership for IBM WebSphere, Tivoli Software, IBM DB2, Rational Software, and Lotus Software products. He has served as Vice President and CTO...