Honored Persons Database
Displaying 721 – 740 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
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....
Joan L. Mitchell
A key contributor to the JPEG image compression algorithm and MPEG video standards, Mitchell became an IBM Fellow in 2001. Working at IBM with William B. Pennebaker, she helped fine-tune the JPEG...
Jack J. Dongarra
Co-developer of the LINPACK and LAPACK libraries, which have provided the benchmark for the world's 500 fastest computers since 1993, Dongarra has served as a University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in...
Barry M. Leiner
Instrumental in establishing the Internet Activities Board (IAB), which led the effort to set technical standards for the Internet, Leiner was a government scientist and Program Manager at the U. S. Defense...
David Lorge Parnas
Originator of the concept of information hiding in modular programming, Parnas is a Canadian early pioneer of software engineering whose work became a foundational element of object-oriented programming. He has also been...
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....
Louis N. Ridenour
Co-patentee of an early hybrid optical-magnetic information storage system, Ridenour also served as Vice President of Lockheed and as an advisor to President Eisenhower. In 1941 he became the assistant director of...
LaRoy Tymes
Co-designer and developer of "Supervisor" for Tymnet, Tymshare's proprietary network, Tymes grew up in Wyoming, Michigan. He attended the University of Michigan, but didn't complete his education there. Instead, he got a...
Susan T. Dumais
Researcher whose work at Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies) into the vocabulary problem in information retrieval led to the invention of Latent Semantic Indexing, Dumais has served as a Principal Researcher in the...
Benoît B. Mandelbrot
Discoverer of the Mandelbrot set of intricate, never-ending fractal shapes — said to be "one of the most astonishing discoveries in the entire history of mathematics" — Mandelbrot also developed a "theory...
Hamid Pirahesh
Major contributor to query language industry standards, Pirahesh is an IBM Fellow, ACM Fellow, and Senior Manager at IBM Research at IBM Almaden in San Jose, California. He has been responsible for...
Paul Levine
Producer of Telco central office-based voice mail, Levine has served as an Instructor at the Boston University School of Management and a member of the ITEC faculty, and as a Venture Partner...
David Albert Huffman
Best known for his legendary Huffman code, a compression scheme for lossless variable length encoding, Huffman joined the faculty at MIT in 1953. He was awarded the Louis E. Levy Medal in...
Ken Coar
Co-creator of the Apache Incubator project, the gateway for open-source projects intended to become fully fledged Apache Software Foundation projects, Coar is recognized primarily for his participation in the creation of The...
William Allan Wulf
Designer of the BLISS programming language and developer of a groundbreaking optimizing compiler for its use, Wulf was a computer scientist notable for his work in programming languages and compilers. He was...
Danese Cooper
Known as the "Open Source Diva" for her work in the Open Source movement, Cooper has held many prominent leadership roles within the computer science sector. Cooper managed teams at Symantec and...
Donald D. Chamberlin
One of the principal designers of the original SQL language specification, Chamberlin also made significant contributions to the development of XQuery. Donald D. Chamberlin was born in San Jose, in the USA. After...
William (Bill) Yeager
Inventor of the multi-protocol router and network operating system, Yeager is best known for creating a packet-switched, "Ships in the Night," multiple-protocol router in 1981, during his 20-year tenure at Stanford's Knowledge...
Jan Camenisch
Co-inventor of Identity Mixer, a unique cryptographic protocol suite for privacy-preserving authentication and transfer of certified attributes, Camenisch is a leading scientist in the area of privacy and cryptography. He has served...
Jiawei Han
Co-author of the widely-used textbook "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" and a leading researcher in data mining, data warehousing, and database systems, Han has served as Abel Bliss Professor in the Department...