Honored Persons Database
Displaying 741 – 760 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
John Richard Rice
Founder of the ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Rice was an American mathematician and computer scientist who served as the W. Brooks Fortune Distinguished Emeritus of Computer Science and a Professor of...
Edwin Earl Catmull
A pioneer of computer graphics and former President of both Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Animation Studios, Catmull has contributed to many important developments in computer graphics. He was born in...
Partha Ranganathan
Co-developer of the publicly distributed Rice Simulator for ILP Multiprocessors (RSIM), Ranganathan contributed to what was at that time the only publicly-distributed software for simulating shared-memory multiprocessors with state-of-the-art instruction-level-parallel (ILP) processors. A...
Omer Reingold
Author of Reingold's Algorithm, which resolved the memory-complexity of finding paths in undirected graphs, Reingold is cited for finding a solution to a more than 25-year quest by expert theoretical computer science...
Lynn Conway
Pioneer of the Mead and Conway revolution in VLSI design, Conway transformed the field of electronic chip design and automation. Conway joined Xerox PARC in 1973, where she led the "LSI Systems" group...
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...
Priit Kasesalu
Co-developer of Skype and head programmer for Kazaa Media Desktop, Kasesalu is a pioneering Estonian software developer. In 1986, he began his career as a programmer for a local hardware manufacturer with...
Frederic Alois Friedel
Co-founder of the chess database company ChessBase, Friedel is a German graduate linguist, science, chess, and computer chess journalist. He co-founded ChessBase in 1986 with game database developer Matthias Wöllenweber. He studied...
Jorma J. Rissanen
Known for inventing arithmetic coding and the minimum description length principle, Rissanen was an IBM researcher from 1960 who received his Ph.D. from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1965. After retiring...
Daniel Singer Bricklin
Co-creator of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program available for personal computers, Bricklin co-founded Software Arts, Inc. with Frankston in 1979 and began selling VisiCalc that same year. He was given a Grace...
Jules I. Schwartz
Author of JOVIAL, the first computer software designed for use by the military, Schwartz composed this high-order programming language in 1959 for use in the electronics of military aircraft. Born in Philadelphia, PA,...
Elmer C. Kubie
Co-founder of Computer Usage Company (CUC), the first independent company to market computer software, Kubie helped transform how software was developed and sold. He and John W. Sheldon founded CUC (1955–1986), sometimes...
Malcolm (Doug) Douglas McIlroy
Renowned for seminal work on software componentization and the Unix pipeline implementation, McIlroy is also known for developing several Unix tools, such as spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, and tr. Dr. McIlroy...
Stephen J. Fink
One of the primary developers and maintainers of the T.J. Watson Libraries for Analysis (WALA), which provides static analysis capabilities for Java bytecode and related languages, Fink has been a research scientist...
Dana L. Ulery
The first woman engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ulery is an American computer scientist and pioneer in scientific computing applications. She began her career in 1961, designing and developing algorithms...
Larry LeRoy Constantine
Pioneer in modern software engineering, Constantine began his professional career in computers with a summer job at Scientific Computing, at the time a subsidiary of Control Data Corporation, in Minneapolis, having learned...
Anthony Finkelstein
Recognized internationally for his contributions to software engineering and requirements engineering, Finkelstein graduated from the LSE with a Masters in systems, then went on to take a PhD at the Royal College...
Richard (Rick) Thomas Watson
Co-leader of the Global Text Project, which provides free electronic textbooks for students in the developing world, Watson has held the J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Chair for Internet Strategy in the Department...
Borje Langefors
Pioneer of the first theoretical approach to systems development practices, Langefors was the first computer scientist to develop a coherent model of the development of computer-based information systems in the early 1960s....
Elise Gerich
Principal Investigator for NSFNET's T3 Backbone Project and the Routing Arbiter Project, Gerich is a 21-year veteran of Internet networking who has served as the Vice President of IANA at ICANN. The...