Honored Persons Database
Displaying 781 – 800 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Donald Ervin Knuth
Author of the landmark series *The Art of Computer Programming*, Knuth is renowned for his contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages. He has served as Professor...
Lotfi Askar Zadeh
Best known for his theory of fuzzy logic, Zadeh proposed using a membership function (with a range covering the interval [0,1]) operating on the domain of all possible values. He proposed new...
Yoelle Maarek
The first engineering hire of Google Israel, Maarek established the company's development center in Haifa in 2006 and led the team that launched Google Suggest worldwide on the Google homepage in 2008....
Gary Mokotoff
Pioneer of the computer software industry for the IBM 1401, Mokotoff is the co-creator of the 1401 Autocoder and sole author of SPS1 and SPS2. He joined IBM in 1959. From 1959 to...
Danny (Dan) Spracklen
Co-programmer of the Chafitz ARB Sargon 2.5, the first commercial dedicated chess computer with an Auto Response Board (ARB), Spracklen is an American computer scientist and microcomputer chess pioneer. Born in Decatur,...
Brendan Eich
Creator of the JavaScript scripting language, Eich is a computer programmer and chief technology officer of Mozilla Corporation. He worked with MicroUnity Systems Engineering writing microkernel and DSP code, and doing the...
Ronald (Ron) Fagin
Pioneer in database theory and finite model theory, Fagin is an American computer scientist and IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center, best known for introducing the Fourth Normal Form and...
Murray Campbell
Member of the teams that developed chess machines HiTech and Deep Blue, Campbell is a Canadian computer scientist who has served as a Senior Manager in the Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences...
Burton J. Smith
Primary architect of the Denelcor Heterogeneous Element Processor (HEP), Smith was a pioneering computer architect who served as a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. He earned a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of...
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...
Radhia Cousot
Co-inventor of Abstract Interpretation, Cousot was a French computer scientist who, together with her husband Patrick, developed an influential technique in formal methods based on three main ideas. 1) Any reasoning/proof/static analysis...
Sandra (Sandy) Carter
A key leader responsible for setting the direction for IBM's Social Business initiative, Carter served as IBM's worldwide General Manager, Ecosystem Development and Social Business. A recognized leader in social business, influential...
Robert William Bemer
Best known as "The Father of ASCII," Bemer made foundational contributions to computing through his work on COBOL and the ASCII character codeset. Bemer began his career as an aerodynamicist at Douglas Aircraft...
Ram Chillarege
Inventor of Orthogonal Defect Classification (ODC) technology, Chillarege has fundamentally enriched the management of software engineering. While at IBM Research, he founded the Center of Software Engineering and authored the seminal IBM...
Charles Leonard Hamblin
Inventor of Reverse Polish Notation and the stack in computing, Hamblin was an Australian philosopher, logician, and computer pioneer. He served as a professor of philosophy at the Technical University of New...
John Theurer Diebold
An early champion of widespread use of computing and automated technology, Diebold helped shape how businesses understood and adopted automation. Diebold was born in Weehawken, New Jersey. He graduated from Swarthmore College in...
Peter J. Bentley
Developer of the iPhone application iStethoscope and pioneer of Digital Biology, Bentley is a British author and computer scientist based at University College London. He has served as a Reader and College...
Jaleh Daie
The first woman to serve on the U.S. Space Foundation board of directors, Daie was also inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame in 1996. A scientist, educator, and entrepreneur,...
Stephen (Steve) T. Kent
Designer and developer of user authentication and access control systems as well as other network security systems, Kent has served as Vice President and Chief Scientist for Information Security at BBN Technologies....
Max Rafael Levchin
Co-developer of PayPal and co-creator of the Gausebeck-Levchin test, one of the first commercial implementations of a CAPTCHA, Levchin is a Ukrainian-born American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur widely known as one...