Honored Persons Database
Displaying 81 – 100 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Jozef Gruska
A pioneer in the theory of quantum computing and organizing activities in the field, Gruska graduated in mathematics from Commenius University in Bratislava and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the...
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....
Stephanie Shirley
Founder of F International, a software company initially employing only women, Shirley built her vision that software could provide an outlet for the skills and creative ability of housebound women into a...
Michael Leonidas Dertouzos
Instrumental in defining the World Wide Web Consortium and bringing it to MIT, Dertouzos served as a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer...
Charles Simonyi
Overseer of Microsoft's flagship Office applications Word and Excel, Simonyi also directed development of Excel's predecessor Multiplan. In 1981, he applied directly to Bill Gates for a job at Microsoft. With Multiplan,...
Owen R. Mock
One of the programmers who developed the PACT series of compilers for the IBM 701 and helped install the first operating system ever in operation, Mock pioneered computer operating systems in the...
Jaan Tallinn
Co-developer of Skype and FastTrack/Kazaa, Tallinn holds the world's record for the largest number of software downloads at almost 500 million. An Estonian programmer, he is widely celebrated for writing the peer-to-peer...
Edward Fredkin
A pioneer of reversible computing and cellular automata, Fredkin was also an early pioneer of digital physics, later using the term digital philosophy (DP) to describe his work. While Konrad Zuse's book,...
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...
Harold (Bud) Lawson
Creator of the pointer variable in programming languages and contributor to PL/I, Lawson has been active in the field of computing since 1958 with broad international experience in industrial and academic environments....
Karen Banks
Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013 as a "Global Connector," Banks is a British computer networking pioneer recognized for expanding internet access to underserved communities worldwide. In the 1990s,...
Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov
Creator of Tetris, Pajitnov developed the iconic game with the help of Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov in 1985. The game, first available in the Soviet Union, appeared in the West in...
Solomon Wolf Golomb
Inventor of Golomb coding and pioneer in combinatorial analysis and coding theory, Golomb transformed modern communications. He pioneered the identification of the characteristics and merits of maximum length shift register sequences, also...
Brian Randell
Developer of a compiler for the English Electric KDF9, an early stack machine, Randell is a British computer scientist and Emeritus Professor at the School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, U.K. He...
Nick D'Aloisio
Designer of Summly — a program aimed to solve perceived problems with the way news articles are presented on smartphones — D'Aloisio is a British-Australian entrepreneur, computer programmer, and designer who created...
Jeff De Luca
Primary architect of Feature Driven Development (FDD), De Luca created this lightweight methodology for developing computer software with reduced management overhead, time and money circa 1999. He is a global information technology...
Irving Stoy Reed
Co-inventor of the Reed-Solomon error-detecting and correcting codes, Reed made many contributions to areas of electrical engineering including radar, signal processing, and image processing. He was part of the team that built...
Eugene Wong
Instrumental in building an Internet backbone for Asia and a pioneering contributor to relational database management, Wong has also inaugurated major initiatives in microsystems, information technology, nanotechnology, service-sector engineering, and biotechnology. Wong received...
Larry Wall
Creator of Perl, Wall is one of the most influential figures in the open-source software movement. Wall studied linguistics and music at Seattle Pacific University, where he graduated in 1976. He later attended...
Dana Stewart Scott
Author of the joint paper "Finite Automata and Their Decision Problem," which introduced the idea of nondeterministic machines, Scott has had a research career spanning computer science, mathematics, and philosophy, characterized by...