Honored Persons Database
Displaying 101 – 120 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
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...
Robert (Bob) Proebsting
Inventor of DRAM address multiplexing with the MK4096 4096 X 1 bit DRAM introduced in 1973, Proebsting co-founded Mostek in June 1969 and made one of the most significant contributions in DRAM...
Werner L. Frank
Co-founder of Informatics General Corporation, one of the first viable software companies, Frank is a pioneering figure and longtime contributor to the United States and international computer industry. Born in the small...
Kang-Won Lee
Collaborator on wireless networks, mobile computing, network management, and policy technologies research, Lee has been a Research Staff Member at IBM since 2000 and led the Wireless Networking Group at Watson from...
Edward (Ed) E. Iacobucci
Leader of the joint IBM-Microsoft design team that launched the modern era of multi-tasking personal computer operating systems, Iacobucci was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Dr. Guillermo and Costantina Iacobucci. His...
Robert M. Price
Leader of Control Data's early strategic expansion into international operations and marketing, Price also drove the strategic move into information and systems integration services. He graduated from Duke University in 1952, and...
Mary Kenneth Keller
The first woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science in the United States, Keller was also among the first people of any gender to receive such a doctorate. Her degree was...
Amarnath Gupta
Creator of the first domain knowledge-based mediation for scientific databases — a patented achievement — Gupta is also a pioneer in applying the latest information systems research in biomedicine, and has advanced...
Anthony James Barr
Creator of the Statistical Analysis System (SAS) programming language, Barr conceived a database architecture for SAS inspired by the Formatted File System (FFS) he had worked on at the Pentagon. As a physics...
David Elliott Bell
Co-developer of the highly influential Bell-LaPadula security model, Bell is a mathematician and computer security pioneer. His management experience has ranged from line management up to executive and Board of Directors responsibilities....
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....
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,...
Kevin Warwick
Best known for his studies on direct interfaces between computer systems and the human nervous system, Warwick is a British scientist and professor of cybernetics whose research also spans the field of...
Frances (Betty) Elizabeth Holberton
One of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, Holberton made foundational contributions to the history of computing. During World War II, while the men were fighting,...
T. Capers Jones
Associated with the function point model of cost estimation, Jones is a specialist in software engineering methodologies. He has also collected data on software quality, software risks, and software best practices. He...
James E. Rumbaugh
Co-developer of the Object Modeling Technique (OMT) and the Unified Modeling Language (UML), Rumbaugh is an American computer scientist and object-oriented methodologist who created these with Grady Booch and Ivar Jacobson. Born...
Frederica Darema
Proposer of the Single Program, Multiple Data (SPMD) programming model, Darema introduced SPMD in 1984, establishing what has become the most common style of parallel programming. In computing, Single Program, Multiple Data...
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...
Steven B. Lipner
Responsible for defining, supporting, and applying Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) process, Lipner has had forty years' experience in cybersecurity and has been named as inventor on twelve U.S. patents and two...
Philip S. Yu
Holder of over 300 U.S. patents in data mining, database systems, Internet applications and technologies, Yu is recognized as an IBM Master Inventor and one of the most prolific inventors in computing....