Honored Persons Database
Displaying 121 – 140 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Jim Garrett
Pioneer of the Internet banking industry and online marketing financial services, Garrett founded Kudzu Interactive in 2004 and developed the web-based ordering platform that became the restaurant industry's standard for online, mobile,...
Robert (Bob) M. Frankston
Co-creator of VisiCalc and co-founder of Software Arts, Frankston received numerous honors and awards for his work. He has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1994) "for the...
Robert H. High, Jr.
Pioneer in the field of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), High positioned IBM as a leader in delivering critical technologies to its clients. He has served as an IBM Fellow—the highest honor a...
Ashok N. Srivastava
Leader of the Intelligent Data Understanding group at NASA Ames Research Center, Srivastava performed research and development of advanced machine learning and data mining algorithms in support of NASA missions. He has...
Cecil Wayne Ratliff
Creator of the Vulcan database program, Ratliff worked for the Martin Marietta Corporation from 1969 to 1982 in a progression of engineering and managerial positions. He was a member of the NASA...
John (Jack) G. Herriot
Teacher of the first programming course at Stanford University, Herriot helped found the Computer Science Department and served as the first Director of the Stanford Computation Center, which later evolved to become...
David (Dave) J. Farber
Co-designer of the first electronic switching system (ESS-1) and the SNOBOL programming languages, Farber made major contributions to programming languages and computer networking. Farber held the position of Distinguished Career Professor of...
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...
William (Bill) Douglas Gropp
Co-creator of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) and the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation (PETSc), Gropp has served as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, holding...
James (Jim) Richard Goodman
Contributor to shared-memory multiprocessor system design, Goodman is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and has served as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Auckland in Auckland,...
Marlyn Meltzer (née Wescoff)
One of the original programmers of the ENIAC, the world's first electronic computer, Meltzer was selected for this role in 1945. A graduate of Temple University in 1942, she was hired by...
Doulgas Rayner Hartree
English mathematician and physicist, Hartree was most famous for the development of numerical analysis and its application to the Hartree-Fock equations of atomic physics and the construction of the meccano differential analyzer.
Matthew (Matt) David Welsh
Co-founder of the Linux Documentation Project, Welsh is a computer scientist and software engineer. He has also served as the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University School of Engineering...
Vinton (Vint) Gray Cerf
Known as a "father of the Internet," Cerf is an American computer scientist whose contributions have been recognized with the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom,...
Dimitri P. Bertsekas
Known for his fourteen textbooks and monographs in theoretical and algorithmic optimization and control, and in applied probability, Bertsekas is an applied mathematician and computer scientist who has served as a professor...
Leon D. Harmon
Codeveloper of the Photomosaic and pioneer of computerized human-face identification, Harmon worked at Bell Labs where he pursued research in human perception, computer vision, and graphics. He started his career as a...
Dorothy Vaughan
The first African American woman to receive a promotion and supervise a group of staff at Langley Research Center, Vaughan became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers in 1949 and was...
Joyce K. Reynolds
Co-developer of protocols underlying the Internet, Reynolds was most notably the author or co-author of the RFCs introducing and specifying the Telnet protocol. She was active in the development of the protocols underlying...
Kanianthra Mani Chandy
Co-proposer of a new solution to the Dining Philosophers problem, Chandy is recognized for his contributions to concurrent algorithm design and distributed computing. Along with J. Misra, he proposed the solution in...
Louis Pouzin
Invented the datagram and designed the first packet communications network, CYCLADES, Pouzin also created the first forms of command-line interface. His work was broadly used by Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, and many...