Honored Persons Database
Displaying 161 – 180 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Norbert Wiener
Founder of cybernetics, Wiener pioneered the study of stochastic and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems. Cybernetics, the field he founded, formalized the notion of...
Carl Machover
Inducted into the FAMLI Computer Graphics Hall of Fame, Machover is recognized as a computer graphics pioneer and graphics "evangelist." He has served as president of Machover Associates Corp (MAC), a computer graphics...
Calvin (Kelly) C. Gotlieb
Known as the "father" of computing in Canada, Gotlieb started working with computing equipment in the 1940s. He was one of the driving forces behind the University of Toronto's being a leader...
Bruce Lindsay
Participant in the development of System R (the first Relational DBMS prototype) and R* (a distributed RDBMS), Lindsay is a recognized expert on many aspects of relational database technology, including distributed DBMS,...
Heinz G. Schwaertzel
Head of Central Research at Siemens AG in Munich, Schwaertzel has served as President of Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) from 1987–1991. He initiated DFKI (German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence) in Saarbrücken...
Ben Forta
Author of numerous technical books on ColdFusion, SQL, and Regular Expressions, Forta has also served as Senior Technical Evangelist for Adobe Systems, particularly ColdFusion and Flex, and has been the owner of...
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...
Elizabeth (Jake) Jocelyn Feinler
Leader of the group that became the overall naming authority of the Internet, Feinler directed the Network Information Systems Center at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) from 1972 until 1989. Her group...
Jean Armour Polly
Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2019, Jean Armour Polly was a librarian and author best known for her early book series on safe Internet use, "Surfing the Internet."
Nancy Jane Hafkin
A pioneer and innovator in networking, development information, and electronic communications in Africa, Hafkin spurred the Pan African Development Information System (PADIS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) from...
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...
Don Coppersmith
Co-designer of the Data Encryption Standard (DES), Coppersmith is one of the world's leading researchers in cryptography. He was part of the IBM team that developed DES. Used in financial and Internet...
Susan T. Dumais
Researcher whose work at Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies) into the vocabulary problem in information retrieval led to the invention of Latent Semantic Indexing, Dumais has served as a Principal Researcher in the...
Nolan Ira Gasser
Chief architect of the Music Genome Project and chief musicologist for Pandora Media, Inc., Gasser is an American composer, pianist, and musicologist whose proprietary musical analysis system underlies the popular Internet radio...
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...
Lubomir Georgiev Iliev
Pioneer of computing in Bulgaria and of abstract mathematics, Iliev was born in Samokov. He graduated from Sofia University in 1908, became a professor in 1925, and earned a PhD in Mathematical...
Frances Spence (née Bilas)
One of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer, Spence was born Frances Bilas in Philadelphia in 1922. She attended Temple University but then was awarded a scholarship to Chestnut Hill College,...
Patrick Cousot
Co-inventor of Abstract Interpretation, a theory of sound approximation of mathematical structures, Cousot developed this influential technique in formal methods together with his wife Radhia in 1975. In the 2000s, he worked...
Daniel E. Cooke
Inventor of the SequenceL functional programming language, Cooke discovered the computational laws that led to its creation and implemented several early interpreters for the language. During his tenure at Texas Tech University,...
Georgy Adelson-Velsky
Co-inventor of the AVL tree and head developer of the Kaissa chess computer, Adelson-Velsky made foundational contributions to both computer science and computer chess. In 1962, Georgy and E.M. Landis published a...