Honored Persons Database
Displaying 181 – 200 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Wendy W Hall
Leader of the team that invented the Microcosm hypermedia system before the World Wide Web existed, Hall has been a pioneering figure in multimedia, hypermedia, and web science. Born in west London,...
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...
Andrei Zary Broder
Co-inventor of the first practical test to prevent robots from masquerading as humans and accessing web sites — often referred to as CAPTCHA — Broder has served as a Distinguished Scientist at...
Barry W. Boehm
Known for his many contributions to software engineering, Boehm was an American software engineer and TRW Emeritus Professor of Software Engineering at the Computer Science Department of the University of Southern California.
Brian David Josephson
Winner of a 1/2 share of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering theoretical work on superconductivity, Josephson is a Welsh physicist known for his prediction of the eponymous Josephson effect....
Charles (Charlie) William Bachman
Pioneer of database technology, Bachman spent his entire career as an industrial researcher rather than in academia. Born in Manhattan, Kansas, in 1924, Bachman's father was a football coach and minor league baseball...
Manuel Blum
Recipient of the 1995 Turing Award for his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking, Blum is a computer scientist whose work has...
Robert Louis Nord
Developer of effective methods and practices for software architecture, Nord has served as a senior member of the technical staff at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). His areas of interest include software...
Adin D. Falkoff
Collaborator on the design, development, and usage of the APL programming language, Falkoff was predominantly known for his work on APL and related systems for IBM. Born in New Jersey, he received...
John LeRoy Hennessy
Co-founder of MIPS Computer Systems Inc., Hennessy is known for developing the MIPS architecture and pioneering RISC chips. He has also served as the 10th President of Stanford University. He earned his...
Enrico Fermi
Inventor of the FERMIAC, an analog computer that used the Monte Carlo Method to study neutron transport through fissionable materials, Fermi was an Italian-born, naturalized American physicist particularly known for his work...
Angel Angelov
Founder of the Institute of Engineering Cybernetics and Robotics in Bulgaria, Angelov is recognized for pioneering computer science applications to particle accelerators and broader industrial control systems. Microprocessor-based control and pattern recognition...
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...
Bertrand Meyer
Creator of the Eiffel programming language, Meyer has made foundational contributions to software engineering and object-oriented design. He received the equivalent of a bachelor's degree in engineering from the École polytechnique in...
Anne-Marie Eklund Lowinder
Credited with making .SE the world's first top-level domain to be signed with DNSSEC in 2005, Eklund Löwinder was a leading innovator in the implementation of Domain Name System Security Extensions, the...
John Thomas Stasko, III
Renowned for extensive research in information visualization and visual analytics, as well as software visualization and algorithm animation, Stasko has served as a Professor in and the Associate Chair of the School...
Peter R. Samson
Creator of the Harmony Compiler for the PDP-1 and the Expensive Planetarium star display for Spacewar!, Samson is an American computer scientist best known for creating pioneering computer software. He studied at...
John C. Klensin
Co-creator of the Network Startup Resource Center, helping dozens of countries to establish connections with the Internet, Klensin's career has included 30 years as a Principal Research Scientist at MIT, a stint...
Anthony A. Storey
Prime mover in creating the Enterprise Java Beans industry specification that brought Java into the server environment, Storey has also been a widely recognized expert in online transaction processing and the vital...
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...