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Honor Database

Displaying 1 – 20 of 184 Honorees (Category: Science & Engineering, with portraits)

  • Enrico Clementi

    Leader of research and development in parallel computer architecture and fundamental research in chemistry, biophysics, and fluid dynamics, Clementi was a pioneer in computational techniques for quantum chemistry and molecular dynamics. Born...

  • Dakshi Agrawal

    Elected IEEE Fellow for contributions to theory, analysis, and design of efficient, secure, and privacy-preserving communication systems, Agrawal has made significant contributions to IBM's intellectual property portfolio as a designated Master Inventor. Agrawal...

  • Stuart Parkin

    Pioneer in the science and application of spintronic materials, Parkin has served as Manager of the Magnetoelectronics group at IBM Research, Almaden, in San Jose, California, and as a 1999 IBM Fellow...

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    Marvin Lee Minsky

    Co-founder of MIT's AI laboratory and a towering figure in artificial intelligence, Minsky was an American cognitive scientist and author of several texts on AI and philosophy.

  • Alec N. Broers

    Pioneer of nanotechnology, Broers developed the first man-made nanostructures in materials suitable for microelectronic circuits, opening up the possibility for the extreme miniaturization of electronic circuits. An Anglo-Australian electrical engineer, Broers was born...

  • Charbel Farhat

    Leader of the development of the Finite Element Tearing and Interconnecting (FETI) method for the scalable solution of large-scale systems of equations on massively parallel processors, Farhat is the Vivian Church Hoff...

  • Luciano Lenzini

    Director of the initiative which led to the operation of the first Internet node in Italy, Lenzini has served as a Full Professor at the Information Engineering Department of the University of...

  • Leonard Kleinrock

    Known as a "Father of the Internet," Kleinrock is an American engineer and computer scientist who made several important contributions to the field of computer networking, in particular to the theoretical side...

  • Dean Everett Wooldridge

    Co-founder of the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation, which was awarded the prime contract for overall systems engineering and technical direction of the nation's Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Program, Wooldridge was a prominent engineer in...

  • Anthony E. Siegman

    Major contributor in the area of unstable resonators, lasers, and optics, Siegman was an electrical engineer and educator whose work on microwave masers and parametric devices evolved into a distinguished research and...

  • John (J. B.) (Iain) Battiscombe Gunn

    Inventor of the Gunn diode, the first inexpensive source of microwave power that did not require vacuum tubes, Gunn discovered the Gunn Effect while working at IBM in 1962. Gunn diodes have...

  • Norman A. Phillips

    A major co-contributor to the prediction of weather and climate using numerical methods, Phillips was the first to show, with a simple General Circulation model, that weather prediction with numerical models was...

  • 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...

  • Nikola Tesla

    A major contributor to the birth of commercial electricity and revolutionary developer in the field of electromagnetism, Tesla was an inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer who is best known for his...

  • Elaine Surick Oran

    Considered a world authority on numerical methods for large-scale simulation of physical systems, Oran pioneered computational technology to solve complex reactive flow problems. Her work unified concepts from science, mathematics, engineering, and...

  • Arnt Eliassen

    A pioneer in the use of numerical analysis and computers for weather forecasting, Eliassen was a Norwegian meteorologist who conducted early pioneer work at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New...

  • Alain Glavieux

    Co-inventor of turbo codes, Glavieux was a French professor of electrical engineering at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Bretagne. He was the coinventor with Claude Berrou and Punya Thitimajshima of a...

  • Carla Gomes

    Founding Director of the Institute for Computational Sustainability at Cornell University, Gomes was a Portuguese-American computer scientist noted for pioneering work in developing computational methods to address challenges in sustainability. Her research spanned...

  • Clifford Ivar Nass

    Co-creator of The Media Equation theory, which holds that people tend to treat computers and other media as if they were either real people or real places, Nass was a renowned authority...

  • Christopher (Chris) R. Johnson

    Founder of the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) research group, which grew into the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI Institute), Johnson has served as a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at...