Honor Database
Displaying 1 – 20 of 184 Honorees (Category: Science & Engineering, with portraits)
Bradford Brooks
Leader of a team that developed a global program to test emissions from IBM products and ensure compliance with relevant requirements, Brooks has served as Corporate leader of IBM's Global Toxicology and...
Steven (Steve) N. Goldstein
Co-creator of GLORIAD, a dedicated-wavelength ring around the globe to support computationally-intensive research, Goldstein served as an International Networking Coordinator at the National Science Foundation from 1989 to 2003, functioning as a...
Arthur Dehon Little
Founder of the consulting company Arthur D. Little, which played key roles in the development of the word processor and much more, Little was an American chemist and chemical engineer born in...
Peter J. Bentley
Developer of the iPhone application iStethoscope and pioneer of Digital Biology, Bentley is a British author and computer scientist based at University College London. He has served as a Reader and College...
George W. Platzman
One of the founders of modern meteorology, Platzman helped formulate the first weather forecast by computer, carried out in 1950 on the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC). He pioneered the field...
Joseph Smagorinsky
Among the earliest researchers who sought to exploit new methods of numerical weather prediction to extend forecasting past one or two days, Smagorinsky was also the first Director of the National Oceanic...
Valentin Fyodorovich Turchin
Developer of the Refal programming language, the theory of metasystem transitions, and the notion of supercompilation, Turchin made foundational contributions to computer science and cybernetics. The philosophical core of Turchin's scientific work was...
Joshua Lederberg
American molecular biologist known for his work in genetics, artificial intelligence, and space exploration, Lederberg was just 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for...
Robert Mano Fano
Known principally for his work in information theory and the invention of Shannon-Fano coding, Fano was a computer scientist and professor emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of...
Richard Phillips Feynman
Nobel Prize winner in Physics (1965), Feynman made landmark contributions to quantum electrodynamics, the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well...
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...
Harry Wexler
A pioneer in the use of computers for weather prediction and modification, Wexler was an American meteorologist who attended Harvard University, and in 1939 was awarded a Ph.D. in meteorology from the...
Herbert Reuben Grosch
Formulator of Grosch's Law, the landmark aphorism about computer economy and speed, Grosch was one of the earliest and most colorful figures in computer science. Born in Canada, he moved to the United...
Allen Newell
Pioneer in artificial intelligence, Newell made basic contributions to AI and the psychology of human cognition, for which he and Herbert Simon were awarded the ACM's A.M. Turing Award in 1975. He...
Michael Hatzakis
Co-developer of electron beam lithography, PMMA resist, and the "lift off" process, Hatzakis has been a researcher with IBM Research at Yorktown Heights, New York since 1961, serving as a manager of...
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.
Larry Smarr
Advocate for a high-speed network linking the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications — which became the NSFnet, one of the significant predecessors of today's Internet — Smarr...
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...
Dinesh Verma
Leader of an international team of 22 research organizations selected to form the International Technology Alliance in Network Sciences, Verma is an IBM Fellow, researcher, and Department Group Manager at the IBM...
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...