Honored Persons Database
Displaying 1 – 20 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Florian Brody
Co-inventor of Voyager's Expanded Books, the first electronic books to be read on a laptop, Brody is an international marketing executive and digital media specialist with over 25 years of experience. He...
Fei-Fei Li
Best known for establishing ImageNet, the dataset that enabled rapid advances in computer vision in the 2010s, Li is a professor of computer science at Stanford University whose research spans artificial intelligence,...
Raymond (Ray) F. Boyce
Co-developer of SQL, the first commercially successful language for relational databases, Boyce's work established the standard for relational database query languages still in use today. He was also known for his research...
Jun Murai
Considered "the father of Japan's Internet," Murai is a Japanese computer scientist and professor at Keio University. He founded JUNET, a computer network established by three universities — Tokyo University, Tokyo Institute...
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...
Patrick Henry Winston
Researcher in machine learning and human intelligence, Winston was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He served as Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997,...
Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov
Creator of Tetris, Pajitnov developed the iconic game with the help of Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov in 1985. The game, first available in the Soviet Union, appeared in the West in...
Kerrie L. Holley
Co-patent owner of the computer industry's first SOA method and SOA maturity model, Holley is an IBM Fellow, software architect, author, researcher, consultant, and inventor recognized internationally for his innovative work in...
Ravi Sandhu
Inventor of 29 security technology patents and leader of multiple teams conducting research on many aspects of cyber security, Sandhu has served as Executive Director of the Institute for Cyber Security at...
Stanley Gill
Co-inventor of the first computer subroutine, Gill was a British computer scientist who shared that achievement with Maurice Wilkes and David Wheeler. Gill was born in Worthing, West Sussex, England, educated at...
Paul Tseng
The first to establish the convergence of the affine scaling algorithm for linear programming in the presence of degeneracy, Tseng was recognized by his peers to be one of the leading optimization...
Sumit Ghosh
Researcher in computer architectures for next generation secure ATM network design and next generation IP router architecture to defeat next generation viruses, Ghosh has served as the Chair of the Computer Science...
Jane Lubchenco
Named Nature's first Newsmaker of the Year in 2010, Jane Lubchenco was an American environmental scientist and marine ecologist whose work spanned biodiversity, climate change, and the sustainable use of oceans. From 2009...
Steve Dorner
Developer of the Eudora e-mail client, Dorner is an American software engineer who created it in 1988 as part of his work as a staff member at the University of Illinois at...
Michael Mascagni
One of the first to use random number-based algorithms on the massively parallel Connection Machine at the Naval Research Lab in Washington, DC, Mascagni's family moved from Bologna, Italy to Lake Forest,...
Scott W. Ambler
Leader in the development of several software processes — including Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Enterprise Unified Process (EUP), and Agile Unified Process (AUP) methodologies — Ambler is a Canadian software...
Qi (English pr. Chee) Lu
Instrumental in driving Microsoft's partnership with Yahoo! in Search and the launch of Bing, Lu has served as Executive Vice President of Microsoft's Applications and Services Group, where he set the vision,...
Donald D. Chamberlin
One of the principal designers of the original SQL language specification, Chamberlin also made significant contributions to the development of XQuery. Donald D. Chamberlin was born in San Jose, in the USA. After...
Silvio Micali
Co-inventor of zero-knowledge proofs, Micali is an Italian-born computer scientist known for fundamental contributions to cryptography and information security. He has served as a Professor of Computer Science in MIT's Department of...
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie
Creator of the C programming language, Ritchie was an American computer scientist notable for his influence on programming languages and on operating systems such as Multics and Unix. He received the Turing...