Honored Persons Database
Displaying 201 – 220 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Robin Milner
A Turing Award-winning pioneer of theoretical computer science, Milner shaped the formal understanding of computation through foundational contributions. He developed Calculus of Communicating Systems (CCS), a landmark formalism for modeling concurrent processes,...
R. Narasimhan
Often referred to as the Bhisma of Computer Science and Technology in India, Narasimhan made significant contributions to the development of computer science education, research, and technology in India in the early...
John Alan Lasseter
Pioneer in the use of CGI animation and one of the three founding fathers of Pixar Animation Studios, Lasseter has served as the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation...
Laszlo (Les) A. Belady
Author of the most-cited paper in software over two decades, Belady's 1966 article on Virtual Memory Systems set a landmark acknowledged by the Citation Index Classic. A design engineer and veteran senior...
Audrey Tang
A free software programmer as well as a politician, Tang is described as one of the "ten greatest Taiwanese computing personalities." They are a leader of the Haskell and Perl programming language...
Jiawei Han
Co-author of the widely-used textbook "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" and a leading researcher in data mining, data warehousing, and database systems, Han has served as Abel Bliss Professor in the Department...
David Michael Ungar
Co-creator of the Self programming language, Ungar developed the prototype-based, object-oriented language with Randall Smith in 1986 while working at Xerox PARC. He described himself as "an out-of-the-box thinker who enjoys the...
Frederick Jelinek
Pioneer of speech recognition, Jelinek was a Czech-American researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing, well known for his oft-quoted statement, "Every time I fire a linguist, the...
Doulgas Rayner Hartree
English mathematician and physicist, Hartree was most famous for the development of numerical analysis and its application to the Hartree-Fock equations of atomic physics and the construction of the meccano differential analyzer.
Joshua Schachter
Creator of Delicious, GeoURL, and co-creator of Memepool, Schachter holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He released the first version of Delicious (then called...
Lars Wirzenius
Co-founder of the Linux Documentation Project, Wirzenius has been programming computers since 1984. He worked on Linux documentation, including the Linux System Administrator's Guide, and was the co-moderator of the comp.os.linux.announce newsgroup....
Michael Oser Rabin
Author of the landmark joint paper "Finite Automata and Their Decision Problems," which introduced nondeterministic machines and had a lasting impact on automata theory, Rabin and co-author Dana S. Scott were cited...
Margaret Hamilton
Award-winning NASA computer scientist and mathematician who developed the Apollo program's on-board flight software, Hamilton is also recognized as the individual who coined the term "software engineering." Born in 1938, Hamilton graduated from...
A.J. Han Vinck
Recipient of the IEEE ISPLC2006 Achievement award for his contributions to Power Line Communications, Vinck has also held a chair for Digital Communications at the Institute for Experimental Mathematics at the University...
Marie desJardins
Researcher focused on understanding trust among agents in online communities, desJardins has led the Multi-Agent, Planning and Learning Lab (MAPLE) at UMBC, which focuses on developing A.I. solutions to real world problems....
Alan Emtage
Alan Emtage conceived and implemented the first version of Archie, a pre-Web internet search engine for locating material in public FTP archives.
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...
James Weldon Demmel
Writer of Prometheus, a parallel multigrid finite element solver, Demmel is an American mathematician and computer scientist. Prometheus, which he wrote with Mark Adams and Robert Taylor, won the Carl Benz Award...
Leonid Genrikhovich Khachiyan
Known for his Ellipsoid Algorithm for linear programming, Khachiyan proved the existence of an efficient way to solve linear programming problems thought to be intractable until that time. His 1979 breakthrough dealt...
Barry M. Leiner
Instrumental in establishing the Internet Activities Board (IAB), which led the effort to set technical standards for the Internet, Leiner was a government scientist and Program Manager at the U. S. Defense...