Honored Persons Database
Displaying 241 – 260 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Tan Tin Wee
Founder of the multilingual Internet domain name system (IDN), Tan is recognized as a key mover in the internationalisation of the Internet domain naming system, allowing online addresses to accommodate more than...
Markus Neteler
Honored with the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS) in recognition of his commitment to GRASS project coordination, Neteler has served as coordinator of the GRASS (Geographic...
Tyrone Grandison
Leader of the IBM team that pioneered research in Relational Database Privacy, Grandison demonstrated that privacy protection was possible at the database level and that both security and privacy controls can exist...
Gerard (Gerhard) Anton Salton
Developer of the now widely used Vector Space Model for Information Retrieval, Salton was perhaps the leading computer scientist working in the field of information retrieval during his time. Born in Nuremberg,...
Kurt Gödel
Known for his two incompleteness theorems, Gödel heavily influenced the sciences and mathematics. Published in 1931 when he was 25 years of age, one year after finishing his doctorate at the University...
Hugh McGregor Ross
One of the principal architects of the Universal Character Set ISO/IEC 10646, Ross was an early pioneer in the history of British computing. Born in Nairobi, Kenya, he worked for Ferranti from...
Van Jacobson
One of the primary contributors to the TCP/IP protocol stack — the technological foundation of today's Internet — Jacobson is renowned for his pioneering achievements in network performance and scaling. He joined...
Randy Howard Katz
Co-developer of the redundant array of independent disks (RAID) concept for computer storage, Katz is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department....
Katherine (Kathy) Anne Yelick
Co-inventor of Unified Parallel C (UPC), a programming language extension designed for high-performance computing on large-scale parallel machines, Yelick is an internationally recognized expert in high performance computing. Yelick has served as a...
David Gelernter
Made seminal contributions to the field of parallel computation, specifically the tuple space coordination model as embodied by the Linda programming system (named for Linda Lovelace, an actress in the porn movie...
Richard E. Pattis
Author of the Karel programming language, Pattis published "Karel the Robot: A Gentle Introduction to the Art of Programming." He received his MS from Stanford University and has served as a professor...
William Harvey Inmon
Recognized by many as the father of the data warehouse, Inmon wrote the first book, held the first conference (with Arnie Barnett), wrote the first column in a magazine, and was the...
Thomas M. Cover
Known for developing the relationship between information theory and statistics, Cover served as past President of the IEEE Information Theory Society and was a Fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics and...
Puneet Sharma
Recognized for work on Mobile Collaborative Communities featured in New Scientist Magazine, Sharma has served as a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs, conducting research on Network Measurement and Monitoring, Wireless Networks,...
Mary Allen Wilkes
Known for her work with the LINC computer, now recognized by many as the world's first personal computer, Wilkes contributed to this landmark machine as a programmer and logic designer. She later...
Stephen Robertson
Contributor to the Microsoft search engine Bing, Robertson is a British computer scientist well known for his work on information retrieval. After completing his undergraduate degree in mathematics at Cambridge University, he...
John von Neumann
Generally regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians in modern history, von Neumann made major contributions to a vast range of fields, including set theory, functional analysis, quantum mechanics, ergodic theory, continuous...
Alvy Ray Smith, III
Co-founder of the animation studio Pixar and creator of the HSV color space, Smith is an American engineer and noted pioneer in computer graphics. In 1965, he received his Bachelor's Degree in...
Stephen Arthur Cook
Known for profoundly advancing our understanding of the complexity of computation, Cook is an American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician who made major contributions to the fields of complexity theory and proof complexity....
Robert Elliott Kahn
Co-inventor of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), Kahn is sometimes called one of the fathers of the Internet. Kahn was born on December 23, 1938, in Brooklyn, New...