Honored Persons Database
Displaying 281 – 300 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Mark Eugene Russinovich
Co-developer of the website sysinternals.com, Russinovich wrote and published dozens of popular Windows administration and diagnostic utilities including Autoruns, Filemon, and RootkitRevealer. He has served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Microsoft...
Robert Endre Tarjan
Renowned for fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures, Tarjan is an American computer scientist. He discovered several important graph algorithms, including Tarjan's off-line least common ancestors...
Peter R. Jennings
Author of the first commercially successful chess program for microcomputers, Jennings is a Canadian physicist, interdisciplinary scientist, inventor, software developer, computer chess programmer, businessman, and paraglider. Born in England, his family moved...
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...
Jignesh M. Patel
Founder of Locomatix, a "location aware services" technology named one of the 20 hottest startups by MobileBeat in 2010 and highlighted in the Innovation Showcase at CTIA, Patel is a Professor of...
Louis Pouzin
Invented the datagram and designed the first packet communications network, CYCLADES, Pouzin also created the first forms of command-line interface. His work was broadly used by Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, and many...
Vannevar Bush
The first presidential science advisor, Bush was an American engineer and science administrator known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb as a...
Ellis L. Johnson
Founder and manager of the Optimization Center at IBM, Johnson made fundamental contributions to integer programming and combinatorial optimization. He served as Professor Emeritus and the Coca-Cola Chaired Professor in the H....
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...
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...
Alfred Vaino Aho
Co-author of the AWK programming language and numerous landmark computer science textbooks, Aho is widely recognized as a foundational figure in programming languages and compiler design. He conducted research at Bell Labs...
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,...
David (Dave) J. Farber
Co-designer of the first electronic switching system (ESS-1) and the SNOBOL programming languages, Farber made major contributions to programming languages and computer networking. Farber held the position of Distinguished Career Professor of...
Gary Kildall
Creator of CP/M, the first disk-based OS for microcomputers, Kildall built a precursor to MS-DOS. CP/M became a fertile ground for the development of application software for microcomputers that became precursors to...
Bruce Lindsay
Participant in the development of System R (the first Relational DBMS prototype) and R* (a distributed RDBMS), Lindsay is a recognized expert on many aspects of relational database technology, including distributed DBMS,...
David Harold Bailey
Writer of the computer program that enabled the discovery of the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula for computing digits of pi, Bailey is a mathematician and computer scientist. He received his B.S. degree in Mathematics...
Saul Amarel
Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Amarel was best known for his groundbreaking work in AI methodologies applied to scientific inquiry and engineering practice. He also had a distinguished career as a scientist, engineer,...
Calvin Northrup Mooers
Known for his work in information retrieval and for the programming language TRAC, Mooers was a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended the University of Minnesota and received a bachelor's degree in...
Luba Cherbakov
Co-inventor and chief evangelist behind Service-Oriented Modeling and Architecture (SOMA), the industry's first SOA modeling method, Cherbakov is also a 2012 IBM Fellow — the 13th woman (and among only seventeen women)...
Dario de Judicibus
Founder of the Reuse Shop, the first IBM group to create software libraries of building blocks that could be used to develop products, de Judicibus is a prolific inventor and pioneer in...