Honored Persons Database
Displaying 321 – 340 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Wayne D. Pickette
Conceptualized as the design for putting a computer on a chip, Pickette's work is arguably one of the greatest technological advances of the Twentieth Century. A self-taught childhood electronics prodigy, he recalled...
Peter Pin-Shan Chen
Known for the development of Entity-Relationship Modeling, Chen is an American computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University. Born in Taichung, Taiwan, he received a B.S. in electrical...
Jean Armour Polly
Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2019, Jean Armour Polly was a librarian and author best known for her early book series on safe Internet use, "Surfing the Internet."
Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale
Developer of the "migratable objects" parallel programming model and its implementation in the Charm++ parallel programming system, Kale has served as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at...
Bill Hilf
Leader of product planning, product management and technical product management for Microsoft's Cloud computing platform, Windows Azure, Hilf has also served as a Senior Vice President at Hewlett-Packard for the HP Helion...
Patrick Carl Fischer
His work on the mathematical foundations of database query languages became central to the databases now used by major web servers worldwide. Fischer was an American computer scientist and noted researcher in...
Frederic Alois Friedel
Co-founder of the chess database company ChessBase, Friedel is a German graduate linguist, science, chess, and computer chess journalist. He co-founded ChessBase in 1986 with game database developer Matthias Wöllenweber. He studied...
Seymour Papert
One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence and an inventor of the Logo programming language, Papert was among the most influential thinkers in education and computing. At MIT, he created the Epistemology...
Annie Easley
A significant contributor to the early development of NASA's rocket technologies, Easley spent decades as a NASA engineer whose work in programming, energy-conversion, and shuttle launches helped address the agency's need for...
Nicholas (Nick) John Pippenger
Co-inventor of extendible hashing, Pippenger is recognized for a number of fundamental results widely used in theoretical computer science, database processing, and compiler optimization. He held a B.S. degree in Natural Sciences...
Meir (Manny) Lehman
Recognizer of the software evolution phenomenon and author of the eponymous Lehman's laws of software evolution, Lehman made foundational contributions to understanding how software changes over time. He served as a Professor...
Alfred Zalmon Spector
Responsible for IBM software product families such as CICS, WebSphere, and MQSeries, Spector is an American computer scientist and research manager. Spector received his Bachelor of Arts degree in applied Mathematics from Harvard...
Robert William Bemer
Best known as "The Father of ASCII," Bemer made foundational contributions to computing through his work on COBOL and the ASCII character codeset. Bemer began his career as an aerodynamicist at Douglas Aircraft...
Cornelis (Kees) H.A. Koster
Creator of the original Compiler Description Language, Koster was also one of the editors of the original Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68. He was a professor in the Department of Informatics...
Brendan Eich
Creator of the JavaScript scripting language, Eich is a computer programmer and chief technology officer of Mozilla Corporation. He worked with MicroUnity Systems Engineering writing microkernel and DSP code, and doing the...
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...
Lester (Les) Donald Earnest
Developer of the "first pen-based computer system that reliably recognized cursive writing" and the first spell checker, Earnest began his career as a computer programmer in 1954 during a stint as a...
Lawrence (Larry) A. Rowe
Founding director of the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center (BMRC), Rowe is a computer scientist who served as a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley from...
Martin P. Nally
Leader of the architecture, design, and development of WebSphere Studio, which evolved into Rational Application Developer, Nally was named an IBM Fellow in 2007 and has served as Vice President and Chief...
Peter Harris
Builder of a product that takes existing COBOL programs and produces structured system charts and supporting documentation for program maintenance, Harris also founded ADPAC, a leading software provider to corporations worldwide. While he...