Honored Persons Database
Displaying 361 – 380 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Ramakrishnan Srikant
Key architect for IBM Intelligent Miner, Srikant contributed the association rules and sequential patterns modules to the product. Dr. Srikant has served as a Principal Research Scientist at Google. He previously managed the...
Simon Phipps
Instrumental in IBM's involvement in the Java programming language, Phipps founded IBM's Java Technology Center. A computer scientist and web and open source advocate, he left IBM for Sun Microsystems in 2000,...
Peter Elias
Known for introducing convolutional codes and establishing the binary erasure channel, Elias also contributed fundamental new concepts and techniques to source coding. His widely cited 1975 paper introduced universal representations of the...
Shikoh Gitau
The first African to win the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, Gitau received that honor at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, recognized for her inventions and thesis work. A Kenyan...
Fernando (Corby) J. Corbato
Pioneer in the development of general-purpose, large-scale, time-sharing and resource-sharing computer systems, Corbató received the ACM Turing Award in 1990 for these foundational contributions. Fernando (Corby) J. Corbató was born on July 1,...
Lotfi Askar Zadeh
Best known for his theory of fuzzy logic, Zadeh proposed using a membership function (with a range covering the interval [0,1]) operating on the domain of all possible values. He proposed new...
Adin D. Falkoff
Collaborator on the design, development, and usage of the APL programming language, Falkoff was predominantly known for his work on APL and related systems for IBM. Born in New Jersey, he received...
Igor Aleksander
A pioneer in artificial intelligence and neural networks, Aleksander was born in Croatia, educated in Italy and South Africa, and completed a PhD at Queen Mary College, University of London. In 1984...
Ray Harishankar
Significant contributor to IBM's leadership position in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), reusable asset-based development approaches leveraging SOA, and in the creation of highly reusable IT assets, Harishankar has served as an IBM...
Jefferson (Jeff) Y. Han
Co-developer of "multi-touch sensing," Han is a research scientist at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences who helped create touch-screen interfaces able to recognize multiple points of contact. He also worked on...
Maurice Karnaugh
Developer of the Karnaugh map, also known as the K-map, Karnaugh created a method to simplify boolean algebra expressions that was fundamental in the development of digital electronics and is provided for...
Anant Jhingran
Considered to be the world technology leader in the field of information management, Jhingran has had a distinguished career with highly demonstrated impact on industrial practice and future technology and business directions....
Enrico Fermi
Inventor of the FERMIAC, an analog computer that used the Monte Carlo Method to study neutron transport through fissionable materials, Fermi was an Italian-born, naturalized American physicist particularly known for his work...
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...
Craig Partridge
Designer of how Internet email is routed, Partridge has made notable contributions to internetworking, including working with Phil Karn on TCP round-trip time estimation and designing and building the world's fastest router...
Mary Beth Rosson
Co-developer of the task-artifact framework for design, an "action science" approach to human-computer interaction (HCI), Rosson has served as Associate Dean of Information Sciences and Technology and Professor at the Penn State...
William (Velvel) Morton Kahan
One of the foremost experts on floating-point computations, Kahan is recognized for his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis and has dedicated himself to "making the world safe for numerical computations." Among his...
Edward Albert Feigenbaum
Known as the "father of expert systems," Feigenbaum is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence. Feigenbaum completed his undergraduate degree, and a Ph.D., at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now...
Borje Langefors
Pioneer of the first theoretical approach to systems development practices, Langefors was the first computer scientist to develop a coherent model of the development of computer-based information systems in the early 1960s....
Jan Camenisch
Co-inventor of Identity Mixer, a unique cryptographic protocol suite for privacy-preserving authentication and transfer of certified attributes, Camenisch is a leading scientist in the area of privacy and cryptography. He has served...