Honored Persons Database
Displaying 381 – 400 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Gennaro (Jerry) A. Cuomo
Co-founding father of IBM WebSphere Software, Cuomo has served as Chief Technology Officer of WebSphere, a business unit within IBM Software Group (SWG). He has been working for IBM since 1987 and...
Peter Naur
Contributor to the creation of the ALGOL 60 programming language, Naur won the 2005 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his work on defining it. In particular, his role as editor of the...
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...
Leonid Anatolievich Levin
Co-discoverer of the Cook-Levin Theorem, Levin is noted for his work in randomness computing, algorithmic complexity, and intractability. This NP-completeness theorem was a basis for one of the seven "Millennium Math Problems"...
Kevin Warwick
Best known for his studies on direct interfaces between computer systems and the human nervous system, Warwick is a British scientist and professor of cybernetics whose research also spans the field of...
Charbel Farhat
Leader of the development of the Finite Element Tearing and Interconnecting (FETI) method for the scalable solution of large-scale systems of equations on massively parallel processors, Farhat is the Vivian Church Hoff...
Tom Gilb
Developer of software metrics, software inspection, and evolutionary processes, Gilb is an American systems engineer, consultant, and author known for bringing quantitative measurement approaches to software development. Since quantitative measurements are essential...
Karl Kempf
Pioneer in applying advanced mathematics to industrial and engineering challenges, Kempf is best known for heading a group of mathematicians at Stanford University who built computer models allowing Intel to design financial...
Robert Louis Nord
Developer of effective methods and practices for software architecture, Nord has served as a senior member of the technical staff at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). His areas of interest include software...
Patrick Henry Winston
Researcher in machine learning and human intelligence, Winston was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He served as Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997,...
Ronald (Ron) Lewis Graham
Credited by the American Mathematical Society as "one of the principal architects of the rapid development worldwide of discrete mathematics in recent years," Graham was also a leading figure in scheduling theory,...
Nagui Halim
Team leader who developed System S—a computing system able to manage and analyze massive volumes of continuous streams of data—Halim was named an IBM Fellow in 2011, the highest honor a scientist,...
Frederick (Jeff) Johns Rulifson
Leader of the team that implemented the oN-Line System (NLS), which foreshadowed many future developments in modern computing and networking, Rulifson is an American computer scientist born in Bellefontaine, Ohio. His father...
Charles (Chuck) H. Moore
Inventor of the Forth programming language, Moore is recognized as one of the most influential figures in programming language history. Born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, in 1938, Moore grew up in Flint,...
Glenn Ricart
Leader of the team that wrote the code for the first implementation of TCP/IP for the IBM PC, Ricart is recognized as an Internet pioneer who started using one of the original...
Clare-Marie Karat
Author of the "Computer User's Bill of Rights" and creator of a cost-benefit methodology for analyzing the return on investment in usability, Karat is a leading figure in Human Computer Interaction research....
Li-Shiuan Peh
Developer and builder of self-regulating power-aware interconnection networks that trade off power and performance automatically, Peh is recognized for work that would reconcile the design goals of high-performance and low-power usage. Li-Shiuan Peh...
Herbert Reuben Grosch
Formulator of Grosch's Law, the landmark aphorism about computer economy and speed, Grosch was one of the earliest and most colorful figures in computer science. Born in Canada, he moved to the United...
Jonathan Bruce Postel
A significant contributor to the development of the Internet, Postel was involved in early work on the ARPANET while at UCLA. He later moved to the Information Sciences Institute at the University...
Qiang Yang
Leader of research teams that won the 2004 and 2005 ACM KDDCUP international competitions on data mining, Yang has served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at...