Honored Persons Database
Displaying 41 – 60 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Wesley W. Chu
Pioneer researcher in file allocation and directory design for distributed databases, Chu's work aided the design and development of domain name servers and current cloud computing systems. He has served as a...
Icer Addis
Author of the NESticle, Genecyst, and Callus emulators, Addis is considered a legendary figure in the emulation scene. He co-founded Bloodlust Software with his friend Ethan Petty. Working independently under the Bloodlust...
Peter R. Samson
Creator of the Harmony Compiler for the PDP-1 and the Expensive Planetarium star display for Spacewar!, Samson is an American computer scientist best known for creating pioneering computer software. He studied at...
Wei Yen
Major contributor to the Cydra-5 mini-supercomputer, Yen is a software developer and entrepreneur who has been involved with several companies, including as chairman and founder of AiLive. He and his brother David...
Jun Murai
Considered "the father of Japan's Internet," Murai is a Japanese computer scientist and professor at Keio University. He founded JUNET, a computer network established by three universities — Tokyo University, Tokyo Institute...
Daniel A. Hitchcock
Leader of the effort to expand the Magnetic Fusion Energy Computing Center into NERSC, widely regarded as the best-managed High Performance Computing Center in the world, Hitchcock joined the Department of Energy...
Kilnam Chon
Developer of the first Internet in Asia, called SDN, Chon is a pioneering computer scientist and network engineer. He was born and raised in Japan and completed his education in the US....
Virgil Dorin Gligor
Researcher in computer security addressing problems of trustworthy computing in the presence of malware and malicious insiders, and in next-generation secure Internet design, Gligor is a Romanian-American Professor of Electrical and Computer...
Victor Shoup
Co-developer of the Cramer–Shoup cryptosystem, the first efficient asymmetric encryption scheme proven to be secure against adaptive chosen ciphertext attack using standard cryptographic assumptions, Shoup is a computer scientist and mathematician. He...
Carl Georg Lange Barth
Improver and popularizer of the industrial use of compound slide rules in scientific management, Barth was a Norwegian-American mathematician and mechanical engineer. He was born in Christiania, Norway, and graduated from the...
Georgy Adelson-Velsky
Co-inventor of the AVL tree and head developer of the Kaissa chess computer, Adelson-Velsky made foundational contributions to both computer science and computer chess. In 1962, Georgy and E.M. Landis published a...
Stephen J. Fink
One of the primary developers and maintainers of the T.J. Watson Libraries for Analysis (WALA), which provides static analysis capabilities for Java bytecode and related languages, Fink has been a research scientist...
Dave Hitz
Co-founder of NetApp, a worldwide major supplier of network-based storage systems for the computer industry, Hitz helped establish the company in 1992 along with James Lau and Michael Malcolm. The company began...
Robert Cecil Martin
Initiator of the 2001 meeting that created Agile software development from Extreme Programming techniques, Martin has been a software professional since 1970 and has served as an international software consultant from 1990....
John Wilder Tukey
Known for his contributions to the spectral analysis of random processes and the fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm, Tukey left a profound mark on modern statistics and signal processing. During World War II,...
Martin A. Goetz
Software pioneer and holder of the first software patent, Goetz played a foundational role in defining software as a standalone commercial product. In the early 1960s, the status of software as a standalone...
Ted Dabney
Co-founder of Syzygy and Atari, Dabney met Nolan Bushnell while working at Ampex, and the two jointly created Syzygy. Their first product, Computer Space, was manufactured and sold by Nutting Associates. Following...
Lorinda Cherry
A longtime member of the original Unix Lab at Bell Labs, Cherry devoted much of her career to developing mathematical tools and utilities for text formatting and analysis, and influenced the creation...
Niklaus Emil Wirth
Designer of programming languages including Pascal, EULER, ALGOL-W, and Modula, Wirth won the Turing Award in 1984 for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages. He was a Swiss computer scientist who...
Jaan Tallinn
Co-developer of Skype and FastTrack/Kazaa, Tallinn holds the world's record for the largest number of software downloads at almost 500 million. An Estonian programmer, he is widely celebrated for writing the peer-to-peer...