Honored Persons Database
Displaying 401 – 420 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Brian David Josephson
Winner of a 1/2 share of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering theoretical work on superconductivity, Josephson is a Welsh physicist known for his prediction of the eponymous Josephson effect....
Bruce Eckel
Author of "Thinking in Java" and "Thinking in C++", Eckel has written numerous books and articles about computer programming. He has also given frequent lectures and seminars for computer programmers. His best...
Qi (English pr. Chee) Lu
Instrumental in driving Microsoft's partnership with Yahoo! in Search and the launch of Bing, Lu has served as Executive Vice President of Microsoft's Applications and Services Group, where he set the vision,...
Jesse James Garrett
Publisher of the diagram "The Elements of User Experience," a foundational model of user-centered design, Garrett is a user experience designer and co-founder of Adaptive Path, a user experience strategy and design...
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...
W. Bruce Croft
A leading contributor to research in information retrieval and the theoretical development and practical use of Bayesian inference networks and language modelling for retrieval, Croft has served as a distinguished Professor in...
Abraham Lempel
One of the fathers of the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms, Lempel studied at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and received B.Sc. in 1963, M.Sc. in 1965, and D.Sc....
Gottfried Ungerboeck
Inventor of trellis coded modulation, Ungerboeck is a pioneering researcher in digital communications. Ungerboeck received an electrical engineering degree (with emphasis on telecommunications) from Vienna University of Technology in 1964, and a Ph.D....
Joan L. Mitchell
A key contributor to the JPEG image compression algorithm and MPEG video standards, Mitchell became an IBM Fellow in 2001. Working at IBM with William B. Pennebaker, she helped fine-tune the JPEG...
Thelma Estrin
One of the first to apply computer technology to healthcare and medical research, Estrin was a computer scientist and engineer who did pioneering work in the fields of expert systems and biomedical...
James William Cooley
Co-developer of the Fast Fourier Transform, Cooley made one of the most significant contributions to mathematics and digital signal processing in the twentieth century. Cooley was born and raised in New York City....
Frances (Fran) Elizabeth Allen
Pioneer in optimizing compilers and the first woman to win the Turing Award, Allen was also the first female IBM Fellow. Allen was an expert in the field of optimizing compilers. As a...
Lois Haibt
The only female member of the ten-person team that invented FORTRAN, Haibt is an American computer scientist perhaps most famous for her role in creating the first successful high-level programming language. She...
Mark Edwin Kriegsman
Developer of large-scale rule-based, statistical, and text-processing AI systems, Kriegsman is an American entrepreneur, computer programmer, inventor, and writer. His fascination with computers caught the attention of a local newspaper in 1979,...
Rudolf Bayer
Inventor of B-Trees and UB-Trees, Bayer is one of the most influential figures in the history of data structures and database systems. Rudolf Bayer was born in 1939 in Landshut, Germany. He...
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...
Edward Nash Yourdon
Pioneer of structured analysis and object-oriented design methodologies, Yourdon was known as one of the lead developers of the structured analysis techniques of the 1970s, as co-developer of the Yourdon/Whitehead method for...
Robert Clay Prim
Co-developer of Prim's algorithm for finding a minimum spanning tree in a weighted graph, Prim made foundational contributions to computer network design. An American mathematician and computer scientist, he was born in...
Wayne P. Stevens
Co-refiner and promoter of the concepts of what is now called Flow-based Programming (FBP), Stevens worked with John Paul Morrison to develop and advocate these ideas. An American software engineer, highly respected...
Walter (Dave) David Sincoskie
Inventor of the Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN), Sincoskie also installed the first ethernet local area network at Bellcore and helped invent voice over IP technology. He co-authored the first specifications for...