Honored Persons Database
Displaying 481 – 500 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Richard Wesley Hamming
Known for his work on numerical methods, automatic coding systems, and error-detecting and error-correcting codes, Hamming was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer science and telecommunications. Hamming's contributions...
Stephen (Steve) Walker
Member of the team that developed ARPAnet, the breakthrough packet switching system that evolved into the Internet, Walker is an American engineer who is nationally recognized for his pioneering work on the...
Andrei Petrovich Ershov
Pioneer of Soviet computer science, Ershov was responsible for the languages ALPHA and Rapira, AIST-0 the first Soviet time-sharing system, the electronic publishing system RUBIN, and MRAMOR, a multiprocessing workstation. He was...
Robert J. Harrison
Principal architect of the Northwest Computational Chemistry Software (NWChem), a computational chemistry code for massively parallel computers, Harrison is a distinguished expert in high-performance computing originally from Birmingham, England. He has served...
Michael (Mike) A. Kaczmarski
Co-creator of the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager product family and leader of the redesign of the TotalStorage Productivity Center, Kaczmarski is an acknowledged IBM expert in storage management. Part of the IBM...
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...
Irene Greif
Inventor of the Version Manager — consistently designated by analysts as the most significant group-enabling feature in spreadsheets — Greif is an American computer scientist and a founder of the field of...
David Elieser Deutsch
David Deutsch laid the foundations of the quantum theory of computation, and subsequently made or participated in many of the most important advances in the field, including the discovery of the first...
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,...
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...
Don Coppersmith
Co-designer of the Data Encryption Standard (DES), Coppersmith is one of the world's leading researchers in cryptography. He was part of the IBM team that developed DES. Used in financial and Internet...
Elizabeth (Liz) L. Burd
Leader of Durham's Technology Enhanced Learning research group, a group of 20 research staff and students, Burd has also served as director of the UK's Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning—Active...
Guido van Rossum
Creator of the Python programming language, van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer. In the Python community, Van Rossum is known as a "Benevolent Dictator for Life" (BDFL), meaning that he oversees the...
Nolan Ira Gasser
Chief architect of the Music Genome Project and chief musicologist for Pandora Media, Inc., Gasser is an American composer, pianist, and musicologist whose proprietary musical analysis system underlies the popular Internet radio...
Elaine Surick Oran
Considered a world authority on numerical methods for large-scale simulation of physical systems, Oran pioneered computational technology to solve complex reactive flow problems. Her work unified concepts from science, mathematics, engineering, and...
Nancy Jane Hafkin
A pioneer and innovator in networking, development information, and electronic communications in Africa, Hafkin spurred the Pan African Development Information System (PADIS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) from...
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...
Kishor S. Trivedi
A leading international expert in reliability and performability evaluation of dependable systems, Trivedi has made seminal contributions to stochastic modeling formalisms and their efficient solution. He has held the Hudson Chair in...
Stephanie Shirley
Founder of F International, a software company initially employing only women, Shirley built her vision that software could provide an outlet for the skills and creative ability of housebound women into a...
Cleve Barry Moler
Inventor of MATLAB, a numerical computing package, Moler is an American mathematician and computer programmer specializing in numerical analysis. In the mid to late 1970s, he was one of the authors of...