Honored Persons Database
Displaying 601 – 620 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
John Richard Rice
Founder of the ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Rice was an American mathematician and computer scientist who served as the W. Brooks Fortune Distinguished Emeritus of Computer Science and a Professor of...
Kurt Gödel
Known for his two incompleteness theorems, Gödel heavily influenced the sciences and mathematics. Published in 1931 when he was 25 years of age, one year after finishing his doctorate at the University...
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...
Joseph (J. C. R.) Carl Licklider
Pioneer who led the development that led to ARPANet, Licklider was known simply as J.C.R. or "Lick" and was an American computer scientist considered one of the most important figures in computer...
Jaron Zepel Lanier
Pioneer of virtual reality, Lanier led the team in the late 1980s that developed the first implementations of multi-person virtual worlds using head-mounted displays. In mid-1997, he became a founding member of...
Michael (Mike) J. Karels
Key contributor to the history of BSD UNIX, Karels was an American software engineer who graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. He went on...
Jules I. Schwartz
Author of JOVIAL, the first computer software designed for use by the military, Schwartz composed this high-order programming language in 1959 for use in the electronics of military aircraft. Born in Philadelphia, PA,...
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...
Martin Charles Golumbic
Contributor to fundamental research in artificial intelligence in the area of complexity and spatial-temporal reasoning, Golumbic is a mathematician and computer scientist best known for his work in algorithmic graph theory and...
Sajal K. Das
Pioneer in research on wireless sensor networks and pervasive and mobile computing, Das has served as the Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair Professor and chair of the Computer Science department at the...
Barry Schrager
Co-designer and developer of early commercial computer security software products, Schrager is recognized as one of the people who started the concept of data security when he founded and became the first...
Danny Cohen
Developer of the first real-time visual flight simulator on a general purpose computer, Cohen later adapted it to run over the ARPANET. Born in Israel, he was also well known for coining...
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...
Michael Stern Hart
Inventor of the electronic book (or e-book) and founder of Project Gutenberg, Hart made e-books freely available via the Internet. An American author and inventor, he attended the University of Illinois, graduating...
John C. Klensin
Co-creator of the Network Startup Resource Center, helping dozens of countries to establish connections with the Internet, Klensin's career has included 30 years as a Principal Research Scientist at MIT, a stint...
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...
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...
William (Bill) Douglas Gropp
Co-creator of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) and the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation (PETSc), Gropp has served as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, holding...
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....
Marcelli Wein
A member of the pioneer group that initiated Computer Graphics projects at the NRC, developing the use of interactive graphics systems and computer animation, Wein is an international leader in Computer Graphics...