Honored Persons Database
Displaying 641 – 660 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
James T. Pendergrass
Instrumental in establishing the naval cryptologic service's pioneering program to develop electronic digital computers, Pendergrass shaped the early development of computing in the U.S. Navy. Born in Bala Cynwyd, PA, he earned...
Ralph C. Merkle
Co-inventor of public key cryptography, Merkle is a researcher who also works as a speaker on molecular nanotechnology and cryonics. He appeared as a character in the science fiction novel *The Diamond...
Lisa P. Jackson
The first African American to serve as administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Jackson held that position from 2009 to 2013, following her nomination by President-elect Barack Obama and confirmation...
Partha Ranganathan
Co-developer of the publicly distributed Rice Simulator for ILP Multiprocessors (RSIM), Ranganathan contributed to what was at that time the only publicly-distributed software for simulating shared-memory multiprocessors with state-of-the-art instruction-level-parallel (ILP) processors. A...
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...
Frederica Darema
Proposer of the Single Program, Multiple Data (SPMD) programming model, Darema introduced SPMD in 1984, establishing what has become the most common style of parallel programming. In computing, Single Program, Multiple Data...
Elizabeth M. Belding
Founder and Director of the Mobility Management and Networking (MOMENT) Laboratory, Belding has served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and as...
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...
Rajiv Gupta
Co-inventor and general manager of Hewlett Packard's E-speak project, Gupta also contributed as one of the developers of the IA-64 architecture. An IIT Kharagpur alumnus, Gupta received his Ph.D. in compiler optimization...
Balakrishnan Prabhakaran
Known for his work in 3D video, animations, and deformable 3D models — a form of multimedia data widely used in entertainment and medical fields — Prabhakaran has served as a Professor...
Richard D. Greenblatt
Co-founder of the hacker community and the main implementer of Maclisp on the PDP-6, Greenblatt is also known for writing Mac Hack, the first computer program to play tournament-level chess and the...
Erich Gamma
Design leader of Eclipse's Java Development Tools (JDT), Gamma is a Swiss computer scientist and co-author of the best-selling and influential software engineering textbook, "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" (Addison-Wesley,...
Anthony James Barr
In 1962-63, Tony Barr, as a physics graduate student, wrote a general analysis of variance program and a multiple regression program to run on the IBM1410 computer. These programs were used...
Heinz G. Schwaertzel
Head of Central Research at Siemens AG in Munich, Schwaertzel has served as President of Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) from 1987–1991. He initiated DFKI (German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence) in Saarbrücken...
Robert Mano Fano
Known principally for his work in information theory and the invention of Shannon-Fano coding, Fano was a computer scientist and professor emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of...
Shashi Shekhar
Major contributor to data engineering and database systems, including the Connectivity-Clustered Access Method (CCAM), a new storage and access method for spatial networks, Shekhar is a McKnight Distinguished University Professor at the...
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...
David R. Millen
Director of a User Interface Design Group responsible for the user interface design of advanced business communications systems and exploratory prototype development of advanced speech applications and pen-based interfaces, Millen has also...
Armando Fox
Co-founder of the Berkeley RAD Lab and co-designer of the Intel Pentium Pro microprocessor, Fox has served as an Adjunct Associate Professor at UC Berkeley. Prior to that he joined Stanford as...
Elmer C. Kubie
Co-founder of Computer Usage Company (CUC), the first independent company to market computer software, Kubie helped transform how software was developed and sold. He and John W. Sheldon founded CUC (1955–1986), sometimes...