Honored Persons Database
Displaying 721 – 740 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Tom Gilb
Developer of software metrics, software inspection, and evolutionary processes, Gilb is an American systems engineer, consultant, and author known for bringing quantitative measurement approaches to software development. Since quantitative measurements are essential...
Robert H. High, Jr.
Pioneer in the field of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), High positioned IBM as a leader in delivering critical technologies to its clients. He has served as an IBM Fellow—the highest honor a...
Werner Zorn
One of the fathers of networking in Germany, Zorn oversaw the first email link between Germany and the US CSNET in August 1984 and the spread of CSNET in Germany, while serving...
Kevin A. Stoodley
Conceiver and developer of the Testarossa dynamic compilation infrastructure, which along with the J9 JVM project became the basis for all of IBM's Java language implementations, Stoodley has served as Chief Technical...
Larry Wall
Creator of Perl, Wall is one of the most influential figures in the open-source software movement. Wall studied linguistics and music at Seattle Pacific University, where he graduated in 1976. He later attended...
Sandra L. Kurtzig
The first woman to take a high-tech company public, Kurtzig founded ASK Computer Systems Inc. and developed Manman, an ERP program that ran on Hewlett-Packard minicomputers and helped manufacturing companies plan materials...
Bertrand Meyer
Creator of the Eiffel programming language, Meyer has made foundational contributions to software engineering and object-oriented design. He received the equivalent of a bachelor's degree in engineering from the École polytechnique in...
James (Jim) Nicholas Gray
Pioneer of granular database locking, two-tier transaction commit semantics, and the data cube operator for data warehousing applications, Gray transformed the field of database and transaction processing systems. Gray studied at the University...
Jim Garrett
Pioneer of the Internet banking industry and online marketing financial services, Garrett founded Kudzu Interactive in 2004 and developed the web-based ordering platform that became the restaurant industry's standard for online, mobile,...
Randy Howard Katz
Co-developer of the redundant array of independent disks (RAID) concept for computer storage, Katz is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department....
R. Narasimhan
Often referred to as the Bhisma of Computer Science and Technology in India, Narasimhan made significant contributions to the development of computer science education, research, and technology in India in the early...
Vinton (Vint) Gray Cerf
Known as a "father of the Internet," Cerf is an American computer scientist whose contributions have been recognized with the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom,...
Hong-Jiang Zhang
A leader in establishing Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) into a world-class basic research center in computer science, Zhang has been a prominent researcher in media computing, more specifically in video and image...
Evan Sharp
Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Pinterest, Sharp designed the Pinterest grid for the initial product launch. Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool that skyrocketed in popularity due to its innovative concept...
Gennaro (Jerry) A. Cuomo
Co-founding father of IBM WebSphere Software, Cuomo has served as Chief Technology Officer of WebSphere, a business unit within IBM Software Group (SWG). He has been working for IBM since 1987 and...
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...
Rasmus Lerdorf
Creator of the PHP programming language, Lerdorf also contributed to the Apache HTTP Server and came up with the LIMIT clause, adding it to the mSQL Database in 1995. It is the...
Manuel Blum
Recipient of the 1995 Turing Award for his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking, Blum is a computer scientist whose work has...
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....
Christopher (Chris) R. Johnson
Founder of the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) research group, which grew into the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI Institute), Johnson has served as a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at...