Honored Persons Database
Displaying 781 – 800 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
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...
Erik Selberg
Creator of MetaCrawler, one of the first Web meta-search engines, Selberg is an American software developer. Selberg attended college at Carnegie Mellon University in 1989. In 1993, he graduated with a double...
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...
Susan T. Dumais
Researcher whose work at Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies) into the vocabulary problem in information retrieval led to the invention of Latent Semantic Indexing, Dumais has served as a Principal Researcher in the...
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....
Ronald K Stamper
Pioneer in organizational semiotics and information theory, Stamper is recognized for applying semiotics to information systems in a way that transformed the field. Born in Nottingham, England, 1934, Stamper studied mathematics and statistics...
Gerard (Gerhard) Anton Salton
Developer of the now widely used Vector Space Model for Information Retrieval, Salton was perhaps the leading computer scientist working in the field of information retrieval during his time. Born in Nuremberg,...
Alan Kotok
Co-developer of what is sometimes called the first video game (Spacewar!), Kotok was also part of the team that wrote the Kotok-McCarthy program which took part in the first chess match between...
Carol A. Jones
Responsible for delivering the first releases of WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Studio, Jones is recognized as a visionary and technical leader for WebSphere Portal, driving the initiative across IBM. She was...
Marlyn Meltzer (née Wescoff)
One of the original programmers of the ENIAC, the world's first electronic computer, Meltzer was selected for this role in 1945. A graduate of Temple University in 1942, she was hired by...
David Michael Ungar
Co-creator of the Self programming language, Ungar developed the prototype-based, object-oriented language with Randall Smith in 1986 while working at Xerox PARC. He described himself as "an out-of-the-box thinker who enjoys the...
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...
Satish Chandra
Co-developer of a methodology that allows programmers to leverage the oracle's help in writing complex programs, Chandra has worked extensively on program analysis, bug finding, and software verification. He obtained a PhD from...
Icer Addis
Author of the NESticle, Genecyst, and Callus emulators, Addis is considered a legendary figure in the emulation scene. He co-founded Bloodlust Software with his friend Ethan Petty. Working independently under the Bloodlust...
Dilma M. Da Silva
Leader of the architecture and implementation of file system support on the IBM K42 research operating system, Da Silva has been a Research Staff Member of Advanced Operating Systems at IBM T.J....
Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum
Author of MINIX, a clone of UNIX for the IBM PC, Tanenbaum wrote the operating system in 1987 to help students and others learn how an operating system worked. In the early 1990s,...
Lucinda (Lucy) M. Sanders
Bell Labs Fellow and CEO and Co-founder of the National Center for Women and Information Technology, Sanders has worked to expand the talent pool in the computing field while building on a...
William (Will) Crowther
Co-creator of Colossal Cave Adventure, a seminal computer game that created the text adventure genre, Crowther is also recognized for an earlier technical achievement: his implementation of a distributed distance vector routing...
Benoît B. Mandelbrot
Discoverer of the Mandelbrot set of intricate, never-ending fractal shapes — said to be "one of the most astonishing discoveries in the entire history of mathematics" — Mandelbrot also developed a "theory...
Raymond (Ray) F. Boyce
Co-developer of SQL, the first commercially successful language for relational databases, Boyce's work established the standard for relational database query languages still in use today. He was also known for his research...