Honored Persons Database
Displaying 801 – 817 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Edward (Ed) H. Sussenguth, Jr.
Known for his work on the APL programming language and multiple systems for IBM, Sussenguth was an American engineer born in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He received his B.A. degree in 1954 from Harvard...
Wayne P. Stevens
Co-refiner and promoter of the concepts of what is now called Flow-based Programming (FBP), Stevens worked with John Paul Morrison to develop and advocate these ideas. An American software engineer, highly respected...
Christopher Strachey
One of the founders of denotational semantics and a pioneer in programming language design, Strachey made lasting contributions to computer science. After the war he fulfilled a long-standing ambition by becoming a schoolmaster...
Richard (Dick) Mandelbaum
Co-founder of NYSERNet, the first nongovernment Internet service provider (ISP), Mandelbaum started out as a Theoretical Mathematician and became a Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering. He has also served...
Ling Liu
Head of the Distributed Data Intensive Systems Lab (DiSL) research group at Georgia Institute of Technology, Liu is known for producing a number of open-source software systems, including WebCQ, XWRAPElite, PeerCrawl, GTMobSIM,...
Joshua Schachter
Creator of Delicious, GeoURL, and co-creator of Memepool, Schachter holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He released the first version of Delicious (then called...
Peter Harris
Builder of a product that takes existing COBOL programs and produces structured system charts and supporting documentation for program maintenance, Harris also founded ADPAC, a leading software provider to corporations worldwide. While he...
John Norris Maguire
Founder of Software AG of North America, Inc. and overseas distributor of the Adabas system — a commercial relational database management system (DBMS) first developed for IBM 360 computers — Maguire built...
David Albert Huffman
Best known for his legendary Huffman code, a compression scheme for lossless variable length encoding, Huffman joined the faculty at MIT in 1953. He was awarded the Louis E. Levy Medal in...
Cesar A. Gonzales
Co-inventor of patented still-frame and motion video compression techniques that IBM contributed to the JPEG and MPEG international standards, Gonzales played a central role in bringing about the worldwide leap into digital...
David Karp
Founder of the short-form blogging platform Tumblr, Karp is an American web developer and entrepreneur. According to Forbes, his net worth exceeded $200 million, and Tumblr was valued at $800 million. On...
Jason McGee
Lead architect on the team that developed the original WebSphere Application Server in 1998, McGee has been instrumental in establishing IBM as the leader in cloud technologies, Java-based application server middleware, and...
Susan Kare
Creator of many of the interface elements for the Apple Macintosh, Kare is an artist and graphic designer whose iconic work includes the Lasso, the Grabber, and the Paint Bucket icons, and...
Horst Feistel
Initiator of research that culminated in the development of the Data Encryption Standard (DES), Feistel was a German-born cryptographer who worked on the design of ciphers at IBM. Born in Berlin, Germany,...
Albert (Al) Vezza
Founder of Infocom, one of the earliest computer game companies, Vezza has also been recognized as one of the earliest Internet leaders. A computer science professor, he served as the Assistant Director...
James William Cooley
Co-developer of the Fast Fourier Transform, Cooley made one of the most significant contributions to mathematics and digital signal processing in the twentieth century. Cooley was born and raised in New York City....
Jack Haverty
Co-designer of the original email mechanism and co-creator of the initial Internet, Haverty studied at MIT and continued there as a staff member of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, where he...