Honored Persons Database
Displaying 101 – 120 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Roger D. Moore
Co-recipient of the 1973 Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery, Moore was recognized — along with Larry Breed and Richard Lathwell — for their work in the design...
David Patrick Reed
Designer of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Reed is an American computer scientist known for significant contributions to computer networking, including the design and construction of Internet protocols, distributed data storage, and...
James (Jim) Rymarczyk
Key role player in advancing virtualization technology at IBM, Rymarczyk spent over 43 years with the company, from May 1968 to January 2012, retiring as an IBM Fellow in 1996. He joined...
Anatolii Alexeevitch Karatsuba
Author of the first fast computational method, Karatsuba was a Russian mathematician best known for discovering the first multiplication algorithm that runs in less than O(n²) time—specifically his algorithm is O(n log2...
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...
Dabbala (Rej) Rajagopal Reddy
Pioneer of large-scale artificial intelligence systems, Reddy is recognized for demonstrating the practical importance and potential commercial impact of AI technology. One of the early pioneers in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence,...
Stanley Gill
Co-inventor of the first computer subroutine, Gill was a British computer scientist who shared that achievement with Maurice Wilkes and David Wheeler. Gill was born in Worthing, West Sussex, England, educated at...
Michael T. Goodrich
Pioneer and research leader on efficient parallel and distributed solutions, Goodrich has served as a Chancellor's Professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science of the Donald Bren School of Information...
Clifford Ivar Nass
Co-creator of The Media Equation theory, which holds that people tend to treat computers and other media as if they were either real people or real places, Nass was a renowned authority...
Joel McCormack
Key software designer at NCR, McCormack designed the NCR Corporation version of the p-code machine, a kind of stack machine popular in the 1970s as the preferred way to implement new computing...
Arthur L. Samuel
Pioneer in computer gaming and artificial intelligence, Samuel is most known within the AI community for his groundbreaking work in computer checkers. He thought that teaching computers to play games was very...
Peter Pin-Shan Chen
Known for the development of Entity-Relationship Modeling, Chen is an American computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University. Born in Taichung, Taiwan, he received a B.S. in electrical...
Joseph (Joe) A. Piscopo
Founder of Pansophic Systems in 1969, Piscopo built the Lisle, Illinois software firm into a major enterprise before retiring as its Chairman and C.E.O. in 1987 after 18 years. Previously, he had...
Paul Thelen
Founder of the largest portal for downloadable games in the world, Thelen built Big Fish Games into a platform distributing in excess of 1.5 million games per day. After graduating from the University...
Toru Takahashi
Writer of the first Japanese book on the Internet, Takahashi is sometimes known as the "Mother of the Internet" in Japan. He was instrumental in bringing the Internet to Japan and promoting...
David Neil Laurence Levy
Developer of the Chess module for the TI-99/4A Home Computer Project in collaboration with Texas Instruments, Levy is a Scottish International Master of chess, a businessman noted for his involvement with computer...
John D. Carmack
Co-founder and leading programmer of id Software and lead engineer of Armadillo Aerospace, Carmack is a pioneering figure in computer graphics and game development. Softdisk, a computer company in Shreveport, Louisiana, hired...
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...
Mark P. McCahill
Developer of POPmail and Gopher, McCahill is an American programmer involved in developing and popularizing a number of Internet technologies from the late 1980s onward.
Safrira Goldwasser
Co-inventor of zero-knowledge proofs, Goldwasser's research areas include computational complexity theory, cryptography, and computational number theory. Zero-knowledge proofs probabilistically and interactively demonstrate the validity of an assertion without conveying any additional knowledge,...