Honored Persons Database
Displaying 121 – 140 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Anant Jhingran
Considered to be the world technology leader in the field of information management, Jhingran has had a distinguished career with highly demonstrated impact on industrial practice and future technology and business directions....
Chandu Thota
A widely recognized expert in mapping, geo-spatial applications, and scalable web services, Thota is a software entrepreneur notable for starting a service called Dealmap, which launched DealExchange to help publishers and local...
Werner L. Frank
Co-founder of Informatics General Corporation, one of the first viable software companies, Frank is a pioneering figure and longtime contributor to the United States and international computer industry. Born in the small...
John (Jack) F. Waters
One of the original key contributors who designed and built MCI's initial Internet service, Waters has served as Chief Technology Officer for Level 3 Communications, Inc., a Denver-based provider of a range...
Rajeev Sangal
Noted for Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, and speech research in Indian Languages, Sangal founded and has served as director of the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT-H), India. IIIT-H is...
Frank Land
Pioneering IT use in business and the teaching of systems analysis in universities, Land began his career in computing as an analyst programmer with LEO—the Lyons Computer—in 1952. He left in 1968,...
John Karat
Lead researcher in the field of human-computer interaction and co-developer of IBM's large vocabulary desktop speech recognition system, Karat is an internationally recognized figure whose career with IBM spanned Development (1982–1987) and...
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...
James Weldon Demmel
Writer of Prometheus, a parallel multigrid finite element solver, Demmel is an American mathematician and computer scientist. Prometheus, which he wrote with Mark Adams and Robert Taylor, won the Carl Benz Award...
Tim Roughgarden
Noted for his work in network data loss, Roughgarden introduced novel techniques that quantified the lost efficiency associated with the uncoordinated behavior of network users who acted in their own self-interest, building...
Steve McConnell
Named one of the three most influential people in the software industry by Software Development Magazine in 1998, alongside Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds, McConnell has worked on the TrueType project under...
Leonid Genrikhovich Khachiyan
Known for his Ellipsoid Algorithm for linear programming, Khachiyan proved the existence of an efficient way to solve linear programming problems thought to be intractable until that time. His 1979 breakthrough dealt...
Ruth M. Davis
Chair of The Aerospace Corporation and deputy undersecretary of defense for research and advanced technology, Davis was an American computer scientist and civil servant associated with several major US government research projects. She...
Mike Saranga
Designer and implementer of IBM's Program Fetch and co-developer of IBM's relational databases, Saranga brought 36 years of extensive experience in system architecture, product development, and executive management. He spent 30 years...
Fernanda Bertini Viégas
Co-creator of Many Eyes, the ground-breaking open public data visualization and analysis platform, Viégas is a Brazilian-born scientist and computational designer whose work focuses on the social, collaborative, and artistic aspects of...
Charles R. Trimble
Developer of the Global Positioning System (GPS) for commercial and consumer applications, Trimble founded Trimble Navigation Limited (TNL) in 1978 along with two partners from Hewlett-Packard, initially operating from Los Altos, California....
William (Will) Ralph Wright
Creator of SimCity, one of the most influential computer games ever made, Wright is an American video game designer and co-founder of the game development company Maxis, now part of Electronic Arts...
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...
John George Kemeny
Co-developer of the BASIC programming language, Kemeny transformed computing by making it accessible to ordinary people. Kemeny entered Princeton University, where he studied mathematics and philosophy, but he took a year off during...
Christopher (Chris) A. Welty
One of the developers of Watson, the IBM artificially intelligent computer system that defeated the best players on the American game show Jeopardy!, Welty is an American computer scientist best known for...