Honored Persons Database
Displaying 141 – 160 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Anne-Marie Eklund Lowinder
Credited with making .SE the world's first top-level domain to be signed with DNSSEC in 2005, Eklund Löwinder was a leading innovator in the implementation of Domain Name System Security Extensions, the...
Adi Shamir
Co-inventor of the RSA public-key cryptosystem, Shamir is an Israeli cryptographer whose initial in "RSA" stands for his name. He is also one of the inventors of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme. His...
Guido van Rossum
Creator of the Python programming language, van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer. In the Python community, Van Rossum is known as a "Benevolent Dictator for Life" (BDFL), meaning that he oversees the...
Mark Allen Weiss
Writer of highly acclaimed Data Structures textbooks used at hundreds of universities worldwide, Weiss has served as a Professor and Associate Director in the School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida...
Christiane Floyd
The first female professor of computer science in Germany, Floyd achieved that distinction in 1978. An Austrian computer scientist, she is also recognized as a pioneer of evolutionary participatory software design, an...
Roger Hui
Co-developer of the J programming language, Hui collaborated with Ken Iverson in the early 1990s on an advanced continuation of an APL-like language which they called J. The improvements not only were...
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....
Dorothy Vaughan
The first African American woman to receive a promotion and supervise a group of staff at Langley Research Center, Vaughan became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers in 1949 and was...
Dinesh Verma
Leader of an international team of 22 research organizations selected to form the International Technology Alliance in Network Sciences, Verma is an IBM Fellow, researcher, and Department Group Manager at the IBM...
Vladimir Iosifovich Levenshtein
Best known for his contributions to error-correction theory and information theory, Levenshtein is sometimes called the father of edit distance and is known for the Levenshtein distance algorithm, which he developed in...
Gladys West
Recognized for her contributions to mathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth, West was an African American mathematician whose work on satellite geodesy models was later incorporated into the Global Positioning...
Dakshi Agrawal
Elected IEEE Fellow for contributions to theory, analysis, and design of efficient, secure, and privacy-preserving communication systems, Agrawal has made significant contributions to IBM's intellectual property portfolio as a designated Master Inventor. Agrawal...
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...
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...
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...
Benjamin Zorn
Co-developer of Nozzle and Zozzle, programs that detect and protect browsers against JavaScript-based malware, Zorn has also led the Software Design and Implementation Group at Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, as part of...
Alonzo Church
A major contributor to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science, Church is sometimes called the father of theoretical computer science. He is best known for the lambda calculus, the...
Randy Pausch
Noted professor of computing, Pausch was a co-founder of Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center and founder of the Alice software project. Randy Pausch was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up...
Evelyn Boyd Granville
Part of the IBM team responsible for formulating orbit computations and computer procedures for NASA's Projects Vanguard and Mercury, Granville was also one of the first African-American women to receive a Ph.D....
Barry W. Boehm
Known for his many contributions to software engineering, Boehm was an American software engineer and TRW Emeritus Professor of Software Engineering at the Computer Science Department of the University of Southern California.