Honored Persons Database
Displaying 161 – 180 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Andrew (Tridge) Tridgell
Co-inventor of the rsync algorithm, a highly efficient file transfer and synchronization tool, Tridgell is also best known as the author of and contributor to the Samba file server. He is recognized...
Robert Elliott Kahn
Co-inventor of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), Kahn is sometimes called one of the fathers of the Internet. Kahn was born on December 23, 1938, in Brooklyn, New...
John W. Brackett
Co-founder of SofTech, a Boston-based software company, Brackett managed the company's software development projects for large commercial and government clients as Vice President of Software Production. Brackett received his B.S. degree from MIT...
Craig Partridge
Designer of how Internet email is routed, Partridge has made notable contributions to internetworking, including working with Phil Karn on TCP round-trip time estimation and designing and building the world's fastest router...
Raymond Samuel Tomlinson
Creator of email, Tomlinson implemented the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to the ARPANet in 1971. Email had previously been sent on other networks such...
John Alan Lasseter
Pioneer in the use of CGI animation and one of the three founding fathers of Pixar Animation Studios, Lasseter has served as the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation...
Michael John Muuss
Author of the freeware network tool Ping, Muuss was a senior scientist specializing in geometric solid modeling, ray-tracing, MIMD architectures, and digital computer networks at the United States Army Research Laboratory at...
Harry Lewis Nelson
Co-discoverer of the 27th Mersenne prime in 1979, which was at that time the largest known prime number, Nelson is also recognized as one of the world's foremost experts in writing optimized...
David Harold Bailey
Writer of the computer program that enabled the discovery of the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula for computing digits of pi, Bailey is a mathematician and computer scientist. He received his B.S. degree in Mathematics...
Richard Matthew Stallman
Founder of the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, Stallman also launched the free software movement and was the main author of the GNU General Public License for open...
Edith Clarke
Pioneer of electrical engineering and the inventor of the Clarke calculator, Clarke broke barriers as the first woman to earn an M.S. in electrical engineering from MIT. Clarke studied mathematics and astronomy at...
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie
Creator of the C programming language, Ritchie was an American computer scientist notable for his influence on programming languages and on operating systems such as Multics and Unix. He received the Turing...
Garth Gibson
Co-developer of the RAID taxonomy of redundant data storage systems, Gibson is a Computer Scientist from Carnegie Mellon University, born in Aurora, Ontario. He holds a Ph.D. and an MSc in Computer...
Jeff De Luca
Primary architect of Feature Driven Development (FDD), De Luca created this lightweight methodology for developing computer software with reduced management overhead, time and money circa 1999. He is a global information technology...
Barbara Liskov
A pioneer in object-oriented programming, Liskov's work in programming methodology has affected all aspects of modern computing, including programming languages, object-oriented programming, and software robustness to hacking. She designed CLU, an object-oriented...
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...
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr.
Manager of the development of OS/360, Brooks was also known for writing candidly about the process in his seminal book *The Mythical Man-Month*. "It is a very humbling experience to make a...
Lyman Chapin
Principal architect of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model and protocols, Chapin is widely recognized as a leader in the networking industry and the Internet community, having contributed to the development of...
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...
Edward Seidel
Co-founder of the Cactus Framework, an open-source, problem-solving environment designed for scientists and engineers, Seidel is a career computer scientist and physicist recognized for a number of awards for his work. His...