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Honor Database

Displaying 721 – 740 of 1,696 Honorees (with portraits)

  • Aaron Marcus

    Pioneer in computer-based design, Marcus founded Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A) in 1982, one of the first independent, computer-based design firms in the world. An American user-interface and information-visualization designer, as well...

  • Bob Blainey

    Leader in breakthrough innovation in compiler technology, IBM's Java technology, and next-generation systems, Blainey has served as an IBM Fellow and the technical architect of the Hardware Acceleration Laboratory in IBM's Software...

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    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...

  • Donald (Don) M. Eigler

    The first researcher to use a scanning tunneling microscope tip to arrange individual atoms on a surface, Eigler is noted for his achievements in nanotechnology. In September 1989, he famously spelled out...

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    Gordon Earle Moore

    Co-founder of Intel Corporation and author of Moore's Law, Moore published his famous prediction in an article on 19 April 1965 in Electronics Magazine.

  • Eric Horvitz

    Recognized for playing a significant role in establishing the credibility of artificial intelligence, Horvitz has also helped establish the link between artificial intelligence and decision science. Horvitz coined the concept of bounded...

  • Peter G. Lykos

    Pioneer in the use of computers in the classroom, Lykos was a key figure in creating a computer center at IIT and launching its Computer Science department. A Chicago native, he was the...

  • Yogen Dalal

    Member of the original Star and Ethernet development teams at Xerox, Dalal is also a co-author of the TCP Specification, whose team's pioneering work on the design of the TCP protocol has...

  • John Aris

    Part of the original team that built the LEO computer, Aris later served as Director of the National Computing Centre (NCC) 1985–90, where he championed the importance and the skills of computer...

  • Philibert Maurice d'Ocagne

    Pioneer of nomography — the systematization of graphical calculation methods using nomograms — d'Ocagne was a French engineer and mathematician whose scientific personality soon fell into oblivion, leaving only a few milestones...

  • Abraham Lempel

    One of the fathers of the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms, Lempel studied at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and received B.Sc. in 1963, M.Sc. in 1965, and D.Sc....

  • Donald Lester Bitzer

    Co-inventor of the Plasma Display and sometimes called the "father of PLATO" (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations), the first generalized computer-assisted instruction system, Bitzer was an American electrical engineer and computer...

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    Konrad Zuse

    German engineer who, completely independently of British and American computing efforts, built the Z3 (1941), the first working program-controlled general-purpose digital computer. The Z3, destroyed in the bombing of Berlin, never got...

  • 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....

  • Bruce Lindsay

    Participant in the development of System R (the first Relational DBMS prototype) and R* (a distributed RDBMS), Lindsay is a recognized expert on many aspects of relational database technology, including distributed DBMS,...

  • John A Gosden

    Pioneer of LEO software development and EDP standards, Gosden was a key figure in the world's first business computing applications. John joined J. Lyons as a trainee programmer in 1953 just a few...

  • Larry R. Harris

    Internationally recognized as an expert on database systems and computerized natural language, Harris founded EasyAsk as Linguistic Technology Corporation (LTC) in 1994 and authored its EasyAsk and English Wizard products. As Vice...

  • Raymond (Ray) M. Holt

    Developer of the first microprocessor chip set for the US Navy F-14 Tomcat, Holt designed this groundbreaking chip set at Garrett AiResearch's Central Air Data Computer. He co-founded Microcomputer Associates, Incorporated with...

  • Inventor of the Cristalino astronomical clock and a remarkably lifelike mandolin-playing lady automaton, Toriano was an Italo-Spanish inventor, clockmaker, engineer and mathematician born in Cremona, in northern Italy around 1500. His skill...

  • One of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer, Spence was born Frances Bilas in Philadelphia in 1922. She attended Temple University but then was awarded a scholarship to Chestnut Hill College,...