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Honor Database

Displaying 1601 – 1620 of 1,733 Honorees (with portraits)

  • Harry Douglas Huskey

    Designer of the G15 computer for Bendix Aviation Corporation, which could perhaps be considered the first "personal" computer in the world, Huskey was an American computer design pioneer born in the Smoky...

  • Michelle Simmons

    Named Australian of the Year in January 2018 for her work and dedication to quantum information science, Simmons is an Australian quantum physicist recognized for her foundational contributions to the field of...

  • Ruth A. David

    Credited with encouraging the CIA to pursue partnerships with the private sector, Ruth A. David also designed a proposal to procure technology at the stage of development from private industry. Her work earned...

  • Audrey A. Helffrich

    Leader of the hardware strategy for IBM's early 1990s transition from bipolar to CMOS microprocessors on its largest mainframes, Helffrich is credited with helping to save the mainframe and keeping the Poughkeepsie...

  • Eileen Collins

    The first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle and the first to command a Space Shuttle mission, Collins served as a NASA astronaut and Air Force colonel across a distinguished career in...

  • Michael L. Hackworth

    Co-founder of Cirrus Logic, Inc., a fabless semiconductor supplier specializing in analog, mixed-signal, and audio DSP integrated circuits (ICs), Hackworth served as its Chairman of the Board, President, and CEO. Born in San...

  • Mark E. Dean

    Co-developer of the ISA systems bus that enables multiple devices such as modems and printers to be connected to personal computers, Dean is an American inventor and computer engineer whose work is...

  • 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...

  • Robert J. Harrison

    Principal architect of the Northwest Computational Chemistry Software (NWChem), a computational chemistry code for massively parallel computers, Harrison is a distinguished expert in high-performance computing originally from Birmingham, England. He has served...

  • Gene Frantz

    Known as the "father of DSP," Frantz is a recognized leader in Digital Signal Processing technology both within Texas Instruments and throughout the industry. His experience started most notably with the launch of...

  • Robert W. Wisniewski

    Manager of the Blue Gene software project at IBM Research — an initiative dedicated to exploring the frontiers in supercomputing, computer architecture, software for massively parallel systems, and the use of computation...

  • David G. Arscott

    Founder board member of the IT History Society and Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Arscott spent his entire professional career investing in private and public technology companies. In 1968, he joined the group...

  • Herbert Alexander Simon

    One of the most influential social scientists of the twentieth century, Simon was an American political scientist, economist, and psychologist whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, computer science, public...

  • George Glaser

    President of AFIPS and active leader across many professional organizations, Glaser was noted for his service to the information technology profession as a whole, through his leadership, enthusiastic support, and tireless work...

  • Thomas Eugene Kurtz

    Co-developer of the BASIC programming language, Kurtz transformed computing education for generations of users. In 1951, Dr. Kurtz's first experience with computing came at the Summer Session of the Institute for Numerical Analysis...

  • Robert Morris

    Contributor to early versions of UNIX, Morris developed the math library, the program crypt, and the password encryption scheme used for user authentication. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and received a...

  • Anthony (Tony) C. Temple

    Co-developer of the Application System (AS), one of IBM's most successful application offerings, Temple helped to launch IBM's international Time Sharing service in Europe and was instrumental in AS's development both as...

  • Peter Goddard

    A mathematical physicist who helped establish a permanent Archives Center at the IAS, Goddard is known for his contributions to string theory and conformal field theory, including the no-ghost theorem (proved together...

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    Jimmy Donal Wales

    Co-founder of Wikipedia, Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur who has helped transform how the world accesses information. Wales was born on August 7, 1966, in Huntsville, Alabama. He grew up in a...

  • Jacob Ziv

    Co-developer of the LZ77 lossless data compression algorithm, Ziv made foundational contributions to information theory. From 1955 to 1959, he was a Senior Research Engineer in the Scientific Department Israel Ministry of Defense,...