Honor Roll
| Name Sort descending | Noted For | Description |
|---|---|---|
| A.J. Han Vinck | Received the IEEE ISPLC2006 Achievement award for his contributions to Power Line Communications | Recipient of the IEEE ISPLC2006 Achievement award for his contributions to Power Line Communications, Vinck has also held a chair for Digital Communications at the Institute for Experimental… |
| Aaron F. Bobick | Expert in using computer vision techniques to recognize people, which has resulted in his research being reported by the BBC News and ABC News | Expert in using computer vision techniques to recognize people, Bobick's research has been reported by the BBC News and ABC News. His research has been in the field of Artificial Intelligence and… |
| Aaron Hillel Swartz | Co-developer of the web feed format Rich Site Summary (RSS), the organization Creative Commons, the website framework web.py, and the social news site Reddit | Co-developer of RSS, Creative Commons, web.py, and Reddit, Swartz was an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer, and Internet activist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son… |
| Aaron Levie | Co-founder and CEO of BOX | Co-founder and CEO of BOX, Levie launched the company from his college dorm room with his friend and co-founder, Dylan Smith who is the CFO. He grew up in Seattle where he attended Mercer Island… |
| Aaron Marcus | Programmed some of the first virtual reality art/design spaces ever created (1971-73) and founder of one of the first independent, computer-based design firms in the world (1982) | 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-… |
| Aart J. de Geus | One of the world's leading experts on logic synthesis and simulation | One of the world's leading experts on logic synthesis and simulation, de Geus is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Synopsys Inc., a fellow of IEEE, and Phil Kaufman Award winner. He graduated with… |
| Abdal Mammad ibn M Khwrizm | Considered the founder of algebra | Considered the founder of algebra, Khwrizm shared this credit with Diophantus. His Kitab al-Jabr wa-l-Muqabala presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations. In the… |
| Abraham (Abe) Peled | Innovator of the first Internet ISP, and e-commerce sites in Israel | Innovator of the first Internet ISP and e-commerce sites in Israel, Peled is an Israeli businessman born in Romania with over 40 years of accomplishments in the digital TV industry. He graduated… |
| Abraham Lempel | One of the fathers of LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms | 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. in… |
| Adam Osborne | Creator of an early portable computer | Creator of the first commercially successful portable computer, Osborne transformed personal computing in the early 1980s. Adam Osborne was born in Thailand in 1939 to British parents and… |
| Adele Goldberg | Co-developed the programming language Smalltalk-80 and various concepts related to object oriented programming | Co-developer of the programming language Smalltalk-80 and various concepts related to object-oriented programming, Goldberg conducted this work as a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research… |
| Adele Goldstine | Writer of the complete technical description for the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC | Writer of the complete technical description for the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC, Goldstine made foundational contributions to early computing history. Goldstine attended the… |
| Adi Shamir | Israeli cryptographer. He is one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman), one of the inventors of the Feige-Fiat-Shamir Identification Scheme | 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… |
| Adin D. Falkoff | Collaborator on the design, development, and usage of the APL programming language and its interactive environment | Collaborator on the design, development, and usage of the APL programming language, Falkoff was predominantly known for his work on APL and related systems for IBM. Born in New Jersey, he received… |
| Adriaan van Wijngaarden | One of the founding fathers of informatica (computer science), and designer of ALGOL | One of the founding fathers of informatica (computer science) and designer of ALGOL, van Wijngaarden was a pioneering figure in the history of computing. Adriaan's education was in mechanical… |
| Ahti Heinla | Co-developer of Skype | Co-developer of Skype, Heinla is an Estonian programmer and entrepreneur who served as Lead Architect on the project alongside Priit Kasesalu and Jaan Tallinn. They had also originally developed… |
| Alain Glavieux | Co-inventor of turbo codes, a class of error correcting code | Co-inventor of turbo codes, Glavieux was a French professor of electrical engineering at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Bretagne. He was the coinventor with Claude Berrou and… |
| Alan B. Fowler | Researcher of statistical fluctuations in small semiconductor systems | Researcher of statistical fluctuations in small semiconductor systems, Fowler is an American physicist born in Denver, Colorado. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a B.S.… |
| Alan Cooper | Inventor of Visual Basic progamming langage | Inventor of Visual Basic, Cooper is sometimes called "the father of Visual Basic," although much of the work on Visual Basic was done by Microsoft's internal development group. Cooper was the… |
| Alan Cox | Involved in the development of the Linux kernel | Maintainer of the Linux kernel's network stack, Cox later became a maintainer of the production version of the kernel itself, one of the most critical roles in Linux development. |
| Alan Curtis Kay | Known for object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design | Pioneer of object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design, Kay is an American computer scientist also known for coining the phrase, "The best way to predict the future… |
| Alan Emtage | Conceived and implemented the first version of Archie | Alan Emtage conceived and implemented the first version of Archie, a pre-Web internet search engine for locating material in public FTP archives. |
| Alan F. Shugart | Managing programs and companies in the disk drive industry | A pioneer in managing programs and companies in the disk drive industry, Shugart made lasting contributions to the field over several decades. Al Shugart started at IBM in 1951 and over 18… |
| Alan Gara | Technical leader for three generations of IBM Blue Gene machines of which his Blue Gene/L system was the #1 system on the top500 list for 5 consecutive dates | Technical leader for three generations of IBM Blue Gene supercomputers, Gara's Blue Gene/L system held the #1 position on the Top500 list for five consecutive dates. He has served as an IBM Fellow… |
| Alan Jay Perlis | His influence in the area of advanced programming techniques and compiler construction | A pioneer in advanced programming techniques and compiler construction, Perlis was the first recipient of the ACM Turing Award in 1966, sometimes called the "Nobel Prize of Computing." … |
| Alan Kotok | Contributor to the Internet and the World Wide Web as well as co-developer of what is sometimes called the first video game – “Spacewar!”, and was part of the team that wrote the Kotok-McCarthy program which took part in the first chess match between computers | Co-developer of what is sometimes called the first video game (Spacewar!), Kotok was also part of the team that wrote the Kotok-McCarthy program which took part in the first chess match between… |
| Alan Mathison Turing | Formalization of the concept of the algorithm and computation | Formalizer of the concept of the algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, Turing was influential in the development of computer science and played a significant role in the creation of… |
| Albert (Al) Vezza | Founder of Infocom, one of the earliest computer game companies and was one of the earliest Internet leaders | Founder of Infocom, one of the earliest computer game companies, Vezza has also been recognized as one of the earliest Internet leaders. A computer science professor, he served as the Assistant… |
| Albert Einstein | He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect" | 1921 Nobel Prize winner in Physics for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect, Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity,… |
| Albert Hosmer Bowker | Instrumental in the formation of the Stanford University Computer Science department | Instrumental in the formation of the Stanford University Computer Science department, Bowker was an American educator who shaped academic computing at a pivotal moment. Born in Winchendon, Mass.,… |
| Albert S. Hoagland | Early designer of random access disk storage | Early designer of random access disk storage, Hoagland played a key role in magnetic head design and recording for the Random Access Method of Accounting and Control (RAMAC) disk drive, the first… |
| Albert W. Tucker | Developer of the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions, a basic result in non-linear programming | Developer of the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions, a basic result in non-linear programming, Tucker was a Canadian-born American mathematician who also made important contributions in topology and… |
| Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli | Propeller of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) into an indispensable engineering discipline | Co-founder of Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys—the two largest companies in Electronic Design Automation (EDA)—Sangiovanni-Vincentelli is a world-renowned authority on integrated circuit and… |
| Alec N. Broers | Pioneer of nanotechnology developing the first man-made nanostructures in materials suitable for microelectronic circuits opening up the possibility for the extreme miniaturization of electronic circuits | Pioneer of nanotechnology, Broers developed the first man-made nanostructures in materials suitable for microelectronic circuits, opening up the possibility for the extreme miniaturization of… |
| Aleksandr Semenovich Kronrod | Known for the Gauss-Kronrod quadrature formula | Known for the Gauss–Kronrod quadrature formula, which he published in 1964, Kronrod was a Soviet mathematician and computer scientist. Earlier in his career, his computations informed theoretical… |
| Alex Morrow | Established an international standard for the APL language and the ACIS 4.2 operating system for IBM's first workstations | Instrumental in establishing an international standard for the APL language and the ACIS 4.2 operating system for IBM's first workstations, Morrow has been recognized as both an IBM Fellow and a… |
| Alexander (Alex) Vladimir d’Arbeloff | Co-founder and builder of Teradyne, one of the largest players in the global automatic test equipment (ATE) market | Co-founder of Teradyne, which he built with fellow MIT alumnus Nick DeWolf into one of the largest players in the global automatic test equipment (ATE) market, d'Arbeloff helped create a multi-… |
| Alexander (Sandy) Shafto Douglas | First Graphic Computer Game, made important contributions in mathematical computing,computer education, man-machine interfaces | Creator of the first graphic computer game, Douglas made important contributions in mathematical computing, computer education, and man-machine interfaces. 'Sandy' Douglas worked on EDSAC… |
| Alexander Bain | Inventor of the electric clock and pioneer of telegraph | Inventor of the electric clock and pioneer of the telegraph, Bain transformed early communications technology. His first patent was dated January 11, 1841, and was in the names of John Barwise,… |
| Alexander G. Fraser | Known for his work on the Titan computer's file system and a cell-based network anticipating asynchronous transfer mode | Known for designing the Titan computer's file system and inventing cell-based networks that anticipated Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Fraser made lasting contributions to computing and… |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Inventor of the first practical telephone and contributor to optical telecommunications, hydrofoil, and aeronautics | Inventor of the first practical telephone, Bell was also an eminent scientist, engineer, and innovator whose later work made groundbreaking contributions to optical telecommunications, hydrofoils… |
| Alexander Ivanovich Mikhailov | Co founder of Vserosiisky Institut Nauchnoi I Tekhnicheskoy Informatsii, and co author of Informatics | Co-founder of the Vserosiisky Institut Nauchnoi I Tekhnicheskoy Informatsii (VINITI) and co-author of the concept of Informatics, Mikhailov was a pioneering figure in the study and dissemination… |
| Alexander L'vovich Brudno | Best known for fully describing the alpha-beta (α-β) search algorithm | Best known for fully describing the alpha-beta (α-β) search algorithm, Brudno was a Russian Jewish computer scientist who lived in Israel from 1991. He developed the "mathematics/machine interface… |
| Alexander Matveevich Poniatoff | Founder, AMPEX | Founder of AMPEX, Poniatoff established the company in 1944, using his initials, A.M.P., plus "ex" for "excellence" to create the name. The high-frequency bias technique, which made quality… |
| Alexey Andreevich Lyapunov | One of the founders of cybernetics and computer pioneer in Russia | One of the founders of cybernetics and a computer pioneer in Russia, Lyapunov made foundational contributions to the development of computing and cybernetics in the Soviet Union. In 1928,… |
| Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov | Creator of Tetris | Creator of Tetris, Pajitnov developed the iconic game with the help of Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov in 1985. The game, first available in the Soviet Union, appeared in the West in 1986.… |
| Alfred Grill | Primary inventor of the low-k and ultralow-k SiCOH and porous pSiCOH insulators that replaced the silicon dioxide as interconnect dielectrics for improved chip performance | Primary inventor of the low-k and ultralow-k SiCOH and porous pSiCOH insulators that replaced silicon dioxide as interconnect dielectrics for improved chip performance, Grill is an expert in… |
| Alfred Vaino Aho | Co author of the AWK programming language along with many textbooks on computer science | Co-author of the AWK programming language and numerous landmark computer science textbooks, Aho is widely recognized as a foundational figure in programming languages and compiler design. He… |
| Alfred Zalmon Spector | Responsible for IBM software product families such as CICS, WebSphere, and MQSeries | Responsible for IBM software product families such as CICS, WebSphere, and MQSeries, Spector is an American computer scientist and research manager. Spector received his Bachelor of Arts… |
| Algirdas Avizienis | Organizer and director of the JPL STAR research project from 1961 to 1972 which effort resulted in the construction and evaluation of the experimental JPL STAR (Self-Testing-And-Repairing) computer | Organizer and director of the JPL STAR research project from 1961 to 1972, Avizienis is a Lithuanian-born computer scientist whose effort resulted in the construction and evaluation of the… |
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