Honor Roll
| Name Sort descending | Noted For | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Emmanuel Crabbe | Leader of the team that designed and implemented the 65-nanometer process resulting in the successful general availability of the eClipz POWER6 system - the world's highest frequency of operation | Leader of the team that designed and implemented the 65-nanometer process resulting in the world's highest frequency of operation in the eClipz POWER6 system, Crabbe has served as Chief… |
| Enid Mumford | Early studies in the use of large scale computing | A pioneer in early studies on the use of large-scale computing, Mumford demonstrated that the underlying cause of failed computer implementations was an inability to overcome human factors… |
| Enrico Clementi | Leader of research and development in parallel computer architecture and fundamental research in chemistry, biophysics and fluid dynamics | Leader of research and development in parallel computer architecture and fundamental research in chemistry, biophysics, and fluid dynamics, Clementi was a pioneer in computational techniques for… |
| Enrico Fermi | Inventor of the FERMIAC, an analog computer that used the Monte Carlo Method to study neutron transport through fissionable materials | Inventor of the FERMIAC, an analog computer that used the Monte Carlo Method to study neutron transport through fissionable materials, Fermi was an Italian-born, naturalized American physicist… |
| Eric Horvitz | Played a significant role in establishing the credibility of artificial intelligence | 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… |
| Eric J. Bina | Co-creator of Mosaic and the co-founder of Netscape | Co-creator of Mosaic and co-founder of Netscape, Bina authored the first version of Mosaic in 1993 along with Marc Andreessen while working as a programmer at the National Center for… |
| Eric S. Raymond | Programmer and public figurehead for the open source movement | Programmer and public figurehead for the open source movement, Raymond has maintained projects including the fetchmail mail retrieval agent and gpsd. Other contributions include Emacs editing… |
| Eric S. Yuan | CEO of Zoom Video Communications | Founder and CEO of Zoom Video Communications, Yuan is a Chinese-American billionaire businessman who owns approximately 22% of the company. After earning his master's degree, Yuan lived in Beijing… |
| Erich Bloch | Pioneering development with the IBM/360 computer | Pioneering developer of the IBM System/360, which helped revolutionize the data processing industry, Bloch is recognized for contributions that earned him the first National Technology Medal from… |
| Erich Gamma | Design leader of the Eclipse platform's Java Development Tools (JDT) | Design leader of Eclipse's Java Development Tools (JDT), Gamma is a Swiss computer scientist and co-author of the best-selling and influential software engineering textbook, "Design Patterns:… |
| Erik Selberg | Best known for the creation of MetaCrawler | Creator of MetaCrawler, one of the first Web meta-search engines, Selberg is an American software developer. Selberg attended college at Carnegie Mellon University in 1989. In 1993, he graduated… |
| Erna Schneider Hoover | Computerized Telephone Switching Inventor | Inventor of a computerized telephone switching method that "revolutionized modern communication," Hoover was an American mathematician whose work transformed how phone systems handle high-demand… |
| Ernest (Lee) E. Keet | Founder, Turnkey Systems, Inc.; founding director of the Charles Babbage Foundation; founding director of the IT History Society | Founder of Turnkey Systems, Inc. (TSI) and founding director of both the Charles Babbage Foundation and the IT History Society, Keet helped launch one of the pioneering commercial software firms… |
| Ernest Galen Andrews | Known for his early work with relay computers during World War II and co-founder of the Association for Computing Machinery | Known for his early work with relay computers and as a co-founder of the Association for Computing Machinery, Andrews was a pioneer in the development of binary computers. Ernest Galen Andrews was… |
| Ernest J Kaye | Member of original LEO design team | Member of the original LEO computer design team, Kaye was jointly responsible for much of the early circuit design of the LEO computer. Born in London on 20th June 1922 of Simon and Dinah Kaye (… |
| Erwin Tomash | Early pioneer of computer equipment peripherals and was a co-developer of the ERA 1103 or UNIVAC Scientific | Early pioneer of computer equipment peripherals and co-developer of the ERA 1103 (UNIVAC Scientific), Tomash was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, and graduated from the University of… |
| Estil Hoversten | Co conceiver of Internet Stream Protocol being a connection-oriented complement to IPv4, notable for introducing the concepts of packetized voice | Co-conceiver of the Internet Stream Protocol (ST), a connection-oriented complement to IPv4 notable for introducing the concepts of packetized voice, Hoversten has served as Senior Vice President… |
| Ethel Cox Marden | Participant in the creation of the first computer languages | Participant in the creation of the first computer languages, Marden went to work for the National Bureau of Standards after World War II, serving as a mathematician and administrator. She served… |
| Eugene (Gene) L. Delves | Co-founder of the organization that is today known as Accenture (a technology and outsourcing services company); in 1954 the efforts of the five co-founders marked the first successful installation and use of a computer (the Univac) in the industry | Co-founder of the organization known today as Accenture, Delves was one of five men whose 1954 efforts marked the first successful installation and use of a computer in the industry. In 1954, the… |
| Eugene (Spaf) Howard Spafford | Co-developer of a number of “firsts” in computer security, defining one of the first active monitoring techniques to counter denial of service attacks on networks | Co-developer of a number of "firsts" in computer security, Spafford is a leading computer security expert and historically significant Internet figure, renowned for first analyzing the Morris Worm… |
| Eugene Edward McDonnell | Designer of IBM’s first Time-Sharing system, which became a very early host to IVSYS, a predecessor of APL | Designer of IBM's first Time-Sharing system, which became a very early host to IVSYS, a predecessor of APL, McDonnell was a Computer Science pioneer and long-time contributor to the programming… |
| Eugene Leonidovich Roshal | Creator of the FAR file manager, RAR compression format and WinRAR archiver | Creator of the FAR file manager, RAR compression format, and WinRAR archiver, Roshal developed WinRAR as a shareware file archiver and data compression utility, first releasing it in the fall of… |
| Eugene Wong | Instrumental in building an Internet backbone for Asia; contributor to relational database management and inaugurated major initiatives in microsystems, information technology, nanotechnology, service-sector engineering, and biotechnology | Instrumental in building an Internet backbone for Asia and a pioneering contributor to relational database management, Wong has also inaugurated major initiatives in microsystems, information… |
| Eunice E. Santos | Expert and researcher in the areas of large-scale distributed processing, computational modeling, complex adaptive systems, and human modeling with applications to the biological, physical and social sciences | A leading expert and researcher in the areas of large-scale distributed processing, computational modeling, complex adaptive systems, and human modeling with applications to the biological,… |
| Eva Tardos | Theoretical Computer Science Algorithms | Recipient of the Fulkerson Prize (1988), the Dantzig Prize (2006), and the IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2019), Tardos is known as a Hungarian mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor… |
| Evan Sharp | Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Pinterest, a visual bookmarking tool - he designed the Pinterest grid for the initial product launch | Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Pinterest, Sharp designed the Pinterest grid for the initial product launch. Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool that skyrocketed in popularity due to… |
| Evan Thomas Spiegel | Co-founder of the mobile application Snapchat | Co-founder and CEO of the mobile application Snapchat, Spiegel launched the platform alongside Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown while they were all students at Stanford University. Snapchat started… |
| Evan Williams | Co-founder, Twitter | Co-founder of Twitter, Williams also founded several other Internet companies, including Pyra Labs (creator of weblog-authoring software Blogger), and has served as CEO of Twitter. |
| Evangelos S. Eleftheriou | Pioneer in recording and communications techniques establishing new standards of performance in hard disk drive technology | Pioneer in recording and communications techniques that established new standards of performance in hard disk drive technology, Eleftheriou has served as head of Storage Technologies at IBM's… |
| Evelyn Boyd Granville | Team member of IBM mathematicians and scientists responsible for the formulation of orbit computations and computer procedures for NASA's Projects Vanguard and Mercury | 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… |
| Evgenii Mikhailovich Landis | Inventor of AVL tree data structure | Co-inventor of the AVL tree data structure, Landis worked with Georgy Adelson-Velsky to produce one of the most influential innovations in computer science. In 1946, Aleksandr Kronrod and… |
| F. Grant Saviers | Co-developer of a controller for DEC's first disk drive | Co-developer of a controller for DEC's first disk drive, Saviers joined DEC in 1968 and held several senior management positions over 24 years with the company. Born in Baltimore, Maryland… |
| Farida Bedwei | Co-founder Ghanaian Fintech Logiciel | Co-founder of Logiciel, a Ghanaian fin-tech company, Bedwei is a software engineer known for her expertise in software architecture and the deployment of mobile services for banking applications.… |
| Federico Faggin | Responsible for the co-design of the first microprocessor | Co-designer of the world's first microprocessor, Faggin is recognized as a foundational figure in modern computing. After obtaining his university degree, he worked at SGS Fairchild in Italy,… |
| Federico Luigi Conte Menabrea | He provided the Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage, Esq. with notes by translator Ada Lovelace (1842), which described many aspects of computer architecture and programming | Author of the landmark 1842 "Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage, Esq." — translated and annotated by Ada Lovelace — which described many aspects of computer architecture… |
| Fei-Fei Li | Created ImageNet Dataset | Best known for establishing ImageNet, the dataset that enabled rapid advances in computer vision in the 2010s, Li is a professor of computer science at Stanford University whose research spans… |
| Feng-hsiung Hsu | Architect and principal designer of Deep Blue, the supercomputer that defeated the World Chess Champion in 1997 | Architect and principal designer of IBM Deep Blue, the chess machine that defeated the World Chess Champion in 1997, Hsu is a computer scientist and author of <em>Behind Deep Blue: Building… |
| Fernanda Bertini Viégas | Co-creator of the ground-breaking public visualization platform Many Eyes, an experiment in open, public data visualization and analysis | Co-creator of Many Eyes, the ground-breaking open public data visualization and analysis platform, Viégas is a Brazilian-born scientist and computational designer whose work focuses on the social… |
| Fernando (Corby) J. Corbato | For his pioneering work organizing the concepts and leading the development of the general-purpose, large-scale, time-sharing and resource-sharing computer systems | Pioneer in the development of general-purpose, large-scale, time-sharing and resource-sharing computer systems, Corbató received the ACM Turing Award in 1990 for these foundational contributions… |
| Fletcher R. Jones | Co-founder of software services company, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) which became the largest software company in the United States | Co-founder of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), which became the largest software company in the United States, Jones was an American businessman and computer pioneer who also owned… |
| Florian Brody | He co-invented Voyager's Expanded Books, the first electronic books to be read on a laptop Brody & Partners and Resilience Coaching |
Co-inventor of Voyager's Expanded Books, the first electronic books to be read on a laptop, Brody is an international marketing executive and digital media specialist with over 25 years of… |
| Floyd (Earl) Kvamme | Worked at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and for his work in science and technology policy on behalf of the entire country | One of five founders of National Semiconductor in 1967, Kvamme went on to work at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and has served in science and technology policy on behalf of the entire… |
| Forrest Corry Parry | He was the IBM engineer who invented the Magnetic stripe card used for credit cards and identification badges | Inventor of the magnetic stripe card, Parry transformed how credit cards, identification badges, and countless other cards store information. He attended the Branch Agricultural College (… |
| Frances (Betty) Elizabeth Holberton | One of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer | One of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, Holberton made foundational contributions to the history of computing. During World War II,… |
| Frances (Fran) Elizabeth Allen | Pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers, code optimization and parallelization. First female IBM Fellow and first woman to win the Turning Award. | Pioneer in optimizing compilers and the first woman to win the Turing Award, Allen was also the first female IBM Fellow. Allen was an expert in the field of optimizing compilers. As a… |
| Frances (ne Bilas) Spence (née Bilas) | One of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer | 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… |
| Frances Brazier | Founded First Dutch ISP | One of the founders of NLnet, the first Internet service provider in the Netherlands and one of the first in Europe, Brazier helped establish foundational infrastructure for Internet access on the… |
| Francine Berman | A pioneer in grid computing, a structure that lets companies or universities link many computational and other resources over a network to solve current health, environment and social problems | A pioneer in grid computing, Berman is one of the two founding Principal Investigators of the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid project. She also directed the National Partnership for… |
| Francis (Fran) O. Underwood | Chief Architect of the IBM 1401 which was known as the SPACE Machine | Chief Architect of the IBM 1401, known as the SPACE Machine, Underwood was an engineer, machine designer, and engineering trainer for IBM. Born in Omaha, NE, he came from a line of technical… |
| Francis (Frank) E. Hamilton | Responsible for the primary organization, design and construction of the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC) and for the IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC) | Responsible for the primary organization, design, and construction of the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Mark I) and the IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC), Hamilton… |
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