Honor Roll
| Name Sort descending | Noted For | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Francis Bacon | The father of the scientific method, which is fundamental to natural philosophy and the father of empiricism; a theory of knowledge | Considered the father of the scientific method and of empiricism, Bacon transformed natural philosophy and the theory of knowledge. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of… |
| Francis Harvey Harlow | Established the science of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) as an important discipline | Pioneer in establishing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) as an important scientific discipline, Harlow was a theoretical physicist and researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos,… |
| Francis Wilton Reichelderfer | Instrumental in bringing modern computerized technology, to weather forecasting | Instrumental in bringing modern computerized technology to weather forecasting, Reichelderfer presided over a revolutionary era in the history of the National Weather Service. From 1938 to 1963,… |
| Francois Gernelle | He co-developed the Micral N computer, the earliest commercial, non-kit personal computer based on a microprocessor | Co-developer of the Micral N, the earliest commercial, non-kit personal computer based on a microprocessor, Gernelle created the machine alongside André Truong Trong Thi for the Institut National… |
| Francoise Barre-Sinoussi | Nobel Prize HIV Co-Discoverer | Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Barré-Sinoussi shared the award with her former mentor Luc Montagnier for their discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Her… |
| Frank Gerald Soltis | Chief Scientist for IBM’s System i computers and pioneer architecture of technology-independent machine interfaces (TIMI) | Chief Scientist for IBM's System i computers, Soltis is recognized as a pioneer of technology-independent machine interfaces (TIMI) and describes himself as the grandfather of the AS/400. His… |
| Frank Hall Sumner | Co-developer of the implementation of Virtual Memory for the Atlas central processing unit which today is used in most computers | Co-developer of the implementation of Virtual Memory for the Atlas central processing unit — a concept now used in most computers — Sumner made a lasting contribution to modern computing. … |
| Frank Land | Pioneering IT use in business and the teaching of systems analysis in universities | Pioneering IT use in business and the teaching of systems analysis in universities, Land began his career in computing as an analyst programmer with LEO—the Lyons Computer—in 1952. He left in 1968… |
| Frank Marion Wanlass | Inventor of the complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS), the technology employed in most modern microchips | Inventor of the complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS), the technology employed in most modern microchips, Wanlass transformed electronics with a discovery that now touches nearly every… |
| Frank Matthew Verzuh | Electrical engineer, scientist and early pioneer in the computing field | Early pioneer in computing and electrical engineer, Verzuh's achievements ranged from showing how punched card equipment of the 1940s, intended only for straightforward business and tabulating… |
| Frank Moss | Involved in advanced development projects in the areas of networking and distributed computing | Involved in advanced development projects in the areas of networking and distributed computing, Moss is a researcher, technology and biotechnology entrepreneur, academician, and author born in… |
| Frank P. Carrubba | One of the original designers of the Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) Architecture | One of the original designers of the Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) Architecture, Carrubba was named "Inventor of the Year" by the Intellectual Property Owners in Washington, D.C. in 1992… |
| Frank Raleigh Lautenberg | Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. | Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Lautenberg also served as the senior United States Senator from New Jersey and a member of the Democratic… |
| Frank van Ham | Designer of interactive information visualizations and one of the main researchers behind IBM’s Many Eyes project, a web-based visualization tool | Designer of interactive information visualizations and one of the main researchers behind IBM's Many Eyes project, van Ham has more than a decade of experience in designing and deploying… |
| Fred J Baker | Active in the networking and communications industry. | Active in the networking and communications industry, Baker chaired a number of IETF working groups, including Bridge MIB, DS1/DS3 MIB, ISDN MIB, PPP Extensions, IEPREP, and IPv6 Operations. He… |
| Fred M. Gibbons | Co-founder and CEO of Software Publishing Corporation (SPCO) along with Janelle Bedke and John Page, with an eye to producing packaged software for personal computers and business software - it was ultimately best known for its pioneering Harvard Graphics business and presentation graphics program | Co-founder and CEO of Software Publishing Corporation (SPC), best known for its pioneering Harvard Graphics business and presentation graphics program, Gibbons cofounded the Mountain View,… |
| Fred Moore | Instrumental in providing worldwide product leadership for storage systems for open systems and mainframes | Instrumental in providing worldwide product leadership for storage systems for open systems and mainframes, Moore has served as StorageTek's chief strategist and spokesman worldwide for over ten… |
| Fred William Wenninger | Led the team that developed an analog computer prototype named the Synchro-Rectro-Flash in the late 60’s; conducted early research for a new, algebraic programming language that would first appear in HP’s 9820A desktop calculator and would eventually be named HPL; also managed an advanced semiconductor-development project called Focus which produced a 32-bit microprocessor and large memory chips for HP’s desktop computers | Leader of the team that developed the Synchro-Rectro-Flash analog computer prototype at HP in the late 1960s, Wenninger also conducted early research for a new algebraic programming language that… |
| Frederic (Ted) Withington | Founder board member, IT History Society, Silicon Valley venture capitalist | Founder board member of the IT History Society and Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Withington began his career as a programmer at NSA in 1953. Over the years he worked for computer makers… |
| Frederic Alois Friedel | Co-founder of the chess database company ChessBase | Co-founder of the chess database company ChessBase, Friedel is a German graduate linguist, science, chess, and computer chess journalist. He co-founded ChessBase in 1986 with game database… |
| Frederic Calland Williams | Design of Williams Tube, Computer Design and Construction | Pioneer of the first stored-program digital computer and inventor of the Williams–Kilburn tube memory device, Williams transformed the foundations of modern computing. In 1946, he was appointed as… |
| Frederica Darema | Proposer of the Single Program, Multiple Data (SPMD) programming model which has become the most common style of parallel programming | Proposer of the Single Program, Multiple Data (SPMD) programming model, Darema introduced SPMD in 1984, establishing what has become the most common style of parallel programming. In computing,… |
| Frederick (Fred) Jacob Damerau | Pioneer in the area of on natural language processing and data mining leading to automatic hyphenation and spell-checker | Pioneer in natural language processing and data mining, Damerau spent over four decades at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown, New York. Born in Parma, Ohio, son of the late… |
| Frederick (Jeff) Johns Rulifson | Leader of the team that implemented the Online System (NLS), foreshadowing future developments in modern computing and networking | Leader of the team that implemented the oN-Line System (NLS), which foreshadowed many future developments in modern computing and networking, Rulifson is an American computer scientist born in… |
| Frederick Jelinek | Team member at IBM that revolutionized approaches to computer speech recognition and machine translation and was considered to be the pioneer of speech recognition | Pioneer of speech recognition, Jelinek was a Czech-American researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing, well known for his oft-quoted statement… |
| Frederick M. Hoar | Silicon Valley public relations and marketing executive legend | A Silicon Valley public relations and marketing executive legend, Hoar died January 2 after a three-year bout with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. He was 77. Hoar was one of Silicon Valley's… |
| Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. | Managing the development of OS/360 (first the compatible family hardware and then the OS) | 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 multi-… |
| Frederik Nebeker | Researcher of the influence of the computer on meteorology and instrumental in organizing the IEEE History Center's conference on technological competitiveness in the electronics industry | Researcher of the influence of the computer on meteorology, Nebeker has served as the long-time Senior Research Historian at the IEEE History Center at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. A… |
| Fredrik Rosing Bull | Known for his works on improved punched card machines | Known for his works on improved punched card machines, Bull was an information technology pioneer. In 1907 he finished his studies in civil engineering at the Technical School of Kristiania (… |
| Friedrich Ludwig Bauer | He was the first to propose the widely used stack method of expression evaluation | First to propose the widely used stack method of expression evaluation, Bauer patented the pushdown stack in 1957, a contribution that proved foundational to modern computing. He contributed to… |
| Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege | He is considered to be one of the founders of modern logic, and made major contributions to the foundations of mathematics | Considered one of the founders of modern logic, Frege made major contributions to the foundations of mathematics. As a philosopher, he is generally considered to be the father of analytic… |
| Fritz Joachim Weyl | Developer of the U.S. government, Office of Naval Research (ONR) Computer in 1946 | Developer of the U.S. government Office of Naval Research (ONR) Computer in 1946, Weyl was a renowned mathematician who significantly contributed to research in mathematics during his lifetime and… |
| Fujio Masuoka | Inventor of flash memory which has carved out a path to a new era whereby consumers are able to carry videos, music, books and data with them wherever they go | Inventor of flash memory, Masuoka has carved out a path to a new era whereby consumers are able to carry videos, music, books and data with them wherever they go. Born in Takasaki, Gunma, Japan,… |
| Gabe Logan Newell | A producer of the first three releases of Windows | Producer of the first three releases of Windows, Newell later founded Valve, producing one of the best-selling PC games ever, Half-Life. |
| Galileo Galilei | Played a major role in the Scientific Revolution, including improvements to the telescope, an improved military compass as well as other instruments, and has been called "the Father of Modern Science". | Called "the Father of Modern Science," Galilei played a major role in the Scientific Revolution, including landmark improvements to the telescope and the invention of an improved military compass… |
| Garth Gibson | Co-developer of the RAID taxonomy of redundant data storage systems | 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… |
| Gary Durbin | Founder of a company in 1970 that introduced Secure, an early software security product | Founder of a company in 1970 that introduced Secure, an early software security product, Durbin is a software pioneer and entrepreneur with over thirty-five years of experience. He began his… |
| Gary G. Hendrix | Founder of Symantec Corporation, an international software corporation that developed “Q&A” (Questions and Answers), a database management system for PCs with a natural-language user interface | Founder of Symantec Corporation, Hendrix built the international software company known for information management and antivirus software, and led development of its landmark product, Q&A (… |
| Gary Harpst | Co-founder of Solomon Software, designer of accounting software products (Solomon I and II); the first microcomputer accounting software written in C, based on MDBS | Co-founder of Solomon Software and designer of its pioneering accounting products, Harpst grew up in Findlay, Ohio and graduated from Ohio State University with B.A. and M.B.A. degrees in Business… |
| Gary K. Starkweather | Inventor of the laser printer | Inventor of the laser printer, Starkweather invented it at Xerox's Webster research center in 1969, and collaborated on the first fully functional laser printing system at Xerox PARC in 1971.… |
| Gary Kildal | First PC OS, CP/M | Creator of CP/M, the first disk-based OS for microcomputers, Kildall built a precursor to MS-DOS. CP/M became a fertile ground for the development of application software for microcomputers that… |
| Gary Mokotoff | Pioneer of the computer software industry for the IBM 1401 - co-creator of the 1401 Autocoder and sole author of SPS1 and SPS2 | Pioneer of the computer software industry for the IBM 1401, Mokotoff is the co-creator of the 1401 Autocoder and sole author of SPS1 and SPS2. He joined IBM in 1959. From 1959 to 1963 he… |
| Gary Morganthaler | Co-founder and former CEO and Chairman of Ingres Corporation, a leading relational database software company | Co-founder and former CEO and Chairman of Ingres Corporation, a leading relational database software company, Morganthaler has a national reputation as a successful executive in the software… |
| Gary Morgenthaler | Builder of the high-speed interface for TYMCOM-10 and TYMNET network; “the Internet before the Internet” | Builder of the high-speed interface for TYMCOM-10 and TYMNET network—"the Internet before the Internet"—Morgenthaler has a national reputation as a successful executive in the software industry… |
| Gary Price | Founded ResourceShelf.com and originated Price's List of Lists | Founder of ResourceShelf.com and originator of Price's List of Lists, "a database of ranked listings of companies, people and resources freely available on the Internet," Price is an American… |
| Gayatri Buragohain | Conceived the idea of an organization empowering women in India to learn, use, and create technology, thus breaking the stereotype in that country that women cannot be adept at these things | Founder of Feminist Approach to Technology (FAT), an organization empowering women in India to learn, use, and create technology, Buragohain has worked to break the stereotype that women cannot be… |
| Gaylord (Glenn) G. Henry | Lead architect and development manager responsible for the IBM System/32, IBM System/38 (forerunner of AS/400), and RT/PC (forerunner of Power systems) | Lead architect of the IBM System/32, IBM System/38 (forerunner of AS/400), and RT/PC (forerunner of Power systems), Henry is also co-founder and President of Centaur Technologies, Inc., and has… |
| Gene Frantz | Father of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technology | 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… |
| Gene Howard Golub | Co-publisher of an algorithm in 1970 that made the computation of the singular value decomposition (SVD) feasible and that is still used today | Co-publisher of an algorithm with William Kahan in 1970 that made the computation of the singular value decomposition (SVD) feasible and that is still used today, Golub was one of the preeminent… |
| Gene Myron Amdahl | Team leader in building IBM mainframes and founder of Amdahl Computer | Team leader in building IBM mainframes and founder of Amdahl Corporation, Amdahl was chiefly known for his work on mainframe computers at IBM and later his own companies. He was perhaps best known… |
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