Honor Roll
| Name Sort descending | Noted For | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Hedwig (Hedy) Eva Maria Lamarr (née Kiesler) | Co-inventor, of an early technique for spread spectrum and frequency hopping, paving the way for today's wireless communications | Co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum and frequency hopping, Lamarr paved the way for today's wireless communications. An Austrian actress and inventor, Lamarr was born in… |
| Heidi Roizen | Tech Harassment Advocate | Known for speaking out against the harassment of women in technology, Roizen is a Silicon Valley executive, venture capitalist, and entrepreneur who drew on her own experiences with harassment to… |
| Heike E. Riel | Major contributor to the development of the (at that time) world's largest ever (20") full-color amorphous-silicon active-matrix display based on organic light-emitting diodes, presented in May 2003 | Major contributor to the development of the world's largest-ever (20") full-color amorphous-silicon active-matrix display based on organic light-emitting diodes, presented in May 2003, Riel has… |
| Heinrich Rohrer | Co-designer of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), for which he was awarded half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics | Co-designer of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), Rohrer shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for this invention; the other half of the Prize was awarded to Ernst… |
| Heinrich Rudolf Hertz | The first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves | The first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves, Hertz clarified and expanded the electromagnetic theory of light that had been put forth by Maxwell. He was born in… |
| Heinz G. Schwaertzel | Head of Central Research at Siemens AG in Munich and worked closely with business and academia | Head of Central Research at Siemens AG in Munich, Schwaertzel has served as President of Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) from 1987–1991. He initiated DFKI (German Research Institute for… |
| Heinz Nixdorf | German computer entrepreneur | German computer entrepreneur, Nixdorf founded and led Nixdorf Computer AG. He developed and marketed low-end commercial computers mainly within Europe between 1965 and 1985. He had production… |
| Heinz Zemanek | Austrian Computer Pioneer, build first European all transistor computer in 1955 | Austrian computer pioneer who built the first European all-transistor computer in 1955, Zemanek went on to found the IBM Laboratory Vienna in 1961. The IBM Laboratory Vienna (later known… |
| Helen Greiner | Co-Founder of iRobot | Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for leadership in the design, development, and application of practical robots, Greiner is an American engineer and businesswoman best known… |
| Helmut Theodor Schreyer | Co-developer of the Z3, one of the first computers, and developer of an electrical circuit to convert decimals to binary numbers | Co-developer of the Z3, one of the first computers, Schreyer also developed an electrical circuit to convert decimal to binary numbers. He was a German inventor and the son of the minister Paul… |
| Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe | Leader of the team that developed atomic force microscopes (AFMs) into fully hardened instruments that could be used both within IBM and outside | Leader of the team that developed atomic force microscopes (AFMs) into fully hardened instruments usable both within IBM and beyond, Wickramasinghe is a distinguished pioneer in the invention and… |
| Henri J. Nussbaumer | Founder of the Industrial Computer Engineering laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) | Founder of the Industrial Computer Engineering laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Nussbaumer is sometimes called one of the fathers of the Institut Eurécom in Sophia… |
| Henrietta Swan Leavitt | Discovered Period-Luminosity Relationship | Her discovery of the period-luminosity relationship for Cepheid variable stars gave astronomers their first reliable tool for measuring distances to other galaxies, fundamentally shifting the… |
| Henry (Hank) Wallman | Co-builder of the Electronic Differential Analyser, an early example of an analog computer, and performed pioneering research in biomedical engineering combining video displays with X-ray imaging | Co-builder of the Electronic Differential Analyser, an early example of an analog computer, Wallman also performed pioneering research in biomedical engineering combining video displays with X-ray… |
| Henry Briggs | Mathematical contributions in logarithms | A pioneer of mathematical contributions in logarithms, Briggs visited Napier at Edinburgh in 1616 to discuss a suggested change to Napier's logarithms. The following year he repeated his visit for… |
| Henry Edward Roberts | First commerical personal computer | Designer of the first commercially successful personal computer, Roberts transformed computing in 1975. He founded Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) in 1970 to sell electronics… |
| Henry Francis Sherwood | Computer pioneer | A German-born computer pioneer who later took American citizenship, Sherwood was born in Berlin as Henry Weizenbaum. One of his brothers was the computer scientist and science critic Joseph… |
| Henry Lowood | Noted Curator of Science and Techology Collections | Curator of History of Science & Technology Collections and Film & Media Collections at Stanford University Libraries, Lowood has served in this role as a leading steward of science and… |
| Henry Ross Perot | Founder, EDS | Founder of Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in 1962, Perot built one of the most influential technology services companies in American history. He sold EDS to General Motors in 1984, and founded… |
| Henryk Zygalski | Designer of the "perforated sheets," also known as "Zygalski sheets," a manual device for finding Enigma settings | Designer of the "perforated sheets," also known as "Zygalski sheets," a manual device for finding Enigma settings, Zygalski was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking… |
| Herb Sutter | A prominent C++ expert | A prominent C++ expert, Sutter is also a book author and a columnist for Dr. Dobb's Journal. He joined Microsoft in 2002 as a platform evangelist for Visual C++ .NET, rising to lead software… |
| Herbert Alexander Simon | One of the most influential social scientists of the 20th century | 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… |
| Herbert Bruderer | History of computing, history of technology, history of science | Historian of computing, technology, and science, Bruderer has served as a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) and the… |
| Herbert Franz Mataré | Co-developer of the first functional "European" transistor | Co-developer of the first functional "European" transistor, Mataré made his landmark contribution alongside Heinrich Welker in the vicinity of Paris in 1948, at the same time and independently… |
| Herbert Freeman | Contributor to the field of automatic label placement, computer graphics, including anti-aliasing, and machine vision | Contributor to the field of automatic label placement, computer graphics, and machine vision, Freeman published numerous works on geometric patterns from '61 and co-founded, with Azriel Rosenfeld… |
| Herbert Reuben Grosch | Grosch's Law and much more | Formulator of Grosch's Law, the landmark aphorism about computer economy and speed, Grosch was one of the earliest and most colorful figures in computer science. Born in Canada, he moved to… |
| Herman Heine Goldstine | One of the original developers of the ENIAC | One of the original developers of the ENIAC, Goldstine left the University of Michigan, where he was a professor, in July 1942 to enlist in the Army after the United States entered World War II.… |
| Herman Hollerith | Invented the punched card | Inventor of the punched card, Hollerith was a German-American statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of… |
| Herman Lukoff | Helped develop the ENIAC and EDVAC computers | Helping develop the ENIAC and EDVAC computers, Lukoff made foundational contributions to early computing. While at the Moore School, he helped develop these landmark machines, then followed ENIAC… |
| Hermann Kopetz | Chief architect of the Time-Triggered Protocol and the Time-Triggered Architecture | Chief architect of the Time-Triggered Protocol and the Time-Triggered Architecture (TTA), Kopetz has spent over twenty-five years developing a computing infrastructure for the design and… |
| Hewitt D. Crane | Developer of an eye-movement tracking device for the computer, as well as a pen-input device; a new approach to recognizing handwritten characters that would allow automatic input of handwritten information to a computer | Developer of an eye-movement tracking device and pen-input device for computers, Crane was an American engineer best known for his pioneering work at SRI International on ERMA (Electronic… |
| Hiroshi Ito | Co-inventor of a process called "Chemically Amplified Resists", which has greatly aided the production of more powerful chips at a lower cost, and contributed substantially to the worldwide economic growth of the last 15 years | Co-inventor of "Chemically Amplified Resists," Ito made seminal contributions to modern photolithography that greatly aided the production of more powerful chips at a lower cost and contributed… |
| Hiroshi Yamamoto | Expanded the horizontal industry skills in the electronics industry | IBM Distinguished Engineer who expanded horizontal industry skills in the electronics industry, Yamamoto has served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Global Electronics Industry, with… |
| Hong-Jiang Zhang | Leader in establishing Microsoft Research Asia into a world-class basic research center in computer science | A leader in establishing Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) into a world-class basic research center in computer science, Zhang has been a prominent researcher in media computing, more specifically in… |
| Horst Feistel | Initiator of research that culminated in the development of the Data Encryption Standard (DES) in the 1970s | Initiator of research that culminated in the development of the Data Encryption Standard (DES), Feistel was a German-born cryptographer who worked on the design of ciphers at IBM. Born in Berlin,… |
| Horst H. Berger | Contributor to semiconductor technologies for integrated circuits | Contributor to semiconductor technologies for integrated circuits, Berger is a German electrical engineer who worked at the IBM Laboratories in Böblingen and later became a researcher and teacher… |
| Howard (Ward) G. Cunningham | Programmer and inventor of the wiki | Programmer and inventor of the wiki, Cunningham started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the website of his software consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham (… |
| Howard Frank | Conductor of the original topological analysis for the ARPAnet, evaluating the network’s performance and reliability, and studying how the technology could be applied to the larger world | Conductor of the original topological analysis for the ARPAnet, Frank evaluated the network's performance and reliability and studied how the technology could be applied to the larger world.… |
| Howard Hathaway Aiken | Pioneer in computing and original concept designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer | Pioneer in computing and original concept designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer, Aiken transformed early computing with his vision of electro-mechanical calculation. Howard studied… |
| Hu Qiheng | Connected China To Internet | Recognized as a global connector in the Internet Hall of Fame class of 2013, Hu Qiheng led the National Computing and Networking Facility of China, which connected China to the Internet in April… |
| Hugh Darwen | Chief architect on Business System 12, a database management system that embraced the principles of the relational model | Chief architect on Business System 12, a database management system that faithfully embraced the principles of the relational model, Darwen has been recognized as a significant figure in the… |
| Hugh McGregor Ross | One of the principal architects of the Universal Character Set ISO/IEC 10646; a standard set of characters upon which many character encodings are based | One of the principal architects of the Universal Character Set ISO/IEC 10646, Ross was an early pioneer in the history of British computing. Born in Nairobi, Kenya, he worked for Ferranti from the… |
| Hugh Williams | One of the members of the IBM team which developed the plan for unbundling software from hardware in 1969 | One of the members of the IBM team that developed the plan for unbundling software from hardware in 1969, Williams is also known for solving the Archimedes Cattle Problem. In June of 1965,… |
| Hung Q. Le | Leader of the development of several microprocessor products that enable IBM to be the leader in the server market | Leader of the development of several microprocessor products that enabled IBM to be the leader in the server market, Le holds more than 80 patents in the field of microprocessor design and has… |
| I. Bernard Cohen | A distinguished historian of science at Harvard and who wrote about early computer history at Harvard | The first American to receive a Ph.D. in history of science, Cohen was a distinguished historian of science at Harvard who also wrote about early computer history there. He was a Harvard… |
| Ian Munro Ross | Co-inventor of epitaxy, used in silicon-based manufacturing processes for BJTs and modern CMOS, but it is particularly important for compound semiconductors such as gallium arsenide | Co-inventor of epitaxy, used in silicon-based manufacturing processes for BJTs and modern CMOS and particularly important for compound semiconductors such as gallium arsenide, Ross was also an… |
| Icer Addis | Author of NESticle, Genecyst and Callus emulators | Author of the NESticle, Genecyst, and Callus emulators, Addis is considered a legendary figure in the emulation scene. He co-founded Bloodlust Software with his friend Ethan Petty. Working… |
| Ida Rhodes | Early Computer Development Pioneer | A member of the influential circle of women at the heart of early computer development in the United States, Rhodes was an American mathematician who shaped the field during its foundational years… |
| Igor Aleksander | Artificial intelligence and neural networks | A pioneer in artificial intelligence and neural networks, Aleksander was born in Croatia, educated in Italy and South Africa, and completed a PhD at Queen Mary College, University of London. In… |
| Igor L. Markov | Leader of the effort on the Hardware tree during the 2011 redesign of the ACM Computing Classification System | Leader of the effort on the Hardware tree during the 2011 redesign of the ACM Computing Classification System, Markov has served as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer… |
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