Honor Roll
| Name Sort descending | Noted For | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Irene Greif | Inventor of the Version Manager which analysts have consistently designated as the most significant group-enabling feature in spreadsheets | Inventor of the Version Manager — consistently designated by analysts as the most significant group-enabling feature in spreadsheets — Greif is an American computer scientist and a founder of the… |
| Irma M. Wyman | The first woman to become Vice President of Honeywell, Inc., she was a systems thinking tutor and was the first female CIO of Honeywell | The first woman to become Vice President of Honeywell, Inc., Wyman was also the first female CIO of Honeywell and a Systems Thinking tutor (the process of understanding how things influence one… |
| Irving John Good | Mathematician and cryptologist responsible for the term "technological singularity" | Mathematician and cryptologist responsible for the term "technological singularity," Good was a pioneering figure in computing, statistics, and codebreaking. On 27 May 1941, having just… |
| Irving Stoy Reed | Co-inventor of the error-detecting and correcting codes known as the Reed-Solomon codes | Co-inventor of the Reed-Solomon error-detecting and correcting codes, Reed made many contributions to areas of electrical engineering including radar, signal processing, and image processing. He… |
| Irwin Mark Jacobs | Pioneer of the OmniTRACS system, one of the world's most "technologically advanced two-way mobile satellite communications and tracking systems | Pioneer of the OmniTRACS system, one of the world's most technologically advanced two-way mobile satellite communications and tracking systems, Jacobs is also co-founder and former Chairman of… |
| Isaac L Auerbach | Auerbach Reports on Computer issues | Founder of Auerbach Associates and publisher of the influential Auerbach Reports on computer issues, Auerbach was a leading figure in the information processing industry. Isaac Auerbach… |
| Isaac Newton | He stated the three universal laws of motion that enabled many of the advances of the Industrial Revolution which are still the underpinnings of the non-relativistic technologies of the modern world and he used the Latin word gravitas (weight) for the effect that would become known as gravity, and defined the law of universal gravitation | Stating the three universal laws of motion that enabled many of the advances of the Industrial Revolution and are still the underpinnings of the non-relativistic technologies of the modern world,… |
| Isidor Isaac Rabi | Co-founder of CERN; (the World Wide Web began as a CERN project called ENQUIRE) and his comments made while he served as the U.S. Representative to the NATO Science Committee prompted several discussions that led to the formation of a Study Group that organized the first conference on Software Engineering | Co-founder of CERN and Nobel laureate in Physics, Rabi was a Galician-born American physicist born into a traditional Jewish family in Rymanów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Poland), and was… |
| Ivan Edward Sutherland | For his pioneering and visionary contributions to computer graphics, starting with Sketchpad, and continuing after | Pioneer of computer graphics and inventor of Sketchpad, Sutherland received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1988 for that invention, which became an early… |
| Ivan Plander | Developer of the analog computer | Developer of the analog computer around 1958, Plander is a Slovak computer scientist who received his Ph.D. at the Technical University in Prague and his Habilitation (Dr.Sc.) in Computer Science… |
| Ivar Hjalmar Jacobson | Known as a major contributor to UML, Objectory, RUP and aspect-oriented development | Known as a major contributor to UML, Objectory, RUP, and aspect-oriented development, Jacobson has shaped modern software engineering practice. After university, he started working at Ericsson… |
| Izrael Abraham Staffel | Inventor of a calculating machine that was able to add, subtract, divide, multiply and obtain a square root | Inventor of a calculating machine able to add, subtract, divide, multiply, and obtain a square root, Staffel was a Polish inventor, watchmaker, mechanic, and designer of calculating machines, born… |
| J. Noel Chiappa | Member of the TCP/IP Working Group which started the Internet project; he was instrumental in developing an early ring-based local area network and gateway | Member of the TCP/IP Working Group which started the Internet project, Chiappa was instrumental in developing an early ring-based local area network and gateway. He has worked as an independent… |
| Jaan Tallinn | Co-developer of Skype and FastTrack/Kazaa along with Ahti Heinla and Priit Kasesalu; he also currently holds the world’s record for the largest number of software downloads at almost 500 million | Co-developer of Skype and FastTrack/Kazaa, Tallinn holds the world's record for the largest number of software downloads at almost 500 million. An Estonian programmer, he is widely celebrated for… |
| Jack B. Dennis | He was involved in early work on time-sharing through the PDP-1 which became famous in computer science history as the machine on which hacker culture started | A pioneer of time-sharing and hacker culture, Dennis is a computer scientist whose research group owned the PDP-1 at MIT — the machine that later became famous in computer science history as the… |
| Jack D. Kuehler | Responsible for shifting IBM from its longstanding reliance on the mainframe computer, dealing with the rise of the microprocessor-based personal computer | Responsible for shifting IBM from its longstanding reliance on the mainframe computer, Kuehler served as President and later Vice Chairman of IBM, where he was the firm's highest ranking… |
| Jack Elton Bresenham | Developer, in 1962, of “Bresenham's Line Algorithm”; one of the earliest algorithms discovered in the field of computer graphics; it allowed lines to appear on a computer screen | Developer of Bresenham's Line Algorithm in 1962, Bresenham is recognized as a pioneer in computer graphics. The algorithm is one of the earliest discovered in the field and determines which points… |
| Jack Haverty | Co-designer of the original email mechanism and co-creator of the initial Internet | Co-designer of the original email mechanism and co-creator of the initial Internet, Haverty studied at MIT and continued there as a staff member of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, where… |
| Jack Howlett | Director of the Atlas Computer Laboratory; a laboratory that was created to provide a service to researchers across the United Kingdom with a need for large-scale computing power and allowed the establishing of the Atlas computer in the market place – he also translated books on object-oriented languages and databases from French into English | Director of the Atlas Computer Laboratory, Howlett led a laboratory created to provide a service to researchers across the United Kingdom with a need for large-scale computing power, and played a… |
| Jack J. Dongarra | Co-developer of the LINPACK and LAPACK libraries, which have provided the benchmark for the world’s 500 fastest computers since 1993 | Co-developer of the LINPACK and LAPACK libraries, which have provided the benchmark for the world's 500 fastest computers since 1993, Dongarra has served as a University Distinguished Professor of… |
| Jack Keil Wolf | Known for his work in coding theory as applied to magnetic storage | Known for his work in coding theory as applied to magnetic storage, Wolf made pioneering and sustained contributions to information theory and digital information storage. He was also an expert in… |
| Jack P. Ruina | Director of Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) from 1961-1963 during which the idea of an information processing program was initiated | Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) from 1961 to 1963, during which the idea of an information processing program was initiated, Ruina held a position that proved foundational… |
| Jack St. Clair Kilby | Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 2000 for his invention of the integrated circuit | Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 2000 for his invention of the integrated circuit, Kilby was also the inventor of the handheld calculator and thermal printer. |
| Jack Tramiel | Founder of Commodore International; manufacturer of Commodore models of home computers; including the Commodore PET, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Commodore Amiga | Founder of Commodore International, Tramiel was a businessman best known for manufacturing the Commodore PET, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Commodore Amiga, and other Commodore models of home… |
| Jack van Kinsbergen | Pioneer on the prototype IOS (PROTIOS) | From the Petworth neighborhood of Washington D.C., he graduated in 1959 from University of Maryland with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He began working at Philco in Philadelphia in the… |
| Jack Yun Ma | Founder of one of the world's biggest B2B online marketplaces | Founder of one of the world's biggest B2B online marketplaces, Ma built Alibaba.com into an eBay for companies doing international trade. A Chinese entrepreneur and philanthropist, he also founded… |
| Jacob (Jack) Goldman | Creator of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, which produced many seminal ideas in modern computing | Creator of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Goldman established one of the most influential research institutions in the history of modern computing. An American physicist and former Chief… |
| Jacob Bernoulli | Known for numerous mathematical landmarks as Bernoulli Numbers and the Bernoulli Differential Equation | Known for numerous mathematical landmarks including Bernoulli Numbers and the Bernoulli Differential Equation, Bernoulli became familiar with calculus through a correspondence with Gottfried… |
| Jacob Ziv | Co-developed LZ77 compression algorithm | 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… |
| Jagadish Chandra Bose | IEEE named him one of the fathers of radio science | Named by IEEE as one of the fathers of radio science, Bose pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave optics, made very significant contributions to plant science, and laid the foundations… |
| Jaishankar (Jai) Moothedath Menon | Developer of RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) technology | Developer of RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) storage technology, Menon was the driving force for advancing RAID storage systems as the high-performance, high-reliability solution for… |
| Jakob Nielsen | Founder of the "discount usability engineering" movement for fast and cheap improvements of user interfaces | Founder of the "discount usability engineering" movement for fast and cheap improvements of user interfaces, Nielsen invented several usability methods, including heuristic evaluation — a… |
| Jaleh Daie | First Woman on Space Foundation Board | The first woman to serve on the U.S. Space Foundation board of directors, Daie was also inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame in 1996. A scientist, educator, and… |
| James (J.H.) Hardy Wilkinson | Researcher of numerical analysis to facilitate the use of the high-speed digital computer | A prominent researcher in numerical analysis to facilitate the use of the high-speed digital computer, Wilkinson received the Turing Award in 1970 "for his research in numerical analysis to… |
| James (Jim) A. Brown | Inventor of and Manager of the group within IBM responsible for the APL2 program product | Inventor of the APL2 program product, Brown is one of the computing world's leading authorities on array technology. He spent nearly 30 years at the center of IBM's array technology efforts,… |
| James (Jim) A. Kahle | Key designer for the RIOS processor that launched the RS/6000 family of workstations and servers | Key designer for the RIOS processor that launched the RS/6000 family of workstations and servers, Kahle has also served as Chief Architect and Director of Technology at the Center for Cell… |
| James (Jim) F. Blinn | Creator of the pre-encounter animations for the Voyager project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Creator of the pre-encounter animations for the Voyager project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Blinn is one of the founders of the computer graphics industry. He has spent his career… |
| James (Jim) Flanagan | Originator of auto-directive microphone arrays for teleconferencing, and pioneered the use of digital computers for acoustic signal processing | Originator of auto-directive microphone arrays for teleconferencing and pioneer of digital computers for acoustic signal processing, Flanagan made foundational contributions to voice… |
| James (Jim) J. Thomas | Visualization in computer graphics | Considered by many computer scientists to be a visionary and inspiring research and development (R&D) leader in the field of visualization and computer graphics, Thomas was internationally… |
| James (Jim) M. McCoy | Co-founder and CEO of Maxtor which became a leading disk drive manufacturer after pioneering the market for high performance 5.25 inch disk drives | Co-founder and CEO of Maxtor, which became a leading disk drive manufacturer after pioneering the market for high-performance 5.25-inch disk drives, McCoy has built multiple billion-dollar… |
| James (Jim) M. Williams | Helped to found and expand Linear Technology | Helped to found and expand Linear Technology, Williams was a talented analog circuit designer and technical author. He worked for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1968–1979), Philbrick,… |
| James (Jim) Nicholas Gray | Granular database locking, two-tier transaction commit semantics, and the data cube operator for data warehousing applications | Pioneer of granular database locking, two-tier transaction commit semantics, and the data cube operator for data warehousing applications, Gray transformed the field of database and transaction… |
| James (Jim) Richard Goodman | Contributor to shared-memory multiprocessor system design | Contributor to shared-memory multiprocessor system design, Goodman is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and has served as a Professor of Computer Science at the… |
| James (Jim) Rymarczyk | Key role player in advancing virtualization technology | Key role player in advancing virtualization technology at IBM, Rymarczyk spent over 43 years with the company, from May 1968 to January 2012, retiring as an IBM Fellow in 1996. He joined IBM as a… |
| James (Jim) T. Healy | Spent much of his career building success for U.S.-based and international companies in the semiconductor space | A career leader in building success for U.S.-based and international companies in the semiconductor space, Healy has served as General Manager of Sony LSI Design Inc., a provider of turnkey… |
| James (Jimmy) Treybig | Founder of Tandem Computers | Founder of Tandem Computers, a pioneering Silicon Valley manufacturer of fault-tolerant computer systems, Treybig built a company that served the growing number of transaction processing customers… |
| James A. Gosling | Credited as the inventor of the Java programming language | Credited as the inventor of the Java programming language, Gosling is best known as the father of Java. |
| James A. Weidenhammer | Co-developer of the vacuum column that made it possible for the magnetic tape drive used in the IBM 701 to work | Co-developer of the vacuum column that made magnetic tape drives possible, Weidenhammer was an IBM engineer who earned a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University in… |
| James C. Morgan | Longest Servicing CEO in Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley's longest-serving FORTUNE 500 CEO, Morgan served as chairman of the board of Applied Materials from 1987 to 2009 and as chief executive officer from 1977 to 2003. He has served as… |
| James David Foley | Best known as the co-author of several widely-used textbooks in the field of computer graphics | Co-author of several widely-used textbooks in the field of computer graphics — with over 400,000 copies in print and translated into ten languages — Foley is a Professor and the Stephen Fleming… |
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