Honor Roll
| Name Sort descending | Noted For | Description |
|---|---|---|
| James E Thornton | Computer Design | Designer of CDC's supercomputers — most importantly the 6600 and STAR-100, and earlier the ERA 1103 — Thornton made significant contributions to computer design. |
| James E. Rumbaugh | Co-developer of the Object Modeling Technique (OMT) and the Unified Modeling Language (UML) | Co-developer of the Object Modeling Technique (OMT) and the Unified Modeling Language (UML), Rumbaugh is an American computer scientist and object-oriented methodologist who created these with… |
| James Goodnight | CEO of the SAS Institute | CEO of SAS Institute, Goodnight co-founded the company and has remained active in developing its products. SAS Institute puts a quarter of its profits into research & development and develops… |
| James H. Clark | Founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape, Investor Entrepreneur | Founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape, Clark is recognized as one of Silicon Valley's most prolific entrepreneurs. His research work in computer graphics led to the development of systems for… |
| James Hartwell Frame | He transformed software development from its unstructured early days into the science of a predictable and manageable methodology | Pioneer who transformed software development from the art form of its hectic, unstructured early days into the science of a predictable and manageable methodology, Frame built a long and… |
| James Henry Rand, Jr. | Founder and President of Remington Rand which became the largest business machine manufacturing plant in the world and later purchased the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation in 1950 whose founders had conceived and designed the world’s first purely electronic, Turing-complete digital computer in 1946 and in 1947 developed the BINAC computer | Founder and President of Remington Rand, Rand built what became the largest business machine manufacturing plant in the world and showed remarkable foresight in purchasing the Eckert-Mauchly… |
| James Henry Wakelin, Jr. | Involved with B.F. Goodrich’s first use of modern computers | Involved with B.F. Goodrich's first use of modern computers, Wakelin was a United States physicist, oceanographer, and businessman who served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research and… |
| James Herbert Pomerene | Co-inventor and developer of the IAS machine and IBM 7030 and Harvest computers | Co-inventor and developer of the IAS machine and IBM 7030 and Harvest computers, Pomerene joined the Electronic Computer Project at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey… |
| James L. Fergason | Inventor of an improved liquid crystal display | Inventor of an improved liquid crystal display, Fergason made his seminal discovery of the twisted nematic cell — a low-power, field-operated LC display — in 1969 while at the Liquid Crystal… |
| James Martin | British Information Technology consultant and author, who was nominated for a Pulitzer prize for his book, The Wired Society: A Challenge for Tomorrow | Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his book *The Wired Society: A Challenge for Tomorrow*, Martin was a British Information Technology consultant and author who was one of the first to promote… |
| James T. Pendergrass | Instrumental in establishing the naval cryptologic services pioneering program to develop electronic digital computers | Instrumental in establishing the naval cryptologic service's pioneering program to develop electronic digital computers, Pendergrass shaped the early development of computing in the U.S. Navy.… |
| James T. Russell | Inventor of the concept of optical digital recording and playback. Designed and built the first electron beam welder. | Inventor of the concept of optical digital recording and playback, Russell joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of Battelle Memorial Institute in Richland in 1965. There, that same… |
| James Verlin Kimsey | Co-founded internet service provider America Online (AOL) | Co-founder of America Online (AOL), Kimsey served as the company's first chairman and CEO until 1995. Although Kimsey is best known for having helped to create AOL, he also spearheaded many… |
| James W. Cortada | Noted IT historian and author. Founder and Board Member, IT History Society | Noted IT historian and author, Cortada is also the founder and a board member of the IT History Society. Cortada joined IBM in 1974 as a salesman, and held a variety of sales and marketing… |
| James Waddell Alexander II | Founder of the cohomology theory, which developed gradually in the decade after he gave a definition of cochain and contributed to the beginnings of knot theory, defining the first of the polynomial knot invariants | Founder of cohomology theory, Alexander was also a pioneer in algebraic topology who contributed to the beginnings of knot theory by defining the first of the polynomial knot invariants. He… |
| James Wares Bryce | Inventor and pioneer in magnetic data storage | Inventor and pioneer in magnetic data storage, Bryce was one of America's most prolific inventors, credited with more than 500 U. S. and foreign patents. His death in 1949 took from the scientific… |
| James Weldon Demmel | Writer of Prometheus, a parallel multigrid finite element solver | Writer of Prometheus, a parallel multigrid finite element solver, Demmel is an American mathematician and computer scientist. Prometheus, which he wrote with Mark Adams and Robert Taylor, won the… |
| James William Cooley | Co-developer of the Fast Fourier transform, an algorithm to compute the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) and its inverse | Co-developer of the Fast Fourier Transform, Cooley made one of the most significant contributions to mathematics and digital signal processing in the twentieth century. Cooley was born and… |
| Jan Aleksander Rajchman | Conceiver of the first read-only memory and developer of the selectively addressable storage tube | Conceiver of the first read-only memory and developer of the selectively addressable storage tube, Rajchman was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. Although he was born in London… |
| Jan Camenisch | Co-inventor of Identity Mixer, a unique cryptographic protocol suite for privacy-preserving authentication and transfer of certified attributes | Co-inventor of Identity Mixer, a unique cryptographic protocol suite for privacy-preserving authentication and transfer of certified attributes, Camenisch is a leading scientist in the area of… |
| Jane Lubchenco | NOAA Administrator | Named Nature's first Newsmaker of the Year in 2010, Jane Lubchenco was an American environmental scientist and marine ecologist whose work spanned biodiversity, climate change, and the sustainable… |
| Janese Swanson | Co-Created Carmen Sandiego Game | Co-developer of the first Carmen Sandiego educational game, Swanson also founded Girl Tech, a company dedicated to creating products that make technology more interesting and accessible for girls… |
| Janet Emerson Bashen | First Black Woman Software Patent | Regarded as the first African American woman to obtain a web-based software patent, Bashen earned that distinction through her invention of LinkLine, a web-based EEO software application designed… |
| Janie Tsao | Co-Founded Linksys | Co-founder of Linksys, a pioneer in consumer home networking, Tsao built the company alongside her husband Victor and sold it to Cisco Systems for $500 million in 2003. Born in Taiwan, she brought… |
| Jaron Zepel Lanier | Pioneering and popularizing "Virtual Reality" | Pioneer of virtual reality, Lanier led the team in the late 1980s that developed the first implementations of multi-person virtual worlds using head-mounted displays. In mid-1997, he became a… |
| Jason McGee | Lead architect on the team that developed the original WebSphere Application Server in 1998 | Lead architect on the team that developed the original WebSphere Application Server in 1998, McGee has been instrumental in establishing IBM as the leader in cloud technologies, Java-based… |
| Jay Glenn Miner | Father of the Amiga | Father of the Amiga computer, Miner left a major mark on the history of home computing. He started in the electronics industry with a number of designs in the medical world, including a… |
| Jay N. Goldberg | Purchased Money Management Systems, Inc. (MMS) in 1986, which sold software and services to banks and broker-dealers for securities trading activities | Purchaser of Money Management Systems, Inc. (MMS) in 1986, Goldberg acquired the firm — which sold software and services to banks and broker-dealers for securities trading activities — from Ziff-… |
| Jay T. Last | Member of the so-called "traitorous eight" that founded Silicon Valley | Member of the so-called "traitorous eight" that founded Silicon Valley, Last was born in Butler, Pennsylvania. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Optics from the University of Rochester in 1951… |
| Jay W. Lathrop | Instrumental in the development of photolithography - critical in the first efforts to produce semiconductor Integrated Circuits | Instrumental in the development of photolithography — critical in the first efforts to produce semiconductor integrated circuits — Lathrop is recognized as a pioneering figure in… |
| Jay Wright Forrester | Founder, System Dynamtics | Founder of System Dynamics, Forrester was also a pioneer computer engineer and systems scientist whose invention of magnetic core memory transformed computing. Forrester was born on July 14… |
| Jean Amédée Hoerni | Developer of the planar process, a manufacturing process by which modern integrated circuits are built | Developer of the planar process, the manufacturing process by which modern integrated circuits are built, Hoerni was a silicon transistor pioneer and a member of the Traitorous Eight. Hoerni was… |
| Jean Armour Polly | Internet Safety Author | Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2019, Jean Armour Polly was a librarian and author best known for her early book series on safe Internet use, "Surfing the Internet." |
| Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier | Best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations | Best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations, Fourier left an unfinished work on determinate equations which was… |
| Jean Bartik | One of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer | One of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer, Bartik was born Betty Jean Jennings in Gentry County, Missouri, in 1924 and attended Northwest Missouri State Teachers College, majoring in… |
| Jean Calvignac | Leader of the team responsible for the architecture of IBM network processors | Leader of the team responsible for the architecture of IBM network processors, Calvignac is a 1997 IBM Fellow. Network processors are an integrated circuit which has a feature set specifically… |
| Jean David Ichbiah | Chief designer of the Ada programming language | Chief designer of the Ada programming language, Ichbiah was a French-born computer scientist who led the design of Ada (from 1977–1983), a general-purpose, strongly typed programming language with… |
| Jean E. Sammet | Developed the FORMAC programming language | Developer of FORMAC, the first widely used computer language for symbolic manipulation of mathematical formulas, Sammet spent 27 years at IBM where she created it. She received her B.A. in… |
| Jean Paul Jacob | Involved in the IBM steel mills projects which developed high level simulations for NASA and he created the first IBM Scientific Center of South America in Brazil, as well as the Institute for Software Engineering | Involved in IBM steel mills projects that developed high-level simulations for NASA, Jacob also created the first IBM Scientific Center of South America in Brazil and the Institute for Software… |
| Jef Raskin | Human-computer interface expert best known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple | Human-computer interface expert best known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple, Raskin first met Apple Computer's Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak following the debut of their Apple II… |
| Jeff De Luca | Primary architect of Feature Driven Development (FDD), a lightweight methodology for developing computer software with reduced management overhead, time and money | Primary architect of Feature Driven Development (FDD), De Luca created this lightweight methodology for developing computer software with reduced management overhead, time and money circa 1999. He… |
| Jefferson (Jeff) Y. Han | Co-developer of "multi-touch sensing," touch-screen interface | Co-developer of "multi-touch sensing," Han is a research scientist at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences who helped create touch-screen interfaces able to recognize multiple points… |
| Jeffery D. Stein | Founder and Chairman, IT History Society | Founder and Chairman of the IT History Society, Stein has also served as the Founder and CEO of On-Line Business Systems and Convene.com, and has been active on many boards and non-profits. |
| Jeffrey (Jeff) Hawkins | Founder of Palm and Handspring | Founder of Palm Computing and Handspring, Hawkins invented the Palm Pilot and the Treo. He subsequently turned to neuroscience full-time, founding the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience (… |
| Jeffrey (Jeff) M. Nick | Major role player in setting technical direction for EMC Corporation’s M&A activities in the areas of Cloud computing, software-defined data center and data analytics | Major role player in setting technical direction for EMC Corporation's M&A activities in the areas of Cloud computing, software-defined data center, and data analytics, Nick has served as… |
| Jeffrey (Jeff) Preston Bezos | Founder and CEO, Amazon.com | Founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Bezos graduated from Princeton University as a member of Tau Beta Pi and worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. before founding Amazon in 1994. |
| Jeffrey (Jeff) Scott Raikes | Senior Executive at Microsoft and CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | Senior executive at Microsoft and CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Raikes is credited with driving much of Microsoft's early work in business applications. He joined Microsoft in… |
| Jeffrey A. Frey | Co-developer on technologies that enable popular initiatives such as cloud computing | Co-developer of technologies enabling cloud computing, Frey has served as an IBM Fellow and CTO for System z. He is one of the founding architects of System z Parallel Sysplex, which operates as… |
| Jeffrey Chuan Chu | He was a core member of the engineering team that designed the first electronic computer, ENIAC, in 1946 | A core member of the engineering team that designed the first electronic computer, ENIAC, in 1946, Chu went on to become a leading figure in computing and a tireless advocate for modernizing China… |
| Jeffrey R Yost | Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Annals of the History of Computing | Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Yost has also served as Associate Director of the Charles Babbage Institute from 1998 onward. Yost authored The Computer Industry… |
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