Honor Roll
| Name Sort descending | Noted For | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Jeffrey Skoll | The first employee and also the first President of the internet auction firm eBay | The first employee and first President of internet auction firm eBay, Skoll is a Canadian-born engineer and internet entrepreneur living in Los Angeles, California, with an estimated net worth of… |
| Jennie S. Hwang | First Woman PhD Materials Science | The first woman to receive a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, Hwang built a career spanning business, engineering, and science. She became national… |
| Jennifer Granholm | First Female Michigan Governor | The first woman to serve as both Attorney General and Governor of Michigan, Granholm held those offices from 1999 to 2003 and 2003 to 2011, respectively, and later served as the 16th United States… |
| Jennifer Pahlka | Founded Code for America | Founder of Code for America and a key figure in bringing civic technology to the forefront of American public policy, Pahlka served as U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer from June 2013 to June… |
| Jennifer Rexford | Noted for research in internet routing, network measurement and management | Noted for research in internet routing, network measurement and management, Rexford has served as a Professor in the Computer Science department at Princeton University. From 1996–2004, she was a… |
| Jennifer Yates | AT&T Inventive Science Leader | Inducted into the WITI Hall of Fame in 2016, Yates served as Assistant Vice President of Inventive Science at AT&T Labs, where she led research initiatives in inventive science and technology… |
| Jeremy Stoppelman | CEO, Yelp | CEO of Yelp, Stoppelman co-founded the company in 2004 and has led it as chief executive since its inception. |
| Jerome (Jerry) Howard Saltzer | Contributor to the End-to-end principle in systems design, one of the important underlying principles that govern the operation of the Internet | Contributor to the End-to-end principle in systems design — one of the important underlying principles governing the operation of the Internet — Saltzer is a computer scientist who made many… |
| Jerome Namias | Made sure the computer-generated forecasts resembled the real atmosphere for the project in numerical forecasting using the supercomputer ENIAC at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton | Instrumental in ensuring that computer-generated forecasts resembled the real atmosphere for the numerical forecasting project using the supercomputer ENIAC at the Institute of Advanced Study in… |
| Jerome Svigals | He worked on developing the first electronic computer, becoming one of the world’s first digital programmers | One of the world's first digital programmers, Svigals worked on developing the first electronic computer as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1950. Born in 1926 in the Bronx, New York… |
| Jerrier A. Haddad | Charged with the complete technical and executive responsibility for the IBM 701 development and design program | Charged with the complete technical and executive responsibility for the IBM 701 development and design program, Haddad led the effort that featured the first magnetic tape storage system. The… |
| Jerry D. Hutcheson | Researcher of several types of semiconductor devices | Researcher of several types of semiconductor devices, Hutcheson joined the electronics industry in 1959 and advanced through a succession of research and manufacturing posts in several companies… |
| Jerry M. Woodall | Inventor of the first commercially viable heterojunction material GaAlAs for red LEDs used in automobile brake lights and traffic lights, CD and DVD players, TV remote controls and computer networks | Inventor of the first commercially viable heterojunction material GaAlAs for red LEDs used in automobile brake lights, traffic lights, CD and DVD players, TV remote controls, and computer networks… |
| Jerry Yang | Co-founder, Yahoo | Co-founder of Yahoo!, Yang is a Chinese American entrepreneur who also served as the company's CEO (Chief Yahoo). Born in Taiwan in 1968, Yang immigrated to the United States with his… |
| Jerzy Witold Różycki | Inventor of the "clock" method, which sometimes made it possible to determine which of the Enigma machine's rotors was at the far right, that is, in the position where the rotor always revolved at every depression of a key | Inventor of the "clock" method for determining Enigma rotor positions, Różycki was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma-machine ciphers. He was born in what… |
| Jesse James Garrett | Publisher of the diagram titled, “The Elements of User Experience”; a model of user-centered design (UCD) | Publisher of the diagram "The Elements of User Experience," a foundational model of user-centered design, Garrett is a user experience designer and co-founder of Adaptive Path, a user experience… |
| Jian (Jane) Xu | IBM China CTO | Chief technology officer of China Systems and Technology Labs at IBM, Jian (Jane) Xu was a software engineer from China who also served as an engineer at IBM. |
| Jiawei Han | Researcher of data mining, data warehousing, and database systems, co-author of the textbook, "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" which has been popularly used worldwide | Co-author of the widely-used textbook "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" and a leading researcher in data mining, data warehousing, and database systems, Han has served as Abel Bliss Professor… |
| Jie Liu | Led group to conduct fundamental and applied research in sensing and energy efficient computing with applications in sensor networks, data centers, and mobile computing | Leader of Microsoft Research's Sensing and Energy Research Group (SERG), Liu has conducted fundamental and applied research in sensing and energy-efficient computing with applications in sensor… |
| Jignesh M. Patel | Founder and developer of Locomatix “location aware services” for use by cell phones, iPhones, and social networks which gives users access to exact locations of moving targets…it was named the 20 hottest startup by MobileBeat, in 2010 and highlighted in the Innovation Showcase at CTIA | Founder of Locomatix, a "location aware services" technology named one of the 20 hottest startups by MobileBeat in 2010 and highlighted in the Innovation Showcase at CTIA, Patel is a Professor of… |
| Jim Barton | Inventor of the modern digital video recorder, which allows consumers to view television programming on their own schedules; and co-founder of TiVo Inc. | Inventor of the modern digital video recorder, which allows consumers to view television programming on their own schedules, Barton co-founded TiVo Inc. and set the technical vision for the… |
| Jim Garrett | Pioneer of the Internet banking industry and online marketing financial services | Pioneer of the Internet banking industry and online marketing financial services, Garrett founded Kudzu Interactive in 2004 and developed the web-based ordering platform that became the restaurant… |
| Jim Hall | Considered to be the “father” of the LaserJet printer, he was the Manager of the development of HP's first laser printer, the 2680A | Considered the "father" of the LaserJet printer, Hall managed development of HP's first laser printer, the 2680A. Hall grew up on a farm near Halifax, Virginia. Listening to the shortwave… |
| Jim Knopf (aka Button) | One of the "fathers" of shareware | Considered by many to be one of the "fathers" of shareware (so named by fellow software veteran Peter Norton), Knopf worked as an IBM software engineer in Seattle, Washington, where he wrote a… |
| Jim Tice Ellis | Co creator of Usenet | Co-creator of Usenet, Ellis changed how people communicate online. It was 1979 when Ellis and a fellow Duke University student, Tom Truscott, decided to use e-mail programs and university… |
| Jimmy Donal Wales | Founder, Wikipedia | Co-founder of Wikipedia, Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur who has helped transform how the world accesses information. Wales was born on August 7, 1966, in Huntsville, Alabama. He… |
| Joan Ball | First Computer Dating Service | Founder of the first computer dating service in England, Ball launched the pioneering venture in 1964. Her service also predated the earliest American computer dating services, making her… |
| Joan L. Mitchell | Major contributor to compression methods for faster printing and transmission of image files | A key contributor to the JPEG image compression algorithm and MPEG video standards, Mitchell became an IBM Fellow in 2001. Working at IBM with William B. Pennebaker, she helped fine-tune the JPEG… |
| Joanne Martin | IBM Chief Information Security Officer | Serving as IBM's Chief Information Security Officer and VP for IT Risk from 2012 to 2015, Martin built a career at the intersection of security and enterprise technology. She previously served as… |
| Joe Schoendorf | Board member for industry pioneers such as Authorware/Macromedia | Board member for industry pioneers such as Authorware/Macromedia, Schoendorf has been active in high-technology industries for 45 years. He holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering… |
| Joel McCormack | Key software designer at NCR | Key software designer at NCR, McCormack designed the NCR Corporation version of the p-code machine, a kind of stack machine popular in the 1970s as the preferred way to implement new computing… |
| Joel S. Birnbaum | Directed the development of the precursor of Hewlett-Packard precision architecture, the basis for all Hewlett-Packard's RISC computers and was responsible for the development of all core hardware platforms and systems software for the precision architecture product line | Director of the development of the precursor of Hewlett-Packard precision architecture — the basis for all Hewlett-Packard's RISC computers — Birnbaum has also served as Senior Vice President for… |
| Joel S. Emer | Pioneer in the quantitative approach to computer architecture and leader of the development of the Asim simulator | Pioneer in the quantitative approach to computer architecture and leader of the development of the Asim simulator, Emer has made significant contributions to computer performance analysis… |
| Joelle Coutaz | Created PAC Architecture Model | Developer of the PAC (Presentation-Abstraction-Control) software architecture model, Coutaz made foundational contributions to human-computer interaction that shaped how interactive user… |
| Johann Wolfgang Ritter von Kempelen | The Wolfgang von Kempelen Computing Science History Prize was named in his honor, but he was most famous for his construction of The Turk, a chess-playing automaton, later revealed to be a hoax – He also created a manually operated speaking machine | Famous for constructing The Turk, a chess-playing automaton later revealed to be a hoax, Kempelen was also a Hungarian author and inventor with Irish ancestors, born in Pressburg, Kingdom of… |
| Johannes Georg Bednorz | Co-discoverer, with K. Alex Müller, of high-temperature superconductivity in ceramics, for which they shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics | Co-discoverer, with K. Alex Müller, of high-temperature superconductivity in ceramics, Bednorz shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics for this breakthrough. He was born in Neuenkirchen, North… |
| Johannes Kepler | Noted for his eponymous laws of planetary motion | Best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion, Kepler was a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer and a key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution. His laws were… |
| John (J. B.) Battiscombe Gunn | Inventor of the Gunn diode, the first inexpensive source of microwave power that did not require vacuum tubes | Inventor of the Gunn diode, the first inexpensive source of microwave power that did not require vacuum tubes, Gunn discovered the Gunn Effect while working at IBM in 1962. Gunn diodes have been… |
| John (Jack) Clemens | Pioneer in the development of random access disk storage and also helping to build Silicon Valley | Pioneer in the development of random access disk storage, Clemens was part of the IBM team that developed the RAMAC and is sometimes considered to be among those who "built" Silicon Valley. He was… |
| John (Jack) F. Waters | One of the original key contributors who designed and built MCI's initial Internet service | One of the original key contributors who designed and built MCI's initial Internet service, Waters has served as Chief Technology Officer for Level 3 Communications, Inc., a Denver-based provider… |
| John (Jack) G. Herriot | Teacher of the first programming course at Stanford University and helped found its Computer Science Department | Teacher of the first programming course at Stanford University, Herriot helped found the Computer Science Department and served as the first Director of the Stanford Computation Center, which… |
| John (Jack) Mason Harker | Pioneer as part of the original team developing the IBM 350 RAMAC disk storage unit; the world's first hard disk drive | Pioneer of the IBM 350 RAMAC disk storage unit — the world's first hard disk drive — Harker started as a member of the original team that developed the first disk storage system and went on to… |
| John (Jack) Sebastian Frey | Contributor to IBM's successful defense against antitrust actions in the United States and Europe | Contributor to IBM's successful defense against antitrust actions in the United States and Europe, Frey built a distinguished 32-year legal career with the company. Born in Hornell, NY, he… |
| John (James) Clerk Maxwell | Formulated classical electromagnetic theory which united all previously unrelated observations, experiments and equations of electricity, magnetism and optics into a consistent theory | A Scottish physicist and mathematician, he was born in Edinburgh, to John Clerk and Frances Cay. His father was a man of comfortable means, of the Clerk family of Penicuik, Midlothian, holders of… |
| John A Gosden | LEO Software Development, EDP Standards | Pioneer of LEO software development and EDP standards, Gosden was a key figure in the world's first business computing applications. John joined J. Lyons as a trainee programmer in 1953… |
| John Adam Presper Eckert, Jr. | Invented the first general-purpose electronic digital computer - ENIAC | Co-inventor of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, Eckert was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly, he presented the first course in… |
| John Adrian Shepherd-Barron | Pioneer in the development of the cash machine, sometimes referred to as the Automated Teller Machine or ATM | Pioneer in the development of the cash machine (ATM), Shepherd-Barron joined De La Rue Instruments in the 1960s and in 1965 came up with the concept of a self-service machine that would dispense… |
| John Alan Lasseter | Pioneer in the use of CGI animation; and one of the three founding fathers of Pixar Animation Studios | Pioneer in the use of CGI animation and one of the three founding fathers of Pixar Animation Studios, Lasseter has served as the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios.… |
| John Ambrose Fleming | Inventor of the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube | Inventor of the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, Fleming transformed the foundations of modern electronics. After leaving the University of Nottingham in 1882, Fleming took up the post of "… |
| John Aris | A part of the original team that built the LEO comptuer | Part of the original team that built the LEO computer, Aris later served as Director of the National Computing Centre (NCC) 1985–90, where he championed the importance and the skills of computer… |
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