Honor Roll
| Name Sort descending | Noted For | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Kevin Warwick | Best known for his studies on direct interfaces between computer systems and the human nervous system and his research in the field of robotics | Best known for his studies on direct interfaces between computer systems and the human nervous system, Warwick is a British scientist and professor of cybernetics whose research also spans the… |
| Kilnam Chon | Developer of the first Internet in Asia, called SDN | Developer of the first Internet in Asia, called SDN, Chon is a pioneering computer scientist and network engineer. He was born and raised in Japan and completed his education in the US. After… |
| Kim Polese | Silicon Valley Technology Leader | Named to Time magazine's list of "The 25 Most Influential Americans" early in her career in 1997, Polese built a long record of leadership in Silicon Valley technology and entrepreneurship. … |
| King-Sun Fu | Pioneer in the field of pattern recognition (within computer image analysis) and machine intelligence | A pioneer in the field of pattern recognition and machine intelligence, Fu is considered to be the "father of automatic pattern recognition," and was widely recognized for his extensive… |
| Kirk Paul Lafler | Data Science, Education, Programming, Author | Author of *PROC SQL: Beyond the Basics Using SAS* and a data scientist, Lafler is an educator, developer, programmer, and consultant. He teaches as a lecturer and adjunct professor at San Diego… |
| Kishor S. Trivedi | Leading international expert in the domain of reliability and performability evaluation of Dependable systems, making seminal contributions to stochastic modeling formalisms and their efficient solution | A leading international expert in reliability and performability evaluation of dependable systems, Trivedi has made seminal contributions to stochastic modeling formalisms and their efficient… |
| Klára (Klari) Dán Von Neumann | Writer of the code used on the MANIAC machine developed by her husband, John Von Neumann and Julian Bigelow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory | Writer of the code used on the MANIAC machine developed by John Von Neumann and Julian Bigelow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Klára Dán Von Neumann was also a pioneer computer programmer… |
| Klara Dan von Neumann | First Computer Programmer | One of the first computer programmers in history, Klára Dán von Neumann was also the first woman to execute modern-style code on a computer. A Hungarian-American mathematician and self-taught… |
| Klaus Samelson | His research led to a fundamental breakthrough in how computer systems are modeled and designed and he played a key role in the design of ALGOL 58 and ALGOL 60 | A pioneer whose research led to a fundamental breakthrough in how computer systems are modeled and designed, Samelson also played a key role in the design of ALGOL 58 and ALGOL 60. A German… |
| Klaus Schulten | Leader of the research group that developed the software for computational structural biology, including the molecular dynamics package NAMD and the visualization software VMD used today by many thousands of researchers worldwide | Leader of the research group that developed NAMD and VMD—molecular dynamics and visualization software now used by many thousands of researchers worldwide—Schulten was a German American… |
| Konrad Zuse | Computer Design, earliest design based on Turing ideas | Designer and builder of the earliest computer in 1941, based on Turing's concepts, Zuse was a German engineer who followed up with a succession of more advanced models through the 1940s and 1950s… |
| Kris Rinne | Wireless Technology Pioneer | Inducted into both the 2013 Wireless Hall of Fame and the 2014 Women in Technology International Hall of Fame, Rinne is recognized as a key figure in wireless technologies through her work at AT… |
| Krishnendu (Krish) Chakrabarty | Pioneer researcher on the design automation and testing of complex chips with application to microfluidic biochips | Pioneer researcher on the design automation and testing of complex chips with application to microfluidic biochips, Chakrabarty has served as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at… |
| Kristen Nygaard | Co-inventor of SIMULA, Social agenda for computing applications | Co-inventor of SIMULA and pioneer of object-oriented programming, Nygaard was a computer scientist noted for his social agenda and work with the Norwegian Trade Unions. He was a systems developer… |
| Krste Asanović | Led the SCALE group, investigating advanced architectures for energy-efficient high-performance computing - his breakthrough innovations in memory management and in parallel processor design are highly influential within the field | Leader of the SCALE group, investigating advanced architectures for energy-efficient high-performance computing, Asanović's breakthrough innovations in memory management and parallel processor… |
| Krunali Patel | Texas Instruments Analog Design | Inducted into the WITI Hall of Fame in 2017, Patel became vice president and general manager of Analog Design Services for Texas Instruments Incorporated. Over 21 years at TI, she demonstrated… |
| Kun-Yao (K.Y.) Lee | Founder of BenQ Corporation, the No. 2 manufacturer of flat-panel computer displays | Founder of BenQ Corporation, the No. 2 manufacturer of flat-panel computer displays, Lee is also recognized for growing the company to 40 times its former size and building BenQ products into a… |
| Kurt Gödel | Known for his two incompleteness theorems which heavily influenced the sciences and mathematics | Known for his two incompleteness theorems, Gödel heavily influenced the sciences and mathematics. Published in 1931 when he was 25 years of age, one year after finishing his doctorate at the… |
| Kurt Lehovec | Innovator of the concept of p-n junction isolation making him one of the pioneers of the integrated circuit or microchip), which is used in virtually all electronic equipment today revolutionizing the world of electronics | Innovator of the concept of p-n junction isolation, Lehovec was one of the pioneers of the integrated circuit or microchip, which is used in virtually all electronic equipment today and has… |
| L. (Bill) William Krause | General Manager of one of the three departments created during the splitup of HP's General Systems Division which had responsibility for the HP 250 small business computers | General Manager of the HP General Systems Division responsible for the HP 250 small business computers, Krause spent 14 years at Hewlett-Packard Company from 1967 to 1981 in various marketing and… |
| L. John Doerr | Venture capital investments | Prominent venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in Silicon Valley, Doerr is an American investor based in Menlo Park, California. |
| L. John Rankine | Advanced international standardization in information technology | Recognized for advancing international standardization in information technology, Rankine received the Steinmetz Medal in 1997 for this achievement. A graduate of the University of Glasgow with… |
| L.J. Sevin | Significant leader in the founding and growth of the U. S. high tech industry | A significant leader in the founding and growth of the U.S. high tech industry, Sevin co-founded Mostek Corporation in 1969 and later co-founded the venture capital firm Sevin Rosen Funds (SRF)… |
| LaRoy Tymes | Co-designer and developer of “Supervisor” for Tymnet; Tymshare's proprietary network | Co-designer and developer of "Supervisor" for Tymnet, Tymshare's proprietary network, Tymes grew up in Wyoming, Michigan. He attended the University of Michigan, but didn't complete his education… |
| Larry Cohn | Experienced in creating businesses focused on implementing Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, a vital organizational tool that integrates varied organizational systems and enables flawless transactions and production | Experienced in creating businesses focused on implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, Cohn has spent over twenty-five years helping organizations integrate varied systems and… |
| Larry LeRoy Constantine | Pioneer in modern software engineering | Pioneer in modern software engineering, Constantine began his professional career in computers with a summer job at Scientific Computing, at the time a subsidiary of Control Data Corporation, in… |
| Larry M. Ernst | Designer in the area of print and image quality that has been the foundation for industry-leading products | Designer in the area of print and image quality whose work has been the foundation for industry-leading products, Ernst became an IBM Fellow in 2005 — the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or… |
| Larry R. Harris | Internationally recognized as an expert on database systems and computerized natural language | Internationally recognized as an expert on database systems and computerized natural language, Harris founded EasyAsk as Linguistic Technology Corporation (LTC) in 1994 and authored its EasyAsk… |
| Larry Smarr | Advocate of a high-speed network linking the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications which became the NSFnet, one of the significant predecessors of today's Internet | Advocate for a high-speed network linking the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications — which became the NSFnet, one of the significant predecessors of… |
| Larry Wall | Creator of Perl and Perl 6 | Creator of Perl, Wall is one of the most influential figures in the open-source software movement. Wall studied linguistics and music at Seattle Pacific University, where he graduated in… |
| Lars Heide | Editor of the IEEE Annals of the history of computing; noted international historian, associate professor at the Centre for Business History at the Copenhagen Business School | Editor of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Heide is a noted international historian and associate professor at the Centre for Business History at the Copenhagen Business School. |
| Lars Wirzenius | Co-founder of the Linux Documentation Project | Co-founder of the Linux Documentation Project, Wirzenius has been programming computers since 1984. He worked on Linux documentation, including the Linux System Administrator's Guide, and was the… |
| Laszlo (Les) A. Belady | Authored an article on Virtual Memory Systems published in 1966 that was the most citied paper in the software area in the following two decades | Author of the most-cited paper in software over two decades, Belady's 1966 article on Virtual Memory Systems set a landmark acknowledged by the Citation Index Classic. A design engineer and… |
| László Kalmár | Pioneer in mathematical logic and theoretical computer science | Pioneer in mathematical logic and theoretical computer science, Kalmár defined what are known as elementary functions, number-theoretic functions (i.e. those based on the natural numbers) built up… |
| László Kozma | Designer of the first Hungarian digital computer | Designer of the first Hungarian digital computer, Kozma made lasting contributions to computing and electrical engineering. Due to the regulations of numerus clausus, his application to the… |
| Laura Haas | Worked on the Starburst query processor from which DB2 UDB was developed | Best known for her work on the Starburst query processor, from which DB2 UDB was developed, Haas became a 2009 IBM Fellow and has served as Director of Computer Science at IBM Almaden Research… |
| Laura Niklason | Pioneered Tissue Engineering | Internationally recognized for pioneering work in vascular and lung tissue engineering, Niklason became the Nicholas M. Greene Professor of Anesthesiology and Biomedical Engineering at Yale… |
| Lauren States | IBM Software Strategy Executive | Former vice president of strategy and transformation for IBM's Software Group Division, States also served the same organization as chief technology officer. |
| Laurence (Larry) Spitters | Co-founder of Memorex, the first company to manufacture chromium dioxide cassettes in substantial volume; also producing the Memorex 650 in 1972, the first read-write floppy disk drive | Co-founder of Memorex, the first company to manufacture chromium dioxide cassettes in substantial volume, Spitters is an American industrialist in the field of magnetic recording media. He… |
| Laurie Williams | Foremost co-researcher in agile software development and in the security of healthcare IT applications | Foremost co-researcher in agile software development and in the security of healthcare IT applications, Williams has served as a Professor in the Computer Science Department of the College of… |
| Lawrence (Larry) A. Rowe | Founding director of the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center (BMRC), which was created to explore the application of multimedia technology to education and research | Founding director of the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center (BMRC), Rowe is a computer scientist who served as a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of… |
| Lawrence (Larry) A. Welke | Publisher of the first publications dedicated to the software industry; also, co-founder of the Software Industry Association section of the Association of Data Processing Service Organization (ADAPSO), known today as the Information Technology Association of America, (ITAA) | Publisher of the first publications dedicated to the software industry, Welke is also remembered as a co-founder of the Software Industry Association section of ADAPSO (known today as the… |
| Lawrence (Larry) G. Roberts | Developer of ARPA net and the Internet | Developer of ARPANet and the Internet, Roberts served as chief scientist at the Advanced Research Projects Agency, where he and his team created packet switching and the ARPANet, which was the… |
| Lawrence (Larry) H. Landweber | Creator of THEORYNET providing electronic mail to over 100 researchers in computer science | Creator of THEORYNET, an electronic mail system serving over 100 researchers in computer science, Landweber is also best known for founding the Computer Science Network (CSNET) project in 1979,… |
| Lawrence (Larry) J. Schoenberg | His commitment to using digital tools in manuscript studies and to making his collection freely available online has supported the work of many scholars | His commitment to using digital tools in manuscript studies and to making his collection freely available online supported the work of many scholars. Co-founder and former CEO of AGS Computers,… |
| Lawrence (Larry) Joseph Ellison | Founder and CEO, Oracle | Founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major enterprise software company, Ellison is an American entrepreneur. As of 2010, he was the sixth richest person in the world with a personal wealth of… |
| Lawrence (Larry) Page | Founder, Google | Co-founder of Google Inc., Page is an American computer scientist who founded the company alongside Sergey Brin. |
| Lawrence J. Shoenberg | Served as head of three sections of ADAPSO: Software Products, Professional Services, and Information Systems Integration | Noted for serving as head of three sections of ADAPSO—Software Products, Professional Services, and Information Systems Integration—Shoenberg also spent 20 years on the ADAPSO board and served a… |
| Lawrence Moser Breed | Creator of the first computer animation language and system | Creator of the first computer animation language and system, Breed built it as an undergraduate at Stanford University in 1961 and used it at Stanford football half-times to coordinate images… |
| Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale | Developer of the "migratable objects" parallel programming model and its implementation in the Charm++ parallel programming system | Developer of the "migratable objects" parallel programming model and its implementation in the Charm++ parallel programming system, Kale has served as a Professor of Computer Science at the… |
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