Honor Roll
| Name Sort descending | Noted For | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Murray Turoff | Founding father of computer-mediated communication and was the designer of the Emergency Management Information System And Reference Index (EMISARI) | A founding father of computer-mediated communication and designer of EMISARI, Turoff was also a retired Distinguished Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). While the term has… |
| Myron Kayton | Designer and analyzer of some of the earliest multi-sensor navigation systems | Designer and analyzer of some of the earliest multi-sensor navigation systems, Kayton has spent much of his career working for TRW, NASA, and Litton, followed by running his own practice for 18… |
| Myron Krueger | Considered to be one of the first generation virtual reality and augmented reality researchers | Considered one of the first generation virtual reality and augmented reality researchers, Krueger is an American computer artist who developed early interactive works. While earning a Ph.D. in… |
| Nagui Halim | Team Leader that developed System S, a computing system able to manage and analyze massive volumes of continuous streams of data | Team leader who developed System S—a computing system able to manage and analyze massive volumes of continuous streams of data—Halim was named an IBM Fellow in 2011, the highest honor a scientist… |
| Nancy Hafkin | Pioneered African Internet Networking | A pioneer of networking and electronic communications in Africa, Hafkin spearheaded the Pan African Development Information System (PADIS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (… |
| Nancy Jane Hafkin | A pioneer and innovator in the area of networking, development information, and electronic communications in Africa | A pioneer and innovator in networking, development information, and electronic communications in Africa, Hafkin spurred the Pan African Development Information System (PADIS) of the United Nations… |
| Natalia Trayanova | Cardiovascular Engineering Innovation Director | Director of the Alliance for Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Treatment Innovation, Trayanova held dual appointments at Johns Hopkins University as a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and a… |
| Nathan Rochester | Designer of the IBM 701, the first general purpose, mass produced computer; writer of the first assembler and participator in the founding of the field of artificial intelligence | Designer of the IBM 701, the first general-purpose, mass-produced computer, Rochester was also the writer of the first symbolic assembler and a founding participant in the field of artificial… |
| Nathaniel S. Borenstein | One of the original designers of the MIME protocol for formatting multimedia Internet electronic mail | One of the original designers of the MIME protocol for formatting multimedia Internet electronic mail, Borenstein has served as Chief Scientist at email management company Mimecast and founded… |
| Nathen (Nate) P. Edwards | Designer of the prototype of the first electronic memory for the IBM 701 computer, and manager of the digital electronic design for the working prototype of the highly successful AN/FSQ-7 SAGE project | Designer of the prototype of the first electronic memory for the IBM 701 computer and manager of the digital electronic design for the working prototype of the AN/FSQ-7 SAGE project, Edwards… |
| Naveen Selvadurai | Co-founder of location-based social networking site Foursquare.com | Co-founder of the location-based social networking site Foursquare.com, Selvadurai is a US internet entrepreneur born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He graduated with degrees from King's College… |
| Neal Town Stephenson | Writer of a non-fiction work, "In The Beginning Was The Command Line", an essay on operating systems including the histories of and relationships between DOS, Windows, Linux, and BeOS | Writer of the non-fiction essay "In The Beginning Was The Command Line" — examining the histories of and relationships between DOS, Windows, Linux, and BeOS — Stephenson is an American author… |
| Neerja Raman | Former Director Hewlett Packard Labs | Inducted into the WITI Hall of Fame in 2005, Raman built a distinguished career spanning research management, technology leadership, and academic innovation. Until February 2006, she served as… |
| Neil Bartlett | Key contributor to IBMs risk analytics business, applying technical innovation to a deep understanding of risk challenges by clients | Key contributor to IBM's risk analytics business, Bartlett has served as an IBM Fellow, Chief Technology Officer, and Head of Development for the Risk Analytics division of IBM. His innovative… |
| Neil James Alexander Sloane | Contributor to the field of combinatorics, error-correction code and sphere packing | Contributor to the fields of combinatorics, error-correction coding, and sphere packing, Sloane's research has ranged far and wide, including coding theory, sphere packing, lattices and quadratic… |
| Nestor Burtnyk | Father of the multimillion-dollar computer animation industry through his pioneering work in animation technology | Father of the multimillion-dollar computer animation industry, Burtnyk pioneered animation technology that transformed the field. Born in Ethelbert, Manitoba to Ukrainian immigrants, he began… |
| Nichelle Nichols | Star Trek Actress NASA Recruiter | Groundbreaking for African American actresses on American television, Nichols portrayed Uhura in Star Trek and its film sequels. From 1977 to 2015, she volunteered her time to promote NASA's… |
| Nicholas (Nick) DeWolf | Designer of more than 300 semiconductor and other test systems, including the J259, the world's first computer-operated integrated circuit tester | Designer of more than 300 semiconductor and other test systems, including the J259, the world's first computer-operated integrated circuit tester, DeWolf co-founded Teradyne, a Boston,… |
| Nicholas (Nick) John Pippenger | Co-inventor of extendible hashing, a database access technique which has a dynamic structure that grows and shrinks gracefully as the database grows and shrinks | Co-inventor of extendible hashing, Pippenger is recognized for a number of fundamental results widely used in theoretical computer science, database processing, and compiler optimization. He held… |
| Nicholas (Nick) M. Donofrio | Leader of IBM's technology and innovation strategies | Leader of IBM's technology and innovation strategies, Donofrio served as Executive Vice President of Innovation and Technology at IBM from 1997 until his retirement in October 2008. Born in Beacon… |
| Nicholas (Nick) Shelness | Contributor to Lotus' e-mail and collaborator on products including Notes, Domino and cc:Mail | Contributor to Lotus' e-mail and collaboration products including Notes, Domino and cc:Mail, Shelness is a world-class expert on messaging and groupware. A 1999 IBM Fellow — the highest honor a… |
| Nicholas Constantine Metropolis | Led the group in the Theoretical (T) Division that designed and built the MANIAC I computer in 1952 and MANIAC II in 1957 | Leader of the group that designed and built the MANIAC I computer in 1952 and MANIAC II in 1957, Metropolis was a Greek American physicist born in Chicago and a graduate of the University of… |
| Nicholas Negroponte | Research into machine architecture and human-computer interaction | Pioneer in human-computer interaction research, Negroponte joined the faculty of MIT in 1966. For several years thereafter, he divided his teaching time between MIT and several visiting… |
| Nick D'Aloisio | Designer of software program, Summly; a program aimed to solve perceived problems with the way news articles are presented on smartphones | Designer of Summly — a program aimed to solve perceived problems with the way news articles are presented on smartphones — D'Aloisio is a British-Australian entrepreneur, computer programmer, and… |
| Niels Ivar Bech | He led the group that formed Regnecentralen, the first Danish computer company | Leader of the group that formed Regnecentralen, the first Danish computer company, Bech shaped the course of Danish computing history. He led a group that started as an advisory board formed by… |
| Niklaus Emil Wirth | Designer of early programming languages, EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA and PASCAL | Designer of programming languages including Pascal, EULER, ALGOL-W, and Modula, Wirth won the Turing Award in 1984 for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages. He was a Swiss… |
| Nikola Tesla | Major contributor to the birth of commercial electricity and revolutionary developer in the field of electromagnetism | A major contributor to the birth of commercial electricity and revolutionary developer in the field of electromagnetism, Tesla was an inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer who is… |
| Nikolay Brusentsov | Co creator of "Setun", a balanced ternary computer | Co-creator of Setun, the only modern electronic ternary computer, Brusentsov built the machine in the late 1950s at Moscow State University in the Soviet Union. It had notable advantages over the… |
| Nils Aall Barricelli | His early computer-assisted experiments in symbiogenesis and evolution are considered pioneering in artificial life research | Pioneering in artificial life research, Barricelli conducted early computer-assisted experiments in symbiogenesis and evolution that are considered foundational to the field. Being independently… |
| Nils John Nilsson | Founding researcher in the discipline of Artificial Intelligence | One of the founding researchers in the discipline of Artificial Intelligence, Nilsson was particularly famous for his contributions to search, planning, knowledge representation, and robotics. He… |
| Nobuo Mii | Leader of a team in high school which successfully made the first television system Kyushu, Japan, mainly using the electronic parts thrown away by the U.S. Armed Forces stationed in Fukuoka City, which preceded even the Kyushu University's Engineering School and NHK's Fukuoka Broadcasting Station | Leader of a team that built the first television system in Kyushu, Japan, Mii accomplished this feat in 1949 as manager of his high school Wireless Communications Club, mainly using electronic… |
| Nolan Ira Gasser | American composer, pianist, and musicologist. He was the chief musicologist for Pandora Media, Inc. and the architect of the Music Genome Project, the proprietary musical analysis system that underlies the popular Internet radio service. His classical compositions have been performed by orchestras, chamber ensembles, and soloists around the world, in such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Rose Bowl. | Chief architect of the Music Genome Project and chief musicologist for Pandora Media, Inc., Gasser is an American composer, pianist, and musicologist whose proprietary musical analysis system… |
| Nolan K. Bushnell | Founder, Atari; Silicon Valley Entrepreneur | Founder of Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain, Bushnell is considered one of the founding fathers of the video game industry. He has been inducted into the Video Game… |
| Nor Rae Spohn | HP LaserJet Business Leader | Inducted into the WITI Hall of Fame in 2006, Spohn built her career at Hewlett-Packard, where she served as senior vice president of the Imaging and Printing Group's LaserJet Printing Business. In… |
| Norbert Frištacký | Piononeer in digital computing and devices | Pioneer in digital computing and education at Slovak universities, Frištacký was one of the earliest to deploy and use digital computers at Slovak universities, and served as the first Rector of… |
| Norbert Wiener | Pure and applied mathematician with implications for computer science and other disaplines | Founder of cybernetics, Wiener pioneered the study of stochastic and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems.… |
| Noriko H. Arai | University Entrance Exam Robots | Known for her work developing robots capable of passing the University of Tokyo entrance examinations, Arai is a Japanese researcher in mathematical logic and artificial intelligence. She became a… |
| Norman (Norm) Leo Rasmussen | Pioneer of IBM's first multiple user time-sharing system | Pioneer of IBM's first multiple user time-sharing system, Rasmussen was a computer software innovator from Boston, Massachusetts. His family emigrated from Denmark in 1947 and he spoke three… |
| Norman A. Phillips | Major co-contributor to the prediction of weather and climate using numerical methods leading to the first computer models of weather and climate | A major co-contributor to the prediction of weather and climate using numerical methods, Phillips was the first to show, with a simple General Circulation model, that weather prediction with… |
| Norman Abramson | Developed the ALOHAnet system for wireless computer communication and he invented the first random access protocol | Developer of the ALOHAnet system for wireless computer communication and inventor of the first random access protocol, Abramson was an American engineer and computer scientist. He was born in… |
| Norman H. Nie | Co-inventor of a computer software package called the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) | Co-inventor of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), Nie transformed how researchers analyze data. An American social scientist, university professor, inventor, and pioneering… |
| Norman Macrae | Foreseer of the spread of the internet and producer of the biography of Johnny Von Neumann (the mathematical father of computers and networks) | Foreseer of the spread of the internet and biographer of Johnny Von Neumann, Macrae was considered by some to have been one of the world's best forecasters when it came to economics and society. A… |
| Ole-Johan Dahl | A Norwegian computer scientist and is considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming along with Kristen Nygaard | One of the fathers of object-oriented programming and Simula, Dahl produced the initial ideas for object-oriented (OO) programming in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Center (NR) as part of… |
| Oleg Vishnepolsky | Author of IBM's S2 Spreadsheet and of TCP/IP stacks for OS/2 and IBM POS terminals | Author of IBM's S2 Spreadsheet and of TCP/IP stacks for OS/2 and IBM POS terminals, Vishnepolsky is one of the early Internet technologists, with a 20-plus year track record of technological… |
| Oliver Selfridge | An innovator in early computer science and artificial intelligence | An innovator in early computer science and artificial intelligence, Selfridge helped shape the foundations of machine learning and AI. Credited with coining the term "intelligent agents"… |
| Oliver William Standingford | Responsible for the implementation of the LEO I computer | Responsible for the implementation of LEO I, the first computer used for commercial business applications, Standingford was a senior manager at J. Lyons and Co. who oversaw its procurement… |
| Olu Maduka | Women In Energy Founder | Recognized for her leadership in promoting women's participation in the energy and technology sectors, Maduka became Chair and Founding Board Member of Women in Energy, Oil and Gas. She was… |
| Omer Reingold | Author of Reingold's Algorithm relating to efficiency of memory complexity | Author of Reingold's Algorithm, which resolved the memory-complexity of finding paths in undirected graphs, Reingold is cited for finding a solution to a more than 25-year quest by expert… |
| Orna Berry | Israel's First Female Chief Scientist | The first woman to serve as chief scientist and head of the industrial R&D operation of the Israeli Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labour, Berry took on that role in 1996. An Israeli computer… |
| Oswald Veblen | Involved in overseeing the World War II work that produced the pioneering ENIAC electronic digital computer | Involved in overseeing the World War II work that produced the pioneering ENIAC electronic digital computer, Veblen was also an American mathematician, geometer, and topologist whose work found… |
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