Honor Roll
| Name Sort descending | Noted For | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Owen R. Mock | One of the programmers who developed the PACT series of compilers for the IBM 701 computer which was the first operating system to be in operation | One of the programmers who developed the PACT series of compilers for the IBM 701 and helped install the first operating system ever in operation, Mock pioneered computer operating systems in the… |
| Padmasree Warrior | CTO of Cisco | Recognized by Forbes as one of the 100 most powerful women in the world in 2014, Warrior is an Indian-American technology executive with a career spanning major roles in hardware, software, and… |
| Pal Spilling | Co-developer of the Internet Protocol and other early computer network protocols | Co-developer of the Internet Protocol and other early computer network protocols, Spilling was a Norwegian Internet pioneer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo and the UNIK Graduate… |
| Pam Parisian | AT&T Chief Information Officer | Inducted into the WITI Hall of Fame in 2015, Parisian served as Chief Information Officer at AT&T, where she was responsible for enterprise information technology strategy and operations. |
| Paolo A. Gargini | Developer of the building blocks of HMOS III and CHMOS III technologies used in the 1980’s for the 80286 and the 80386 processors | Developer of the building blocks of HMOS III and CHMOS III technologies used in the 1980s for the 80286 and the 80386 processors, Gargini has served as Director of Technology Strategy and Fellow… |
| Paranandi V. S. Rao | Speech recognition research | Pioneer in speech recognition research, Rao was an active researcher in Computer Science from 1955 onward and made many contributions to the area of computer synthesis and recognition of human… |
| Partha Ranganathan | Co-developer of the publicly distributed Rice Simulator for ILP Multiprocessors (RSIM) which was at that time the only publicly-distributed software for simulating shared-memory multiprocessors with state-of-the-art instruction-level-parallel (ILP) processors | Co-developer of the publicly distributed Rice Simulator for ILP Multiprocessors (RSIM), Ranganathan contributed to what was at that time the only publicly-distributed software for simulating… |
| Pasquale Pistorio | Led SGS-Thomson Microelectronics (STMicroelectronics), to became one of the leading worldwide manufacturers of semiconductors | Leader of SGS-Thomson Microelectronics (now STMicroelectronics), Pistorio grew the company into one of the leading worldwide manufacturers of semiconductors. An Italian company director and ex-… |
| Patrice Lyons | Analyzer of a wide range of legal and regulatory issues relating to the development of the Internet | Analyzer of a wide range of legal and regulatory issues relating to the development of the Internet, Lyons has served as Corporate Counsel to Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI),… |
| Patricia G. Selinger | Pioneer in relational database management and inventor of the technique of cost-based query optimization | Pioneer in relational database management and inventor of cost-based query optimization, Selinger is a world-renowned American computer scientist and IBM Fellow whose technique has been adopted by… |
| Patricia S. Cowings | First NASA Scientist Astronaut | The first American woman to be trained as a scientist astronaut by NASA, Cowings was an aerospace psychophysiologist whose work focused on the physiology of astronauts in outer space. She served… |
| Patricia Wallington | Xerox Chief Information Officer | Inducted into the WITI Hall of Fame in 1997, Wallington was serving at that time as corporate vice president and chief information officer at Xerox Corporation. In that role, she held… |
| Patrick Carl Fischer | His work In the 1980s on the mathematical foundations of database query languages became central to the databases now used by major web servers worldwide | His work on the mathematical foundations of database query languages became central to the databases now used by major web servers worldwide. Fischer was an American computer scientist and noted… |
| Patrick Cousot | Co-inventor of Abstract Interpretation; a theory of sound approximation of mathematical structures, in particular those involved in the behavior of computer systems | Co-inventor of Abstract Interpretation, a theory of sound approximation of mathematical structures, Cousot developed this influential technique in formal methods together with his wife Radhia in… |
| Patrick Henry Winston | Researcher in machine learning and human intelligence | Researcher in machine learning and human intelligence, Winston was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He served as Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence… |
| Patrick Joseph McGovern | Founder of Computerworld and IDG | Founder of Computerworld and the International Data Group (IDG), McGovern built one of the world's largest technology media companies, with subsidiaries in technology publishing, research, event… |
| Patrick Volkerding | Founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution, considered to be most suitable for advanced and technically inclined Linux users | Founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution, Volkerding has served as Slackware's "Benevolent Dictator for Life" (BDFL), and is also known informally as "The Man". He has also… |
| Patty Stonesifer | Founding CEO Gates Foundation | Founding CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Stonesifer built her career on executive leadership spanning technology, philanthropy, and public service. She began in various executive… |
| Paul (Rusty) Russell | Writer of the packet filtering systems ipchains and netfilter/iptables in the Linux operating system kernel | Writer of the packet filtering systems ipchains and netfilter/iptables in the Linux operating system kernel, Russell is an Australian free software programmer and advocate also known for his work… |
| Paul A. Moskowitz | Inventor of the Radio Frequency Circuit and Memory in thin flexible package which forms the basis for the design of today's RFID tags for the retail supply chain | Inventor of the Radio Frequency Circuit and Memory in thin flexible package that forms the basis for the design of today's RFID tags for the retail supply chain, Moskowitz has been awarded over… |
| Paul A. Strassmann | Developer of new methods for evaluating the productivity of computer investments | Developer of new methods for evaluating the productivity of computer investments, Strassmann is a Czechoslovakian-born American engineer and business management theorist. He is also noted for his… |
| Paul A. Vixie | Author of the standard UNIX system programs SENDS, proxynet, rtty and Vixie cron | Author of the standard UNIX system programs SENDS, proxynet, rtty, and Vixie cron, Vixie is an American Internet pioneer and well-known Unix software author who attended George Washington High… |
| Paul Alexander Desmond DeMaine | A leading figure in the early development of computer based automatic indexing and information retrieval and one of the founders of academic computer science in the 1960's | A leading figure in the early development of computer-based automatic indexing and information retrieval and one of the founders of academic computer science in the 1960s, DeMaine was born in… |
| Paul Armer | President of AFIPS; RAND computer scientist | President of AFIPS and longtime RAND computer scientist, Armer studied chemistry at Loyola University in Los Angeles. His college career was interrupted by the armed services, where he worked in… |
| Paul Baran | Co-inventor, packet switching | Co-inventor of packet-switched networks, Baran transformed the foundations of modern digital communications. He was born in Grodno (then Poland) and his family moved to Philadelphia in 1928. Baran… |
| Paul Brainerd | Founder of Aldus Software and creator of "desktop publishing" | Founder of Aldus Software and creator of the term "desktop publishing," Brainerd saw an opportunity to merge his publishing and computer experience with Apple's computer and printer. … |
| Paul Castrucci | Leader of the team that invented, developed and produced a major paradigm shift in computer storage that would change the industry | Leader of the team that invented and developed a major paradigm shift in computer storage, Castrucci's work set the stage for current computer memory technology. Born in St. Johnsville, New… |
| Paul Coteus | One of the chief engineers behind BlueGene/L, which quickly earned the title, "fastest computer in the world" | One of the chief engineers behind BlueGene/L, which rocked the world of supercomputing when it was introduced in 2004 and quickly earned the title "fastest computer in the world," Coteus led the… |
| Paul E. Ceruzzi | Noted IT historian. author, and curator | Noted IT historian, author, and curator, Ceruzzi has served as Curator of Aerospace Electronics and Computing at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. He received a… |
| Paul Eisler | Inventor of the printed circuit board | Inventor of the printed circuit board, Eisler forfeited rights to his invention when he neglected to read the contract before signing it. In 1941 Paul was able to engage Henderson and Spalding, a… |
| Paul Eliot Green, Jr. | Co-creator of the Rake receiver and supervisor of its deployment in a first-ever spread-spectrum system which changed the landscape of electronic signaling | Co-creator of the Rake receiver and supervisor of its deployment in the first-ever spread-spectrum system, Green changed the landscape of electronic signaling. He was born in Chapel Hill, North… |
| Paul G. Miller | Responsible for all computer systems for CDC and for the technical direction of computer and memory development programs | Responsible for all computer systems at Control Data Corporation (CDC) and for the technical direction of computer and memory development programs, Miller served as Vice President and Group… |
| Paul Gardener Allen | Co-founder of Microsoft | Co-founder of Microsoft, Allen launched the company with Bill Gates in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1975, and began marketing a BASIC programming language interpreter. In 1980, after promising to… |
| Paul H. Cress | Developer of fast FORTRAN compiler called WATFOR | Developer of the fast FORTRAN compiler WATFOR, Cress helped make FORTRAN programming accessible to students and researchers worldwide. Paul and his colleague Paul Dirksen led a team of… |
| Paul J. Severino | Designer of interface boards for the PDP-11 | Designer of interface boards for the PDP-11 at Digital Equipment Corporation, Severino began his career there after receiving his B.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic… |
| Paul Levine | Producer of Telco central office-based voice mail | Producer of Telco central office-based voice mail, Levine has served as an Instructor at the Boston University School of Management and a member of the ITEC faculty, and as a Venture Partner at… |
| Paul M. Horn | Pioneer in the use of copper and self-assembly in chip manufacturing and contributor to pervasive computing | Pioneer in the use of copper and self-assembly in chip manufacturing and contributor to pervasive computing, Horn is an American computer scientist and solid state physicist. He spent 28 years… |
| Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet | Considered to be one of the fathers of information science, his writings having sometimes been called prescient of the current World Wide Web | Considered one of the fathers of information science, Otlet was an author, entrepreneur, visionary, lawyer, and peace activist whose writings have sometimes been called prescient of the current… |
| Paul Maritz | Responsible for essentially all of Microsoft's desktop and server software, including such major initiatives as the development of Windows 95, Windows NT, and Internet Explorer | Responsible for essentially all of Microsoft's desktop and server software — including such major initiatives as the development of Windows 95, Windows NT, and Internet Explorer — Maritz has… |
| Paul Thelen | Founder of the largest portal for downloadable games in the world | Founder of the largest portal for downloadable games in the world, Thelen built Big Fish Games into a platform distributing in excess of 1.5 million games per day. After graduating from the… |
| Paul Tseng | The first to establish the convergence of the affine scaling algorithm for linear programming in the presence of degeneracy | The first to establish the convergence of the affine scaling algorithm for linear programming in the presence of degeneracy, Tseng was recognized by his peers to be one of the leading optimization… |
| Paul V. Mockapetris | Inventor of the Domain Name System | Inventor of the Domain Name System, Mockapetris is sometimes acknowledged, together with Jon Postel, as the creator of DNS. Mockapetris received his Bachelor's Degrees in Physics and… |
| Paul Vincent Galvin | Co-founder of leading telecommunications company, Motorola | Co-founder of Motorola, Galvin helped establish one of the world's leading telecommunications companies. Founded as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation on September 25, 1928, Motorola became a leader… |
| Per Brinch Hansen | Noted pioneer of concurrent programming and operating systems (kernels) | A noted pioneer of concurrent programming and operating systems (kernels), Brinch Hansen coined the then-Danish word for computer: Datamat (English: datamaton). In the 1960s, Brinch Hansen worked… |
| Percy Edwin Ludgate | A designer of an Analytical Engine and he helped advance calculators by expanding Charles Babbage's design for the first programmable computer | Designer of an Analytical Engine, Ludgate helped advance calculators by expanding Charles Babbage's design for the first programmable computer. An Irish accountant working alone in Dublin, he was… |
| Peri L. Tarr | Technical Leader for an effort on collaborative analytics and optimization for software and systems engineering, the results of which have transferred into IBM products | Technical leader for collaborative analytics and optimization for software and systems engineering, with results transferred into IBM products, Tarr has served as a Research Staff Member at IBM… |
| Peter A. Cunningham | Founder, INPUT; Founder, board member, IT History Society | Founder of INPUT, the leading provider of government market intelligence, Cunningham has also served as a founder and board member of the IT History Society. As Chairman of INPUT's board of… |
| Peter A. Franaszek | Known for his research in fragmentation-reduction algorithms, network theory and magnetic recording | Known for his research in fragmentation-reduction algorithms, network theory, and magnetic recording, Franaszek has been a researcher at the IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center… |
| Peter Andreas Grunberg | Discovery of GMR effect critical in the building of read write heads for disk drives. A Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded for this. | Peter Andreas Grunberg discovered the Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) effect, which is the basis of all modern magnetic read/write heads. He received the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics for this… |
| Peter Andreas Thiel | Co-founder of PayPal, Inc. | Co-founder of PayPal, Thiel is a German-born American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager. He co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin, and later, Elon Musk, and has served as its… |
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