Honor Roll
| Name Sort descending | Noted For | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Peter Bird | Head of Lyons Computer Services, an early information service company in England | Head of Lyons Computer Services, an early information service company in England, Bird rose to be a director of that organisation. He was born in 1934 in north London, the second son of Eileen (… |
| Peter C. Patton | Responsible for the development of the Intranet and Internet programs at the University of Pennsylvania | Responsible for the development of the Intranet and Internet programs at the University of Pennsylvania, Patton has had over 50 years of experience in the computer industry, with involvement in… |
| Peter Elias | Known for introducing convolutional codes as an alternative to block codes and for establishing the binary erasure channel | Known for introducing convolutional codes and establishing the binary erasure channel, Elias also contributed fundamental new concepts and techniques to source coding. His widely cited 1975 paper… |
| Peter G. Lykos | Pioneer in the use of computers in the classroom; key figure in creating a computer center at IIT and launched the Computer Science department | Pioneer in the use of computers in the classroom, Lykos was a key figure in creating a computer center at IIT and launching its Computer Science department. A Chicago native, he was the son… |
| Peter G. Neumann | A leading specialist in computer security, and best known for the Provably Secure Operating System (PSOS) | A leading specialist in computer security best known for the Provably Secure Operating System (PSOS), Neumann has also served as moderator of the RISKS Digest and founding editor of ACM Software… |
| Peter Goddard | Helped to establish a permanent Archives Center at the IAS | A mathematical physicist who helped establish a permanent Archives Center at the IAS, Goddard is known for his contributions to string theory and conformal field theory, including the no-ghost… |
| Peter Harris | Builder of a product which would take existing COBOL programs and produce structured system charts and supporting documentation for program maintenance | Builder of a product that takes existing COBOL programs and produces structured system charts and supporting documentation for program maintenance, Harris also founded ADPAC, a leading software… |
| Peter J. Bentley | Developing an iPhone application iStethoscope and his work in Digital Biology | Developer of the iPhone application iStethoscope and pioneer of Digital Biology, Bentley is a British author and computer scientist based at University College London. He has served as a Reader… |
| Peter James Denning | Denning working set, virtual system pioneer, CSNET co-founder | Pioneer of virtual memory systems and co-founder of CSNET, Denning is best known for discovering the locality principle and designing the working set model for program behavior. He took an… |
| Peter John Landin | One of the first to realize that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, an insight that is essential to development of both functional programming and denotational semantics | One of the first to realize that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, Landin made contributions essential to the development of both functional programming and… |
| Peter Karmanos, Jr. | Co-founder of Compuware, a worldwide leader in software technology | Co-founder of Compuware, a worldwide leader in software technology, Karmanos launched the company in 1973 with two partners, Thomas Thewes and Allen Cutting. Born into a Greek immigrant family, he… |
| Peter Kogge | Designer of the Space Shuttle I/O processor which was one of the first multithreaded computers, and the first to fly in space | Designer of the Space Shuttle I/O processor — one of the first multithreaded computers and the first to fly in space — Kogge is a computer engineer and 1993 IBM Fellow who has stood at the… |
| Peter M. Schnell | Founder of Software AG | Founder of Software AG, Schnell established the company in 1969. He developed the ADABAS Data Management System and the NATURAL Fourth Generation Language, which became foundational contributions… |
| Peter Naur | Contributor to the creation of the ALGOL 60 programming language | Contributor to the creation of the ALGOL 60 programming language, Naur won the 2005 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his work on defining it. In particular, his role as editor of the influential "Report… |
| Peter Norton | Creator and programmer of Norton Utilities | Creator of Norton Utilities, Norton is recognized as a pioneer in DOS-based utilities software. Before discovering microcomputers, Norton spent a dozen years working on mainframes and… |
| Peter P. Sorokin | Co-inventor of the dye laser which uses an organic dye as the lasing medium, usually as a liquid solution | Co-inventor of the dye laser, Sorokin and his colleague J. R. Lankard at IBM Research Laboratories used a ruby laser to excite a near infrared laser dye. Their report was quickly followed by that… |
| Peter Pin-Shan Chen | He is known for the development of Entity-Relationship Modeling | Known for the development of Entity-Relationship Modeling, Chen is an American computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University. Born in Taichung, Taiwan, he… |
| Peter R. Jennings | Author of the first commercially successful chess program for microcomputers | Author of the first commercially successful chess program for microcomputers, Jennings is a Canadian physicist, interdisciplinary scientist, inventor, software developer, computer chess programmer… |
| Peter R. Samson | Creator of pioneering computer software, among which are the Harmony Compiler for the PDP-1 with which users coded music, and Expensive Planetarium; the star display for Spacewar, one of the first interactive computer games | Creator of the Harmony Compiler for the PDP-1 and the Expensive Planetarium star display for Spacewar!, Samson is an American computer scientist best known for creating pioneering computer… |
| Peter Thomas Kirstein | He along with his research group at UCL played a significant role in the very earliest experimental Internet work | A British computer scientist best known for playing a significant role in the creation of the Internet, Kirstein's research group at UCL played a significant role in the very earliest experimental… |
| Phaedon Avouris | Innovator of the potential for carbon nanotubes to compete with the long-established silicon transistor for important information technology applications | Innovator of the potential for carbon nanotubes to compete with the long-established silicon transistor for important information technology applications, Avouris is a Greek chemical physicist who… |
| Phil Farrand | Created an award-winning, high-end desktop publishing music notation software package for music notation called Finale | Creator of Finale, an award-winning, high-end desktop publishing music notation software package, Farrand is an American computer programmer, consultant, webmaster, and author. He is also known… |
| Philibert Maurice d'Ocagne | His most innovative contributions took the form of graphical methods, whose multiplicity systematized and clarified the name nomografía or calculation by means of nomograms | Pioneer of nomography — the systematization of graphical calculation methods using nomograms — d'Ocagne was a French engineer and mathematician whose scientific personality soon fell into oblivion… |
| Philip (Phil) R. Zimmermann, Jr. | Creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most widely used email encryption software in the world | The creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most widely used email encryption software in the world, Zimmermann is also known for his work in VoIP encryption protocols, notably ZRTP and Zfone.… |
| Philip Don Estridge | Known as "The Father of the IBM PC" | Known as "the father of the IBM PC," Estridge led development of the original IBM Personal Computer. His decisions dramatically changed the computer industry, resulting in a vast increase in the… |
| Philip S. Yu | Inventor who holds over 300 U.S. patents in the fields of data mining, database systems, Internet applications and technologies | Holder of over 300 U.S. patents in data mining, database systems, Internet applications and technologies, Yu is recognized as an IBM Master Inventor and one of the most prolific inventors in… |
| Philip Stuart Milner-Barry | One of four leading code breakers at Bletchley Park to petition the then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill directly for more resources for their work | One of four leading codebreakers at Bletchley Park to petition Prime Minister Winston Churchill directly for more resources for their work, Milner-Barry was also a British chess player, chess… |
| Philipp Matthäus Hahn | Designed the first functional mechanical calculator | Designer of the first functional mechanical calculator, Hahn was born on 25th of November, 1739 in Scharnhausen, Esslingen, as the second of ten children in a family of a pastor. From 1749 to 1754… |
| Philippe Kahn | Creator of the first camera phone; founder of many software companies such as Borland Software | Creator of the first camera phone and founder of Borland Software and other technology companies, Kahn has built an extraordinary entrepreneurial legacy. He founded four successful companies:… |
| Phill Gross | Leader of the development of MCI Corporation's first national network | Leader of the development of MCI Corporation's first national network, Gross co-founded the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and was instrumental in defining and shaping the way in which the… |
| Phillip A. Griffiths | Former Director of the Institute for Advanced Study | Former Director of the Institute for Advanced Study (1991–2003), Griffiths is an American mathematician known for his work in the field of geometry, and in particular for the complex manifold… |
| Phillip Walter Katz | Co-creator of the zip file format for data compression, and the author of PKZIP, a program for creating zip files which ran under DOS | Co-creator of the zip file format for data compression and author of PKZIP, a program for creating zip files which ran under DOS, Katz graduated from the Computer Science Engineering program at… |
| Pierre Jaquet-Droz | Creator of animated dolls, or automata, devices which some consider to be the oldest examples of the computer | Creator of animated dolls, or automata, devices which some consider to be the oldest examples of the computer, Jaquet-Droz lived in Paris, London, and Geneva, where he designed and built these… |
| Pierre Morad Omidyar | Founder, eBay | Founder and chairman of eBay, Omidyar is a French-born Armenian-Iranian entrepreneur, philanthropist, and economist. Omidyar and his wife Pam are well-known philanthropists who founded Omidyar… |
| Pieter Van den Abeele | Founder of the PowerPC-version of Gentoo Linux | Founder of the PowerPC version of Gentoo Linux, Van den Abeele spearheaded the Gentoo architectures and platforms effort together with Daniel Robbins. He received a scholarship from Apple Computer… |
| Pratap Pattnaik | Chief architect and scientist for defining, designing and implementing the key research technologies that have influenced IBM’s server design in high-performance computing | Chief architect and scientist for defining, designing, and implementing the key research technologies that influenced IBM's server design in high-performance computing, Pattnaik has served as an… |
| Priit Kasesalu | Co-developer of Skype and is famous for being a head programmer for Kazaa Media Desktop | Co-developer of Skype and head programmer for Kazaa Media Desktop, Kasesalu is a pioneering Estonian software developer. In 1986, he began his career as a programmer for a local hardware… |
| Puneet Sharma | Worked on Mobile Collaborative Communities and was featured in the New Scientist Magazine | Recognized for work on Mobile Collaborative Communities featured in New Scientist Magazine, Sharma has served as a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs, conducting research on Network Measurement… |
| Qi (English pr. Chee) Lu | Instrumental in driving Microsoft’s partnership with Yahoo! in Search and the launch of Bing | Instrumental in driving Microsoft's partnership with Yahoo! in Search and the launch of Bing, Lu has served as Executive Vice President of Microsoft's Applications and Services Group, where he set… |
| Qiang Yang | Participated on research teams that won the 2004 and 2005 ACM KDDCUP international competitions on data mining | Leader of research teams that won the 2004 and 2005 ACM KDDCUP international competitions on data mining, Yang has served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at… |
| R. Blair Smith | Head of the project within the Advanced Systems Development Division of IBM that developed the first airline reservation systems (SABRE) for American Airlines | Head of the IBM project that developed the first airline reservation system (SABRE) for American Airlines, R. Blair Smith also served as Manager of Market Analysis and field testing for all… |
| R. Narasimhan | Significant contributor to the development of computer science education, research and technology in India | Often referred to as the Bhisma of Computer Science and Technology in India, Narasimhan made significant contributions to the development of computer science education, research, and technology in… |
| Radhia 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, Cousot was a French computer scientist who, together with her husband Patrick, developed an influential technique in formal methods based on three main… |
| Radia Joy Perlman | Inventor of the spanning-tree protocol, which is fundamental to the operation of network bridges | Inventor of the spanning-tree protocol, which is fundamental to the operation of network bridges, Perlman is a software designer and network engineer sometimes referred to as the "Mother of the… |
| Ragnar Fjørtoft | Participant on a Princeton, New Jersey team that performed the first successful numerical weather prediction using the ENIAC electronic computer in 1950 | Participant on a Princeton, New Jersey team that performed the first successful numerical weather prediction using the ENIAC electronic computer in 1950, Fjørtoft was an internationally recognized… |
| Rajeev Sangal | Noted for Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation and speech research in Indian Languages | Noted for Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, and speech research in Indian Languages, Sangal founded and has served as director of the International Institute of Information… |
| Rajiv Gupta | Co-inventor and general manager of Hewlett Packard's E-speak project | Co-inventor and general manager of Hewlett Packard's E-speak project, Gupta also contributed as one of the developers of the IA-64 architecture. An IIT Kharagpur alumnus, Gupta received his Ph.D.… |
| Rakesh Agrawal | Developer of fundamental data mining concepts and technologies pioneering key concepts in data privacy | Developer of fundamental data mining concepts and technologies, Agrawal is well known for pioneering key concepts in data privacy, including Hippocratic Database, Sovereign Information Sharing,… |
| Ralph C. Merkle | Co-inventor of public key cryptography | Co-inventor of public key cryptography, Merkle is a researcher who also works as a speaker on molecular nanotechnology and cryonics. He appeared as a character in the science fiction novel *The… |
| Ralph E. Griswold | Programming contributions in string processing as well as co-creator of SNOBOL and SL5 | Co-creator of SNOBOL and pioneer in string processing languages, Griswold made lasting contributions to non-numerical computation. He worked for Bell Labs in 1962, where he studied ideas for non-… |
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