Honor Roll
| Name Sort descending | Noted For | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Ralph Edward Gomory | He and his staff are credited with many fundamental contributions to advanced technology in such areas as the single-transistor memory cell, high-density storage devices, silicon processing methods, and relational database theory | Credited with many fundamental contributions to advanced technology — including the single-transistor memory cell, high-density storage devices, silicon processing methods, and relational database… |
| Ralph Ernest Meagher | Co-creator of the ILLIAC series, culminating with the ILLIAC IV supercomputer, the largest and fastest in the world | Co-creator of the ILLIAC series, culminating with the ILLIAC IV supercomputer, the largest and fastest in the world, Meagher completed his physics degree at the University of Illinois in 1949. He… |
| Ralph H. Baer | Known as the "father of video games" and inventor of the home video game console | Known as the "father of video games" and inventor of the home video game console, Baer transformed interactive entertainment. In 1949, Baer went to work as chief engineer for a small… |
| Ralph J. Slutz | ENIAC physicist and computer pioneer | ENIAC physicist and computer pioneer, Slutz made critical contributions to two milestones of human computing history. He passed away on November 16, 2005, at Boulder Community Hospital, Colorado,… |
| Ralph L. Palmer | Developed the IBM 604 Electronic Calculator | Developer of the IBM 604 Electronic Calculator, Palmer graduated with a B.S. in electrical engineering from Union College in Schenectady in 1931. He joined IBM as an engineer in 1932. It… |
| Ralph Ungermann | Co-founded Ungermann-Bass (UB), the first large networking company independent of any computer manufacturer | Co-founder of Ungermann-Bass (UB), the first large networking company independent of any computer manufacturer, Ungermann was considered to be a founding father of the data communications industry… |
| Ram Chillarege | Inventor of Orthogonal Defect Classification (ODC) technology fundamentally enriching the management of software | Inventor of Orthogonal Defect Classification (ODC) technology, Chillarege has fundamentally enriched the management of software engineering. While at IBM Research, he founded the Center of… |
| Rama Chellappa | Pioneer researcher in areas in image processing, computer vision and pattern recognition | Pioneer researcher in image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition, Chellappa has served as a Minta Martin Professor of Engineering (from 2005) and a Professor of Electrical and… |
| Ramakrishnan Srikant | Key architect for IBM Intelligent Miner, and contributed the association rules and sequential pattern modules | Key architect for IBM Intelligent Miner, Srikant contributed the association rules and sequential patterns modules to the product. Dr. Srikant has served as a Principal Research Scientist… |
| Ramesh Chandra Jain | Developer of some of the early visual information retrieval systems; as well as Founder and Director of Artificial Intelligence and Visual Information Systems Labs at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the University of California, San Diego | Developer of some of the early visual information retrieval systems, Jain is also the founder of IEEE Multimedia and the company Virage. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree from Nagpur… |
| Ramon Llull | A pioneer of computation theory | A pioneer of computation theory, Llull was a Majorcan writer and philosopher who wrote the first major work of Catalan literature. Recently-surfaced manuscripts show him to have anticipated, by… |
| Ramon Verea | Inventor of a calculating machine; the first by a direct multiplication instead of employing multiple rounds of a crank | Inventor of the first calculating machine to use direct multiplication instead of employing multiple rounds of a crank, Verea was a Spanish inventor who studied in Santiago de Compostela, Spain,… |
| Randy Bush | Founder of the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), which helped to develop and deploy networking technology in projects throughout the world | Founder of the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), an NSF-supported pro bono effort to help develop and deploy networking technology in projects throughout the world, Bush has worked with the… |
| Randy Cartwright | Creator of an application for Apple iPhones called Animation Timer, a stopwatch for animators | Creator of Animation Timer, a stopwatch application for Apple iPhones, Cartwright is a veteran Disney animator and filmmaker. Born in Virginia, Cartwright graduated from UCLA in 1974, where… |
| Randy Eisenman | Responsible for Handango's strategy and built a world-class team, positioning the company as the global leader in the smartphone content market | Founder and CEO of Handango, which he positioned as the global leader in the smartphone content market, Eisenman drove the company's strategy and built a world-class team after founding the… |
| Randy Howard Katz | Co-developer of the redundant array of independent disks (RAID) concept for computer storage, a storage technology that combines multiple disk drive components into a logical unit | Co-developer of the redundant array of independent disks (RAID) concept for computer storage, Katz is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the Electrical… |
| Randy Pausch | Noted professor of computing | Noted professor of computing, Pausch was a co-founder of Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center and founder of the Alice software project. Randy Pausch was born in Baltimore… |
| Rashmi Rao | Global UX Engineering Head | Inducted into the WITI Hall of Fame in 2018, Rao built her career leading advanced engineering work in user experience design and technology. As Global Head of Advanced Engineering, Center of… |
| Rasmus Lerdorf | Creator of the PHP programming language | Creator of the PHP programming language, Lerdorf also contributed to the Apache HTTP Server and came up with the LIMIT clause, adding it to the mSQL Database in 1995. It is the origin of the LIMIT… |
| Ravi Arimilli | Architect largely responsible for development of the IBM POWER5 | Chief Architect largely responsible for the development of the IBM POWER5, Arimilli has been named an IBM Fellow, the company's highest technical honor, in May 2001. One of the most prolific… |
| Ravi Sandhu | Leader of multiple teams conducting research on several aspects of cyber security and inventor on 29 security technology patents | Inventor of 29 security technology patents and leader of multiple teams conducting research on many aspects of cyber security, Sandhu has served as Executive Director of the Institute for Cyber… |
| Ray Harishankar | Significant contributor to IBM's leadership position in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), reusable asset-based development approaches leveraging SOA and in the creation of highly reusable IT assets | Significant contributor to IBM's leadership position in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), reusable asset-based development approaches leveraging SOA, and in the creation of highly reusable IT… |
| Ray Ozzie | Lotus Notes, Groove, Azure | Creator of Lotus Notes and founder of Groove Networks, Ozzie has been a central figure in collaborative software development. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science in 1979… |
| Raymond (Ray) F. Boyce | Co-developer of the SQL database language, the first commercially successful language for relational databases, and is still today generally established as the standard relational databases language | Co-developer of SQL, the first commercially successful language for relational databases, Boyce's work established the standard for relational database query languages still in use today. He was… |
| Raymond (Ray) John Noorda | Founder and Former CEO, Novell | Founder and former CEO of Novell, Noorda was a U.S. computer businessman who served in that role between 1982 and 1994. He also served as chairman of Novell until he was replaced in 1994. |
| Raymond (Ray) Kurzweil | Inventor and developer of such technology as Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Text-To-Speech Synthesis, Speech Recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments | Inventor and developer of Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Text-To-Speech Synthesis, Speech Recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments, Kurzweil is an American author,… |
| Raymond (Ray) M. Holt | Developer of the first microprocessor chip set for the US Navy F-14 Tomcat at Garrett AiResearch's Central Air Data Computer | Developer of the first microprocessor chip set for the US Navy F-14 Tomcat, Holt designed this groundbreaking chip set at Garrett AiResearch's Central Air Data Computer. He co-founded… |
| Raymond Samuel Tomlinson | Creator of email | Creator of email, Tomlinson implemented the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to the ARPANet in 1971. Email had previously been sent on other networks such… |
| Regina Honu | Founded Soronko Coding Academy | Founder of Soronko Academy, the first coding and human-centered design school for children and young adults in West Africa, Honu was a Ghanaian social entrepreneur and software developer who also… |
| Regis McKenna | Technology public relations legend, INTEL, Apple | Technology public relations legend for Intel, Apple, and dozens of other Silicon Valley firms, McKenna founded Regis McKenna, Inc. in 1970. McKenna retired from consulting in 2000 and concentrated… |
| Reid Garrett Hoffman | Co-founder of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for professional networking | Co-founder of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for professional networking, Hoffman is best known as one of Silicon Valley's most influential entrepreneurs and investors… |
| Reid Hoffman | Founder of LinkedIn | Founder of LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network, Hoffman is sometimes called the "Oracle of Silicon Valley" for his track record of identifying transformative technology trends early… |
| Reiner W. Hartenstein | Worked on hardware description languages and on reconfigurable computing as well as on configware/software-co-compilation are regarded as pioneering achievements, specifically, the successful hardware design language KARL and its graphical companion language ABL | Pioneer of hardware description languages and reconfigurable computing, Hartenstein is known for the successful hardware design language KARL and its graphical companion language ABL, as well as… |
| Renato Recio | Founding engineer and author of several IO and Network industry standards that have dramatically simplified the way virtualized data centers operate | Founding engineer and author of several IO and Network industry standards that have dramatically simplified the way virtualized data centers operate, Recio is a 2011 IBM Fellow—the highest honor a… |
| René Descartes | He is credited as the father of analytical geometry the bridge between algebra and geometry | Credited as the father of analytical geometry, Descartes built the bridge between algebra and geometry that proved crucial to the discovery of infinitesimal calculus and analysis. The Cartesian… |
| René Grillet | Designer of a mechanical calculating machine in the 17th century | Designer of a mechanical calculating machine in the 17th century, Grillet was a French mechanic and watchmaker who came from Rouen in northwestern France, the capital city of Normandy, and served… |
| Reona (Leo) Esaki | Inventor of the Esaki diode, a type of semiconductor capable of very fast operation, well into the microwave frequency region, made possible by the use of the quantum mechanical effect called tunneling | Inventor of the Esaki tunnel diode, the first quantum electron device, Esaki shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson for his discovery of the… |
| Reshma Saujani | Founded Girls Who Code | Founder of Girls Who Code, a nonprofit working to increase the number of women in computer science and close the gender employment gap in that field, Saujani built a career spanning law, politics… |
| Reynold (Ray) B. Johnson | Development of the first disk drive | Developer of the first manufactured hard disk drive, Johnson began his career as a teacher after graduating from the University of Minnesota in 1929, and invented an electronic test scoring… |
| Rhonda Childress | First IBM Security Fellow | The first woman in IBM's services division to earn the titles of IBM Master Inventor and Security Fellow, Childress is also the first IBM Fellow from a historically Black university. She served as… |
| Richard (Dick) Bayles | Developer of SalesNet | Developer of SalesNet, Bayles had an extremely varied career, beginning with his first experiences with computers at Project Mac at MIT and his work at Lincoln Labs. He then joined the startup of… |
| Richard (Dick) Chao-Fan Chu | Prolific technical innovator in cooling technology, recognized outside of IBM as industry standards for the cooling of electronic equipment | A prolific technical innovator in cooling technology, Chu's patents and publications were recognized outside of IBM as industry standards for the cooling of electronic equipment. Born in… |
| Richard (Dick) G. Canning | Founder of a world acclaimed technology newsletter, EDP Analyzer | Founder of the world-acclaimed technology newsletter EDP Analyzer, Canning published the monthly newsletter with subscribers in over 100 countries. Canning and his co-author retired in 1987 after… |
| Richard (Dick) Hedger | Participant in the System 38 and AS/400 Operating System development management teams | Participant in the System 38 and AS/400 Operating System development management teams at IBM Rochester, Hedger brings over 40 years of experience in broad software development, software project… |
| Richard (Dick) John Egan | Member of the team that developed the Apollo Guidance Computer for the Apollo spacecraft that carried astronauts to the moon | Member of the team that developed the Apollo Guidance Computer for the Apollo spacecraft that carried astronauts to the moon, Egan was also a prominent American businessman, political fundraiser,… |
| Richard (Dick) Mandelbaum | Co-founder of NYSERNet, the first nongovernment Internet service provider (ISP) | Co-founder of NYSERNet, the first nongovernment Internet service provider (ISP), Mandelbaum started out as a Theoretical Mathematician and became a Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science, and… |
| Richard (Dick) Manning Karp | Co-publisher with John Hopcroft of the Hopcroft–Karp algorithm, still the fastest known method for finding maximum cardinality matchings in bipartite graphs | Co-publisher with John Hopcroft of the Hopcroft–Karp algorithm, still the fastest known method for finding maximum cardinality matchings in bipartite graphs, Karp is a computer scientist and… |
| Richard (Dick) P. Case | Responsible for the engineering design of the IBM 1410 CPU and the IBM 7040-7044 | Responsible for the engineering design of the IBM 1410 CPU and the IBM 7040–7044 processing systems, Case began his long and distinguished career at IBM in 1956 as a Technical Engineer. … |
| Richard (Rich) Hilleman | Creator of the original Madden Football game for video game consoles | Creator of the original Madden Football game for video game consoles, Hilleman is an American computer game and video game producer best known for his work at Electronic Arts. Apart from Madden,… |
| Richard (Rick) L. Crandall | Founder of Comshare, Inc., a decision support software company and a pioneer of computer timesharing | Founder of Comshare, Inc., a pioneer of computer timesharing and decision support software, Crandall is recognized as a pioneer in the Software Services Industry. He received a BS in Electrical… |
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