Honor Roll
| Name Sort descending | Noted For | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Beatrice Worsley | First Canadian Computer Scientist | The first woman in Canada to work as a computer scientist, Beatrice "Trixie" Worsley earned one of the earliest Ph.D.s granted in what would today be recognized as computer science, receiving her… |
| Been-Jon Woo | Intel Technology Integration Director | Inducted into the WITI Hall of Fame in 2006, Woo built her career at Intel Corporation as Director of Technology Integration. In that role, she was responsible for technology integration efforts… |
| Beena Ammanath | Founded Humans For AI | Founder of Humans For AI, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing diversity in artificial intelligence, Ammanath is also an award-winning technology executive whose work shaped the use of data,… |
| Ben Forta | Wrote numerous technical books on ColdFusion, SQL, and Regular Expressions | Author of numerous technical books on ColdFusion, SQL, and Regular Expressions, Forta has also served as Senior Technical Evangelist for Adobe Systems, particularly ColdFusion and Flex, and has… |
| Ben Shneiderman | Known for experimentation on use of flowcharts and information visualization in programming | Known for experimentation on the use of flowcharts and information visualization in programming, Shneiderman conducted experiments in his earlier work on studying programmers which suggested that… |
| Ben Silbermann | Co-founder and CEO of Pinterest, a virtual pinboard that is growing faster than Facebook and Twitter | Co-founder and CEO of Pinterest, a virtual pinboard that grew faster than Facebook and Twitter, Silbermann launched the platform in early 2010 alongside Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp. Pinterest is a… |
| Benjamin B. Bederson | One of the principal leaders in the field of human-computer interaction | One of the principal leaders in the field of human-computer interaction, Bederson has been recognized through his selection to the Association for Computing Machinery's CHI Academy, an honorary… |
| Benjamin Zorn | Co-developer of Nozzle / Zozzle; programs which detect and protect browsers against JavaScript-based malware | Co-developer of Nozzle and Zozzle, programs that detect and protect browsers against JavaScript-based malware, Zorn has also led the Software Design and Implementation Group at Microsoft Research… |
| Benoît B. Mandelbrot | Discoverer of the Mandelbrot set of intricate, never-ending fractal shapes, said to be “one of the most astonishing discoveries in the entire history of mathematics” | Discoverer of the Mandelbrot set of intricate, never-ending fractal shapes — said to be "one of the most astonishing discoveries in the entire history of mathematics" — Mandelbrot also developed a… |
| Bernard (Barney) M. Oliver | Co-developer of pulse-code modulation (PCM) a method used to digitally represent sampled analog signals, and is the standard form for digital audio in computers and various Blu-ray, Compact Disc and DVD formats, as well as other uses such as digital telephone systems; and it was under his leadership that the first hand-held calculators were produced | Co-developer of pulse-code modulation (PCM) and leader of the team that produced the first hand-held calculators at Hewlett-Packard, Oliver was a scientist who made contributions in many fields,… |
| Bernard (Bernie) Goldstein | Information technology mergers and acquistions | A leading mergers and acquisitions advisor in the software industry, Goldstein has enjoyed a remarkably diverse career during his more than four decades in the computer industry. He founded and… |
| Bernard Galler | American mathematician and computer scientist | American mathematician and computer scientist at the University of Michigan, Galler was involved in the development of large-scale operating systems and computer languages, including the MAD… |
| Bernard Meyerson | Leader of a series of science, engineering and business organizations culminating in the founding and development of IBM's highly successful Analog and Mixed Signal business | Founder and developer of IBM's highly successful Analog and Mixed Signal business, Meyerson has served across a series of science, engineering, and business leadership roles throughout his career… |
| Bert E. Forbes | Co-architect of the HP 3000 minicomputer and designer of HP's first 16-bit microprocessor | Co-architect of the HP 3000 minicomputer and designer of HP's first 16-bit microprocessor, Forbes is an innovator, accomplished business executive, and visionary philanthropist whose passion for… |
| Bertrand Meyer | Creator of the Eiffel programming language | Creator of the Eiffel programming language, Meyer has made foundational contributions to software engineering and object-oriented design. He received the equivalent of a bachelor's degree in… |
| Bettina Speckmann | Computational Geometry Professor | Speckmann headed the Applied Geometric Algorithms group at Eindhoven University of Technology and was a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science in Eindhoven, Netherlands.… |
| Betty Jennings | ENIAC Programmer | One of the original six programmers of the ENIAC computer, Betty Jean Jennings (later known as Jean Bartik) helped lay the groundwork for modern computing during a pioneering era in the field. She… |
| Bijan Davari | Leader of the IBM research team that produced the first generation of high-performance, low-voltage logic (CMOS) that characterizes computer chips | Leader of the IBM research team that produced the first generation of high-performance, low-voltage CMOS logic characterizing modern computer chips, Davari's pioneering work in miniaturization of… |
| Bill Atkinson | Co-founder of General Magic and creator of Hypercard | Creator of HyperCard and co-founder of General Magic, Atkinson was also part of the Apple Macintosh development team and creator of the ground-breaking MacPaint application, among others. He also… |
| Bill Charles Norris | Founder of Control Data Corporation | Founder of Control Data Corporation, Norris was the pioneering CEO of one of the most powerful and respected computer companies in the world. Norris was famous for taking on IBM in a head-on fight… |
| Bill Hilf | Leader of product planning, product management and technical product management for Microsoft's Cloud computing platform, Windows Azure | Leader of product planning, product management and technical product management for Microsoft's Cloud computing platform, Windows Azure, Hilf has also served as a Senior Vice President at Hewlett-… |
| Biz Stone | Co-founder, Twitter | Co-founder of Twitter, Stone also served as its Creative Director and helped to create and launch Xanga, Blogger, Odeo, and Obvious. Stone published two books about blogging, including *Blogging:… |
| Bjarne Stroustrup | Designed and implemented the C++ programming language | Designer and implementer of the C++ programming language, Stroustrup is a computer scientist most notable for the creation and development of the widely used C++. He has served as Professor and… |
| Blaise Pascal | Constructed a mechanical calculator capable of addition and subtraction, called the Pascaline | Inventor of the Pascaline, a mechanical calculator capable of addition and subtraction, Pascal built twenty of these machines over the following ten years after constructing the first in 1642… |
| Blanca Trevino | Softtek Co-Founder And CEO | The first woman inducted into the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals Hall of Fame, Trevino co-founded Softtek in 1982 alongside a small group of entrepreneurially minded… |
| Bob (Boe) Overton Evans | At IBM led the groundbreaking development of compatible computers that changed the industry | At IBM, Evans led the groundbreaking development of compatible computers that changed the industry. He persuaded IBM's chairman, Thomas J. Watson Jr., to discontinue the company's development of a… |
| Bob Blainey | Leader in breakthrough innovation in compiler technology, IBM's Java technology, and strategic responsibility for next-generation systems in IBM Software Group | Leader in breakthrough innovation in compiler technology, IBM's Java technology, and next-generation systems, Blainey has served as an IBM Fellow and the technical architect of the Hardware… |
| Bob Fabry | Bob Fabry founded the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) in the EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley in 1979. | Founder of the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at UC Berkeley, Fabry established the group in the EECS Department in 1979. The BSD software developed at CSRG helped spawn the Open Source… |
| Bobby Murphy | Co-founder of Snapchat, a video messaging application | Co-founder of Snapchat, Murphy is a Filipino-American billionaire businessman who also serves as the platform's Chief Technology Officer (CTO). He co-founded Snapchat with Evan Spiegel and Reggie… |
| Bonnie Dunbar | Five Space Shuttle Missions | A veteran of five Space Shuttle missions flown between 1985 and 1998, Dunbar is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut whose flights included two dockings with the Mir space station.… |
| Boris Artashesovich Babayan | Creator of early Soviet supercomputer | Creator of early Soviet supercomputers, Babayan is notable as a pioneering figure in Soviet computing history. Babayan later pursued a career with Intel. |
| Boris N Malinovsky | Design of early computers and Control Systems in Soviet Union | Designer of early Soviet computers and control systems, Malinovsky worked with noted Russian computer pioneer Lebedev in the design of early Soviet computers. In 1955–1958, he designed a… |
| Borje Langefors | First theoretical approach to systems development practices | Pioneer of the first theoretical approach to systems development practices, Langefors was the first computer scientist to develop a coherent model of the development of computer-based information… |
| Bradford Brooks | Leader of a team that developed a global program to test emissions from IBM products and ensure compliance with relevant requirements, including toxicology implications of emerging technologies and materials | Leader of a team that developed a global program to test emissions from IBM products and ensure compliance with relevant requirements, Brooks has served as Corporate leader of IBM's Global… |
| Bradley Joseph Horowitz | Vice President of Streams, Photos and Sharing at Google and CTO and co-founder of Virage, Inc., Virage technology | Vice President of Streams, Photos and Sharing at Google and co-founder and CTO of Virage, Inc., Horowitz is an American entrepreneur and internet executive. He received his Bachelor's degree in… |
| Branimir Makanec | A pioneer of computer popularization in Croatia. | A pioneer of computer popularization in Croatia, Makanec established the Multimedia Center of the Zagreb University Referral Center (MMC). The MMC was an open-type computer center intended to be… |
| Brenda L. Dietrich | Leader of the emerging technologies team in the IBM Watson group | Leader of the emerging technologies team in the IBM Watson group, Dietrich has brought a business perspective to projects at the forefront of applied mathematics. She has served as Vice President… |
| Brendan Eich | Computer programmer and creator of the JavaScript scripting language; chief technology officer, Mozilla Corporation. | Creator of the JavaScript scripting language, Eich is a computer programmer and chief technology officer of Mozilla Corporation. He worked with MicroUnity Systems Engineering writing microkernel… |
| Brent Hailpern | Received IBM's Outstanding Innovation Award for his contributions to the IBM NetVista product | Recipient of IBM's Outstanding Innovation Award for his contributions to the IBM NetVista product, Hailpern worked on and managed various projects at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center relating… |
| Brewster Kahle | Founder, Internet Archive, WAIS, Alexa; Board member, IT History Society | Founder of the Internet Archive and creator of WAIS and Alexa Internet, Kahle has been a pioneering force in digital access and preservation. He was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. The… |
| Brian David Josephson | Pioneer of theoretical work on superconductivity, earning him a 1/2 share of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physics | Winner of a 1/2 share of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering theoretical work on superconductivity, Josephson is a Welsh physicist known for his prediction of the eponymous Josephson… |
| Brian Jack Copeland | Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing, an extensive online archive on the computing pioneer Alan Turing | Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing, an extensive online archive on the computing pioneer Alan Turing, Copeland is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury… |
| Brian Keith Reid | Known for developing the Scribe word processing system and pioneer in the use of descriptive markup | Known for developing the Scribe word processing system and pioneering the use of descriptive markup, Reid earned his B.S. in physics from the University of Maryland, College Park, and then worked… |
| Brian Pollard | A member of a team whose research developed the Sirius, which in 1959 claimed that it was the smallest and most economically priced computer in the European market | A member of the team whose research developed the Sirius, which in 1959 claimed to be the smallest and most economically priced computer in the European market, Pollard was a key figure at the… |
| Brian Randell | Worked on the Algol 60, which included developing a compiler for the English Electric KDF9, an early stack machine | Developer of a compiler for the English Electric KDF9, an early stack machine, Randell is a British computer scientist and Emeritus Professor at the School of Computing Science, Newcastle… |
| Brian Warboys | Chief designer of ICL's VME operating system | Chief designer of ICL's VME operating system, Warboys went on to become a Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Manchester from 1985 until he retired in September 2007,… |
| Brian Wilson Kernighan | Co author of the first book on the C programming language and programmer of several well known Unix utilities such as ditroff and cron | Co-author of the first book on the C programming language and programmer of well-known Unix utilities such as ditroff and cron, Kernighan worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson… |
| Bruce D. Shriver | Worldwide lecturer in the design and implementation of computer hardware and software systems | Worldwide lecturer in the design and implementation of computer hardware and software systems, Shriver has been a computer science academic, consultant, and entrepreneur in the area of high-… |
| Bruce Eckel | Known for authoring "Thinking in Java" and "Thinking in C++" | Author of "Thinking in Java" and "Thinking in C++", Eckel has written numerous books and articles about computer programming. He has also given frequent lectures and seminars for computer… |
| Bruce G. Buchanan | Played a role in the development of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory | A key figure in the development of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Buchanan is University Professor of Computer Science Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. He received a B.A… |
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