Honor Roll
| Name Sort descending | Noted For | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Richard (Rick) Thomas Watson | Co-leader of the Global Text Project, which provides free electronic textbooks for students in the developing world | Co-leader of the Global Text Project, which provides free electronic textbooks for students in the developing world, Watson has held the J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Chair for Internet Strategy in… |
| Richard D. Greenblatt | The main implementer of Maclisp on the PDP-6, writer of Mac Hack, the first computer program to play tournament-level chess and the first to compete in a human chess tournament; and considered to be a co-founder of the hacker community | Co-founder of the hacker community and the main implementer of Maclisp on the PDP-6, Greenblatt is also known for writing Mac Hack, the first computer program to play tournament-level chess and… |
| Richard E. Crandall | He is most notable for the development of the irrational base discrete weighted transform, an important method of finding very large primes | Developer of the irrational base discrete weighted transform, an important method of finding very large primes, Crandall made significant contributions to computational number theory. He served,… |
| Richard E. Pattis | Author of the Karel programming language | Author of the Karel programming language, Pattis published "Karel the Robot: A Gentle Introduction to the Art of Programming." He received his MS from Stanford University and has served as a… |
| Richard Edwin Stearns | A prominent computer scientist who, with Juris Hartmanis, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory" | 1993 ACM Turing Award recipient, Stearns is a prominent computer scientist who, with Juris Hartmanis, was recognized "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for… |
| Richard Ernest Bellman | Developer of dynamic programming; a method for solving complex problems by breaking them down into simpler sub-problems in mathematics and computer science | Developer of dynamic programming, Bellman made foundational contributions to mathematics and computer science by introducing a method for solving complex problems by breaking them down into… |
| Richard F. Clippinger | Co-developer of numeric methods for solving ordinary and partial differential equations on the ENIAC, EDVAC, and ORDVAC computers | Co-developer of numeric methods for solving ordinary and partial differential equations on the ENIAC, EDVAC, and ORDVAC computers, Clippinger was a computing laboratory staff member at the… |
| Richard Lawrence Garwin | Co-developer of laser printers and touchscreen monitors for IBM in the 1970s | Co-developer of laser printers and touchscreen monitors for IBM in the 1970s, Garwin was an American physicist and IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights,… |
| Richard Lawrence Grimsdale | Designer and developer of the world's first transistorized computer, the Metrovick 950 | Designer and developer of the world's first transistorized computer, the Metrovick 950, Grimsdale was born in Australia, returned to England with his parents, and later studied electrical… |
| Richard Matthew Stallman | GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system | Founder of the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, Stallman also launched the free software movement and was the main author of the GNU General Public License for open source… |
| Richard Milton Bloch | Co-designer and programmer of the Mark 1, the first automatic digital computer; and inventor of the procedure for automatic error detection known as parity check; used in almost all computers today | Co-designer and programmer of the Mark 1, the first automatic digital computer, and inventor of the parity check procedure for automatic error detection used in almost all computers today, Bloch… |
| Richard O Mason | Developing concepts of IT and information ethics | Developer of foundational concepts in IT and information ethics, Mason has served as Carr P. Collins Professor of Management Information Sciences at the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern… |
| Richard P. Gabriel | Co-designer of Common Lisp (CL), a dialect of the Lisp programming language; one implementations being free and open source software | Co-designer of Common Lisp (CL), Gabriel is an American computer scientist known for his work related to the Lisp programming language in computing. His best known work is a 1990 essay, "Lisp:… |
| Richard Phillips Feynman | Nobel prize in Physics - 1965 | Nobel Prize winner in Physics (1965), Feynman made landmark contributions to quantum electrodynamics, the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, and the physics of the superfluidity of… |
| Richard Stevens | Awarded the Usenix Lifetime Achievement Award | Posthumously awarded the Usenix Lifetime Achievement Award, Stevens was a celebrated author and consultant in computing. Richard Stevens was born in 1951 in Luanshya, Northern Rhodesia (now… |
| Richard T. Liebhaber | Architect, engineer and constructor MCI's network | Architect, engineer, and constructor of MCI's network, Liebhaber retired as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of MCI Communications, Inc. ("MCI") in 1995, where he also managed… |
| Richard Wesley Hamming | For his work on numerical methods, automatic coding systems, and error-detecting and error-correcting codes | Known for his work on numerical methods, automatic coding systems, and error-detecting and error-correcting codes, Hamming was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for… |
| Robert (Bob) Alan Iannucci | Led NRC's previously established labs and the new lablets to deliver fundamental contributions to the worldwide Long Term Evolution for 3G (LTE) standard | Led Nokia's Research Center (NRC) labs and lablets to deliver fundamental contributions to the worldwide Long Term Evolution for 3G (LTE) standard, Iannucci is a computer scientist who has served… |
| Robert (Bob) C. Baron | Program Manager for the Mariner II (Venus) and the Mariner IV (Mars) onboard space computers | Program Manager for the Mariner II (Venus) and the Mariner IV (Mars) onboard space computers, Baron spent over 25 years as an engineer, entrepreneur, and executive in the computer industry. A… |
| Robert (Bob) Cohn | Co-founder of Octel Communications, the company that commercialized voice mail and was largely responsible for making it ubiquitous on cell phones, in companies and on residential phones | Co-founder of Octel Communications, the company that commercialized voice mail and made it ubiquitous on cell phones, in companies, and on residential phones, Cohn established Octel with Peter… |
| Robert (Bob) E. Lorenzini | Co-designer and developer of a crystal growing furnace | Co-designer and developer of a crystal growing furnace, Lorenzini joined Rheem Semiconductor in 1960, the first spin-off from Fairchild Semiconductor, where he was involved in the design and… |
| Robert (Bob) E. Watson | Directed such "firsts" for HP as the first HP desktop calculator family, HP's first handheld calculators, HP's first LaserJets, and HP's first ink-jet products | Directed such "firsts" for HP as the first HP desktop calculator family, HP's first handheld calculators, HP's first LaserJets, and HP's first ink-jet products, Watson spent 30 years with Hewlett-… |
| Robert (Bob) H. Dennard | Inventor of the dynamic random access memory (DRAM), a new type of computer memory chip that allowed computers to have more memory at a lower price | Inventor of dynamic random access memory (DRAM), Dennard's creation of the one-transistor dynamic RAM was a core development in the launch of today's computer industry, setting the stage for… |
| Robert (Bob) J. Frankenberg | Leader of the revival of HP's personal computer unit | Leader of the revival of HP's personal computer unit, Frankenberg is an American computer engineer and business executive. He spent much of his career at Hewlett-Packard (HP), starting there in… |
| Robert (Bob) M. Frankston | Co-founder of Software Arts and co-creator of VisiCalc | Co-creator of VisiCalc and co-founder of Software Arts, Frankston received numerous honors and awards for his work. He has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1994) "… |
| Robert (Bob) Nimrod Miner | Architect of Oracle's relational database management system | Architect of Oracle's relational database management system and co-founder of Oracle Corporation, Miner led product design and development from 1977 until 1992. In December 1992, he left that role… |
| Robert (Bob) P. Colwell | Leader of the development for Intel's Pentium 4 CPU | Leader of the development of Intel's Pentium 4 CPU, Colwell is also recognized as the chief IA-32 architect on the Pentium Pro, Pentium II, and Pentium III microprocessors. An electrical engineer… |
| Robert (Bob) Proebsting | Inventor of the DRAM address multiplexing with the MK4096 4096 X 1 bit DRAM introduced in 1973 | Inventor of DRAM address multiplexing with the MK4096 4096 X 1 bit DRAM introduced in 1973, Proebsting co-founded Mostek in June 1969 and made one of the most significant contributions in DRAM… |
| Robert (Bob) R. Maxfield | Co-founder of ROLM which originally made flight computers for the military and heavy commercial industries | Co-founder of ROLM Corporation, Maxfield served as its Executive Vice-President and Director. ROLM (named after the initials of the last names of its founders) was co-founded with three other Rice… |
| Robert (Bob) Stanley Barton | Chief architect of the Burroughs B5000 | Chief architect of the Burroughs B5000, Barton was also a co-inventor of dataflow. His thinking was broadly influential. As one example, Barton influenced the systems and higher-level… |
| Robert (Bob) William Galvin | CEO of Motorola and was instrumental, along with Motorola engineer Bill Smith, in implementing the Six Sigma Quality System which seeks to improve the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing the causes of defects and minimizing variability in manufacturing and business processes | CEO of Motorola and instrumental, along with Motorola engineer Bill Smith, in implementing the Six Sigma Quality System, Galvin served as Motorola's chief executive from 1959 to 1986. A US… |
| Robert (Bob) William Taylor | Leader of teams that made major contributions to the personal computer, and other related technologies | Leader of teams that made major contributions to the personal computer and other related technologies, Taylor is sometimes called the father of the modern Internet. Born in Dallas, Texas in… |
| Robert A. Henle | Co-developer of the IBM 608 transistor calculator, the first solid-state computing system in production | Co-developer of the IBM 608 transistor calculator, the first solid-state computing system in production, Henle contributed significantly to semiconductor technology. He was born in Virginia,… |
| Robert B. Garner | Team member for the Xerox STAR 8010 Professional Workstation, including the first 10-mbps Ethernet NIC in 1981 | Team member for the Xerox STAR 8010 Professional Workstation, including the first 10-mbps Ethernet NIC in 1981, Garner designed and managed compute, network, and storage systems in Silicon Valley… |
| Robert B. Palmer | Member of the founding team at Mostek, where he pioneered the use of ion implantation technology for the manufacture of MOS circuits | Member of the founding team at Mostek, where he pioneered the use of ion implantation technology for the manufacture of MOS circuits, Palmer is also known as the last Chairman and Chief Executive… |
| Robert C. Pike | A member of the Unix team that was involved in the creation of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems, as well as the Limbo programming language and has written many text editors such as SAM and ACME | A member of the Unix team at Bell Labs, Pike was involved in the creation of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems, as well as the Limbo programming language. He also co-… |
| Robert Cailliau | Co-developer of the World Wide Web | Co-developer of the World Wide Web, Cailliau is a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who, together with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, helped bring the web into existence. Born in Tongeren… |
| Robert Cecil Martin | Initiated the meeting of the group that created Agile software development from Extreme Programming techniques | Initiator of the 2001 meeting that created Agile software development from Extreme Programming techniques, Martin has been a software professional since 1970 and has served as an international… |
| Robert Clay Prim | Co-developer of Prim's algorithm for finding a minimum spanning tree in a weighted graph, a basic stumbling block in computer network design | Co-developer of Prim's algorithm for finding a minimum spanning tree in a weighted graph, Prim made foundational contributions to computer network design. An American mathematician and computer… |
| Robert Davis Richtmyer | Post-war leader of the theoretical division at Los Alamos National Laboratory; using the massive IBM SSEC calculator for some of the first large-scale uses of what would be called the Monte Carlo method | Post-war leader of the theoretical division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Richtmyer was among the first to use the massive IBM SSEC calculator for large-scale applications of what would be… |
| Robert E. Cook | Founder VM Software, later named Systems Center to provide software utilities for IBM's VM operating system | Founder of VM Software (later renamed Systems Center), a provider of software utilities for IBM's VM operating system, Cook built his first company into a firm listed on both the Nasdaq and the… |
| Robert E. Mumma | Led a top-secret program to develop high-speed deciphering machines during World War II | Leader of a top-secret program to develop high-speed deciphering machines to crack Nazi codes during World War II, Mumma was a pioneering figure in early computing. He served as the Business… |
| Robert Elliott Kahn | Co-invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP) | Co-inventor of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), Kahn is sometimes called one of the fathers of the Internet. Kahn was born on December 23, 1938, in… |
| Robert Endre Tarjan | For fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures | Renowned for fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures, Tarjan is an American computer scientist. He discovered several important graph algorithms,… |
| Robert H. High, Jr. | Pioneer in the field of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) positioning IBM as a leader in delivering critical technologies to its clients | Pioneer in the field of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), High positioned IBM as a leader in delivering critical technologies to its clients. He has served as an IBM Fellow—the highest honor a… |
| Robert J. Harrison | Principal architect of the Northwest Computational Chemistry Software (NWChem), a computational chemistry code for massively parallel computers | Principal architect of the Northwest Computational Chemistry Software (NWChem), a computational chemistry code for massively parallel computers, Harrison is a distinguished expert in high-… |
| Robert Jay Creasy | Project leader of the first full virtualization hypervisor, the IBM CP-40, which later developed into IBM's highly successful line of mainframe VM operating systems | Project leader of the first full virtualization hypervisor, the IBM CP-40, Creasy later saw his work develop into IBM's highly successful line of mainframe VM operating systems — a family of IBM… |
| Robert John Lansdown | A pioneer of the use of computers for architecture and other creative activities and one of the founders of the Computer Arts Society | A pioneer of the use of computers for architecture and other creative activities, and one of the founders of the Computer Arts Society, Lansdown was also a British computer graphics polymath and… |
| Robert Kevin Rose | Co-founder, Digg | Co-founder of Digg and other Internet start-ups, Rose is recognized for his entrepreneurial work in online media. He first became an on-air talent and later served as a co-host on TechTV's… |
| Robert L. Patrick | Designer of the first operating system, a non-stop multi-user batch processing operating system for use on the next generation computer (IBM 704) | Designer of the first operating system — a non-stop multi-user batch processing operating system for the IBM 704 — Patrick entered the computer field in 1955. While at Convair, in Ft. Worth, Texas… |
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