Honor Roll
| Name Sort descending | Noted For | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Lee Simpson, Jr. | Responsible for PreAct; a hierarchical suite of intelligent software components that deliver efficient design, development and tracking of associate systems projects | Responsible for PreAct Software, a hierarchical suite of intelligent software components that deliver efficient design, development, and tracking of associate systems projects, Simpson is an… |
| Robert Louis Nord | Developer of effective methods and practices for software architecture | Developer of effective methods and practices for software architecture, Nord has served as a senior member of the technical staff at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). His areas of interest… |
| Robert M. Price | Leader of Control Data's early strategic expansion into international operations and marketing as well as the strategic move into information and systems integration services | Leader of Control Data's early strategic expansion into international operations and marketing, Price also drove the strategic move into information and systems integration services. He graduated… |
| Robert Mano Fano | Known principally for his work in information theory and the invention of Shannon-Fano coding | Known principally for his work in information theory and the invention of Shannon-Fano coding, Fano was a computer scientist and professor emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science… |
| Robert Marco Tomasulo | Inventor of the Tomasulo algorithm, a computer architecture hardware algorithm for dynamic scheduling designed to efficiently utilize multiple execution units | Inventor of the Tomasulo algorithm, a computer architecture hardware algorithm for dynamic scheduling of instructions that allows out-of-order execution, Tomasulo was the recipient of the 1997… |
| Robert Melancton Metcalfe | Co-invented Ethernet and founder of 3Com | Co-inventor of Ethernet and founder of 3Com, Metcalfe is an American electrical engineer who also formulated Metcalfe's Law. He has served as a general partner of Polaris Venture since joining in… |
| Robert Morris | Contributor to early versions of UNIX which included the math library, the program crypt, and the password encryption scheme used for user authentication | Contributor to early versions of UNIX, Morris developed the math library, the program crypt, and the password encryption scheme used for user authentication. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts,… |
| Robert Norton Noyce | Founder of INTEL | Founder of Intel and co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor, Noyce is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the invention of the integrated circuit or microchip. Nicknamed "the Mayor of… |
| Robert Rivers Everett | Designer of Whirlwind and later president of the MITRE corp. | Designer of Whirlwind — the first computer to operate in real time — Everett joined the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory in 1942 as a graduate student and in 1943 as a staff member. He served as Jay… |
| Robert Stein | Producer of the first interactive computer discs for the CD-Rom | Producer of the first interactive computer discs for CD-ROM, Stein is considered a visionary and innovator in the world of communication and multimedia. Born and raised in New York City, Stein… |
| Robert W. Floyd | For having a clear influence on methodologies for the creation of efficient and reliable software | Having a clear influence on methodologies for the creation of efficient and reliable software, Floyd made lasting contributions to computer science across several areas. His contributions included… |
| Robert W. Wisniewski | Manager of the Blue Gene software project; an IBM Research project dedicated to exploring the frontiers in supercomputing: in computer architecture, in the software required to program and control massively parallel systems, and in the use of computation to advance the understanding of important biological processes such as protein folding | Manager of the Blue Gene software project at IBM Research — an initiative dedicated to exploring the frontiers in supercomputing, computer architecture, software for massively parallel systems,… |
| Robert William Bemer | Best known for his work with IBM in the late 50s including UNIVAC, COBOL and ASCII | Best known as "The Father of ASCII," Bemer made foundational contributions to computing through his work on COBOL and the ASCII character codeset. Bemer began his career as an… |
| Roberta Banaszak Gleiter | Women in Engineering Advocate | Fellow of both the Society of Women Engineers and the Institute for the Advancement of Engineering, Gleiter built a career devoted to expanding opportunities for women in technology and… |
| Roberto Tamassia | Pioneer in the field of graph drawing and made major contributions to the design of graph and geometric algorithms | Pioneer in the field of graph drawing and major contributor to the design of graph and geometric algorithms, Tamassia has served as Plastech Professor of Computer Science at Brown University in… |
| Robin Keith Saxby | Guided the ARM microprocessor to worldwide dominance in embedded applications. | Guided ARM Holdings to worldwide dominance in embedded applications as its first CEO, Saxby built the Cambridge-based company into "a global giant" with offices round the world. Born in… |
| Robin Milner | Fundamentals of Computing | A Turing Award-winning pioneer of theoretical computer science, Milner shaped the formal understanding of computation through foundational contributions. He developed Calculus of Communicating… |
| Robin Oliver Gandy | Conducted work in recursion theory - a branch of mathematical logic that originated in the 1930s with the study of computable functions and Turing degrees | A pioneer in recursion theory, Gandy is best known for the Spector-Gandy theorem, the Gandy Stage Comparison theorem, and the Gandy Selection Theorem. A British mathematician and logician, he was… |
| Roger B. Lazarus | Developed the manual calculations of the Manhattan project into computerized numerical analysis | Pioneer of computerized numerical analysis for nuclear weapons research, Lazarus evolved the manual calculations of the Manhattan Project into computerized numerical analysis during his 35 years… |
| Roger D. Moore | Research in speech and behavior systems | Co-recipient of the 1973 Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery, Moore was recognized — along with Larry Breed and Richard Lathwell — for their work in the design… |
| Roger Hui | Co-developer of the J Programming Language | Co-developer of the J programming language, Hui collaborated with Ken Iverson in the early 1990s on an advanced continuation of an APL-like language which they called J. The improvements not only… |
| Roger Michael Needham | Head of Cambridge University Computing Laboratory, designer of cryptography and security systems, | Head of Cambridge University Computing Laboratory and designer of influential cryptography and security systems, Needham was a major figure in computer science. A Mathematics and Philosophy… |
| Roger R. Schell | The "father" of the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (the “Orange Book”) | Regarded as the "father" of the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (the "Orange Book"), Schell is one of the foremost contributors to, and authorities on, "high assurance" computer… |
| Roger R. Schmidt | Prolific contributor in cooling IBM's supercomputers, high performance servers, client/servers, and other equipment through the innovative use of air, water and refrigerants | Named an IBM Fellow in 2009 and prolific contributor to cooling IBM's supercomputers, high performance servers, client/servers, and other equipment through the innovative use of air, water, and… |
| Roger Sippl | Co-developer of the relational database Informix (INFORMation on unIX) and Co-founder of Relational Database Systems (RDS) | Co-developer of the relational database Informix (INFORMation on unIX) and co-founder of Relational Database Systems (RDS), Sippl earned a B.S. in computer science from the University of… |
| Rolf Skår | Researcher on the second minicomputer in the world based on integrated circuits (the first was the Apollo guidance computer) and was CEO of the Norwegian Space Centre from 1997 to 2006 | Researcher on the second minicomputer in the world based on integrated circuits, Skår was also a co-founder of Norsk Data and served as CEO of the Norwegian Space Centre from 1997 to 2006. … |
| Rolf William Landauer | Significant contributor in diverse areas of the thermodynamics of information processing, condensed matter physics, and the conductivity of disordered media | A significant contributor in diverse areas of the thermodynamics of information processing, condensed matter physics, and the conductivity of disordered media, Landauer was a German-American… |
| Romuald W. Marczyński | Primary creator of the EMAL machine designs, Poland’s first computers | Primary creator of the EMAL machine designs — Poland's first computers — Marczyński was a professor, mathematician, and pioneer of Polish technical computer science. He was one of the first in… |
| Ron C. Crane | 10M b/sec Ethernet design and IEEE 802.3 standardization (10 Base 5) 100M b/sec Fast Ethernet (100 Base T4) design, validation and IEEE 802.3u standardization Founder, CEO and President of LAN Media Corp which designed and sold high speed WAN interface cards for routers and other IT equipment |
Co-designer of 10M b/sec Ethernet and a driving force behind the IEEE 802.3 and 802.3u standards, Crane left a significant mark on the history of networking. Ron Crane had many technical… |
| Ron Johnson | Pioneer of the concept of the Apple Retail Stores and the Genius Bar, a tech support station located inside some Apple Retail Stores, the purpose of which is to offer help and support for Apple products | Pioneer of the Apple Retail Stores and the Genius Bar, Johnson is an American businessman who served as Senior Vice President of Retail Operations at Apple Inc. from January 2000 to November 2011… |
| Ronald (Ron) Fagin | Pioneer in database theory, finite model theory, introducing the Fourth Normal Form, which captures crucial desirable aspects of database design | Pioneer in database theory and finite model theory, Fagin is an American computer scientist and IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center, best known for introducing the Fourth Normal Form and… |
| Ronald (Ron) Lewis Graham | Principal architect of the rapid development worldwide of discrete mathematics, including important work in scheduling theory | Credited by the American Mathematical Society as "one of the principal architects of the rapid development worldwide of discrete mathematics in recent years," Graham was also a leading figure in… |
| Ronald K Stamper | Information theory, Organizational Semiotics | Pioneer in organizational semiotics and information theory, Stamper is recognized for applying semiotics to information systems in a way that transformed the field. Born in Nottingham,… |
| Ronald Linn Rivest | Ingenious contribution for making public-key cryptography useful in practice | One of the inventors of the RSA algorithm (along with Adi Shamir and Len Adleman), Rivest has made ingenious contributions to making public-key cryptography useful in practice. He also invented… |
| Rosalyn S. Yalow | Nobel Prize Radioimmunoassay | Co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Yalow shared the honor with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally for the development of the radioimmunoassay technique. She was the… |
| Rowland Hanson | Creator and executor of the Microsoft Company’s highly acclaimed branding strategy which included the market introduction of its most popular product—a graphical interface that he named "Windows” | Creator of Microsoft's highly acclaimed branding strategy and the name "Windows," Hanson has served as Vice President of Corporate Communications at Microsoft and went on to become CEO of The HMC… |
| Roy Nutt | A major contributor in the creation of IBM's FORTRAN, the first high-level scientific and engineering programming language | A major contributor in the creation of IBM's FORTRAN, the first high-level scientific and engineering programming language, Nutt was also an American businessman and computer pioneer who co-… |
| Roz Ho | TiVo Technology Executive | Inducted into the WITI Hall of Fame in 2018, Ho built a career as a technology executive with experience in consumer products and media technology. She served as Senior Vice President and General… |
| Ruchi Sanghvi | First Female Facebook Engineer | The first female engineer hired by Facebook, Sanghvi later founded her own company, Cove, in 2011, alongside two co-founders. Dropbox acquired Cove in 2012, and Sanghvi joined Dropbox as VP of… |
| Ruchir Puri | Leader of high performance design and methodology solutions for all of IBM’s enterprise server and system chip designs | Leader of high performance design and methodology solutions for all of IBM's enterprise server and system chip designs, Puri has served as an IBM Fellow at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center,… |
| Rudolf Bayer | Inventor of B-Trees and UB_Trees | Inventor of B-Trees and UB-Trees, Bayer is one of the most influential figures in the history of data structures and database systems. Rudolf Bayer was born in 1939 in Landshut, Germany. He… |
| Rudolf Hell | Inventor of an apparatus called the Hellschreiber, an early forerunner to the fax machine | Inventor of the Hellschreiber, an early forerunner to the fax machine, Hell was a German engineer born in Eggmühl, Germany, who studied electrical engineering in Munich from 1919 to 1923. While… |
| Russell Lincoln Ackoff | Established one of the world's first Departments of Operations Research | Recognized as the "Father of Operations Research" for helping establish one of the world's first Departments of Operations Research, Ackoff is also celebrated internationally as a pragmatic… |
| Russell Shoemaker Ohl | Developer of the modern solar cell and other important transistor breakthroughs | Developer of the modern solar cell and other important transistor breakthroughs, Ohl was a notable semiconductor researcher prior to the invention of the transistor. He patented the modern solar… |
| Ruth A. David | CIA Private Sector Partnerships | Credited with encouraging the CIA to pursue partnerships with the private sector, Ruth A. David also designed a proposal to procure technology at the stage of development from private industry.… |
| Ruth Leach Amonette | First Female VP at IBM | Appointed as the first female executive and vice president at IBM in 1943, Amonette became one of only a few women to hold a high-ranking corporate position in the United States at that time. A… |
| Ruth M. Davis | Deputy Undersecretary Defense Research | Chair of The Aerospace Corporation and deputy undersecretary of defense for research and advanced technology, Davis was an American computer scientist and civil servant associated with several… |
| Ruth Teitelbaum (née Lichterman) | One of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer | One of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer, Teitelbaum played a pivotal role in the rise of computers. She graduated from Hunter College with a B.Sc. in Mathematics and was hired by… |
| Ruzena Bajcsy | Founded GRASP Robotics Laboratory | Founding director of the University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception (GRASP) Laboratory, Bajcsy is an American engineer and computer scientist specializing in… |
| Safiya Umoja Noble | Algorithms of Oppression Author | Author of the landmark 2018 book "Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism," Noble brought rigorous academic scrutiny to the ways search engine algorithms can perpetuate… |
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