Honor Roll
| Name Sort descending | Noted For | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Safrira Goldwasser | Co-inventor of zero-knowledge proofs, key to cryptographic protocols | Co-inventor of zero-knowledge proofs, Goldwasser's research areas include computational complexity theory, cryptography, and computational number theory. Zero-knowledge proofs probabilistically… |
| Sajal K. Das | Pioneer in research on wireless sensor networks and pervasive and mobile computing | Pioneer in research on wireless sensor networks and pervasive and mobile computing, Das has served as the Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair Professor and chair of the Computer Science department at… |
| Sally A. Fincher | Worked on several major computing education projects, such as the Bootstrapping Research in Computer Science Education series, and the UK “sharing practice” project | Researcher known for working on several major computing education projects, such as the Bootstrapping Research in Computer Science Education series and the UK "Sharing Practice" project (… |
| Sally Floyd | Internet Congestion Control Pioneer | Best known for her work on Internet congestion control, Floyd was an American computer scientist who spent much of her career at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley,… |
| Sam Harrell | Co-founder of SEMATECH, a partnership between the U.S. government and U.S.-based semiconductor manufacturers to regain competitiveness for the U.S. semiconductor industry | Co-founder of SEMATECH, the partnership between the U.S. government and U.S.-based semiconductor manufacturers to regain competitiveness for the U.S. semiconductor industry, Harrell is a leading… |
| Sam Ruby | Co-developer and principal maintainer of the Feed Validator validator; a computer program used to check the validity or syntactical correctness of a fragment of code or document such as HTML, CSS and XML documents or RSS feeds | Co-developer and principal maintainer of the Feed Validator — a tool used to check the validity of HTML, CSS, XML documents, and RSS feeds — Ruby has made significant contributions to web… |
| Samuel (Sam) H. Altman | President of Y Combinator and co-chairman of OpenAI. | President of Y Combinator and co-chairman of OpenAI, Altman is an American entrepreneur, programmer, and blogger. |
| Samuel (Sam) Wyly | Co-founder and founder of several computer businesses, one of which was Datran, which began construction of a nationwide system of microwave towers to transmit data among 27 American cities | Co-founder of several computer businesses, including Datran, which began construction of a nationwide system of microwave towers to transmit data among 27 American cities, Wyly is an American… |
| Samuel Finley Breese Morse | Contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs and co-inventor of the Morse code | Co-inventor of Morse code and contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system, Morse was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. After attending Phillips Academy in Andover,… |
| Samuel Hawks Caldwell | Best known for his contributions to early computers | Best known for his contributions to early computers, Caldwell was an American electrical engineer who completed his degrees in electrical engineering at MIT. His M.Sc. thesis was entitled… |
| Samuel J. Palmisano | CEO,IBM (retired) | CEO of IBM, one of the world's largest technology companies, Palmisano has served as the company's chief executive officer, president, and chairman. He served as CEO from March 2002 and was… |
| Samuel Morland | Credited with early developments in relation to computing, hydraulics and steam power | Credited with early developments in relation to computing, hydraulics and steam power, Morland was a notable English academic, diplomat, spy, inventor and mathematician of the 17th century. He was… |
| Samuel Nathan Alexander | Developer of the SEAC computer, the first fully functional electronic computer with an internal program memory (stored program) in the United States | Developer of the SEAC computer, the first fully functional electronic computer with an internal program memory (stored program) in the United States, Alexander was an American computer scientist.… |
| Samuel Reid Warren, Jr. | Served as supervisor of the EDVAC project at the Moore School | Supervisor of the EDVAC project at the Moore School, Warren spent the bulk of his career at the University of Pennsylvania. Born in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, he was the son of Samuel… |
| Sandra (Sandy) Carter | A key leader responsible for setting the direction for IBM’s Social Business initiative | A key leader responsible for setting the direction for IBM's Social Business initiative, Carter served as IBM's worldwide General Manager, Ecosystem Development and Social Business. A recognized… |
| Sandra Burke | Pioneered Drug-Coated Cardiac Stents | Recognized for pioneering research into drug-coated intravascular stents for the treatment of restenosis, Burke helped establish a cornerstone of Abbott's cardiovascular device research and… |
| Sandra L. Kurtzig | The first woman to take a high-tech company public, as developer of ASK Computer Systems Inc. and it’s product, Manman; an ERP program that ran on Hewlett-Packard minicomputers and helped manufacturing companies plan materials purchases, production schedules, and other administrative functions on a scale that was previously possible only on large, costly mainframe computers | The first woman to take a high-tech company public, Kurtzig founded ASK Computer Systems Inc. and developed Manman, an ERP program that ran on Hewlett-Packard minicomputers and helped… |
| Sandy Lerner | Co-designer of the first router at Stanford offices to connect the computer systems SU-SCORE and SU-GSB and Co-founder of Cisco Systems | Co-founder of Cisco Systems and co-designer of the first router connecting Stanford's computer systems, Lerner received her Bachelor's Degree in 1975 in Political Science from California State… |
| Santosh K. Kurinec | Microelectronic Engineering Professor | A Fellow of IEEE and recipient of the 2012 IEEE Technical Field Award, Kurinec was a professor of electrical and microelectronic engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology. She also served… |
| Sara Rushinek | Health Informatics Professor | Inducted into the WITI Hall of Fame in 2019, Rushinek became a professor of Business Technology and Health Informatics at the University of Miami Business School. She also took a faculty position… |
| Sarah Sharp | Open Source Communication Advocate | Winner of the first annual Red Hat Women in Open Source Community Award in 2015, Sage Sharp (formerly Sarah Sharp) is an American software engineer recognized for efforts in improving… |
| Satish Chandra | Co-developer of a methodology that allows programmers to leverage the oracle's help in writing complex programs | Co-developer of a methodology that allows programmers to leverage the oracle's help in writing complex programs, Chandra has worked extensively on program analysis, bug finding, and software… |
| Satoshi Matsuoka | Lead developer for the TSUBAME series of supercomputers, which have included the 4th fastest in the world on the Top500 | Lead developer of the TSUBAME series of supercomputers — which included the 4th fastest in the world on the Top500 — Matsuoka has served as a Full Professor at the Global Scientific Information… |
| Satya Nadella | Leader of a transformation of Microsoft Corporation’s business and technology culture from client services to cloud infrastructure and services | Leader of a transformation of Microsoft's business and technology culture from client services to cloud infrastructure and services, Nadella was appointed CEO of Microsoft Corporation on February… |
| Saul Amarel | Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence | Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Amarel was best known for his groundbreaking work in AI methodologies applied to scientific inquiry and engineering practice. He also had a distinguished career… |
| Saul Rosen | Chief software designer for the world's first transistorized computer, the Philco TRANSAC S-2000 | Chief software designer for the world's first transistorized computer, the Philco TRANSAC S-2000, Rosen left a significant mark on early computing history. Born in Port Chester, NY, Rosen… |
| Scott Cook | Founder, Intuit | Founder of Intuit, Cook launched the financial software company in 1983; it today offers software and online products to help individuals and small companies manage their finances. He… |
| Scott McNealy | Founder, Sun Microsystems | Co-founder of Sun Microsystems, McNealy started the computer technology company in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Andy Bechtolsheim. Sun Microsystems, along with companies such… |
| Scott W. Ambler | Leader of the development of several software processes, including Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Enterprise Unified Process (EUP), and Agile Unified Process (AUP) methodologies | Leader in the development of several software processes — including Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Enterprise Unified Process (EUP), and Agile Unified Process (AUP) methodologies — Ambler… |
| Sean Parker | Co-founder of the file-sharing computer service Napster (credited with being a precursor to iTunes); and the first President of the social networking website Facebook | Co-founder of Napster and the first President of Facebook, Parker is an American entrepreneur who also co-founded Plaxo, Causes, and Airtime. As of March 2012, his net worth was estimated to be $2… |
| Sellam Ismail | Active in the preservation of information technology artifacts and founder of the Vintage Computer Festival | Founder of the Vintage Computer Festival and active in the preservation of information technology artifacts, Ismail has dedicated himself to salvaging countless artifacts of tech history. His… |
| Semen Nikolaevich Korsakov | Noted homeopath and inventor in early information technology | Noted homeopath and early information technology inventor, Korsakov took part in the Napoleonic Wars with the Russian Army from 1812–1814. He later served as an official in the statistics… |
| Sergey Alexeyevich Lebedev | Designed and built first Soviet computer | Designer and builder of the first Soviet computer, Lebedev was a pioneering figure in the history of computing in the USSR. In 1948 Lebedev learned from foreign magazines that scientists in… |
| Sergio Verdu | Known for his research into the field of multiuser detection | Known for pioneering the field of multiuser detection, Verdú has served as the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he has taught and conducted… |
| Sergy Brin | Founder, Google | Co-founder of Google, Inc., the world's largest Internet company based on its search engine and online advertising technology, Brin built the company alongside Larry Page. Together with Page, they… |
| Severo M. Ornstein | Co-designer of Mockingbird, the first interactive computer-based music-score editor, and overseer of its programming | Co-designer of Mockingbird, the first interactive computer-based music-score editor, and overseer of its programming, Ornstein is a retired computer scientist and son of Russian-American composer… |
| Seymour Ivan Rubinstein | Directed or co-directed the development of the computer programs HelpDesk, Quattro Pro, and WebSleuth and WordStar, which was the first truly successful program for the personal computer (in a commercial sense) and gave reasonably priced access to word processing for the general population for the first time | Director of the development of WordStar — the first truly successful commercial program for the personal computer — Rubinstein gave the general population reasonably priced access to word… |
| Seymour Papert | One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, as well as an inventor of the Logo programming language | One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence and an inventor of the Logo programming language, Papert was among the most influential thinkers in education and computing. At MIT, he created the… |
| Seymour Roger Cray | Father of supercomputing | Sometimes called "the father of supercomputing," Cray was a U.S. electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades,… |
| Shari Trewin | Developer of a tool for keyboard configuration that can be downloaded for use by individuals with motor impairments; also a collaborator in an examination of the technology requirements of older workers, making the Web more accessible for them | Developer of a keyboard configuration tool for individuals with motor impairments, Trewin is an HCI researcher at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York, whose long-standing research focus… |
| Sharon Nunes | IBM VP Big Green Innovations | Inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame in 2009, Nunes served as Vice President of Big Green Innovations at IBM Corporation before retiring from that role in 2012. |
| Shashi Phoha | Shaper of new research directions in computational sciences to enable dependable distributed automation of multiple interacting devices | Shaper of new research directions in computational sciences to enable dependable distributed automation of multiple interacting devices, Phoha developed real-time data driven sensor fusion and… |
| Shashi Shekhar | Major contributor to data engineering and database systems including the Connectivity-Clustered Access Method (CCAM), a new storage and access method for spatial networks | Major contributor to data engineering and database systems, including the Connectivity-Clustered Access Method (CCAM), a new storage and access method for spatial networks, Shekhar is a McKnight… |
| Shaun Wylie | With others of Hut 8, Bletchley Park, he worked on solving the Enigma machine as used by the German Navy | A key member of Hut 8 at Bletchley Park, Wylie worked alongside Alan Turing on solving the Enigma machine as used by the German Navy. He was born in Oxford, England, the fourth son of Sir Francis… |
| Shawn Fanning | Developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer filesharing platforms | Developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer filesharing platforms |
| Sheila Widnall | First Female Air Force Secretary | The first woman to serve as United States Secretary of the Air Force, Widnall held that post from 1993 to 1997, becoming the first woman to lead an entire branch of the United States Armed Forces… |
| Sheldon (Shelly) Weinig | Founder of MRC, a global manufacturer and supplier of highly specialized semiconductor materials and equipment, setting the pace for the industry | Founder of Materials Research Corporation (MRC), a global manufacturer and supplier of highly specialized semiconductor materials and equipment, Weinig set the pace for the semiconductor industry… |
| Sherita T. Ceasar | First Black SWE President | The first African American president of the Society of Women Engineers, Ceasar held that position from 1999 to 2000. She became Senior Vice President of Technology Environment and Strategy for… |
| Sheryl Kara Sandberg | CEO of Facebook and was the youngest woman on Fortune Magazine's "50 Most Powerful Women in Business" list in 2007 | Chief Operating Officer of Facebook beginning in 2008, Sandberg was also the youngest woman on Fortune Magazine's "50 Most Powerful Women in Business" list in 2007. She had previously served as… |
| Sheryl Root | Technology Management Academic Executive | Inducted into the WITI Hall of Fame in 2015, Root is recognized for combining corporate leadership with academic contributions in technology management and analysis. She became President and CEO… |
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