Honor Roll
| Name Sort descending | Noted For | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Shigeru (Steve) Nakayama | Key role player in introducing U.S. semiconductor equipment technology to Japan | Key player in introducing U.S. semiconductor equipment technology to Japan, Nakayama has made lasting contributions to the international semiconductor industry. Born in Chicago, he grew up… |
| Shigeru Miyamoto | Lead game designer for the Nintendo corporation since its inception in 1974 | Lead game designer for Nintendo since its inception in 1974, Miyamoto was born and raised in the Kyoto Prefecture, where the natural surroundings inspired much of his later work. He is mainly… |
| Shikoh Gitau | First African Anita Borg Scholar | The first African to win the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, Gitau received that honor at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, recognized for her inventions and thesis work… |
| Shirley Ann Jackson | First Black Woman MIT Doctorate | The first African American woman to earn a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jackson received that degree in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics. She is also the second… |
| Shirley C. McCarty | First Female NASA Safety Chair | The first woman to chair the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel since its establishment in 1967, McCarty was appointed to the panel in 1998 and elected to that leadership role in 2002. A… |
| Shmuel Winograd | Involved in proving several major results regarding the computational aspects of arithmetic; including the Coppersmith–Winograd algorithm | Noted for proving major results in computational complexity and co-creating the Coppersmith–Winograd algorithm, Winograd was one of the most influential figures in the computational aspects of… |
| Shoichiro Yoshida | Co-developer of advanced steppers and scanners, high-precision instruments used in the complex process of making integrated circuits | Co-developer of advanced steppers and scanners, high-precision instruments used in the complex process of making integrated circuits, Yoshida has been a pivotal figure in IC lithography innovation… |
| Shu-Ching Chen | Collaborator with FIU's International Hurricane Research Center (IHRC) by applying his research to real-world problems including using Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data filtering which has revolutionized the acquisition of digital elevation data for large-scale mapping applications | Collaborator with FIU's International Hurricane Research Center (IHRC), Chen is recognized for applying his research to real-world problems, including LiDAR data filtering that has revolutionized… |
| Shuman Ghosemajumder | Creator of the first real-time collaborative graphic design application, a form of collaborative software application that allows several people to edit a computer file using different computers | Creator of the first real-time collaborative graphic design application, Ghosemajumder is a Canadian technologist, entrepreneur, and author. He was born in Stuttgart, Germany and grew up in London… |
| Sidney (Sid) K. Meier | Contributions to the video game industry and founding Fraxis Games, producer of "Civilization" | Founder of Firaxis Games and creator of "Civilization," Meier has made landmark contributions to the video game industry. In 1982, along with Bill Stealy, he co-founded MicroProse, where the "… |
| Silvio Micali | Co-inventor of zero-knowledge proofs in cryptology, a method of proving that a statement is true with minimum information about the statement | Co-inventor of zero-knowledge proofs, Micali is an Italian-born computer scientist known for fundamental contributions to cryptography and information security. He has served as a Professor of… |
| Simon Phipps | Instrumental in IBM's involvement in the Java programming language, founding IBM's Java Technology Center | Instrumental in IBM's involvement in the Java programming language, Phipps founded IBM's Java Technology Center. A computer scientist and web and open source advocate, he left IBM for Sun… |
| Sky Dylan Dayton | Founder of EarthLink, co-founder of eCompanies, and founder of Boingo | Founder of EarthLink, co-founder of eCompanies, and founder of Boingo Wireless, Dayton is an American entrepreneur. He was born in New York City, and soon after, the family moved to Los Angeles.… |
| Solomon Lefschetz | Developed the Lefschetz fixed point theorem, now a basic result of topology, he developed in papers from 1923 to 1927, initially for manifolds; the structure of which is encoded by a collection of charts that form an atlas, in analogy with an atlas consisting of charts of the surface of the Earth | Developer of the Lefschetz fixed point theorem, now a basic result of topology, Lefschetz did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-… |
| Solomon Wolf Golomb | Inventor of Golomb coding, a form of entropy encoding and known for his work in combinational analysis and coding theory | Inventor of Golomb coding and pioneer in combinatorial analysis and coding theory, Golomb transformed modern communications. He pioneered the identification of the characteristics and merits of… |
| Sonja Bernhardt | Founded Women in Technology Queensland | Founder and Inaugural President of Women in Technology (WiT) in Queensland in 1997, Bernhardt was a prominent Australian figure in efforts to bring more women and girls into technology careers.… |
| Sophia Bekele | Founder and CEO of CBS International, a private California-based firm engaged in technology transfer to emerging economies. | Founder and CEO of CBS International, a private California-based firm engaged in technology transfer to emerging economies, Bekele is a business executive and writer. She founded… |
| Sophie Vandebroek | Xerox CTO | Chief Technology Officer and corporate vice president of Xerox Corporation from 2006 to 2016, Vandebroek also served as President of the Xerox Innovation Group during that period. She was a… |
| Sophie Wilson | Primary designer of the ARM microprocessor for Acorn Computers Ltd., which has transformed computing, especially in handheld devices such as smartphones | Primary designer of the ARM microprocessor, Wilson is a British computer scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). She was born in Leeds, England, and was educated at the University of… |
| Srini Devadas | Co-inventor of silicon Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs), the technological basis of the founding of Verayo, a company focused on improving the security of computer hardware | Co-inventor of silicon Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and co-founder of Verayo, a company focused on improving the security of computer hardware, Devadas has served as the Edwin Sibley… |
| Stan Veit | Opened Computer Mart of New York, which was one of the first computer stores in the world | Founder of Computer Mart of New York, one of the first computer stores in the world, Veit played an important role in the early days of the personal computer industry in the United States. He… |
| Stanisław Marcin Ulam | Originator of the metaphor, technological singularity, referring to the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue | Originator of the concept of the technological singularity, Ulam was also a renowned mathematician of Polish-Jewish origin who participated in America's Manhattan Project, originated the Teller–… |
| Stanley (Stan) Phillips Frankel | He was responsible for designing the CONAC computer | Designer of the CONAC computer, Frankel was an American computer scientist born in Los Angeles who attended graduate school at the University of Rochester, received his PhD in physics from the… |
| Stanley (Stan) T. Myers | Former President of SEMI | Former President and CEO of SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International), Myers served in that role from 1996 until stepping back from executive leadership in 2011. On January 11,… |
| Stanley Gill | Co-inventor of the first computer subroutine | Co-inventor of the first computer subroutine, Gill was a British computer scientist who shared that achievement with Maurice Wilkes and David Wheeler. Gill was born in Worthing, West Sussex,… |
| Stanley Mazor | Co-designer of the world's first microprocessor and co-patented “Symbol,” a high-level language computer | Co-designer of the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004, Mazor also co-patented "Symbol," a high-level language computer. Born in Chicago, Illinois, as a youth his family moved to… |
| Stefan Pappe | Leader of the design for the Common Cloud Management Platform, and delivery of IBM cloud solutions to clients-including the new IBM SmartCloud | Leader of the design for the Common Cloud Management Platform and delivery of IBM cloud solutions to clients, Pappe was named an IBM Fellow in 2011—the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or… |
| Stephanie L. Kwolek | Inventor of Kevlar | Inventor of Kevlar (poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide), Kwolek was an American chemist whose career at DuPont spanned more than 40 years. Her discovery earned her the DuPont Lavoisier Medal for… |
| Stephanie Shirley | Founder of F International software group | Founder of F International, a software company initially employing only women, Shirley built her vision that software could provide an outlet for the skills and creative ability of housebound… |
| Stephen (Steve) Byram Furber | Principal designer of the BBC Micro and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor | Principal designer of the BBC Micro and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor, Furber is probably best known for his work at Acorn Computers. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and… |
| Stephen (Steve) Gary Wozniak | Co-founder, Apple | Co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc. with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne, Wozniak is an American computer engineer whose inventions and machines are credited with contributing significantly to the… |
| Stephen (Steve) T. Kent | Designer and developer of user authentication and access control systems as well as other network security systems | Designer and developer of user authentication and access control systems as well as other network security systems, Kent has served as Vice President and Chief Scientist for Information Security… |
| Stephen (Steve) Walker | Member of a team that developed the ARPAnet, the breakthrough packet switching system that evolved into the Internet | Member of the team that developed ARPAnet, the breakthrough packet switching system that evolved into the Internet, Walker is an American engineer who is nationally recognized for his pioneering… |
| Stephen Arthur Cook | For his advancement of our understanding of the complexity of computation in a significant and profound way | Known for profoundly advancing our understanding of the complexity of computation, Cook is an American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician who made major contributions to the fields of… |
| Stephen Cole Kleene | American mathematician who helped lay the foundations for theoretical computer science | American mathematician who helped lay the foundations for theoretical computer science, Kleene was best known as a founder of the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory. One of… |
| Stephen J. Fink | One of the primary developers and maintainers of the T. J. Watson Libraries for Analysis (WALA) which provides static analysis capabilities for Java bytecode and related languages | One of the primary developers and maintainers of the T.J. Watson Libraries for Analysis (WALA), which provides static analysis capabilities for Java bytecode and related languages, Fink has been a… |
| Stephen Robertson | Contributor to the Microsoft search engine Bing | Contributor to the Microsoft search engine Bing, Robertson is a British computer scientist well known for his work on information retrieval. After completing his undergraduate degree in… |
| Stephen W. Dunwell | Lead engineer in the IBM STRETCH supercomputer | Lead engineer in the development of IBM's STRETCH supercomputer, Dunwell oversaw a project that was first shipped in 1962—two years before the introduction of the legendary IBM System/360. … |
| Stephen W. Keckler | Development in scalable parallel processor and memory system architectures | Developer of scalable parallel processor and memory system architectures, Keckler joined NVIDIA in December 2009 and has led the Architecture Research Group. He has also served as Professor of… |
| Stephen Warshall | Developer of the transitive closure algorithm, known as Warshall's algorithm which is a graph analysis algorithm for finding shortest paths in a weighted graph (with positive or negative edge weights) | Developer of the transitive closure algorithm known as Warshall's algorithm, Warshall made foundational contributions to graph analysis for finding shortest paths in a weighted graph. Born… |
| Stephen Wolff | Manager of a research group that participated in the development of ARPANET, a major technology precursor to the internet and is credited with turning the Internet from a government project into something that proved to have scholarly and commercial interest for the rest of the world | Credited with turning the Internet from a government project into something of scholarly and commercial interest for the rest of the world, Wolff is sometimes called one of the many fathers of the… |
| Stephen Wolfram | Chief designer of the Mathematica software application and the Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine | Chief designer of Mathematica and the Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine, Wolfram is a British scientist whose parents were Jewish refugees who emigrated from Westphalia, Germany, to… |
| Steve (Slug) Russell | Chief developer of Spacewar! - one of the earliest videogames | Chief developer of Spacewar!, one of the earliest videogames, Russell is an American video game designer, programmer, and computer scientist. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, his family later moved… |
| Steve Anthony Ballmer | CEO, Microsoft | CEO of Microsoft, Ballmer is one of the most prominent figures in the history of the technology industry. He grew up in Farmington Hills, Michigan. In 1973, he graduated from Detroit… |
| Steve Chen | Principal designer of the Cray X-MP and Cray Y-MP multiprocessor supercomputers | Principal designer of the Cray X-MP and Cray Y-MP multiprocessor supercomputers, Chen is a computer engineering pioneer. He has served as founder and CEO of Galactic Computing, a developer of… |
| Steve Dorner | The developer of the Eudora e-mail client | Developer of the Eudora e-mail client, Dorner is an American software engineer who created it in 1988 as part of his work as a staff member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He… |
| Steve Lukasik | Advised the FCC on technical issues and the management of non-government use of the electromagnetic spectrum | Chief Scientist of the Federal Communications Commission, Lukasik advised the Commission on technical issues in communication regulation and the management of non-government use of the… |
| Steve Mann | Development of "wearable computers" and "reality mediators" in research towards cybernetics | Pioneer in the development of wearable computers and reality mediators in research towards cybernetics, Mann has been one of the founding members of the Wearable Computers group in the Media Lab… |
| Steve McConnell | Worked on TrueType as part of Windows 3.1 | Named one of the three most influential people in the software industry by Software Development Magazine in 1998, alongside Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds, McConnell has worked on the TrueType… |
| Steve McConnell Case | Co-founder, AOL | Co-founder and former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online (AOL), Case is an American businessman who reached his highest profile when he played an instrumental role in AOL's… |
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