Honor Roll
| Name Sort descending | Noted For | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Steve Newberry | CEO, LAM Research | CEO of LAM Research, a leader in the manufacturing of semiconductors, Newberry has served in that role at the forefront of the semiconductor industry. |
| Steven (Steve) Gibson | Creator of one of the first adware removal programs, OptOut | Creator of one of the first adware removal programs, OptOut, Gibson is an American software engineer and security researcher. Born in Dayton, Ohio, he began working on computers as a teenager, and… |
| Steven (Steve) L. Scott | An expert in high performance computer architecture and interconnection networks | An expert in high performance computer architecture and interconnection networks, Scott has worked as a computer architect at Cray Research, Inc., Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI), and Cray, Inc., and… |
| Steven (Steve) N. Goldstein | Co-creator of GLORIAD, a dedicated-wavelength ring around the globe to support computationally-intensive research | Co-creator of GLORIAD, a dedicated-wavelength ring around the globe to support computationally-intensive research, Goldstein served as an International Networking Coordinator at the National… |
| Steven (Steve) Paul Jobs | Co-founder and CEO, Apple | Co-founder and CEO of Apple, Jobs was an American business magnate who also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios. He became a member of the board of The Walt Disney… |
| Steven (Steve) Shih Chen | Co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube | Co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube, Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan. When he was eight years old, he and his family immigrated to the… |
| Steven Anson Coons | Visionary of interactive computer graphics as a design tool to aid the engineer | Visionary of interactive computer graphics as a design tool to aid the engineer, Coons was an early pioneer in the field of computer graphical methods and a professor at the Massachusetts… |
| Steven B. Lipner | Responsible for the definition, support and application of Microsoft’s SDL process | Responsible for defining, supporting, and applying Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) process, Lipner has had forty years' experience in cybersecurity and has been named as inventor… |
| Steven R. Hetzler | Initiator and namer of iSCSI within IBM Research; an Internet Protocol (IP)-based storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities | Initiator and namer of iSCSI within IBM Research, Hetzler is recognized for his role in developing an Internet Protocol (IP)-based storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities.… |
| Steven R. Hofstein | Co- producer of the first working MOS integrated circuit | Co-producer of the first working MOS integrated circuit, Hofstein is a well-known scientist with over 40 patents whose inventions have been chronicled by publications that include the New York… |
| Steven W. Hunter | Systems Architect for Systems x and BladeCenter products | Systems Architect for Systems x and BladeCenter products at IBM, Hunter was named an IBM Fellow in 2011—the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM can achieve. He has served as… |
| Stewart Brand | Assisting Douglas Engelbart with "The Mother of All Demos" famous presentation of revolutionary technologies | Assistant to Douglas Engelbart's "Mother of All Demos," Brand helped present many revolutionary computer technologies (including the mouse) to the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco… |
| Stuart Parkin | Pioneer in the science and application of spintronic materials | Pioneer in the science and application of spintronic materials, Parkin has served as Manager of the Magnetoelectronics group at IBM Research, Almaden, in San Jose, California, and as a 1999 IBM… |
| Subramanian (Subu) Iyer | Leader of the development and implementation of embedded DRAM technology used today in IBM systems ranging from high-end servers to BlueGene supercomputers to game chips | Pioneer in the development and implementation of embedded DRAM (eDRAM) technology used in IBM systems ranging from high-end servers to BlueGene supercomputers to game chips, Iyer has served as IBM… |
| Sudha Murthy | Infosys Foundation Founder | Founder-Chairperson of the Infosys Foundation, Murty built the non-profit charitable organization into a vehicle for wide-ranging social impact across India. She founded several orphanages,… |
| Suhas S. Patil | Pioneer in applying his knowledge of computer architecture to new world of VLSI design | Pioneer in applying computer architecture knowledge to VLSI design, Patil founded Cirrus Logic, a fabless semiconductor company. Over the years, his work covered computer architecture, parallel… |
| Sumit Ghosh | Researcher in computer architectures for next generation secure ATM network design, next generation IP router architecture to defeat next generation viruses | Researcher in computer architectures for next generation secure ATM network design and next generation IP router architecture to defeat next generation viruses, Ghosh has served as the Chair of… |
| Susan Estrada | Founder of CERFnet; one of the original regional IP networks | Founder of CERFnet, one of the original regional IP networks, Estrada is recognized as an Internet pioneer and named a "thinking nerd" by colleagues, with a deep interest in emerging broadband… |
| Susan Hares | Co-author on the BGP specification; used to make the core routing decisions on the Internet; considered to be the most important protocol of the Internet | Co-author of the BGP specification — the protocol considered industry-wide to be the most important on the Internet — Hares is an internationally recognized leader in commercialized advanced… |
| Susan Kare | Creator of many of the interface elements for the Apple Macintosh, especially icons such as the Lasso, the Grabber, and the Paint Bucket, and the Chicago typeface (the most prominent user interface typeface seen in Classic Mac OS, and the typeface used in the first four generations of the Apple iPod interface | Creator of many of the interface elements for the Apple Macintosh, Kare is an artist and graphic designer whose iconic work includes the Lasso, the Grabber, and the Paint Bucket icons, and the… |
| Susan L. Graham | Co-builder of the Berkeley Pascal system and the widely used program profiling tool Gprof, a performance analysis tool for Unix applications | Co-builder of the Berkeley Pascal system and the widely used program profiling tool Gprof, Graham is an American computer scientist who has served as the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the… |
| Susan Nycum | Computer Crime Study Co-Author | Co-author of the landmark 1973 study Computer Abuse, Nycum helped produce one of the first attempts to define and document computer-related crime, working alongside information security researcher… |
| Susan P. Fisher-Hoch | Legionnaires' Disease Expert | Inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame in 2008, Fisher-Hoch is a British-born infectious-disease specialist recognized for major contributions to the understanding of… |
| Susan T. Dumais | A researcher at Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies), where she and her colleagues conducted research into what is now called the vocabulary problem in information retrieval | Researcher whose work at Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies) into the vocabulary problem in information retrieval led to the invention of Latent Semantic Indexing, Dumais has served as a… |
| Susie Wee | Founder of Cisco DevNet | Founder of Cisco DevNet, Wee went on to serve as its Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer beginning in 2018. She established DevNet in 2014, and previously held the role of Vice… |
| T. Capers Jones | Associated with the function point model of cost estimation | Associated with the function point model of cost estimation, Jones is a specialist in software engineering methodologies. He has also collected data on software quality, software risks, and… |
| Tadashi Watanabe | Chief designer of SX-2, the first supercomputer introduced by NEC in 1983, which boasted the world's fastest speed at that time | Chief designer of SX-2, the first supercomputer introduced by NEC in 1983, which boasted the world's fastest speed at that time, Watanabe is a Japanese computer engineer widely recognized as a… |
| Tae Yoo | Cisco Corporate Responsibility Leader | Credited with shaping Cisco's Corporate Social Responsibility vision, Tae Yoo became Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Corporate Social Responsibility. She led the company's social… |
| Tak H. Ning | Co-inventor and developer of the polysilicon-emitter self-aligned bipolar transistor, which is the basis of all modern bipolar transistor technology | Co-inventor and developer of the polysilicon-emitter self-aligned bipolar transistor, which is the basis of all modern bipolar transistor technology, Ning has made foundational contributions to… |
| Tamara (Tammy) G. Kolda | Accomplished significant work on the MATLAB Tensor Toolbox used in a variety of applications ranging from chemometrics to psychometrics | Developer of the MATLAB Tensor Toolbox, Kolda has served as a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the Informatics and Systems Assessments department at Sandia National Laboratories in… |
| Tamiko Thiel | Visual Design of the Connection Machine | Visual designer of the Thinking Machines Corp. Connection Machine (CM-1, CM-2), Thiel holds a B.S. from Stanford in general engineering/product design and also an M.S. from MIT in mechanical… |
| Tan Tin Wee | Founder of the multilingual Internet domain name system (IDN); allowing online addresses to accommodate more than just the Latin characters used in English speaking countries | Founder of the multilingual Internet domain name system (IDN), Tan is recognized as a key mover in the internationalisation of the Internet domain naming system, allowing online addresses to… |
| Ted Dabney | Co-founder of Syzygy and Atari | Co-founder of Syzygy and Atari, Dabney met Nolan Bushnell while working at Ampex, and the two jointly created Syzygy. Their first product, Computer Space, was manufactured and sold by Nutting… |
| Terry Allen Winograd | Developer of the SHRDLU program; an early natural language understanding computer | Developer of SHRDLU, an early natural language understanding computer program, Winograd is known within the philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence fields for his work on natural language.… |
| Terry G. Johnson | Founder of Miniscribe in 1980, a pioneer manufacturer of disk storage products | Founder of Miniscribe in 1980, an early manufacturer of 5.25-inch and later 3.5-inch drives, Johnson was a pioneer in disk storage products. Born in Ogden, Utah, Johnson graduated from high… |
| Thelma Estrin | One of the first to apply computer technology to healthcare and medical research | One of the first to apply computer technology to healthcare and medical research, Estrin was a computer scientist and engineer who did pioneering work in the fields of expert systems and… |
| Theodor (Ted) Holm Nelson | Inventor of hypertext | Inventor of hypertext and hypermedia, Nelson coined both terms in 1963 and published them in 1965. An American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology, he is also credited… |
| Theodore Y. Ts'o | Known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, in particular his contributions to file systems | Known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, in particular his contributions to file systems, Ts'o graduated in 1990 from MIT with a degree in computer science. After graduation he worked in… |
| Thomas (Tom) M. Bradicich | Leader and a prime mover behind the IBM xSeries architectures, | Leader and prime mover behind IBM's xSeries architectures, Bradicich is a 2006 IBM Fellow—the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM can achieve. He has served as Vice President… |
| Thomas (Tom) M. Whitney | Leader of the team that invented the world’s first scientific handheld calculator and early contributor to the development of the Apple Macintosh | Leader of the team that invented the HP-35, the world's first handheld scientific electronic calculator, Whitney was also an early employee of Apple Computer. Thomas (Tom) M. Whitney graduated… |
| Thomas (Tom) O. Stanley | Fundamental investigator of the CED concept, which led to the development of the RCA VideoDisc system | Fundamental investigator of the CED concept that led to the development of the RCA VideoDisc system, Stanley has been recognized as "a visionary who, not only foresaw the CED videodisc system long… |
| Thomas (Tommy) Harold Flowers | Designed the "Colossus", the first programmable electronic computer | Designer of Colossus, the first programmable electronic computer, Flowers made one of the most significant contributions to wartime codebreaking. His first contact with the wartime codebreaking… |
| Thomas Alva Edison | He is credited with numerous inventions that contributed to mass communication and, in particular, telecommunications | Credited with numerous inventions that contributed to mass communication and, in particular, telecommunications, Edison also developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world,… |
| Thomas E. Osborne | Developer of the architecture for the HP9100A, an early computer | Developer of the architecture for the HP9100A, an early computer, Osborne joined Hewlett-Packard in 1965 as a consultant with that responsibility. Prior to joining HP, he had designed data… |
| Thomas Eugene Kurtz | Co-developed the BASIC programming language | Co-developer of the BASIC programming language, Kurtz transformed computing education for generations of users. In 1951, Dr. Kurtz's first experience with computing came at the Summer… |
| Thomas Fowler | He produced a mechanical calculating machine which operated using ternary arithmetic | Producer of a mechanical calculating machine using ternary arithmetic, Fowler was an English inventor who also invented the thermosiphon, which forms the basis of most modern central heating… |
| Thomas G. Lane | Organizer of the Independent JPEG Group (IJG); one of the important early open source groups and a major reason why the JPEG image format is a standard | Organizer of the Independent JPEG Group (IJG), one of the most important early open source groups and a major reason why the JPEG image format is a standard, Lane is a computer scientist dedicated… |
| Thomas J. Misa | Noted IT historian and director of CBI | Noted IT historian and director of the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI), Misa specializes in the interactions of technology and modern culture. His undergraduate degree was from M.I.T. (1981) and… |
| Thomas James Perkins | Helped to shepherd Hewlett-Packard 's entry into the minicomputer business | The first General Manager of HP's computer divisions who helped shepherd Hewlett-Packard's entry into the minicomputer business, Perkins was also one of the founders of the leading venture capital… |
| Thomas John Watson, Jr. | CEO of IBM during growth years of 1952 to 1971 | CEO of IBM during its growth years from 1952 to 1971, Watson was the eldest son of Thomas J. Watson, IBM's first president. He was listed as one of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of… |
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