Honor Roll
| Name Sort descending | Noted For | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas John Watson, Sr. | Former CEO, IBM; Oversaw IBM's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. | Former CEO of IBM who oversaw the company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956, Watson developed IBM's renowned management style and corporate culture, and turned the company… |
| Thomas M. Cover | Known for his work in developing the relationship between information theory and statistics | Known for developing the relationship between information theory and statistics, Cover served as past President of the IEEE Information Theory Society and was a Fellow of the Institute for… |
| Thomas Parke Hughes | Co-established the Society for the History of Technology | Co-founder of the Society for the History of Technology, Hughes was an American historian of technology and an emeritus Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a… |
| Thomas Raymond Thompson | LEO, first business computer | A key figure behind LEO, the first business computer, Thompson was perhaps the least celebrated of that hardy band of stalwarts who led LEO during its formative years. TRT Bio from Peter… |
| Thomas Siebel | Pioneered the development of customer relationship management (CRM), a revolutionary approach to sales that involves the use of computer software to automate sales and customer service activities; founder of Siebel Systems | Founder of Siebel Systems and pioneer of customer relationship management (CRM), Siebel revolutionized sales by developing software to automate sales and customer service activities. He graduated… |
| Tilly Blyth | Curator, Computing and Information, Science Museum, London | Curator of Computing and Information at the Science Museum, London, Blyth has been responsible for the national computing collection and has written about the history of British computing. She has… |
| Tim O'Reilly | Founder of O'Reilly Media, publisher of some of the most industry standard books on information technology | Founder of O'Reilly Media, publisher of some of the most industry-standard books on information technology, O'Reilly launched the company in 1978, starting with the "Nutshell Handbooks" series on… |
| Tim Paterson | Author of MS-DOS | Author of MS-DOS, Paterson is a software developer whose work shaped the foundation of personal computing. In 1978 he designed a schematic of Microsoft's Z-80 SoftCard, which had a Z80 CPU… |
| Tim Roughgarden | Noted for his work in network data loss | Noted for his work in network data loss, Roughgarden introduced novel techniques that quantified the lost efficiency associated with the uncoordinated behavior of network users who acted in their… |
| Tim Westergren | Founder and CEO, Pandora | Founder and CEO of Pandora, Westergren started the Music Genome Project, a mathematical algorithm to organize music. The idea was marketed by Pandora Media. Westergren, along with the other… |
| Tim William Bray | A major contributor to the XML and Atom web standards. Co-inventor of the XML web standard. | Co-inventor of the XML web standard, Bray has been a major contributor to XML and Atom web standards. Right out of college, Bray joined Digital Equipment Corporation in Toronto as a… |
| Timothy (Tim) D. Cook | CEO of Apple Computer | CEO of Apple, Cook has led the company since succeeding Steve Jobs on August 24, 2011. He joined Apple in March 1998 as SVP of Worldwide Operations and also served as EVP of Worldwide Sales and… |
| Timothy (Tim) John Berners-Lee | Creator of the world wide web | Creator of the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee is a British engineer and computer scientist who made the first proposal for it in March 1989. On 25 December 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau and… |
| Timothy Wilking Finin | Co-leader of the work on KQML, a language and protocol for communication among software agents and knowledge-based systems | Co-leader of the work on KQML, a language and protocol for communication among software agents and knowledge-based systems, Finin has served as an American Professor of Computer Science and… |
| Tom Anderson | Founder, MySpace | Founder of the social networking website MySpace, Anderson co-founded the site in 2003 with Chris DeWolfe. Anderson has served as president of MySpace, and later became a strategic adviser for the… |
| Tom DeMarco | Known as one of the developers for Structured Analysis | Known as one of the developers of Structured Analysis, DeMarco began his career at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1963, where he participated in the ESS-1 project to develop the first large-scale… |
| Tom Gilb | Developer of software metric, software inspection, and evolutionary processes | Developer of software metrics, software inspection, and evolutionary processes, Gilb is an American systems engineer, consultant, and author known for bringing quantitative measurement approaches… |
| Tom Kilburn | Manchester University "Baby" - first stored program computer June1948 | Co-inventor of the first stored-program computer, Kilburn was a major player in the team which built the Manchester University "Baby" in 1948. He also co-invented with Freddie Williams the cathode… |
| Tom O’Rourke | Co-founder of Tymeshare, developer and procurer of innovative technologies, including data networking (Tymnet), electronic data interchange (EDI), credit card and payment processing (TTS, Western29), telecommunications provisioning (COEES), office automation (August, Augment) and database technology (Magnum) | Co-founder of Tymshare, Inc. and developer of innovative technologies including data networking (Tymnet), electronic data interchange (EDI), credit card and payment processing (TTS, Western29),… |
| Tom van Vleck | Worked on the Compatible Time-Sharing System, (CTSS), which was one of the first time-sharing operating systems, and co-authored its first email program | Co-author of the first email program for the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS), one of the first time-sharing operating systems, van Vleck is an American computer software engineer. He worked… |
| Tōru Iwatani | Creator of one of the most popular arcade games of all time, Pac-Man | Creator of Pac-Man, one of the most popular arcade games of all time, Iwatani is a Japanese video game designer. He was born in the Meguro ward of Tokyo, Japan, and joined the computer software… |
| Toru Takahashi | Writer of the first Japanese book on the Internet | Writer of the first Japanese book on the Internet, Takahashi is sometimes known as the "Mother of the Internet" in Japan. He was instrumental in bringing the Internet to Japan and promoting it… |
| Travis Cordell Kalanick | Co-founder of the transportation network company, Uber, a mobile application that connects passengers with drivers of vehicles for hire and ridesharing services | Co-founder of Uber, the transportation network company connecting passengers with drivers of vehicles for hire and ridesharing services, Kalanick is an American entrepreneur who also co-founded… |
| Trevor Mudge | Proposer of Razor, a circuit technique that allows robust operation at very low voltages in processor pipelines based on dynamic detection and correction of circuit timing errors | Proposer of Razor, a circuit technique that allows robust operation at very low voltages in processor pipelines based on dynamic detection and correction of circuit timing errors, Mudge has been a… |
| Trevor Pearcey | Created CSIRAC, one of the first ever stored program electronic computers in the world | Creator of CSIRAC, one of the first stored program electronic computers in the world, Pearcey was an outstanding Australian ICT Pioneer. Most notably, he led the project team that built one… |
| Tsugio Makimoto | Leader in Japan's semiconductor industry, he participated in the controversy over the trade conflict between Japan and the US as a representative from Japan | A leader in Japan's semiconductor industry, Makimoto is sometimes called "Mr. Semiconductor" in Japan. He participated in the controversy over the trade conflict in the semiconductor industry… |
| Tsutomu Shimomura | Best known for his contributions to lattice gas automata and application of digital security | Best known for his contributions to lattice gas automata and digital security research, Shimomura has made significant contributions to both computational physics and computer security. In… |
| Tu Youyou | Nobel Prize Leprosy Treatment | The first female citizen of the People's Republic of China to receive a Nobel Prize in any category, Tu Youyou was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with William C.… |
| Tyrone Grandison | Leader of Open Data for Social Good. Leader of the IBM team that pioneered research in Relational Database Privacy, which demonstrated that privacy protection was possible at the database level and that both security and privacy controls can exist in a common infrastructure |
Leader of the IBM team that pioneered research in Relational Database Privacy, Grandison demonstrated that privacy protection was possible at the database level and that both security and privacy… |
| Tze-Chiang (T. C.) Chen | Major contributor to CMOS miniaturization and DRAM devices which have had a profound impact on IBM’s leadership in CMOS process technology and DRAM manufacturing | Major contributor to CMOS miniaturization and DRAM devices with a profound impact on IBM's leadership in CMOS process technology and DRAM manufacturing, Chen has served as an IBM Fellow and the… |
| Valentin Fyodorovich Turchin | Developed the Refal programming language, the theory of metasystem transitions, and the notion of supercompilation | Developer of the Refal programming language, the theory of metasystem transitions, and the notion of supercompilation, Turchin made foundational contributions to computer science and cybernetics… |
| Valerie Barr | Researching in the areas of software testing (specifically testing expert systems); integrating software testing into the computer science curriculum; knowledge representation and retrieval within automated medical transcription; as well as issues of gender and science | Researcher in software testing, gender and science issues, and computer science curriculum development, Barr has served as Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Union College, Schenectady,… |
| Valerie Landau | She helped to develop a multi-touch interface for chorded text entry | Developer of a multi-touch interface for chorded text entry, Landau filed two patents with her colleague and mentor Douglas Engelbart. Their most recent patent (filed April 2010) describes a… |
| Van Jacobson | Major contributor to the TCP/IP protocol stack | One of the primary contributors to the TCP/IP protocol stack — the technological foundation of today's Internet — Jacobson is renowned for his pioneering achievements in network performance and… |
| Vannevar Bush | First presidential science advisor | The first presidential science advisor, Bush was an American engineer and science administrator known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb as… |
| Venu Govindaraju | Co-Developer of handwriting recognition at the core of the first handwritten address interpretation system used by the USPS saving hundreds of millions of dollars | Co-developer of handwriting recognition at the core of the first handwritten address interpretation system used by the US Postal Service, Govindaraju is an Indian-American computer scientist and… |
| Vern Paxson | Author of the Flex lexical analyzer and Bro intrusion detection system | Author of the flex lexical analyzer and the Bro intrusion detection system, Paxson has served as Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also… |
| Victor (Vic) Dale Poor | Co-creator of the architecture that was ultimately implemented in the first successful computer microprocessor, the Intel 8008 | Co-creator of the architecture that was ultimately implemented in the first successful computer microprocessor, the Intel 8008, Poor was an engineer whose designs of hardware and software led to… |
| Victor (Vic) Hayes | His role in co-establishing and chairing the IEEE 802.11 Standards Working Group for Wireless Local Area Networks has led to him being considered as the "Father of Wi-Fi" | Known as the "Father of Wi-Fi," Hayes co-established and chaired the IEEE 802.11 Standards Working Group for Wireless Local Area Networks. Born in Surabaya, Dutch East Indies, he held a BSEE and… |
| Victor M. Glushkov | Founding father of information technology in the Soviet Union and one of the founders of Cybernetics | Founding father of information technology in the Soviet Union and one of the founders of Cybernetics, Glushkov made significant contributions to the theory of automata. Victor was born in… |
| Victor Mayer Amédée Mannheim | Inventor of a type of slide rule which was in common use until pocket calculators took over a few years ago | Inventor of the modern slide rule, Mannheim standardized the design that remained in common use until pocket calculators took over. After graduating from the École d'Application in Metz,… |
| Victor R. Basili | Worked on measuring, evaluating, and improving the Software development process | Recognized for measuring, evaluating, and improving the software development process, Basili has served as an Emeritus Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for… |
| Victor Saul Miller | Co-inventor of Elliptic Curve Cryptography | Co-inventor of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), Miller is an American mathematician at the Center for Communications Research (CCR) of the Institute for Defense Analyses in Princeton, New Jersey… |
| Victor Shoup | Co-developer of The Cramer–Shoup cryptosystem asymmetric encryption algorithm, the first efficient scheme proven to be secure against adaptive chosen ciphertext attack using standard cryptographic assumptions | Co-developer of the Cramer–Shoup cryptosystem, the first efficient asymmetric encryption scheme proven to be secure against adaptive chosen ciphertext attack using standard cryptographic… |
| Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes | His experiments with electric oscillations contributed much to the development of wireless telegraphy | His experiments with electric oscillations contributed much to the development of wireless telegraphy. Bjerknes was a Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who did much to found the modern… |
| Vincent (Yu-Cheng) Hsu | Lead developer of the DS8000, which launched in 2005 and remains a key part of IBM's storage portfolio | Lead developer of the DS8000, which launched in 2005 and remains a key part of IBM's storage portfolio, Hsu has served as an IBM Fellow and IBM's Chief Technology Officer for Disk Storage Systems… |
| Vinod Gupta | The father of the sales leads industry | Considered the father of the sales leads industry, Gupta founded infoGROUP (previously known as infoUSA) and served as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman. infoGROUP was a data and… |
| Vinton (Vint) Gray Cerf | Computer scientist, early formation of the Internet | Known as a "father of the Internet," Cerf is an American computer scientist whose contributions have been recognized with the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal… |
| Vipin Kumar | Developer of the concept of isoefficiency metric for evaluating the scalability of parallel algorithms; highly efficient parallel algorithms and software for sparse matrix factorization and graph partitioning | Developer of the isoefficiency metric for evaluating the scalability of parallel algorithms, Kumar holds the William Norris Endowed Chair in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at… |
| Virgil Dorin Gligor | Researcher in computer security, specifically addressing problems of trustworthy computing in the presence of malware and malicious insiders, and to the next generation secure Internet | Researcher in computer security addressing problems of trustworthy computing in the presence of malware and malicious insiders, and in next-generation secure Internet design, Gligor is a Romanian-… |
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