Honor Roll
| Name Sort descending | Noted For | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Bruce Gilchrist | Inventor of a fast adder which incorporated a speed-up technique for asynchronous adders; a design later incorporated in the Philco TRANSAC S-2000 (1957), the first commercial transistorized computer; Executive Director, AFIPS | Co-inventor of a fast adder incorporating a speed-up technique for asynchronous adders — a design later used in the Philco TRANSAC S-2000 (1957), the first commercial transistorized computer —… |
| Bruce Lindsay | Participator in the development of System R (the first Relational DBMS prototype) and R-star (a distributed RDBMS) | Participant in the development of System R (the first Relational DBMS prototype) and R* (a distributed RDBMS), Lindsay is a recognized expert on many aspects of relational database technology,… |
| Burton (Burt) Grad | Founder, Software History Museum | Founder of the Software History Center, Grad has been working on computer software since 1954, when he wrote the first production and inventory control programs for the General Electric Company's… |
| Burton J. Smith | The primary architect of the Denelcor Heterogeneous Element Processor (HEP) | Primary architect of the Denelcor Heterogeneous Element Processor (HEP), Smith was a pioneering computer architect who served as a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. He earned a B.S.E.E. degree from… |
| Butler W. Lampson | Developed the Berkeley Timesharing System for Scientific Data Systems' SDS 940 computer | Developer of the Berkeley Timesharing System for Scientific Data Systems' SDS 940 computer, Lampson was part of Project GENIE at UC Berkeley during the 1960s, where he and Peter Deutsch created… |
| C. Denis Mee | Founder of IBM's Magnetic Recording Institute (MRI) | Founder of IBM's Magnetic Recording Institute (MRI), Mee is a key technologist and pioneer in the hard drive industry. He joined IBM in 1962 at Yorktown Heights, NY as a research staff member. He… |
| C. Gordon Bell | Computer hardware design | Computer hardware designer of DEC's PDP machines and the VAX, Bell was a pioneering computer engineer and manager. An early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1960–1966, Bell… |
| C. Michael Armstrong | Responsible for the development and manufacture of minicomputers, personal computers and software at IBM | Responsible for the development and manufacture of minicomputers, personal computers, and software at IBM, Armstrong is a business executive who also led Hughes Aircraft, AT&T, and Comcast as… |
| C. Mohan | Primary inventor of the ARIES family of recovery and concurrency control methods | Primary inventor of the ARIES family of recovery and concurrency control methods, Mohan is also known for the industry-standard Presumed Abort commit protocol. Mohan joined IBM Research in 1981,… |
| Calvin (Kelly) C. Gotlieb | Being the "father" of computing in Canada | Known as the "father" of computing in Canada, Gotlieb started working with computing equipment in the 1940s. He was one of the driving forces behind the University of Toronto's being a leader in… |
| Calvin Northrup Mooers | Known for his work in information retrieval and for the programming language TRAC | Known for his work in information retrieval and for the programming language TRAC, Mooers was a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended the University of Minnesota and received a bachelor's… |
| Carl Adam Petri | German mathematician and computer scientist is best known by his designated for Petri nets for modeling of distributed systems. | Developer of Petri nets for modeling distributed systems, Petri introduced the concept in his Ph.D. thesis in 1962, where he originally called them communicating automata. Afterwards, Petri served… |
| Carl Allan Sunshine | Co-developer of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), a means for networks to "internetwork," hence the name "Internet" | Co-developer of TCP/IP, the protocol that gave the Internet its name, Sunshine worked alongside DARPA engineers Vint Cerf and Yogen Dalal in the mid-70s to develop Transmission Control Protocol/… |
| Carl Georg Lange Barth | Improved and popularized the industrial use of compound slide rules in scientific management | Improver and popularizer of the industrial use of compound slide rules in scientific management, Barth was a Norwegian-American mathematician and mechanical engineer. He was born in Christiania,… |
| Carl Hammer | Pioneer for the use of computers, providing leadership to numerous early professional and industry organizations | A pioneer in many ways, he was foremost an organizer and a tireless promoter of computing, who gave of his time and talents so that others could learn about this new and fascinating tool, the… |
| Carl Machover | Inducted into the FAMLI Computer Graphics Hall of Fame | Inducted into the FAMLI Computer Graphics Hall of Fame, Machover is recognized as a computer graphics pioneer and graphics "evangelist." He has served as president of Machover Associates… |
| Carl Sassenrath | Creator of the Amiga Computer operating system kernel, which brought multitasking to personal computers and the designer of the REBOL computer language | Creator of the Amiga Computer operating system kernel, which brought multitasking to personal computers, Sassenrath is also the designer of the REBOL computer language. Born in Eureka, California… |
| Carla Gomes | Founded Computational Sustainability Institute | Founding Director of the Institute for Computational Sustainability at Cornell University, Gomes was a Portuguese-American computer scientist noted for pioneering work in developing computational… |
| Carla Meninsky | Early Atari Video Game Programmer | One of only three female programmers at Atari, Inc. to develop video game cartridges during the early years of the Atari VCS, Meninsky worked as a video game designer and programmer alongside… |
| Carlo Heinrich Séquin | Pioneer in computer processor design | Pioneer in computer processor design, Séquin is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked with computer graphics, geometric modelling, and on the… |
| Carol A. Jones | Responsible for delivering the first releases of WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Studio; also the visionary and technical leader for WebSphere Portal | Responsible for delivering the first releases of WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Studio, Jones is recognized as a visionary and technical leader for WebSphere Portal, driving the… |
| Carol Ann Bartz | Former CEO, Autodesk; CEO, Yahoo | Former CEO of both Autodesk and Yahoo, Bartz is a prominent figure in the computer industry. In 1976, she went to work at the manufacturing conglomerate 3M, but left after her request to transfer… |
| Carol Reiley | Teleoperated Robotics Pioneer | A pioneer in teleoperated and autonomous robot systems, Reiley advanced the application of robotics across surgery, space exploration, disaster rescue, and self-driving cars. She held positions at… |
| Carol Shaw | River Raid Video Game Creator | Best known for creating River Raid (1982), the vertically scrolling shooter for the Atari 2600 released through Activision, Shaw is regarded as a pioneering figure in video game design. She joined… |
| Carolyn Turbyfill | First Firewall Appliance Pioneer | A founding member of WITI, Turbyfill built a career marked by pioneering commercial milestones, including work on the first firewall appliance and early virtual private networks (VPNs). Her first… |
| Carver Andress Mead | Spearheaded the development of tools and techniques for modern integrated circuit design | Spearheaded of tools and techniques for modern integrated circuit design, Mead is a prominent U.S. computer scientist. Born in Bakersfield, California, he has held the position of Gordon and Betty… |
| Cecil Wayne Ratliff | Creator of the Vulcan database program | Creator of the Vulcan database program, Ratliff worked for the Martin Marietta Corporation from 1969 to 1982 in a progression of engineering and managerial positions. He was a member of the NASA… |
| Cesar A. Gonzales | Co-inventor of various patented still-frame and motion video compression techniques that IBM contributed to the JPEG and MPEG international standards which was instrumental in bringing about the worldwide leap into digital audio and video | Co-inventor of patented still-frame and motion video compression techniques that IBM contributed to the JPEG and MPEG international standards, Gonzales played a central role in bringing about the… |
| Chad Meredith Hurley | Co-founder and former CEO of the popular video sharing website YouTube | Co-founder and former CEO of the popular video sharing website YouTube, Hurley is also known for co-founding MixBit. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0's "50 People Who Matter Now"… |
| Chandu Thota | A widely recognized expert in the field of mapping, geo-spatial applications and scalable web services | A widely recognized expert in mapping, geo-spatial applications, and scalable web services, Thota is a software entrepreneur notable for starting a service called Dealmap, which launched… |
| Chandu Visweswariah | Pioneer in circuit analysis and optimization, he is the inventor of statistical timing; developing techniques used in every IBM chip design - including formal circuit tuning and gate-level timing sign-off | Pioneer in circuit analysis and optimization and inventor of statistical timing, Visweswariah developed techniques used in every IBM chip design—including formal circuit tuning and gate-level… |
| Charbel Farhat | Leader of development of the Finite Element Tearing and Interconnecting (FETI) method for the scalable solution of large-scale systems of equations on massively parallel processors | Leader of the development of the Finite Element Tearing and Interconnecting (FETI) method for the scalable solution of large-scale systems of equations on massively parallel processors, Farhat is… |
| Charles (Charlie) A. Zraket | Designer of the hardware and software system for the Whirlwind computer that permitted the machine to accept real-time inputs | Designer of the hardware and software system for the Whirlwind computer that permitted the machine to accept real-time inputs, Zraket made a truly groundbreaking contribution at that time. A… |
| Charles (Charlie) Johnson | Leader behind a project that resulted in the first processor to break the one gigahertz barrier, a milestone that formed the foundation for IBM system’s highly valued Power systems portfolio | Technical leader behind the first processor to break the one gigahertz barrier, Johnson earned recognition as an IBM Fellow for his innovations in microprocessor design and architecture. That… |
| Charles (Charlie) William Bachman | His outstanding contributions to database technology | Pioneer of database technology, Bachman spent his entire career as an industrial researcher rather than in academia. Born in Manhattan, Kansas, in 1924, Bachman's father was a football… |
| Charles (Chuck) Branscomb | Developer of several successful products, including the IBM 1401 Data Processing System | Developer of the IBM 1401 Data Processing System and several other successful products, Branscomb spent 39 years at IBM, where he developed and managed successful products, including the IBM… |
| Charles (Chuck) H. House | Participant in creating twelve product lines at HP; considered to be one of the top 200 Computer Wizards of America | A Silicon Valley legend cited by the Smithsonian and the Computer History Museum as one of the top 200 Computer Wizards of America, House participated in creating twelve product lines at Hewlett-… |
| Charles (Chuck) H. Moore | The inventor of the Forth programming language | Inventor of the Forth programming language, Moore is recognized as one of the most influential figures in programming language history. Born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, in… |
| Charles (Chuck) Harwood | CEO of Signetics, a Corning subsidiary and one of the largest integrated-circuit manufacturers in the world | CEO of Signetics, a Corning subsidiary and one of the largest integrated-circuit manufacturers in the world, Harwood led the company as sales grew from $35 million to $720 million during his… |
| Charles (Chuck) Lewis Seitz | Co-developer of the first multicomputer, the Cosmic Cube; devising the key programming and packet-routing techniques for the second-generation multicomputers | Co-developer of the first multicomputer, the Cosmic Cube, and deviser of the key programming and packet-routing techniques for second-generation multicomputers, Seitz is a prolific architect and… |
| Charles (Garry) Garrett Betty | Instrumental in the success of the original IBM Personal Computer | Instrumental in the success of the original IBM Personal Computer, Betty received the IBM President's Award in 1982 for his work on the original IBM PC. From 1996 until his death in 2007, he… |
| Charles A. Csuri | Pioneer in digital fine art and computer animation | Pioneer in digital fine art and computer animation, Csuri was best known for pioneering the field of computer graphics, computer animation, and digital fine art, creating his first computer art in… |
| Charles Antony Richard Hoare | Best known for the development of Quicksort, one of the world's most widely used sorting algorithms and the formal language Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) | Developer of Quicksort, one of the world's most widely used sorting algorithms, Hoare also developed Hoare logic for verifying program correctness, and the formal language Communicating Sequential… |
| Charles Babbage | Designed the first mathematical computer | Designer of the first mathematical computer, Babbage was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor, and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer. Parts of… |
| Charles Edwin Molnar | Co-developer of one of the first minicomputers, the LINC (Laboratory Instrument Computer) | Co-developer of one of the first minicomputers, the LINC (Laboratory Instrument Computer), Molnar made this contribution with Wesley A. Clark while a graduate student at the Massachusetts… |
| Charles Eric Leiserson | Inventor of the fat-tree interconnection network, a hardware-universal interconnection network used in many supercomputers and pioneer developer of VLSI theory | Inventor of the fat-tree interconnection network, a hardware-universal interconnection network used in many supercomputers, Leiserson is also a pioneer developer of VLSI theory. He designed the… |
| Charles F. Goldfarb | Co-developer of Generalized Markup Language, the first markup language, SGML on which HTML was based | Known as the "father" of SGML and "grandfather" of HTML and the World Wide Web, Goldfarb co-invented the concept of markup languages. He was a graduate of Columbia College and held a J.D. degree… |
| Charles F. Webb | Made of major contributions to a number of System/390 and zSeries mainframe processors | Major contributor to System/390 and zSeries mainframe processors, Webb was named an IBM Fellow in 2003. He joined IBM in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in 1983, and worked on processor performance analysis,… |
| Charles Galton Darwin | Assisted Henry Moseley on X-ray diffraction which occurs with all waves, including sound waves, water waves, and electromagnetic waves such as visible light, x-rays and radio waves | Known for assisting Henry Moseley on X-ray diffraction, Darwin was an English physicist and the grandson of Charles Darwin who also served as Director of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL)… |
| Charles Geschke | Co founder of Adobe | Co-founder of Adobe Systems, Geschke transformed document production and launched the desktop publishing industry. Prior to co-founding Adobe, Geschke and Warnock worked at Xerox's Palo… |
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