Honor Roll
| Name Sort descending | Noted For | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Charles Henry Bennett | Co-discoverer of the concept of quantum cryptography and is one of the founding fathers of modern quantum information theory | Co-discoverer of quantum cryptography and one of the founding fathers of modern quantum information theory, Bennett is a physicist, information theorist, and IBM Fellow at IBM Research. His work… |
| Charles Ingerham Peddle | The main designer of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor; the KIM-1 SBC; and its successor the Commodore PET personal computer | Main designer of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor, the KIM-1 SBC, and the Commodore PET personal computer, Peddle was an American electrical engineer. Born in Bangor, Maine, he worked in a… |
| Charles Kuen Kao | Pioneer in the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications | Pioneer in the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications, Kao is known as the "Godfather of Broadband," "Father of Fiber Optics," and "Father of Fiber Optic Communications." He was… |
| Charles Leonard Hamblin | Introduced or invented the Reverse Polish Notation and the stack in computing | Inventor of Reverse Polish Notation and the stack in computing, Hamblin was an Australian philosopher, logician, and computer pioneer. He served as a professor of philosophy at the Technical… |
| Charles M. Herzfeld | Director of DARPA, during which, he personally took the decision to authorize the creation of the ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet | Director of DARPA who personally authorized the creation of the ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet, Herzfeld was an American scientist and scientific manager, particularly for the US… |
| Charles M. Sporck | Former CEO, National Semiconductor | Former CEO of National Semiconductor, Sporck led one of the most influential semiconductor companies of its era. |
| Charles P. Thacker | Pioneer in computer design and realization of the Alto, one of the first modern personal computers | Pioneer in computer design and realization of the Alto, one of the first modern personal computers, Thacker received his B.S. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967 and… |
| Charles Proteus Steinmetz | Fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States | Fostering the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States, Steinmetz was a mathematician and electrical engineer who… |
| Charles R. Trimble | Developer of the Global Positioning System (GPS) | Developer of the Global Positioning System (GPS) for commercial and consumer applications, Trimble founded Trimble Navigation Limited (TNL) in 1978 along with two partners from Hewlett-Packard,… |
| Charles Ranlett Flint | Founder of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company which would later become IBM | Founder of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), which later became IBM, Flint transformed the landscape of business computing. In 1868, Charles Flint graduated from the… |
| Charles Sanders Peirce | He saw that logical operations could be carried out by electrical switching circuits, the same idea as was used decades later to produce digital computers | As early as 1886, Peirce saw that logical operations could be carried out by electrical switching circuits, the same idea that was used decades later to produce digital computers. An American… |
| Charles Simonyi | Overseer to Microsoft's flagship Office applications | Overseer of Microsoft's flagship Office applications Word and Excel, Simonyi also directed development of Excel's predecessor Multiplan. In 1981, he applied directly to Bill Gates for a job at… |
| Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope | Inventor of two calculating machines | Inventor of two calculating machines, Stanhope was also a British statesman and scientist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). Also known as Charles Mahon, 3rd Earl Stanhope, he was the son of… |
| Charles Walton | The first patent holder for the RFID (radio frequency identification) device | The first patent holder for the RFID (radio frequency identification) device, Walton was an American inventor best known for a technology that uses radio waves to transfer data from an electronic… |
| Charles Xavier Thomas | Known for designing and patenting the first mechanical calculator | Known for designing and patenting the first mechanical calculator, Thomas introduced the Arithmometer in 1820, though more than thirty years passed before its true commercialization in 1852, as he… |
| Charlie Bass | Co-founded Ungermann-Bass (UB), the first large networking company independent of any computer manufacturer | Co-founder of Ungermann-Bass (UB), the first large networking company independent of any computer manufacturer, Bass helped commercialize Ethernet, oversaw a successful IPO, and then saw the… |
| Charlie Catlett | Participation on the team that deployed and managed the NSFNet to promote advanced research and education networking | Member of the original team that deployed and managed the NSFNet to promote advanced research and education networking, Catlett attended the University of Illinois initially majoring in Electrical… |
| Cheemin Bo-Linn | Women in Technology Advocate | Inducted into the WITI Hall of Fame in 2015, Bo-Linn is recognized for more than 30 years of work empowering women and building pathways for young girls to enter technology careers. She became CEO… |
| Chen-Jung (Stan) Shih | Designer and developer of Taiwan’s first desktop calculator | Designer and developer of Taiwan's first desktop calculator, Shih is also recognized as the founder and former President of the Acer Group. Born in Lukang Township, Changhua County, Taiwan, he has… |
| Cheryl L. Shavers | Under Secretary Commerce Technology | Appointed Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology in the Clinton Administration, Shavers served in that role from 1999 to 2001, representing one of the most senior positions in U.S. technology… |
| Chieko Asakawa | Created IBM Home Page Reader | Developer of the IBM Home Page Reader, a Netscape browser plug-in that became the most widely used web-to-speech system available, Asakawa was a blind Japanese computer scientist whose work at IBM… |
| Chieko Asakawa | Co-developer of IBM software and applications that significantly improve web accessibility for the visually impaired and others with special needs by automatically converting text and icons on the screen to voice | Co-developer of IBM software and applications that significantly improve web accessibility for the visually impaired by automatically converting text and icons on the screen to voice, Asakawa is a… |
| Chien-Shiung Wu | Conducted Wu Parity Experiment | Renowned for conducting the Wu experiment, which proved that parity is not conserved, Wu was a Chinese-American particle and experimental physicist whose work reshaped nuclear and particle physics… |
| Chintay Shih | A major player in the collective effort to build Taiwan’s semiconductor industry from the ground up | A major player in the collective effort to build Taiwan's semiconductor industry from the ground up, Shih led the process technology team for the Industrial Technology Research Institute's (ITRI)… |
| Christiane Floyd | First German Female CS Professor | The first female professor of computer science in Germany, Floyd achieved that distinction in 1978. An Austrian computer scientist, she is also recognized as a pioneer of evolutionary… |
| Christopher (Chris) A. Welty | He was one of the developers of Watson, the IBM artificially intelligent computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language | One of the developers of Watson, the IBM artificially intelligent computer system that defeated the best players on the American game show Jeopardy!, Welty is an American computer scientist best… |
| Christopher (Chris) J. Date | Involved in technical planning and design for the IBM products SQL/DS and DB2 | Involved in the technical planning and design of the IBM products SQL/DS and DB2, Date is an independent author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant specializing in relational database theory. He… |
| Christopher (Chris) R. Johnson | Founder of the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) research group, which later became the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI Institute) | Founder of the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) research group, which grew into the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI Institute), Johnson has served as a Distinguished… |
| Christopher Curry | Co-founder of Acorn Computers | Co-founder of Acorn Computers, Curry has played a significant role in the early development of personal computing in Britain. In April 1966, Curry joined Sinclair Radionics, a company… |
| Christopher Latham Sholes | Inventor of the QWERTY keyboard and one of the first practical typewriters | Inventor of the QWERTY keyboard and one of the first practical typewriters, Sholes transformed written communication. Born in Mooresburg, Pennsylvania, he moved to nearby Danville as a teenager,… |
| Christopher Strachey | He was one of the founders of denotational semantics, and a pioneer in programming language design | One of the founders of denotational semantics and a pioneer in programming language design, Strachey made lasting contributions to computer science. After the war he fulfilled a long-… |
| Chuck Sannipoli | Co-developer in IBM's Rainier network processor effort | Co-developer in IBM's Rainier network processor effort, Sannipoli served for more than 3 decades in many roles in the computer networking industry. He held a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering… |
| Clair D. Lake | As chief engineer at IBM, he co-developed the first Type 1 Total Printing and Listing Tabulator and was one of the co-inventors of IBM’s MARK I | Co-inventor of IBM's MARK I and co-developer of the first Type 1 Total Printing and Listing Tabulator, Lake was a prolific IBM inventor. In May 1939 he was assigned to serve as chief engineer (and… |
| Clare-Marie Karat | Author of the Computer User's Bill of Rights and created a cost-benefit methodology for analyzing the return on investment in usability | Author of the "Computer User's Bill of Rights" and creator of a cost-benefit methodology for analyzing the return on investment in usability, Karat is a leading figure in Human Computer… |
| Claude Elwood Shannon | Information Theory | Developer of Information Theory, the basis for the design of communication systems and networks, Shannon also noted the importance of Boolean theory for the design of logic circuits whilst still a… |
| Claudine Simson | LSI Corporation Chief Technology Officer | Recognized for her leadership in semiconductor technology and corporate technology strategy, Simson held senior executive roles at two major technology firms. She served as Executive Vice… |
| Claudio Ciborra | Understanding of information systems, relevance of transaction cost theory | Known for his innovative thinking about information systems and his recognition of the relevance of transaction cost theory, Ciborra inspired researchers and thinkers around the world. He… |
| Cleve Barry Moler | Co-author of LINPACK and EISPACK, FORTRAN libraries for numerical computing, he invented MATLAB, a numerical computing package, giving easy access to these libraries without writing FORTRAN | Inventor of MATLAB, a numerical computing package, Moler is an American mathematician and computer programmer specializing in numerical analysis. In the mid to late 1970s, he was one of the… |
| Clifford (Cliff) B. Jones | Team member on the Vienna Development Method (VDM) at IBM in Vienna; one of the longest-established formal methods for the development of computer-based systems | Team member on the Vienna Development Method (VDM) at IBM in Vienna, Jones is a British computer scientist known for his work on one of the longest-established formal methods for the development… |
| Clifford Alan Pickover | Member of team that worked on the design-automation workstations, developing code for IBM's high-end personal computer, IntelliStation | Member of the team that worked on design-automation workstations and developed code for IBM's IntelliStation, Pickover is an American author, editor, inventor, and columnist in the fields of… |
| Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III | Developer of the mathematical underpinnings of continuum mechanics, which includes the study of elasticity, the bending of beams and bridges as well as the vibrations of drums, and the study of fluids, including water, air and more exotic forms like liquid crystals, which are found in laptop displays | Developer of the mathematical underpinnings of continuum mechanics, Truesdell transformed the study of elasticity, fluid dynamics, and related fields through work that began in the 1960s and… |
| Clifford Edward Berry | Holder of 19 patents in the area of mass spectrometry and 11 in vacuum and electronics and pioneer in radio and electrical engineering | Holder of 19 patents in mass spectrometry and 11 in vacuum and electronics, Berry was a pioneer in radio and electrical engineering. Clifford Berry received his M.S. in Physics in 1941.… |
| Clifford Hugh Dowker | Developer of the Dowker notation; a simple way of describing knots, suitable for computers | Developer of the Dowker notation, a simple way of describing knots suitable for computers, Dowker was a topologist also known for his contributions in point-set topology, category theory, sheaf… |
| Clifford Ivar Nass | Co-creator of The Media Equation theory, a general communication theory that claims that people tend to treat computers and other media as if they were either real people or real places | Co-creator of The Media Equation theory, which holds that people tend to treat computers and other media as if they were either real people or real places, Nass was a renowned authority on human-… |
| Clive Marles Sinclair | Development of first UK home computer | Developer of the first mass-market UK home computer for under £100, Sinclair was a British entrepreneur and inventor responsible for the ZX80, ZX81, and ZX Spectrum computers, as well as the slim-… |
| Colin Tully | Team member of the orginal LEO team | Member of the original LEO team, Tully helped develop one of the earlier time-sharing operating systems for the LEO III computers, some time before OS/360 was launched. In his later career, Tully… |
| Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, CMG, CBE | One of the workers on the Enigma machine | One of the key workers on breaking the Enigma machine, Alexander made vital contributions to British codebreaking during World War II. An Irish-born British cryptanalyst, chess player, and chess… |
| Conrad (Conny) Palm | Contributor to teletraffic engineering and queueing theory and leader of the project that developed the first Swedish computer, the BARK | Contributor to teletraffic engineering and queueing theory, Palm also led the project that developed the first Swedish computer, the BARK. He enrolled at the School of Electrical Engineering at… |
| Coraline Ada Ehmke | Created Contributor Covenant | Creator of the Contributor Covenant and the Post-Meritocracy Manifesto, Ehmke was a leading advocate for codes of conduct in open source projects and communities. She founded the Organization for… |
| Cordell Green | Founder of the Kestrel Institute and known for his research in knowledge based software engineering | Founder of the Kestrel Institute and known for his research in knowledge-based software engineering, Green has served as Director and Chief Scientist of Kestrel Institute, which he founded in 1981… |
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