Honor Roll
| Name Sort descending | Noted For | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cornelis (Kees) H.A. Koster | Creator of the original Compiler Description Language | Creator of the original Compiler Description Language, Koster was also one of the editors of the original Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68. He was a professor in the Department… |
| Corrado Böhm | Known for his contributions to the theory of structured programming, constructive mathematics, combinatory logic, lambda-calculus, and the semantics and implementation of functional programming languages | Known for his contributions to the theory of structured programming, constructive mathematics, combinatory logic, lambda-calculus, and the semantics and implementation of functional programming… |
| Craig Alexander Newmark | Founder, Craig's List | Founder of Craigslist, the San Francisco-based website, Newmark is an Internet entrepreneur. |
| Craig Partridge | Designer of how Internet email is routed, worked with Phil Karn on TCP round-trip time estimation, and led the effort to build the world's fastest (multigigabit) router in the mid-1990s | Designer of how Internet email is routed, Partridge has made notable contributions to internetworking, including working with Phil Karn on TCP round-trip time estimation and designing and building… |
| Craig R. Barrett | Former CEO, Intel | Former CEO and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Barrett has been a leading advocate for improving education in the U.S. and around the world. He has also served as a vocal spokesman for the value… |
| Craig W. Reynolds | Created the Boids artificial life simulation in 1986 | Creator of the Boids artificial life simulation (1986), Reynolds is an artificial life and computer graphics expert. Reynolds worked on the film Tron (1982) as a scene programmer, and on Batman… |
| Cristina Videira Lopes | Founder of the group that developed Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) and started aspectj.org | Founder of the group that developed Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) and starter of aspectj.org, Lopes has served as an Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of California, Irvine… |
| Curt Herzstark | Designer and manufacturer of the Curta, one of the first mechanical pocket calculators | Designer and manufacturer of the Curta, one of the first mechanical pocket calculators, Herzstark was an Austrian engineer and inventor. Born in Vienna, the son of Marie and Samuel Jakob Herzstark… |
| Curt L. Cotner | Designer and developer of many key features of the DB2 for z/OS | Designer and developer of many key features of DB2 for z/OS, Cotner has served as an IBM Fellow and VP/CTO for IBM Data Management. In that role, he held technical and management oversight of IBM'… |
| Cuthbert Corwin Hurd | Contributions to the IBM development of general-purpose computers | Pioneer of IBM's development of general-purpose computers, Hurd made contributions that helped transform scientific computing. In 1947 Hurd worked for Union Carbide as a mathematician at… |
| Cyril Cleverdon | Best known for his work on the evaluation of information retrieval systems. | Best known for his work on the evaluation of information retrieval systems, Cleverdon was a British librarian and computer scientist born in Bristol, England. He worked at the Bristol Libraries… |
| Cyril J. Yansouni | Served as Vice President and General Manager of the Personal Computer Group at Hewlett Packard | Vice President and General Manager of the Personal Computer Group at Hewlett-Packard, Yansouni brings over 35 years of experience in the technology industry. He received his B.S. degree in… |
| D. (Jim) James Guzy, Sr. | An Angel Investor of numerous computer corporations | An Angel Investor of numerous computer corporations, Guzy has served as an Intel Board member for 38 years. He has been a Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of SRC Computers, LLC and has served… |
| Dabbala (Rej) Rajagopal Reddy | For pioneering the design and construction of large scale artificial intelligence systems, demonstrating the practical importance and potential commercial impact of artificial intelligence technology | Pioneer of large-scale artificial intelligence systems, Reddy is recognized for demonstrating the practical importance and potential commercial impact of AI technology. One of the early pioneers… |
| Dakshi Agrawal | Contributor to theory, analysis, and design of efficient, secure, and privacy-preserving communication systems | Elected IEEE Fellow for contributions to theory, analysis, and design of efficient, secure, and privacy-preserving communication systems, Agrawal has made significant contributions to IBM's… |
| Dan Fylstra | Founding Associate Editor of BYTE Magazine and co-founded the software distributor, Personal Software; developer and marketer of VisiCalc, the original spreadsheet program | Founding Associate Editor of BYTE Magazine and co-developer and marketer of VisiCalc, the original spreadsheet program, Fylstra has been a pioneer of the computer industry since the 1970s. In 1978… |
| Dan Magenheimer | Writer of the first PA-RISC simulator, remote debugger, object-code emulator for the 16-bit HP3000 | Writer of the first PA-RISC simulator, remote debugger, and object-code emulator for the 16-bit HP3000, Magenheimer began at HP as a member of the Processor Architecture Team that developed PA-… |
| Dan Warmenhoven | Under his leadership, NetApp grew from a start-up to a multibillion-dollar company and a recognized market leader in networked storage | Under his leadership, NetApp grew from a start-up to a multibillion-dollar company and a recognized market leader in networked storage. Warmenhoven has served as Executive Chairman of NetApp Inc… |
| Dana L. Ulery | The first woman engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory developing their first intranet and set of Web business workflow services | The first woman engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ulery is an American computer scientist and pioneer in scientific computing applications. She began her career in 1961, designing… |
| Dana Stewart Scott | Joint paper "Finite Automata and Their Decision Problem," which introduced the idea of nondeterministic machines, which has proved to be an enormously valuable concept | Author of the joint paper "Finite Automata and Their Decision Problem," which introduced the idea of nondeterministic machines, Scott has had a research career spanning computer science,… |
| Danese Cooper | Known for her work in the Open Source movement | Known as the "Open Source Diva" for her work in the Open Source movement, Cooper has held many prominent leadership roles within the computer science sector. Cooper managed teams at Symantec and… |
| Daniel (Danny) Mark Lewin | Co-creator of innovative Internet infrastructure services producing an entirely new industry segment, and forever change the way people and companies distribute content, data, and applications | Co-creator of innovative Internet infrastructure services that produced an entirely new industry segment and forever changed the way people and companies distribute content, data, and applications… |
| Daniel A. Hitchcock | Lead Magnetic Fusion Energy Computing Center to support the entire DOE’s Office of Science, creating High Performance Computing Center in the world | Leader of the effort to expand the Magnetic Fusion Energy Computing Center into NERSC, widely regarded as the best-managed High Performance Computing Center in the world, Hitchcock joined the… |
| Daniel Broido | Invention of Marksensing and document reading devices | Inventor of Marksensing and document reading devices, Broido worked for British Tabulating Machine Company Limited (BTM), and his inventions and patents were transferred to them. He became Senior… |
| Daniel C. Edelstein | Leading expert in the field of copper chip wiring technologies; wires, about 1/1000 the size of a human hair, carry signals among the transistors on a silicon chip | Leading expert in copper chip wiring technologies, Edelstein served as Chief Architect and driving force behind IBM's copper chip wiring technologies, first announced in 1997. These were devised… |
| Daniel C. Lynch | Co-founder of Cybercash Inc., that provided an electronic wallet software to consumers and merchants to accept credit card payments | Co-founder of CyberCash Inc., which provided electronic wallet software to consumers and software to merchants to accept credit card payments, Lynch has also served as owner of Lynch Enterprises… |
| Daniel D. McCracken | His book, “A Guide to Fortran Programming” (Wiley, 1961) and its successors were the standard textbooks on that language for over two decades | Author of "A Guide to Fortran Programming" (Wiley, 1961) and its successors — the standard textbooks on that language for over two decades — McCracken was one of computing's most prolific… |
| Daniel E. Cooke | Computer Science, inventing SequenceL | Inventor of the SequenceL functional programming language, Cooke discovered the computational laws that led to its creation and implemented several early interpreters for the language. During his… |
| Daniel Henry Holms Ingalls, Jr. | Inventor of Bit blit general graphical operation, and major contributor to the Squeak programming language | Inventor of BitBlit, the general-purpose graphical operation underlying most bitmap graphics systems, Ingalls is a pioneer of object-oriented computer programming and the principal architect,… |
| Daniel Karrenberg | Pioneer of the Internet in Europe | Pioneer of the Internet in Europe, Karrenberg is a computer scientist who has focused on inventing, designing, and implementing Internet-related systems, especially those that collect and analyze… |
| Daniel Kottke | The engineer who assembled and tested the first Apple I computer with fellow computer designer and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak | The engineer who assembled and tested the first Apple I computer with fellow computer designer and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Kottke is one of the earliest employees of Apple Inc., with… |
| Daniel L. Murphy | Creator of Text Editor and Corrector (TECO) that was implemented on PDP computers | Creator of Text Editor and Corrector (TECO), later implemented on most PDP computers, Murphy is an American computer scientist. He attended MIT from 1961 and graduated in 1965. In 1962 he created… |
| Daniel Meyer | Founder of the company that introduced kits for the AC-30 Cassette Interface data storage and the PR-40 printer | Founder of Southwest Technical Products Corporation (SWTPC), Meyer introduced kits for the AC-30 Cassette Interface data storage and the PR-40 printer. He was born in New Braunfels, Texas and… |
| Daniel Paul Siewiorek | Designer or co-designer of nine multiprocessor systems and a key contributor to the dependability design of over two dozen commercial computing systems | Designer or co-designer of nine multiprocessor systems and a key contributor to the dependability design of over two dozen commercial computing systems, Siewiorek has served as the Buhl University… |
| Daniel Singer Bricklin | Co creator of the first spreadsheet for personal computers VisiCalc | Co-creator of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program available for personal computers, Bricklin co-founded Software Arts, Inc. with Frankston in 1979 and began selling VisiCalc that same year. He… |
| Daniel Teichroew | ISDOS Project with PSL/PSA | Pioneer of the ISDOS Project, Teichroew led a pioneering team which attempted to design and implement the Problem Statement Language (PSL) and Problem Statement Analyser (PSA) as a way of… |
| Danny (Dan) Spracklen | Computer chess co-programmer for the dedicated unit, Chafitz ARB Sargon 2.5; the first commercial dedicated chess computer with an Auto Response Board (ARB) | Co-programmer of the Chafitz ARB Sargon 2.5, the first commercial dedicated chess computer with an Auto Response Board (ARB), Spracklen is an American computer scientist and microcomputer chess… |
| Danny Cohen | Developer of the first real-time visual flight simulator and later adapted it to run over the ARPANET | Developer of the first real-time visual flight simulator on a general purpose computer, Cohen later adapted it to run over the ARPANET. Born in Israel, he was also well known for coining the… |
| Dario de Judicibus | Founder of the Reuse Shop, which was the first IBM group to create software libraries of building blocks that could be used to develop products | Founder of the Reuse Shop, the first IBM group to create software libraries of building blocks that could be used to develop products, de Judicibus is a prolific inventor and pioneer in software… |
| Darleane C. Hoffman | Confirmed Seaborgium Element Discovery | Among the researchers who confirmed the existence of seaborgium (element 106), Hoffman was an American nuclear chemist whose work placed her at the forefront of her field. She became a faculty… |
| Darlene Solomon | CTO at Agilent Technologies | Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at Agilent Technologies from 2006 to 2023, Solomon held one of the most senior technical leadership roles at the company across nearly two… |
| Dave Boggs | He developed early prototypes of Internet protocols, file servers, gateways, network interface cards and, along with Robert Metcalfe and others, co-invented Ethernet | Co-inventor of Ethernet and developer of early Internet protocol prototypes, Boggs helped shape the foundations of modern computer networking. |
| Dave Cochran | Co-developer of the HP 35 Pocket Scientific Calculator | Co-developer of the HP 35 Pocket Scientific Calculator, Cochran spent 25 years at Hewlett-Packard, starting as a part-time Test Technician in 1956 and departing as a celebrated HP Engineer in 1981… |
| Dave Hitz | Co-founder of NetApp, a worldwide major supplier of network based storage systems for the computer industry | Co-founder of NetApp, a worldwide major supplier of network-based storage systems for the computer industry, Hitz helped establish the company in 1992 along with James Lau and Michael Malcolm. The… |
| Dave Schmidt | 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 Tymeshare, Inc., Schmidt developed the company in 1964 along with Tom O'Rourke to sell time-sharing services and software packages for users. It had two SDS/XDS 940 computers; access… |
| Dave Smith | Pioneer of many groundbreaking technologies in music and is considered to be the "father of the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)" | Known as the "Father of MIDI" for his role in developing the Musical Instrument Digital Interface, Smith pioneered many groundbreaking technologies in music. He was also responsible for the… |
| Dave Winer | Web writer and pioneer in development of weblogs, RSS and web content management | Pioneer in the development of weblogs, RSS, and web content management, Winer has been a leading web writer and innovator since the early days of the internet. In 1979, Winer worked for… |
| David (Dave) A. Duffield | Co-founder of PeopleSoft where PeopleSoft V1 (late 1980s), was the first fully integrated, robust client–server HRMS application suite | Co-founder of PeopleSoft, where PeopleSoft V1 (late 1980s) was the first fully integrated, robust client–server HRMS application suite, Duffield is an American businessman in the software industry… |
| David (Dave) B. Lindquist | Responsible for the strategy and architecture of IBM’s Cloud technology | Responsible for the strategy and architecture of IBM's Cloud technology (SmartCloud software), Smarter Infrastructure, and Integrated Service Management solutions, Lindquist has served as an IBM… |
| David (Dave) Dana Clark | Chief Protocol Architect in the development of the Internet | Chief Protocol Architect in the development of the Internet, Clark is an American computer scientist. He graduated from Swarthmore College, southwest of Philadelphia, in 1966. In 1968, he received… |
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