Honor Roll
| Name Sort descending | Noted For | Description |
|---|---|---|
| David (Dave) J. Farber | Co-designer of the first electronic switching system (ESS-1) and the SNOBOL programming languages | Co-designer of the first electronic switching system (ESS-1) and the SNOBOL programming languages, Farber made major contributions to programming languages and computer networking. Farber held the… |
| David (Kitping) K. Lam | Co-inventor of a plasma-produced solid lubricant that was patented under the title, “Fluorine Plasma Synthesis for Carbon Monofluoride" | Co-inventor of a plasma-produced solid lubricant patented under the title "Fluorine Plasma Synthesis for Carbon Monofluoride," Lam is also the founder of Lam Research Corporation. He has served as… |
| David A. Forsyth | Inventor of a series of important methods for recognizing objects and activities in images in video | Inventor of important methods for recognizing objects and activities in images and video, Forsyth is a South African computer scientist and full Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-… |
| David A. Hodges | Co-founder of Berkeley's Competitive Semiconductor Manufacturing Program | Co-founder of Berkeley's Competitive Semiconductor Manufacturing Program, Hodges was a noted American electrical engineer and the Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor of Engineering Emeritus… |
| David A. Thompson | Pioneer in the design and development of thin film magnetic head technology for use in high-density data storage used in computers, digital cameras and other devices | Pioneer in the design and development of thin film magnetic head technology for use in high-density data storage, Thompson has served as Director of the Advanced Magnetic Recording Laboratory at… |
| David Albert Huffman | Best known for his legendary Huffman code, a compression scheme for lossless variable length encoding | Best known for his legendary Huffman code, a compression scheme for lossless variable length encoding, Huffman joined the faculty at MIT in 1953. He was awarded the Louis E. Levy Medal in 1955. In… |
| David Andrew Patterson | One of the innovators of the Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks (RAID) a technology that provides increased storage functions and reliability through redundancy | One of the innovators of Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks (RAID), Patterson is an American computer pioneer and academic. A native of Evergreen Park, Illinois, he attended UCLA, receiving his… |
| David Bradley | One of the twelve engineers who worked on the original IBM PC, developing the computer's ROM BIOS code | One of the twelve engineers who developed the original IBM PC, Bradley is known for creating the computer's ROM BIOS code. He is also the author of *Assembly Language Programming for the IBM… |
| David C. Walden | A member of the small team of engineers that developed the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet | A member of the small team of engineers that developed the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, Walden is recognized as one of the first Internet programmers. After three years at MIT Lincoln… |
| David Cannon Evans | Pioneer of computer generated imagery | Pioneer of computer generated imagery, Evans left an enduring mark on the history of computing. He attended the University of Utah and studied electrical engineering; he earned his doctorate… |
| David E. Culler | Inventor of the TinyOS operating system | Inventor of the TinyOS operating system, Culler is a computer scientist who has served as Chair of Computer Science and Associate Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the… |
| David E. Liddle | Led the development of the groundbreaking Xerox Star computer system | Leader of the development of the groundbreaking Xerox Star computer system, Liddle is credited with establishing the precedent-setting design for graphical user interfaces. He arrived at… |
| David Elieser Deutsch | Laying the foundations of quantum theory computation | David Deutsch laid the foundations of the quantum theory of computation, and subsequently made or participated in many of the most important advances in the field, including the discovery of the… |
| David Elliott Bell | Co-developer of the Bell-La Padula security model which provided tools for guiding and analyzing computer systems under development | Co-developer of the highly influential Bell-LaPadula security model, Bell is a mathematician and computer security pioneer. His management experience has ranged from line management up to… |
| David F. Marquardt | Co-founder of venture capital firm August Capital in 1995. He has served on more than 25 boards of directors during his 20-year venture capital career including Microsoft, Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle), Seagate, Adaptec, and Grand Junction Networks (acquired by Cisco). | Co-founder of August Capital in 1995, Marquardt has served on more than 25 boards of directors during his venture capital career, including Microsoft, Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle),… |
| David F. Redmiles | Author of over 100 research publications integrating the areas of software engineering, human-computer interaction, and computer-supported cooperative work | Author of over 100 research publications integrating the areas of software engineering, human-computer interaction, and computer-supported cooperative work, Redmiles has served as a Professor in… |
| David Ferrucci | Leader of the team of IBM and academic researchers and engineers to the development of the Watson computer system | Leader of the team that developed IBM's Watson computer system, Ferrucci served as the principal investigator who in 2007–2011 led a team of 25 IBM and academic researchers and engineers to create… |
| David Filo | Co-founder, Yahoo | Co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang, Filo is an American businessman. His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side scripting software used to… |
| David G. Arscott | Founder board member, IT History Society; Silicon Valley venture capitalist | Founder board member of the IT History Society and Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Arscott spent his entire professional career investing in private and public technology companies. In 1968, he… |
| David Gelernter | Contributions to parallel computation and for books on topics including computed worlds (Mirror Worlds). | Made seminal contributions to the field of parallel computation, specifically the tuple space coordination model as embodied by the Linda programming system (named for Linda Lovelace, an actress… |
| David H. Crocker | Co-worker on RFC 822, the first standard to describe the syntax of a domain name | Co-worker on RFC 822, the first standard to describe the syntax of a domain name, Crocker has forty years of work experience in the Internet industry, including early work with DARPA and designing… |
| David Harold Bailey | Writer of a software program to compute the mathematical constant pi to high precision which is now used by scientists world-wide for research in both pure and applied mathematics | Writer of the computer program that enabled the discovery of the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula for computing digits of pi, Bailey is a mathematician and computer scientist. He received his B.S.… |
| David Hilbert | One of the founders of proof theory and mathematical logic, which led to the development of recursion theory and then mathematical logic; the basis for later theoretical computer science | One of the founders of proof theory and mathematical logic, Hilbert's work laid the basis for recursion theory and later theoretical computer science. He was recognized as one of the most… |
| David J. Kuck | Developer of the Parafrase compiler system (1977), which was the first testbed for the development of automatic vectorization and related program transformations | Developer of the Parafrase compiler system (1977), the first testbed for automatic vectorization and related program transformations, Kuck is one of the most influential figures in parallel… |
| David John Wheeler | Computer pioneer and inventor of the 'closed subroutine' | Inventor of the closed subroutine, Wheeler was a pioneer of standard programming techniques whose elegant coding of the EDSAC Initial Orders in only 30 words of store remained a model of what a… |
| David Karp | Founder of blogging company, Tumblr, Inc. | Founder of the short-form blogging platform Tumblr, Karp is an American web developer and entrepreneur. According to Forbes, his net worth exceeded $200 million, and Tumblr was valued at $800… |
| David Katch | Co-founder of Boole & Babbage and pioneer of performance management software | Co-founder of Boole & Babbage and pioneer of performance management software, Katch is an expert in computer software monitoring. Along with Ken Lolence, a physicist and software specialist,… |
| David L. Harame | Lead developer of the world's first successful silicon germanium (SiGe) technology generally available for analog and communications circuits used in wireless communications equipment, optical network interfaces,GPS and cellular telephones | Lead developer of the world's first successful silicon germanium (SiGe) technology for analog and communications circuits, Harame has served as a Director at IBM, an IBM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow,… |
| David L. House | Silicon Valley Entrepenuer, INTEL, Broade, Computer History Museum | Silicon Valley entrepreneur and co-founder of the Computer History Museum, House has had a distinguished career spanning Intel, Nortel, and Brocade. House has served as a Brocade director… |
| David L. Mills | Inventor of the Network Time Protocol, the DEC LSI-11 based fuzzball router used for the 56 kbit/s NSFNET, the Exterior Gateway Protocol, and had the first FTP implementation | Inventor of the Network Time Protocol, the fuzzball router, and the Exterior Gateway Protocol, Mills was an American computer engineer and Internet pioneer. He earned his PhD in Computer and… |
| David Lorge Parnas | Concept of information hiding in modular programming | Originator of the concept of information hiding in modular programming, Parnas is a Canadian early pioneer of software engineering whose work became a foundational element of object-oriented… |
| David M. Kelley | One of America's leading design innovators | One of America's leading design innovators, Kelley is founder, Chairman, and managing partner of the design firm IDEO and a Professor at Stanford University. He has been recognized as one of… |
| David M. Young | Founded the Center for Numerical Analysis | Founder of the Center for Numerical Analysis at The University of Texas at Austin, Young was also known for establishing the Successive Overrelaxation (SOR) method. Professor Young's career… |
| David Michael Dahm | Designer of the pioneering Burroughs B5000 compiler and operating systems, introducing generative techniques to Data Base Management | Designer of the pioneering Burroughs B5000 compiler and operating systems, Dahm introduced generative techniques to Data Base Management. Born in Texarkana, Arkansas, he grew up in Dallas, Texas,… |
| David Michael Ungar | Co-creator of the Self programming language, an object-oriented language based on the concept of prototypes, inspiring a number of other languages | Co-creator of the Self programming language, Ungar developed the prototype-based, object-oriented language with Randall Smith in 1986 while working at Xerox PARC. He described himself as "an out-… |
| David Nahamoo | Developer of algorithms that contributed to IBM’s leadership in automatic speech recognition | Developer of algorithms that contributed to IBM's leadership in automatic speech recognition, Nahamoo's work includes contributions that resulted in the company's highly successful deployment of… |
| David Neil Cutler, Sr. | Software engineer and developer of several operating systems including RSX-11M, VMS, VAXELN, and Windows NT | Developer of several operating systems including RSX-11M, VMS, VAXELN, and Windows NT, Cutler is a pioneering software engineer. Cutler's software career started at a small company he… |
| David Neil Laurence Levy | Worked with Texas Instruments on the development of the Chess module for the TI-99/4A Home Computer Project | Developer of the Chess module for the TI-99/4A Home Computer Project in collaboration with Texas Instruments, Levy is a Scottish International Master of chess, a businessman noted for his… |
| David Packard | Founder of Hewlett Packard | Co-founder of Hewlett-Packard (1939), Packard served as president (1947–1964), CEO (1964–1968), and Chairman of the Board (1964–1968, 1972–1993). He served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense from… |
| David Patrick Reed | Designer of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) | Designer of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Reed is an American computer scientist known for significant contributions to computer networking, including the design and construction of Internet… |
| David R. Karger | Helped develop the fastest minimum spanning tree algorithm to date | Developer of the fastest minimum spanning tree algorithm to date, Karger is also known for Karger's algorithm, a Monte Carlo method to compute the minimum cut of a connected graph. His work in… |
| David R. Millen | Director of a User Interface Design Group, which was responsible for the user interface design of advanced business communications systems as well as conducting exploratory prototype development of advanced speech applications and pen-based interfaces | Director of a User Interface Design Group responsible for the user interface design of advanced business communications systems and exploratory prototype development of advanced speech… |
| David Tresman Caminer | Brought the LEO computer into active use for the UK | Pioneer in bringing the LEO computer into active use for the UK catering enterprise J. Lyons and Company, Caminer took a leading role in developing the business applications and was in charge of… |
| David Yang | Founder and chairman of ABBYY | Founder and chairman of ABBYY, Yang was born in 1968 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, to a Chinese father and Armenian mother, both physicists. He spent his first 17 years in Armenia before enrolling in… |
| Dawson Engler | Co-founder of the Exokernel Operating System Project and co-developer of KLEE | Co-founder of the Exokernel Operating System Project and co-developer of KLEE, Engler has served as an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. He… |
| Dean Eric Eastman | Expert on the electronic properties of materials and spectroscopy | World-renowned expert on the electronic properties of materials and spectroscopy, Eastman is an American solid-state physicist and IBM manager. He conducted important research in the field of… |
| Dean Everett Wooldridge | Co-founder of the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation, which was awarded the prime contract for overall systems engineering and technical direction of the nation’s intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Program | Co-founder of the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation, which was awarded the prime contract for overall systems engineering and technical direction of the nation's Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM… |
| Dennis Crowley | Co-founder of the popular social networking sites Dodgeball and Foursquare | Co-founder of the popular social networking sites Dodgeball and Foursquare, Crowley is an American Internet entrepreneur born in Medway, Massachusetts who graduated from nearby Xaverian Brothers… |
| Dennis M. Jennings | Responsible for three critical decisions that shaped the subsequent development of NSFNET, the network that became the Internet | Responsible for three critical decisions that shaped the subsequent development of NSFNET, the network that became the Internet, Jennings is an Irish physicist, academic, Internet pioneer, and… |
| Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie | Creator of the C programming language | Creator of the C programming language, Ritchie was an American computer scientist notable for his influence on programming languages and on operating systems such as Multics and Unix. He received… |
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