Honor Roll
| Name Sort descending | Noted For | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Edgar (Ted) Frank Codd | Invented the theoretical bases for relational databases | Inventor of the relational model for database management, Codd established the theoretical basis for relational databases while working for IBM. He made other valuable contributions to computer… |
| Edith Clarke | First Professional Female Electrical Engineer | The first woman to be professionally employed as an electrical engineer in the United States, Clarke also became the first female professor of electrical engineering in the country. She was… |
| Edith Clarke | Contributions to electrical engineering and electronic graphical display | Pioneer of electrical engineering and the inventor of the Clarke calculator, Clarke broke barriers as the first woman to earn an M.S. in electrical engineering from MIT. Clarke studied… |
| Edmund Callis Berkeley | Became famous in 1949 with the publication of his book Giant Brains, or Machines That Think | Author of the landmark 1949 book Giant Brains, or Machines That Think, Berkeley became famous for describing the principles behind computing machines and surveying the most prominent examples of… |
| Edmund Melson Clarke, Jr. | Developer for model checking, a method for formally verifying hardware and software designs | Developer of model checking, Clarke pioneered a method for formally verifying hardware and software designs. In his Ph.D. thesis he proved that certain programming language control structures did… |
| Edsger Wybe Dijkstra | Creator of ALGOL | Creator of the ALGOL programming language, Dijkstra was one of the most influential members of computing science's founding generation. Among the domains in which his scientific contributions are… |
| Edson (Ed) de Castro | Designer of the Data General Nova series of computers | Designer of the Data General Nova series of computers, de Castro was a computer engineer born in Plainfield, New Jersey, but his family moved to Newton, Massachusetts when he was six, and he… |
| Edson Hendricks | Developer of RSCS (later known as VNET), fundamental software that powered the world’s largest network (or network of networks) prior to the Internet | Developer of RSCS (later known as VNET), fundamental software that powered the world's largest network (or network of networks) prior to the Internet, Hendricks is an IBM computer scientist whose… |
| Eduardo (Ed) T. Kahan | Developer of the IBM Architecture Description Standard (ADS), used by the IBM WW technical community | Developer of the IBM Architecture Description Standard (ADS), used by the IBM WW technical community, Kahan has served as a certified consultant and an active member of the IBM Academy of… |
| Edvard Georg Raphael Scheutz | Co-developer of the Scheutzian calculation engine that produced the first tables calculated and printed by machinery | Co-developer of the Scheutzian calculation engine that produced the first tables calculated and printed by machinery, Scheutz made pioneering contributions to mechanical computation alongside his… |
| Edward (Ed) E. Iacobucci | Leader of the joint IBM-Microsoft design team that launched the modern era of multi-tasking personal computer operating systems | Leader of the joint IBM-Microsoft design team that launched the modern era of multi-tasking personal computer operating systems, Iacobucci was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Dr. Guillermo and… |
| Edward (Ed) H. Sussenguth, Jr. | Worked on the APL programming language and multiple systems for IBM | Known for his work on the APL programming language and multiple systems for IBM, Sussenguth was an American engineer born in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He received his B.A. degree in 1954 from… |
| Edward (Ed) R. McCracken | Instrumental in the release of the HP 3000 and later became essential to putting the IMAGE database on every HP3000 | Instrumental in putting the IMAGE database on every HP 3000, McCracken is recognized as a key figure in turning that system into a successful commercial platform. He later served as Chief… |
| Edward (Ned) W. Barnholt | Headed the Agilent spin-off from Hewlett-Packard in 1999 | Headed the Agilent spin-off from Hewlett-Packard in 1999, Barnholt served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board of Agilent Technologies until his retirement in 2005.… |
| Edward Albert Feigenbaum | Father of expert systems | Known as the "father of expert systems," Feigenbaum is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence. Feigenbaum completed his undergraduate degree, and a Ph.D., at… |
| Edward Fredkin | His primary contributions include his work on reversible computing and cellular automata | A pioneer of reversible computing and cellular automata, Fredkin was also an early pioneer of digital physics, later using the term digital philosophy (DP) to describe his work. While Konrad Zuse'… |
| Edward Hance Shortliffe | Pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence in medicine | Pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence in medicine, Shortliffe is best known as the principal developer of the clinical expert system MYCIN, one of the first rule-based artificial… |
| Edward J. McCluskey | Design and synthesis of digital systems for over five decades including the Quine-McCluskey method | Pioneer of digital systems design and synthesis for over five decades, McCluskey is known for co-developing the Quine-McCluskey method of Boolean function minimization. Professor McCluskey… |
| Edward J. Seminaro | Leader of the team responsible for establishing and executing the system design of IBM's pSeries and iSeries UNIX product family | Leader of the team responsible for establishing and executing the system design of IBM's pSeries and iSeries UNIX product family, Seminaro has served as the Chief Hardware System Architect for IBM… |
| Edward M. Esber, Jr. | Successful marketer of the first productivity software for personal computing, paving the way for widespread acceptance of personal computers in business | Credited with the successful marketing of the first productivity software for personal computing, Esber paved the way for the widespread acceptance of personal computers in business. He served as… |
| Edward Nash Yourdon | Co-developer of the structured analysis techniques of the 1970s; co-developer of the Yourdon/Whitehead method for object-oriented analysis/design in the late 1980s, and the Coad/Yourdon methodology for object-oriented analysis/design in the 1990s | Pioneer of structured analysis and object-oriented design methodologies, Yourdon was known as one of the lead developers of the structured analysis techniques of the 1970s, as co-developer of the… |
| Edward Rolf Tufte | Noted for his writings on information design, political science and statistics | Noted for his writings on information design and statistics, Tufte is an expert in the presentation of informational graphics such as charts and diagrams, and a fellow of the American Statistical… |
| Edward S. Davidson | Designer and implementer of an eight-node symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) system used by most multiprocessor systems today | Designer and implementer of an eight-node symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) system whose architecture is used by most multiprocessor systems today, Davidson pioneered pipelining techniques for… |
| Edward Seidel | Co-founder of the Cactus Framework; an open-source, problem-solving environment designed for scientists and engineers | Co-founder of the Cactus Framework, an open-source, problem-solving environment designed for scientists and engineers, Seidel is a career computer scientist and physicist recognized for a number… |
| Edwin (Ted) Joseph Selker | Developer of a prototype into the pointing stick known as TrackPoint technology and the designer of the Thinkpad 755CV notebook computer, which doubles as an LCD projector | Developer of the TrackPoint pointing stick technology and designer of the ThinkPad 755CV notebook computer (which doubles as an LCD projector), Selker is an American computer scientist known for… |
| Edwin Earl Catmull | Contributed to many important developments in computer graphics | A pioneer of computer graphics and former President of both Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Animation Studios, Catmull has contributed to many important developments in computer graphics.… |
| Edwin Ronald Nixon | One of the most powerful influences in shaping British industry's response to the technological revolution | One of the most powerful influences in shaping British industry's response to the technological revolution, Nixon headed IBM's operations in the UK for an astonishing 25-year span from the 1960s… |
| Eiichi Goto | Inventor of the parametron computer | Inventor of the parametron computer, Goto made foundational contributions to early computing in Japan. In 1954, when he was a graduate student of Professor Takahasi's Laboratory, Goto… |
| Eileen Collins | First Female Space Shuttle Commander | The first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle and the first to command a Space Shuttle mission, Collins served as a NASA astronaut and Air Force colonel across a distinguished career in military… |
| Einar (Stef) A. Stefferud | Significant contributor to the development of the Internet, and one of the original designers of the MIME protocol for sending multimedia Internet electronic mail | One of the original designers of the MIME protocol for sending multimedia Internet electronic mail, Stefferud made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly… |
| Elaine J. Weyuker | Leading researcher on rigorous software testing including industrial evaluations of the comparative effectiveness and costs of such testing methods | Leading researcher on rigorous software testing, including industrial evaluations of the comparative effectiveness and costs of such testing methods, Weyuker is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow (… |
| Elaine Surick Oran | Pioneered Computational Fluid Dynamics | Considered a world authority on numerical methods for large-scale simulation of physical systems, Oran pioneered computational technology to solve complex reactive flow problems. Her work unified… |
| Eldon Worley | Father of the Resource Access Control Facility (RACF) IBM’s mainframe security product | Sometimes called the "father" of RACF, Worley pioneered the IBM mainframe security product that provides access control and auditing functionality for the z/OS and z/VM operating systems. … |
| Eleanor Francis Helin | NASA Asteroid Tracking Pioneer | Principal investigator of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program, Helin was one of the most prolific discoverers of minor planets in the history of astronomy… |
| Eleanor K. Baum | First Female Engineering School Dean | The first woman to serve as dean of an engineering school in the United States, Baum took that role at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, in 1984. In 1987, she became dean of the Albert Nerken… |
| Elisa Bertino | Major contributor to the theory of object-oriented databases, temporal databases, and database security systems | Major contributor to the theory of object-oriented databases, temporal databases, and database security systems, Bertino has served as a Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical and… |
| Elise Gerich | Principle Investigator for NSFNET's T3 Backbone Project and the Routing Arbiter Project | Principal Investigator for NSFNET's T3 Backbone Project and the Routing Arbiter Project, Gerich is a 21-year veteran of Internet networking who has served as the Vice President of IANA at ICANN.… |
| Elisha Gray | He is best known for his development of a telephone prototype | Best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876, Gray is considered by some writers to be the true inventor of the variable resistance telephone, despite losing out to Alexander… |
| Elizabeth (Jake) Jocelyn Feinler | Leader of the group that operated the Network Information Center (NIC) for the ARPANET as it evolved into the Defense Data Network (DDN) and the Internet; this group becoming the overall naming authority of the Internet, developing and managing the name registries of the top-level domains of .mil, .gov, .edu, .org, and .com | Leader of the group that became the overall naming authority of the Internet, Feinler directed the Network Information Systems Center at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) from 1972 until 1989… |
| Elizabeth (Liz) L. Burd | Leader of Durham’s Technology Enhanced Learning research group, a group of 20 research staff and students | Leader of Durham's Technology Enhanced Learning research group, a group of 20 research staff and students, Burd has also served as director of the UK's Centre for Excellence in Teaching and… |
| Elizabeth M. Belding | Director of the group Mobility Management and Networking (MOMENT) Laboratory which focuses on deployment, measurement, and modeling of wireless networks; and the development of wireless network solutions suitable to the constraints of developing and underdeveloped regions of the world | Founder and Director of the Mobility Management and Networking (MOMENT) Laboratory, Belding has served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa… |
| Elizabeth Xu | Software Technology Specialist | A specialist in advanced technology and digital business, Xu worked across software-as-a-service, big data, and mobile enterprise software. She was also an author and professor, contributing to… |
| Ellie Yieh | Applied Materials Technology Executive | Inducted into the WITI Hall of Fame in 2016, Yieh built a career of more than two decades at Applied Materials, Inc., rising from process engineer to corporate vice president for advanced product… |
| Ellis L. Johnson | Founder and manager the Optimization Center at IBM | Founder and manager of the Optimization Center at IBM, Johnson made fundamental contributions to integer programming and combinatorial optimization. He served as Professor Emeritus and the Coca-… |
| Elmer C. Kubie | Computer Usage Company (CUC) which was the first independent company to market computer software | Co-founder of Computer Usage Company (CUC), the first independent company to market computer software, Kubie helped transform how software was developed and sold. He and John W. Sheldon founded… |
| Elon James Gasper | Holds several patents relating to Lip Sync and other technology | Holder of several patents relating to Lip Sync and other technology, Gasper is a former Senior VP at VizX Labs and co-founder of 1980s-era software company Bright Star Technology. Described by Ken… |
| Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp | He is known for his work in information theory and combinatorial game theory | Known for his work in information theory and combinatorial game theory, Berlekamp was one of the inventors of the Welch–Berlekamp and Berlekamp–Massey algorithms, which are used to implement Reed–… |
| Emanuel Goldberg | Contributor of a wide range of theoretic and practical advances relating to light and media and inventor of a very early search engine | Contributor of a wide range of theoretic and practical advances relating to light and media and inventor of a very early search engine, Goldberg was also the founding head of Zeiss Ikon, the… |
| Emerson W. Pugh | Leader of IBM’s development of a thin magnetic film memory array used in the top-performance IBM System/360 computer; leader of research and development in magnetic bubbles and other memory technologies; and, launched a project to develop a word processor for the Japanese language | Leader of IBM's development of a thin magnetic film memory array used in the top-performance IBM System/360 computer, Pugh also led research and development in magnetic bubbles and other memory… |
| Emil Leon Post | Best known for his work in the field that eventually became known as computability theory | Best known for his work in the field that eventually became known as computability theory, Post made foundational contributions to mathematical logic and the theory of computation. In his… |
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