Grady Booch

Grady Booch

male, 54 years old
computer scientist, unified modeling language, design pattern, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, software, Booch method…IBM, IBM employee
Grady Booch (born February 271955) is a software designer, a software methodologist and a design pattern enthusiast. He is chief scientist of...
John von Neumann

John von Neumann

male, deceased (1957)
genius, universal constructor, convert to Roman Catholicism, Pancreatic cancer death, Bone cancer death, American…computer scientist, scientist, IBM
John von Neumann (born Margittai Neumann János Lajos on December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; died February 8, 1957 in Washington D.C., U...
Jakob Nielsen

Jakob Nielsen

male, 52 years old (Fremont, California, United States)
usability, Nielsen Norman Group, user experience, web usability, Nielsen's Law, HCI…IBM, IBM employee, computer scientist
Jakob Nielsen (born 1957 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a writer, speaker, and consultant on software and web-design usability. He earned a Ph.D. in...
Sam Ruby

Sam Ruby

male (Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, United States)
STSM, computer software, Apache Software Foundation, IBM, American, IBM employee…computer scientist
Sam Ruby is a prominent software developer who has made significant contributions to many of the Apache Software Foundation's open source software...
Jim Gray

Jim Gray

male, 65 years old
Microsoft Research, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, computer scientist, Terraserver, Turing Award, database…IBM employee, IBM, IBM Corp.
James Nicholas "Jim" Gray (born 1944, lost at sea January 28, 2007) is an American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1998 "for...
Konrad Zuse

Konrad Zuse

male, deceased (1995)
computer, deutsches museum, z3, civil engineer, algorithmic, algol…IBM, computer scientist
Konrad Zuse was a German engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the completion of the first functional program-controlled...
Ivar Jacobson

Ivar Jacobson

male, 70 years old
computer scientist, Use case, UML, Rational Unified Process, OOSE, Specification and Design Language…IBM
Ivar Hjalmar Jacobson is a Swedish computer scientist. He got his Master of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers Institute of Technology in Göteborg i...
Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson

female, 63 years old
President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty, authoritarian, Vannevar Bush Award recipient, Ph.D., Particle physicist…Director of IBM, scientist, IBM Directors and Corporate Governance Committee, IBM director, IBM
Dr. Jackson has been President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute since July 1999. She was Chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission from...
Ken Olsen

Ken Olsen

male, 83 years old
VMS, digital equipment corporation, VAX, OpenVMS, Kenneth Harry Olsen, Norwegian-American…scientist, IBM
Kenneth Harry Olsen (born on February 20, 1926) is an American engineer who cofounded Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1957 with colleague...
Wietse Venema

Wietse Venema

male
worked on FIRST Steering Committee, wrote Postfix, wrote TCP Wrappers, Postfix, IBM, Eindhoven University of Technology…Research Staff Member at IBM Research, IBM Research, IBM employee, computer scientist, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center
Wietse Venema is best known for the software TCP Wrapper , which is still widely used today and is included with almost all unix systems. Wietse...
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