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The IT History Society wishes to acknowledge individuals who have made a noteworthy and out of the ordinary contribution to the information technology industry. Suggestions should be submitted by the community and not the individual. All submissions are subject for review by the IT Honor Roll Committee.

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Mr. Nikolay Brusentsov

The only modern, electronic ternary computer Setun was built in the late 1950s in the Soviet Union at the Moscow State University by Nikolay Brusentsov, and it had notable...

Mr. Robert (Bob) Stanley Barton

recognized as the chief architect of the Burroughs B5000 and other computers such as the B1700, and a co-inventor of dataflow. Barton's thinking has been broadly influential. As...

Dr. Daniel C. Edelstein

A 2006 IBM Fellow and Manager, BEOL Technology Strategy at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; his work focus relates to CMOS on-chip Cu-based...

Mr. Joe Schoendorf

He holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and serves on the Dean's Advisory Board School of Engineering. Active in high-technology industries for 45...

Mr. Jason McGee

Instrumental in establishing IBM as the leader in cloud technologies, Java based application server middleware and application aware virtualization; he has been the chief...

Dr. Jean Amédée Hoerni

He was a silicon transistor pioneer and a member of the Traitorous Eight. He was remembered for developing the planar process. He was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and received a...

Mr. Jerrier A. Haddad

He began his IBM career in July 1945 and was charged with the complete technical and executive responsibility for the 701 development and design program which featured the first...

Professor Brian David Josephson

A Welsh physicist, he became a Nobel Prize laureate in 1973 for the prediction of the eponymous Josephson effect. As of late 2007, he was a retired professor at the University of...

Dr. Carl Adam Petri

Developed concept of communicating automata in his Ph.D. thesis in 1962 (later referred to as Petri nets). Afterwards department head at GMD (Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und...

Dr. Jack Keil Wolf

Wolf's achievements include pioneering and sustained contributions to information theory and to digital information storage. Wolf is also an expert in digital information storage...

Professor Michael T. Goodrich

A mathematician and computer scientist, he is a Chancellor's Professor and the chair of Department of Computer Science, of Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences...

Mr. Stanley (Stan) T. Myers

Named Director Emeritus of the SEMI International Board of Directors on January 11, 2012, he had served as the President and CEO of Semiconductor Equipment and Materials...

Dr. Abraham Lempel

He studied at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and received B.Sc. in 1963, M.Sc. in 1965, and D.Sc. in 1967. Since 1977 he has held the title of full professor. He is...

Dr. William (Bill) Nelson Joy

An American computer scientist. Joy co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy, Andy Bechtolsheim and Vaughan Pratt, and served as chief scientist...

Tim Paterson

In 1978 he designed a schematic of Microsoft's Z-80 SoftCard which had a Z80 CPU and ran the CP/M operating system on an Apple II. A month later, Intel released the 8086 CPU, and...

Mr. Richard (Rick) L. Crandall

A pioneer in the Software Services Industry, he received a BS in Electrical Engineering, a BS in Mathematics, and an MS in Industrial Engineering from The University of Michigan....

Dr. William Bradford Shockley

Along with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, Shockley co-invented the transistor, for which all three were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics. Shockley's attempts to...

David Elieser Deutsch

David Deutsch laid the foundations of the quantum theory of computation, and has subsequently made or participated in many of the most important advances in the field, including...

Mr. Henryk Zygalski

A Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma ciphers before and during World War II, he was, from September 1932, a civilian cryptologist with the...

Mr. Donald D. Chamberlin

Donald D. Chamberlin was born in San Jose, in the USA. After attending Campbell High School he studied engineering at Harvey Mudd College from where he holds a B.S. After...

Mr. Ken Thompson

Commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles, is an American pioneer of computer science notable for his work with the B programming language and his shepherding of the Unix and...

Dr. Frederick (Jeff) Johns Rulifson

An American computer scientist, born in Bellefontaine, Ohio, his father was Erwin Charles Rulifson and his mother was Virginia Helen Johns. He married Janet Irving on June 8, 1963...

Dr. Jeffrey R Yost

Author: The Computer Industry (Greenwood Press, 2005); IBM Rochester: A Half Century of Innovation (IBM 2007) [Co-written with Arthur L. Norberg]; Bibliographic Guide to Resources...

Mr. Lawrence (Larry) Page

An American computer scientist best known as co-founder of Google Inc., along with Sergey Brin

Dr. John C. Klensin

A computer science professional who is active in Internet-related issues, his career includes 30 years as a Principal Research Scientist at MIT, a stint as INFOODS Project...

Dr. Willis Alfred Adcock

He was a Canadian-American physical chemist, electrical engineer, and university professor who worked on the first atomic bomb and assisted with the invention of the silicon...

Mr. Izrael Abraham Staffel

A Polish inventor, watchmaker, mechanic, designer of calculating machines, he was born in 1814 in Warsaw to an impoverished Jewish family. He received an elementary education in a...

Ms. Luba Cherbakov

A 2012 IBM Fellow, she is the 13th woman (and is among only seventeen women) to achieve this, the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM can achieve. Her...

Mr. Kevin A. Stoodley

A 2004 IBM Fellow in the Rational brand within IBM's Software Group, he is the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Enterprise Modernization Tools and Compilers. His responsibilities...

Mr. William (Bill) F. Beausoleil

Born Oct. 24, 1929, the day the stock market crashed; at the age of 12 he worked in a factory that restored movie projectors for the U.S. Navy. During World War II he built a ham...

Douglas B. Lenat

Lenat's quest, in the Cyc project, to build the basis of a general artificial intelligence by manually representing knowledge in the formal language, CycL, based on extensions to...

Mr. Carl Sassenrath

Born in Eureka, California), he is an architect of operating systems and computer languages. He brought multitasking to personal computers in 1985 with the creation of the Amiga...

Dr. Donald (Don) M. Eigler

An American physicist associated with the IBM Almaden Research Center, who is noted for his achievements in nanotechnology. In September 1989, he was the first to use a scanning...

Dr. James W. Cortada

Member of the IBM Institute for Business Value within IBM Global Services. Jim Cortada joined IBM in 1974 as a salesman, and held a variety of sales and marketing management jobs...

Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in Columbia, Maryland. After graduating from Oakland Mills High School in Columbia, Pausch received his bachelor's degree...

Mr. Mark Papermaster

Chief Technology Officer at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in Sunnyvale, California, he previously was the Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering at Apple Inc. where...

Mr. Barry Leiba

A computer scientist and software researcher, he retired from IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York at the end of February, 2009, and now works...

Professor Carver Andress Mead

Born in Bakersfield, California, he is a prominent U.S. computer scientist. He currently holds the position of Gordon and Betty Moore Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied...

Mr. Richard (Dick) Hedger

Presently the owner of his own consulting firm, Quality Software Technologies, he assists companies in developing core competencies in software development and new product...

Mr. Nathan Rochester

He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1941. He stayed on at MIT, working in the Radiation Laboratory for three...

Professor David M. Kelley

An American businessman, entrepreneur, designer, engineer, and teacher, he is founder, Chairman, and managing partner of the design firm IDEO and a Professor at Stanford...

Professor Charbel Farhat

The Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, he is also Chairman of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics...

Mr. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Leibniz occupies a prominent place in the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy. Leibniz developed the infinitesimal calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and...

Mr. Robert (Bob) J. Frankenberg

An American computer engineer and business executive who served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Novell, Inc. from 1994 to 1996, he spent much of his career...

Mrs. Lynn Conway

Conway joined Xerox PARC in 1973, where she led the "LSI Systems" group under Bert Sutherland. Collaborating with Carver Mead of Caltech on VLSI design methodology, she co-...

Mr. Donald J. Haderle

An American computer scientist and IBM Fellow, best known for his work on relational database management systems (RDBMS). He led the architecture and design of DB2, one of the...

Mr. Scott Cook

He started his career at Procter...

Dr. Ravi Sandhu

Executive Director of the Institute for Cyber Security at the University of Texas at San Antonio since 2007, where he holds the Lutcher Brown Endowed Chair in Cyber Security in...