IT Honor Roll | IT History Society

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. Harry Lewis Nelson

An American mathematician and computer programmer, he was a member of the team that won the World Computer Chess Championship in 1983 and 1986, and was a co-discoverer of the 27th...

Mr. Robert (Bob) William Taylor

Born in Dallas, Texas in 1932, the adopted son of a Methodist minister, he had an itinerant childhood, moving from parish to parish. He started at Southern Methodist University at...

Mr. Gaylord G. (Glenn) Henry

A computer industry executive, co-founder and President of Centaur Technologies, Inc., and throughout his career he has played an integral role in the development of the computer...

Mr. Mike Saranga

He has 36 years of extensive experience in system architecture, product development and executive management. He served for 30 years at IBM with assignments that included Program...

Mr. Daniel Broido

Broido worked for British Tabulating Machine Company Limited (BTM) and his inventions and patents were transferred to them. He became senior Development Engineer on optical...

Mr. David Gelernter

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...

Dr. Samuel Hawks Caldwell

An American electrical engineer, known for his contributions to the early computers, he completed his degrees in electrical engineering at MIT. His M.Sc. thesis was entitled...

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-...

Professor Enid Mumford

Early in her career Enid Mumford realised that the implementation of large computer systems generally resulted in failure to produce a satisfactory outcome. Such failure could...

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...

Dr. Lubomir Georgiev Iliev

Lubomir was born in Samokov. He graduated from the Sofia University (1908). He became a professor (1925), and PhD in Math Science (Naples 1925), an academician (1930). He was a...

Mr. Norman Macrae

A British economist, journalist and author, considered by some to have been one of the world's best forecasters when it came to economics and society. These forecasts mapped back...

William Bill Englsih

He served in the US Navy until the late 1950s, including postings in northern California and Japan. English joined the Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s to work on magnetic...

Dr. Dawson Engler

Dawson Engler is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from MIT and his B.S. from the University of...

Mr. John W. Haanstra

He was Chairman of the influential SPREAD Task Group (Systems Programming, Research, Engineering and Development) and President of the IBM General Products Division just prior to...

Mr. Ahti Heinla

An Estonian programmer and entrepreneur, as Lead Architect he is one of the developers of Skype along with Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn. They had also originally developed...

Dr. Feng-hsiung Hsu

Dr. Hsu is a computer scientist and the author of the book Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion. His work led to the creation of the Deep...

Professor Ronald K Stamper

Born in Nottingham, England, 1934 and studied mathematics and statistics at Oxford University. He worked in Hospital administration where he was a pioneer in the use of computing...

Professor John (James) Clerk Maxwell

A Scottish physicist and mathematician, he was born in Edinburgh, to John Clerk and Frances Cay. His father was a man of comfortable means, of the Clerk family of Penicuik,...

Dr. Reiner W. Hartenstein

Currently a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Kaiserslautern University of Technology (TU Kaiserslautern), he has received all his academic degrees from the EE...

Dr. James Goodnight

phomore year. ?In mid-stream, a light went on, and I fell in love, making machines which do things for other people,? he says. The following summer he got a job writing programs...

Dr. John Edward Warnock

John is best known as the co-founder with Charles Geschke of Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company. Dr. Warnock was President of Adobe for his first two...

Dr. Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang

A computer scientist, he was formerly at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he was a Research Staff Member (RSM) and Program Manager of Application Architectures and...

Mr. Donald Valentine

Valentine grew up in the Bronx, New York, and went to Mount Saint Michael Academy. After graduating with a B.A. from Fordham University, Valentine began his career as a sales...

Mr. Raymond (Ray) M. Holt

A pioneering computer designer and businessman in Silicon Valley, he developed the first microprocessor chip set for Garrett AiResearch's Central Air Data Computer for the US Navy...

Mr. Alan F. Shugart

Al Shugart started at IBM in 1951 and in 18 years made many key contributions to disk drive development and introductions. Joined Memorex 1n 1969 as VP of product development,...

Dr. Jacob Ziv

From 1955 to 1959, he was a Senior Research Engineer in the Scientific Department Israel Ministry of Defense, and was assigned to the research and development of communication...

Dr. Ronald (Ron) Fagin

An American computer scientist and an IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center, he is best known for his pioneering work in database theory, finite model theory, and...

Mr. Evan Williams

He founded several Internet companies, including Pyra Labs (creator of weblog-authoring software Blogger) and Twitter, of which he is currently CEO.

Mr. Guido van Rossum

Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. In the Python community, Van Rossum is known as a ?Benevolent Dictator for Life? (...

Mr. Steve Newberry

CEO of LAM Research, leader in the manufacturing of semiconductors.

Mr. Allan Alcorn

An American pioneering engineer and computer scientist, he was born and grew up in San Francisco, California. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a...

Mr. Jeffery D. Stein

Founder and CEO of On-Line Business Systems, Convene.com, active on many boards and non-profits. Founder and CEO of the IT History Society.

Bill Atkinson

Atkinson was part of the Apple Macintosh development team and was the creator of the ground-breaking MacPaint application, among others. He also designed and implemented QuickDraw...

Ben Shneiderman

In his earlier work on studying programmers, he conducted experiments which suggested that flowcharts were not helpful for writing, understanding, or modifying computer programs...

Dr. Craig R. Barrett

Dr. Craig Barrett is a leading advocate for improving education in the U.S. and around the world. He is also a vocal spokesman for the value technology can provide in raising...

Mr. Neal Town Stephenson

An American writer known for his works of speculative fiction, he explores areas such as mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also...

Dr. Charles M. Herzfeld

An American scientist and scientific manager, particularly for the US Government, he is best known for his time as Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA...

Dr. Steven R. Hetzler

A 2010 IBM Fellow at IBM?s Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California, he manages the Storage Architecture Research group. He initiated work on what became Internet Small...

Professor Boris N Malinovsky

Worked with noted Russian Computer pioneer Lebedev in design of early Soviet Computers. In 1955-1958, Malinovsky designed a specialized computer for ground-based radar data...

Mr. Adam Osborne

Author, book and software publisher, and computer designer who founded several companies in the United States and elsewhere.

Dr. Gerrit (Gerry) Anne Blaauw

One of the principal designers of the IBM System/360 line of computers, together with Fred Brooks, Gene Amdahl, and others. In 1947, he won an exclusive scholarship funded by IBM...

Mr. Robert Marco Tomasulo

A computer scientist and the inventor (in 1967) of the Tomasulo algorithm, a computer architecture hardware algorithm for dynamic scheduling of instructions that allows out-of-...

Mr. F. Grant Saviers

A longtime senior executive at the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), a computer manufacturer, he joined Adaptec Inc. as President and Chief Operating Officer. He left Digital...

Dr. Karl Kempf

After earning his Ph.D. in applied math at the University of Akron, he worked on robotic assembly lines in Scotland. In the 1970s, he paired up with Ferrari?s Formula 1 team and...

Mr. John C. Dvorak

An American columnist and broadcaster in the areas of technology and computing. His writing extends back to the 1980s, when he was a mainstay of a variety of magazines. Dvorak is...

Dr. Leonard J. Shustek

Co-founded Nestar Systems Inc., an early producer of networked client-server computer systems in 1979. In 1986, Dr. Shustek Co-founded Network General Corporation, a manufacturer...