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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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Dr. Lubomyr T. Romankiw

Born in Zhovkva, Ukraine, he is a 1986 IBM Fellow and researcher at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. In a ceremony on May 2, 2012, he was one...

Professor Arnold T. Nordsieck

In the 1950s, he built a "differential analyzer"?an analog computer capable of solving complex equations and drawing curves?out of $700-worth of war surplus materials. Clones...

Professor Edward S. Davidson

A computer engineer who pioneered pipelining techniques for improving processor throughput in both hardware and software; techniques to which he contributed seminal ideas include...

Dr. Frank P. Carrubba

An inventor of Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) architecture, he joined Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in 1982. As a member of the Group Management Committee, he led efforts...

Dr. Ding-Yuan (DY) Yang

One of the founding members of Electronics Research Organization (ERSO), leading the group of engineers trained at RCA in the late 1970s, in Taiwan, he became responsible for...

Dr. Evangelos S. Eleftheriou

A 2005 IBM Fellow (the company's most prestigious technical honor), he is head of Storage Technologies at IBM?s Zurich Research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland. His pioneering...

Mr. Paul J. Severino

Born in Patterson, N.J., he spent his high school years in Totowa, New Jersey at Catholic technical high school, Don Bosco Technical Institute where he studied electronics. He...

Mr. Anthony (Tony) M. Fadell

A Lebanese American computer science engineer, he was the Senior Vice President of the iPod Division at Apple Inc., having succeeded Jon Rubinstein in 2006. On November 4, 2008,...

Mr. Stewart Brand

In 1966, Brand campaigned to have NASA release the then-rumored satellite image of the entire Earth as seen from space. In late 1968, Brand assisted electrical engineer Douglas...

Dr. Rolf William Landauer

A German-American physicist he made important contributions in diverse areas of the thermodynamics of information processing, condensed matter physics, and the conductivity of...

Mr. C. Gordon Bell

is a computer engineer and manager. An early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) 1960–1966, Bell designed several of their PDP machines and later became Vice President...

Dr. Roger R. Schmidt

Named an IBM Fellow in 2009, the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM can achieve, he is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of electronic...

Dr. Ken E. Batcher

Among the designs he worked on at Goodyear were the: Massively Parallel Processor (16,384 custom bit-serial processors {8 to a chip} organized in a SIMD 128 x 128 processor array...

Nicholas Negroponte

Negroponte joined the faculty of MIT in 1966. For several years thereafter he divided his teaching time between MIT and several visiting professorships at Yale, Michigan and the...

Dr. Bernard (Barney) M. Oliver

A scientist who made contributions in many fields, including radar, television, and computers, he joined the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York upon completing his studies at...

Mr. Milo S. Medin

As part of the Internet development community for more than 25 years, he has been the Vice President of Access Services at Google since December 15, 2010, where he oversees the...

Mr. Robert A. Henle

An electrical engineer, he contributed to semiconductor technology. He was appointed an IBM Fellow in 1964, the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM can...

Dr. Stephen W. Keckler

Steve Keckler joined NVIDIA in December 2009 and leads the Architecture Research Group. He is also Professor of both Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at...

Dr. Ruchir Puri

An IBM Fellow at IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York where he leads high performance design and methodology solutions for all of IBM?s enterprise...

Dr. Dean Eric Eastman

An American solid-state physicist and IBM Manager he is a world-renowned expert on the electronic properties of materials and spectroscopy. He has conducted important research in...

Mr. Philip Don Estridge

Known as Don Estridge, led development of the original IBM Personal Computer (PC), and thus is known as "father of the IBM PC". His decisions dramatically changed the computer...

Dr. Jay T. Last

A physicist, silicon pioneer, and member of the so-called "traitorous eight" that founded Silicon Valley, he was born in Butler, Pennsylvania. He earned his Bachelor's degree in...

Dr. John Grist Brainerd

Brainerd is perhaps most famous for his work leading the ENIAC project. During World War II the differential analyzer at the Moore School was used intensively for ballistic...

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...

Mr. Keith Lonsdale

Born in 1923, and a graduate of the College of Technology, University of Manchester, in 1945, he worked at Salford Electrical Instruments as development engineer, then AC. Cossor...

Dr. Charles Kuen Kao

A Chinese-born electrical engineer and physicist, he holds a multiple citizenship of Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and the United States. He pioneered in the development and use...

Professor Larry Smarr

A physicist and leader in scientific computing, supercomputer applications, and Internet infrastructure, he received both his BA and MS at the University of Missouri in Columbia,...

Mr. Nobuo Mii

A Japanese computer pioneer who made various contributions, working for NHK and IBM, and an investment fund executive, he was born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, and graduated from...

Professor Paul M. Horn

An American computer scientist and solid state physicist, in his 28 years with IBM, he was a champion for translating technology-based research into marketplace opportunities. He...

Mr. Evan Thomas Spiegel

An American Internet entrepreneur he is the co-founder and CEO of the mobile application Snapchat, along with Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown when they were all students at...

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...

Mr. Terry G. Johnson

Born in Ogden, Utah, he graduated from high school in 1953. He began college, but then enlisted in the Navy and served for four years as an electronics technician. He got out of...

Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart

American inventor and early computer pioneer. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse, as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext,...

Dr. Steven (Steve) L. Scott

A computer architect at Cray Research, Inc., Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI), and Cray, Inc. he was also a Principal Engineer at Google, and Senior Vice President and Chief...

Professor Michael J. Flynn

An American Professor Emeritus at Stanford University in California, he joined IBM in 1955, and for ten years worked in the areas of computer organization and design. He was...

Dr. Robert (Bob) H. Dennard

An American electrical engineer and inventor, he was born in Terrell, Texas, U.S.. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist...

Mr. Gerald (Jerry) Anderson Lawson

A lifelong engineer and tinkerer, Lawson was born in 1940 and grew up in a federal housing project in Queens, New York. As a kid, he operated a ham radio; as a teenager he earned...

Mr. John H. Crawford

An American Computer Software Engineer, and the holder of 23 patents, he received his Bachelor of Science (BSc), degree from Brown University in 1975, and his Master of Science (...

Dr. Phaedon Avouris

A Greek chemical physicist, he is an IBM Fellow and the group leader for Nanometer Scale Science and Technology at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New...

Dr. David K. (Kitping) Lam

A Chinese-born American technology entrepreneur, he founded Lam Research Corporation in 1980. He presently serves as Chairman of Multibeam Corporation (Santa Clara, CA), which...

Professor Jerry M. Woodall

An American inventor and scientist, he pioneered and patented the development of GaAs high efficiency IR LEDs, used today in remote control and data link applications such as TV...

Mr. John Logie Baird

John Baird is the engineer and inventor of the world's first practical, publicly demonstrated television system, and also the world's first fully electronic colour television tube...

Mr. Robert (Bob) E. Lorenzini

He joined Rheem Semiconductor in 1960, the first spin-off from Fairchild Semiconductor, where he was involved in the design and development of a crystal growing furnace. After two...

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...

Dr. Gordon Kidd Teal

Born in South Dallas, Texas, he was Valedictorian at the Bryan Street High School in Dallas, Texas. He earned his undergraduate degree from Baylor University and a Doctorate in...

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...

Dr. Sheldon (Shelly) Weinig

Born in New York City, he attended Stuyvesant High School, a magnet school in New York. After completing high school, he served in the United States Army for two years and...

Mr. Monte M. Toole

Founder of Novellus Surface Integrity Group (aka GaSonics International Corporation) in March 1971, he served as its Chairman until April 1998, Chief Executive Officer from March...