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Honored Persons Database

Displaying 1 – 20 of 31 Honorees (Category: Historian, with portraits)

  • One of Bletchley Park's most effective codebreakers, Batey joined the team in May 1940 at just 19 years old, interrupting her German-language studies at University College London. Working under the eccentric cryptographer...

  • William Aspray

    Noted IT historian and professor of computer sciences, Aspray has served in senior management positions with the Charles Babbage Institute, Computing Research Association, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He...

  • Thomas J. Misa

    Noted IT historian and director of the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI), Misa specializes in the interactions of technology and modern culture. His undergraduate degree was from M.I.T. (1981) and his Ph.D. from...

  • Neal Town Stephenson

    Writer of the non-fiction essay "In The Beginning Was The Command Line" — examining the histories of and relationships between DOS, Windows, Linux, and BeOS — Stephenson is an American author known...

  • George Dyson

    Author of Turing's Cathedral (2012), described as "a creation myth of the digital universe," Dyson is an author and historian of technology whose publications broadly cover the evolution of technology in relation...

  • Paul E. Ceruzzi

    Noted IT historian, author, and curator, Ceruzzi has served as Curator of Aerospace Electronics and Computing at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. He received a BA from...

  • Michael R Williams

    A pioneer in the history of computing who is — unusually — a computer scientist himself, Williams has published books and articles, taught, curated museum exhibits, and promoted professional activity in the...

  • Historian of computing, technology, and science, Bruderer has served as a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) and the University of Zurich. He...

  • John C. Dvorak

    Technology columnist and broadcaster, Dvorak has covered the computing industry since the 1980s, when he became a mainstay of a variety of magazines. Dvorak has also served as Vice-President of Mevio (formerly PodShow)...

  • Sellam Ismail

    Founder of the Vintage Computer Festival and active in the preservation of information technology artifacts, Ismail has dedicated himself to salvaging countless artifacts of tech history. His prescience has led to the...

  • Henry Lowood

    Curator of History of Science & Technology Collections and Film & Media Collections at Stanford University Libraries, Lowood has served in this role as a leading steward of science and technology heritage.

  • James W. Cortada

    Noted IT historian and author, Cortada is also the founder and a board member of the IT History Society. Cortada joined IBM in 1974 as a salesman, and held a variety of sales...

  • Leslie Berlin

    Author and noted IT historian, Berlin has served as Project Historian for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University. She wrote *The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of...

  • Michael Sean Mahoney

    Noted professor of IT history at Princeton University, Mahoney dedicated his 40-year academic career in the history of science to that institution. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University, Mahoney came to...

  • Frederik Nebeker

    Researcher of the influence of the computer on meteorology, Nebeker has served as the long-time Senior Research Historian at the IEEE History Center at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. A native...

  • Thomas Parke Hughes

    Co-founder of the Society for the History of Technology, Hughes was an American historian of technology and an emeritus Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a visiting...

  • Tilly Blyth

    Curator of Computing and Information at the Science Museum, London, Blyth has been responsible for the national computing collection and has written about the history of British computing. She has also served...

  • Lars Heide

    Editor of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Heide is a noted international historian and associate professor at the Centre for Business History at the Copenhagen Business School.

  • John  Impagliazzo

    Noted IT historian, author, and Professor Emeritus of computing sciences at Hofstra University, Impagliazzo has supported educational computing activities for decades. His accomplishments include contributing to model computing and engineering curricula, publishing...

  • John C. Hollar

    CEO of the Computer History Museum, Hollar directed the Museum's strategic planning and operations and has been responsible for leading it toward its goal of being the world's leading institution capturing the...