Honored Persons Database
Displaying 1 – 20 of 31 Honorees (Category: Historian, with portraits)
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.
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...
Mavis Batey (née Lever)
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...
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...
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...
I. Bernard Cohen
The first American to receive a Ph.D. in history of science, Cohen was a distinguished historian of science at Harvard who also wrote about early computer history there. He was a Harvard...
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...
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 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...
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...
Martin Campbell-Kelly
Noted IT historian and professor of computer science, Campbell-Kelly has specialized in the history of computing at the University of Warwick. Campbell-Kelly has served as a full professor in the Department of Computer...
Richard O Mason
Developer of foundational concepts in IT and information ethics, Mason has served as Carr P. Collins Professor of Management Information Sciences at the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist...
Jeffrey R Yost
Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Yost has also served as Associate Director of the Charles Babbage Institute from 1998 onward. Yost authored The Computer Industry (Greenwood Press, 2005) and...
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...
Gwendowlyn K Bell
Founding President and Co-founder of The Computer Museum and Co-founder of the Computer History Museum, Bell has also served as President of the ACM.
Burton (Burt) Grad
Founder of the Software History Center, Grad has been working on computer software since 1954, when he wrote the first production and inventory control programs for the General Electric Company's installation of...
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...
Arthur Tatnall
Noted IT historian, author, and professor of computer sciences, Tatnall has served as an Associate Professor in the Victoria Graduate School of Business at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. He holds Bachelor's...
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...
Arthur L. Norberg
Former Director of the Charles Babbage Institute, Norberg is a noted author and historian of information technology.