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Honored Persons Database

Displaying 21 – 31 of 31 Honorees (Category: Historian, with portraits)

  • Arthur L. Norberg

    Former Director of the Charles Babbage Institute, Norberg is a noted author and historian of information technology.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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  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...

  • 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...

  • 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)...

  • 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...

  • Brian Jack Copeland

    Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing, an extensive online archive on the computing pioneer Alan Turing, Copeland is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch,...

  • Norman Macrae

    Foreseer of the spread of the internet and biographer of Johnny Von Neumann, Macrae was considered by some to have been one of the world's best forecasters when it came to economics...