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Honor Database

Displaying 141 – 160 of 1,733 Honorees (with portraits)

  • Stanley Mazor

    Co-designer of the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004, Mazor also co-patented "Symbol," a high-level language computer. Born in Chicago, Illinois, as a youth his family moved to California, where he attended...

  • Tsugio Makimoto

    A leader in Japan's semiconductor industry, Makimoto is sometimes called "Mr. Semiconductor" in Japan. He participated in the controversy over the trade conflict in the semiconductor industry between Japan and the US...

  • John P. Morgridge

    Former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Cisco Systems, Morgridge is an American businessman from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin who attended Wauwatosa East High School. He received his Bachelor's Degree in...

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    Susan Kare

    Creator of many of the interface elements for the Apple Macintosh, Kare is an artist and graphic designer whose iconic work includes the Lasso, the Grabber, and the Paint Bucket icons, and...

  • Peter Elias

    Known for introducing convolutional codes and establishing the binary erasure channel, Elias also contributed fundamental new concepts and techniques to source coding. His widely cited 1975 paper introduced universal representations of the...

  • Harry Wexler

    A pioneer in the use of computers for weather prediction and modification, Wexler was an American meteorologist who attended Harvard University, and in 1939 was awarded a Ph.D. in meteorology from the...

  • Adin D. Falkoff

    Collaborator on the design, development, and usage of the APL programming language, Falkoff was predominantly known for his work on APL and related systems for IBM. Born in New Jersey, he received...

  • Jim Hall

    Considered the "father" of the LaserJet printer, Hall managed development of HP's first laser printer, the 2680A. Hall grew up on a farm near Halifax, Virginia. Listening to the shortwave bands, he discovered...

  • Patrick Volkerding

    Founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution, Volkerding has served as Slackware's "Benevolent Dictator for Life" (BDFL), and is also known informally as "The Man". He has also contributed to the...

  • Frank Raleigh Lautenberg

    Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Lautenberg also served as the senior United States Senator from New Jersey and a member of the Democratic Party. He...

  • Van Jacobson

    One of the primary contributors to the TCP/IP protocol stack — the technological foundation of today's Internet — Jacobson is renowned for his pioneering achievements in network performance and scaling. He joined...

  • Dave  Boggs

    Co-inventor of Ethernet and developer of early Internet protocol prototypes, Boggs helped shape the foundations of modern computer networking. David graduated from Princeton University, and as a young graduate worked at Xerox PARC,...

  • 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)...

  • Muffy Calder

    Chief Scientific Advisor to the Scottish Government from 2012 to 2015, Calder was a Canadian-born British computer scientist and Professor of Formal Methods at the University of Glasgow. She also served as...

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    Lawrence (Larry) Joseph Ellison

    Founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major enterprise software company, Ellison is an American entrepreneur. As of 2010, he was the sixth richest person in the world with a personal wealth...

  • Jean Armour Polly

    Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2019, Jean Armour Polly was a librarian and author best known for her early book series on safe Internet use, "Surfing the Internet."

  • Ruth Teitelbaum (née Lichterman)

    One of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer, Teitelbaum played a pivotal role in the rise of computers. She graduated from Hunter College with a B.Sc. in Mathematics and was hired...

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    Steve Anthony Ballmer

    CEO of Microsoft, Ballmer is one of the most prominent figures in the history of the technology industry. He grew up in Farmington Hills, Michigan. In 1973, he graduated from Detroit Country Day...

  • Bradford Brooks

    Leader of a team that developed a global program to test emissions from IBM products and ensure compliance with relevant requirements, Brooks has served as Corporate leader of IBM's Global Toxicology and...

  • Harald Tveit Alvestrand

    Author of several important RFCs, Alvestrand has served on the ICANN Board and as a member of the Unicode Board of Directors. He co-chaired the IETF EAI and USEFOR Working Groups.