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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.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Arthur L. Norberg

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

  • 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...