Honored Persons Database
Displaying 1 – 20 of 31 Honorees (Category: Historian, with portraits)
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Arthur L. Norberg
Former Director of the Charles Babbage Institute, Norberg is a noted author and historian of information technology.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Herbert Bruderer
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...
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...