Tech Hall of Fame

Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezos ( born January 12, 1964) is the founder, president, chief executive officer (CEO), and chairman of the board of Amazon.com.

Pierre Morad Omidyar (born June 21, 1967) is a French-Iranian American entrepreneur and philanthropist/economist, and the founder/chairman of eBay

Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allen (born August 4, 1932) is an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Allen was the first female IBM Fellow and in 2006 became the first woman to win the Turing Award

Michael Saul Dell (born February 23, 1965) is an American business magnate and the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell Inc

Jerry Yang ( born November 6, 1968 in Taipei, Taiwan) is an Internet Entrepreneur, the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc.

Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943), commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles, is an American pioneer of computer science. Having worked at Bell Labs for most of his career, Thompson is notable for his work with the B programming language (basing it mainly on the BCPL language he had used to write Unix while in the MULTICS project), the C programming language, and as one of the creators and early developers of the Unix and Plan 9 operating systems.

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales ( born August 7, 1966 ) is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Wikia company.

Niklaus Emil Wirth (born February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984 he won the Turing Award for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.

Charles P. (Chuck) Thacker (born 1943) is an American pioneer computer designer. Thacker worked in the 1970s and 1980s at the PARC, where he served as project leader of the Xerox Alto personal computer system,[4] was co-inventor of the Ethernet LAN, and contributed to many other projects, including the first laser printer.

Leonard Max Adleman (born December 31, 1945) is an American theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. He is known for being a co-inventor of the RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) cryptosystem in 1977, and of DNA computing.

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Adi Shamir ( born July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer. He is a co-inventor of the RSA algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman), a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme (along with Uriel Feige and Amos Fiat), one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science.

Douglas Carl Engelbart (born January 30, 1925) is an American inventor, and an early computer and internet pioneer. He is best known for his work on the challenges of human-computer interaction, resulting in the invention of the computer mouse, and the development of hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs.

Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software support package. Brooks has received many awards, including the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and the Turing Award in 1999.

Butler Lampson was one of the founding members of Xerox PARC in 1970, where he worked in the Computer Science Laboratory (CSL). His now-famous vision of a personal computer was captured in the 1972 memo entitled "Why Alto?".In 1973, the Xerox Alto, with its three-button mouse and full-page-sized monitor was born. It is now considered to be the first actual personal computer (at least in terms of what has become the 'canonical' GUI mode of operation).

Ivan Edward Sutherland (born May 16, 1938) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers.

Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd (August 23, 1923 – April 18, 2003) was an English computer scientist who, while working for IBM, invented the relational model for database management, the theoretical basis for relational databases

Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (born 11 January 1934), is a British computer scientist best known for the development (in 1960, at age 26) of Quicksort, one of the world's most widely used sorting algorithms.

Herber Simon received the ACM's Turing Award for making "basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing" (1975); the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics "for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations" (1978); the National Medal of Science (1986); and the APA's Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology (1993).

Charles Bachman received the ACM Turing Award in 1973 for "his outstanding contributions to database technology". He was elected as a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society in 1977 for his pioneering work in database systems.

John Warner Backus (December 3, 1924 – March 17, 2007) was an American computer scientist. He directed the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language (FORTRAN) and was the inventor of the Backus-Naur form (BNF), the almost universally used notation to define formal language syntax.

Donald Ervin Knuth ( born January 10, 1938) is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. He is the author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming. Knuth has been called the "father" of the analysis of algorithms. He contributed to the development of the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms and systematized formal mathematical techniques for it. In the process he also popularized the asymptotic notation.

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (May 11, 1930 – August 6, 2002); Dutch pronunciation: was a Dutch computer scientist. He received the 1972 Turing Award for fundamental contributions to developing programming languages, and was the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin from 1984 until 2000.

Marvin Lee Minsky (born August 9, 1927) is an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy.

Leopold (Leo) Henrik Stanislaus Mechelin (born November 24, 1839, Hamina — January 26, 1914, Helsinki) was a Finnish professor, statesman, senator, liberal reformer and co-founder of Nokia

Knut Fredrik Idestam (October 28, 1838, Tyrväntö, Finland, Russia – April 8, 1916, Helsinki, Finland, Russia) was a Finnish mining engineer and businessman, best known as a founder of Nokia.

Marc Andreessen ( born July 9, 1971) is an American entrepreneur, investor, software engineer, and multi-millionaire best known as co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser, and co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation

Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf ( born June 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with American computer scientist Bob Kahn. His contributions have been acknowledged and lauded, repeatedly, with honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and membership in the National Academy of Engineering.

Professor Wilkes is best known as the builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored program. Built in 1949, the EDSAC used a mercury delay line memory. He is also known as the author, with Wheeler and Gill, of a volume on "Preparation of Programs for Electronic Digital Computers" in 1951, in which program libraries were effectively introduced

Robert Elliot Kahn (born December 23, 1938) is an American Internet pioneer,[1][2] engineer and computer scientist, who, along with Vinton G. Cerf, invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), the fundamental communication protocols at the heart of the Internet.

David Packard (September 7, 1912 – March 26, 1996) was a co-founder of Hewlett-Packard (1939), serving as president (1947–1964), CEO (1964–1968), and Chairman of the Board (1964–1968, 1972–1993).

William (Bill) Redington Hewlett (May 20, 1913 – January 12, 2001) was an engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP).

Lawrence "Larry" Page (born March 26, 1973) is an American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who, with Sergey Brin, is best known as the co-founder of Google.

Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin ( born August 21, 1973) is a Russian-born American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who, with Larry Page, co-founded Google, one of the largest internet companies

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and internet entrepreneur.[6] He is best known for co-creating the social networking site Facebook

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), born Augusta Ada Byron, was an English writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. Her notes on the engine include what is recognised as the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine

Gordon Earle Moore (born January 3, 1929) is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore's Law (published in an article April 19, 1965 in Electronics Magazine).

Robert Norton Noyce (December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990), nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the invention of the integrated circuit or microchip which fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name

Thomas John Watson, Sr. (February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956) was the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM),[1] who oversaw that company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. Watson developed IBM's distinctive management style and corporate culture, and turned the company into a highly-effective selling organization, based largely around punched card tabulating machines.

Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design

Jack Kilby, an applied physicist, invented the original integrated circuit (IC), the most important component in almost all electronic equipment used in the world today.

William R. Hewlett was an engineer and co-founder of computer company Hewlett-Packard

J. Presper Eckert, Jr. was a U.S. electrical engineer and computer pioneer who, with John. W. Mauchly, built the ENIAC, the first general-purpose computer.

Linus Torvalds, software engineer and hacker, founder and coordinator of Linux

Robert Cailliau is a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who, together with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, developed the World Wide Web.

Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist, MIT professor and the inventor of the World Wide Web.

Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft

Bill Gates, co-founder, former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft

Steve Wozniak, American computer engineer and programmer, co-founder of Apple

Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer.

James A. Gosling, father of the Java programming language.

Alan Turing, English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.

Paul Baran: coinventor of packet switching, serial entrepreneur, a forefather of the Internet

Dennis Ritchie, co-inventor of UNIX and C. He received the Turing Award

John McCarthy A tribute to the man who made Lisp

Norman Krim (1913–2011) was an American electronics engineer. He was noted for his work at Raytheon, over a 75 year career there. He is particularly known for developing the first mass-production transistor to be sold cheaply, the CK722. Establishing a tradition that would become a distinctive feature of early transistors, these were production drop-outs from another transistor line, the CK721, that did not pass their own test criteria but could be sold more cheaply as a lower specification.
In later years he would act as Raytheon's in-house historian.
He also served as CEO of Radio Shack, before selling this to the Tandy Corporation in 1962.

Steve Jobs

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (/ˈdʒɒbz/; February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, designer and inventor. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution^[7][8] and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields. Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, when Disney acquired Pixar.

Andrew J. Viterbi This quiet engineer enabled 3G cellphones, Wi-Fi, and a host of other technologies