IT Honor Roll

The IT History Society wishes to acknowledge individuals who have made a noteworthy and out of the ordinary contribution to the information technology industry. Suggestions should be submitted by the community and not the individual. All submissions are subject for review by the IT Honor Roll Committee. If you have someone you'd like to nominate for the "IT Honor Roll," please submit it to us here.

 

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Kirk Paul Lafler

Writes the popular SAS Tips column, "Kirk’s Korner of Quick and Simple Tips", which appears regularly in several SAS User Group newsletters and websites

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Fred M. Gibbons

Co-founder and CEO of Software Publishing Corporation (SPCO) along with Janelle Bedke and John Page, with an eye to producing packaged software for personal computers and business software - it was ultimately best known for its pioneering Harvard Graphics business and presentation graphics program

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Lee de Forest

Inventor of the audion triode, audio and radio pioneer

1873-1961

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Anthony (Tony) M. Fadell

Developer of a number of technologies and devices including the Sony Magic Link and Motorola Envoy, both of which were part of the Magic Cap platform, an object-oriented operating system for PDAs; also overseer of the design of the Apple iPod

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Mark Semenovich Pinsker

Known for his entropy theory of dynamical systems which introduced the maximal partition with zero entropy, later known as Pinsker's partition

1925-2003

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Peter Elias

Known for introducing convolutional codes as an alternative to block codes and for establishing the binary erasure channel

1923-2001

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David Hilbert

One of the founders of proof theory and mathematical logic, which led to the development of recursion theory and then mathematical logic; the basis for later theoretical computer science

1862-1943

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Peter Naur

Contributor to the creation of the ALGOL 60 programming language

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Philip Stuart Milner-Barry

One of four leading code breakers at Bletchley Park to petition the then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill directly for more resources for their work

1906-1995

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