Hall of Fame Inductees
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Nominating new members
The Hall of
Fame Committee selects new members to the Hall of Fame from a final slate
selected by the membership of the San Diego Computer
Museum. Museum members vote from a list of nominees submitted
by themselves, industry leaders and the general public.
The public
was invited to elect five members to the Computer Hall of Fame. In addition,
the Nominating Committee selected five inductees and these 10 selections
comprise the Class of 2004. To see the results of the voting for the Class
of 2004, see our Results
Page. Listed below are first those already inducted into the Hall
followed by the list of nominees.
If there
is someone you believe to be deserving of recognition in the Computer
Hall of Fame, and they're not in the Hall or on our list of nominees below,
please submit your nominee for the Hall of Fame by sending an e-mail to the webmaster.
Current list of nominees
John Perry
Barlow
Co-founder
of Electronic Frontier Foundation
Andy Bechtolsheim
Co-founder
of Sun Microsystems
John Blankenbaker
Developed
the KenBak-I computer in 1971, one of the earliest PCs
Len Bosack
Co-founder
of Cisco Systems, a leading manufacturer of Internet switching equipment
Developed
IGSP, Inter-Gateway Switching Protocol for the Internet
Stewart Brand
Co-founder
(with Larry Brilliant) of The WELL online service (1985)
Dan Bricklin
Co-developer
of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program
Larry Brilliant
Co-founder
(with Stewart Brand) of The WELL online service (1985)
David R. Brown
Director of Computer Research
at Stanford Research Institute
Advances in magnetic memory core
technology
Steve Case
Founder
of America Online
James Clark
Founder
of Silicon Graphics Inc.
Co-founder
(with Marc Andreesson) of Netscape Communications
Larry Ellison
Founder
of Oracle, a database company
Phillip "Don" Estridge
Headed
the IBM "skunkworks" project that developed the IBM Personal
Computer
Jay W. Forrester
Refined
magnetic core memory ; creator of systems dynamics
Bob Frankston
Co-developer
of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program
William Gibson
Coined
the phrase "cyberspace" in the novel "Neuromancer" (1984)
Mike Godwin
Early
theorist about online legal issues
Longtime
counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Andy Grove
Co-founder
and former president of Intel
Johan Helsingius
Started
first anonymous e-mail service
William
Hewlett
Co-founder
of Hewlett-Packard
Reynold
B. Johnson
IBM
engineer; invented RAMAC disk drives, VCR tape storage and the microphonograph
Bill Joy
Co-founder
of Sun Microsystems
Alan Kay
PARC
scientist, created Smalltalk software, early contributor to GUI and Object
Oriented Programming concepts, laptop computers
Bob Kahn
Co-developer
(with Vint Cerf) of TCP/IP standard (1974)
Mitch Kapor
Founder
of Lotus Software
Co-founder
of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Charles F. Kettering
Developed
the first electro-mechanical cash register (1906)
Vinod Khosla
Co-founder
of Sun Microsystems
John Kilcullen
Founder,
publisher of IDG Books
Len Kleinrock
Developed
early theory of packet networking in 1961 at MIT, which later led to the
Internet
Sandy Lerner
Co-founder
of Cisco Systems
Joseph Licklider
First
head of computer research at the Defense Department's ARPA research program,
which later developed the Internet
Wrote
the influential "Man-Computer Symbiosis" in 1960
Scott McNealy
Co-founder
of Sun Microsystems
Bob Metcalfe
Co-inventor
of Ethernet
Founder
of 3Com, leading manufacturer of networking equipment
Halsey Minor
Founder
of C|NET, online news resource about technology
Gordon Moore
Postulated
Moore's Rule (1964), which holds that computing power will double every
18 months with no increase in price
Co-founder
of Intel
Ted Nelson
Coined
the word "hypertext" (1965)
Robert Noyce
Co-inventor
of the integrated circuit, or computer chip
Co-founder
of Intel
Kenneth Olson
Founder
of Digital Electronics Corp. (DEC)
Adam Osborne
Founder
of Osborne Computers, maker of the first portable computer
Prolific
and influential writer about computers
William Oughtred
Inventor
of the slide rule
David Packard
Co-founder
of Hewlett-Packard
John H. Patterson
Founder
of National Cash Register, early innovator and manufacturer of adding
devices
Alexai Pazhitnov
Wrote
"Tetris" in the Soviet Union during Cold War, smuggled it to the outside
world where it became a best-seller
George Philbrick
Inventor
of the first fully electronic analog computer in 1938
Larry Roberts
Led
development of ARPANET (later the Internet)
Alan Shugart
Creator
of the first floppy disk (8 inch diameter); Founder of Shugart Assoc.
which became Seagate, a leading maker of computer hard drives
George Stibitz
Designed
Bell Labs Relay Computers and the Complex Number Calculator
Jonathan Titus
Developed
the Mark 8, one of the earliest personal computers
Ray Tomlinson
Wrote
the first e-mail system to run between two separate computers; led to
modern system of Internet e-mail (1973)
Jack Tramiel
Founder
of Commodore Business Machines and a main force in the resurrection of
Atari
Truong Trong Thi
Developed
the MICRAL computer, considered the world's first modern personal computer
John Von Neumann
Designer
of EDVAC and IAS computers
Ted Waitt
Founder
of Gateway, a leading direct-seller of personal computers
An Wang
Creator of core memory and Founder
of Wang Labs
John Warnock
Founder
of Adobe, graphics advances, principal scientist at PARC
Thomas
J. Watson
Co-founder
and first president of International Business Machines
Philip R.
Zimmerman
Author
of Pretty Good Privacy, one of the first encryption programs available
to the general public
Konrad Zuse
Inventor
of the Z-1 through 3 machines, early program-controlled (using relays)
computers
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