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- For over a decade, The Computer Museum
(and now Computer History Museum), has been publicly
recognizing individuals of outstanding merit and accomplishment
who have contributed to the development of computing broadly-defined.
Past Fellows have included: Grace Murray Hopper (1987), Jay Forrester
(1995), Ken Olsen (1996), John Backus, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie,
Steve Wozniak (1997), and, most recently, Gordon Moore, Gene
Amdahl, and Donald Knuth (1998).
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- Fellows are chosen on the basis of accomplishment--formal
education is not a factor--and are nominated by a panel comprising
History Center staff, industry peers, and previous Fellows. In
order to properly assess the historical importance of a possible
Fellow's achievements, one criterion is that at least 10 years
must have elapsed between a specific contribution and that individual's
nomination.
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- The contribution must thus be of a foundational
nature, one that has strongly influenced the intellectual, disciplinary,
or industrial underpinnings of computing. There is no preference
given to accomplishments in software or hardware, to computer
science over electrical engineering or any other formal discipline,
to commercial success, or to the nominee's age.
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- The event typically comprises 250 people--largely
from industry and academia--and is of approximately 3 hours duration.
Many of Silicon Valley's most prominent businesspeople, academics,
and supporters of computer history attend this event to honor
those who have changed the theory or practice of computing and
who have thus shaped the world in which we live.
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- We hope you will join us this year for
this historic, and historical, event as Computer History Museum continues
its mission of building an international resource for research
in the history of computing.
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1999 Computer Museum
History Center Fellows
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- Audacia certe laus
erit.
- (My boldness will
be a title of honor.)
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- Propertius, 1st century
B.C.
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- Alan
Kay, personal computing and interface visionary, co-founder,
Xerox PARC.
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- Introduced by Doug
Engelbart, Bootstrap Institute.
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- John
McCarthy, creator of LISP, timesharing pioneer, co-founder
of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
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- Introduced by Edward
Feigenbaum,
- Stanford University.
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- Konrad
Zuse (posthumous), inventor of world's first general-purpose,
program-controlled, electromechanical computer.
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- Award accepted by
his son, Horst Zuse,
- Technical University
of Berlin.
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