For her contributions to program optimization and compiling for parallel computers.
Gene Amdahl (b. 1922)
1998 Fellow Award Recipient
For his fundamental and continuing work in computer architecture and design, project management and entrepreneurship.
John Backus (1924-2007)
1997 Fellow Award Recipient
For his development of FORTRAN, contributions to computer systems theory and software project management.
Paul Baran (b. 1926)
2005 Fellow Award Recipient
For fundamental contributions to the architecture of the internet and for a lifetime of entrepreneurial activity.
Jean Bartik (b. 1924)
2008 Fellow Award Recipient
For contributions as one of the first programmers of the groundbreaking ENIAC computing system in 1945, and for further assistance in converting the ENIAC system into one of the first stored-program computers.
Gordon Bell (b. 1934)
2003 Fellow Award Recipient
For his key role in the minicomputer revolution, and for contributions as a computer architect and entrepreneur.
Tim Berners-Lee (b. 1955)
2003 Fellow Awards Recipient
For his seminal contributions to the development of the World Wide Web.
Erich Bloch (b. 1925)
2004 Fellow Award Recipient
For engineering management of the IBM Stretch supercomputer, and of the Solid Logic Technology used in the IBM System/360, which revolutionized the computer industry.
Dan Bricklin (b. 1951)
2004 Fellow Awards Recipient
For advancing the utility of personal computers by developing the VisiCalc electronic spreadsheet.
Frederick P. Brooks (b. 1931)
2001 Fellow Award Recipient
For his contributions to computer architecture, operating systems, and software engineering.
Vinton Cerf (b. 1943)
2000 Fellow Awards Recipient
For his contributions to computer architecture, operating systems, and software engineering.
Donald Chamberlin (b. 1944)
2009 Fellow Award Recipient
For his fundamental work on structured query language (SQL) and database architectures.
Morris Chang (b. 1931)
2007 Fellow Award Recipient
For dramatically accelerating the rate at which semiconductor-based devices and systems can be produced by developing the concept of an independant semiconductor manufacturing foundry.
John Cocke (1925-2002)
2002 Fellow Award Recipient
For his development and implementation of reduced instruction set computer architecture and program optimization technology.
Douglas C. Engelbart (b. 1925)
2005 Fellow Awards Recipient
For advancing the study of human-computer interaction, developing the mouse input device, and for the application of computers to improving organizational efficiency.
Bob Evans (1927-2004)
2004 Fellow Awards Recipient
For excellence in management of computer systems, hardware, and software development projects, including the IBM System/360, which revolutionized the computer industry.
Robert Everett (b. 1921)
2009 Fellow Awards Recipient
For his work on the MIT Whirlwind and SAGE computer systems and a lifetime of directing advanced research and development projects.
Federico Faggin (b. 1941)
2009 Fellow Awards Recipient
For for his work as part of the team that developed the Intel 4004, the World's first commercial microprocessor.
Jay W. Forrester (b. 1918)
1995 Fellow Award Recipient
For his perfecting of core memory technology into a practical computer memory device; for fundamental contributions to early computer systems design and development.
Bob Frankston (b. 1949)
2004 Fellow Awards Recipient
For advancing the utility of personal computers by developing the VisiCalc electronic spreadsheet.
Charles Geschke (b. 1939)
2002 Fellow Awards Recipient
For his accomplishments in the commercialization of desktop publishing with John Warnock and for innovations in scalable type, computer graphics and printing.
John Hennessy (b. 1953)
2007 Fellow Awards Recipient
For fundamental contributions to engineering education, advances in computer architecture, and the integration of leading-edge research with education.
Sir Antony Hoare (b. 1934)
2006 Fellow Award Recipient
For development of the Quicksort algorithm and for lifelong contributions to the theory of programming languages.
Marcian "Ted" Hoff (b. 1937)
2009 Fellow Awards Recipient
For for his work as part of the team that developed the Intel 4004, the World's first commercial microprocessor.
Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992)
1987 Fellow Award Recipient
For her development of programming languages, computer instruction, and lifelong naval service.
Robert Kahn (b. 1938)
2006 Fellow Awards Recipient
For pioneering technical contributions to internetworking and for leadership in the application of networks to scientific research.
Mitch Kapor (b. 1950)
1996 Fellow Award Recipient
For his development of Lotus 1-2-3, the first major software application for the IBM PC.
Alan Kay (b. 1940)
1999 Fellow Awards Recipient
For his fundamental contributions to personal computing and human interface development; co-founder Xerox PARC.
Tom Kilburn (1921-2001)
2000 Fellow Awards Recipient
For his contributions to early computer design including random access digital storage, virtual memory and multiprograming.
Donald Knuth (b. 1938)
1998 Fellow Award Recipient
For his fundamental early work in the history of computing algorithms, development of the TeX typesetting language, and for major contributions to mathematics and computer science.
Butler Lampson (b. 1943)
2006 Fellow Awards Recipient
For fundamental contributions to computer science, including networked personal workstations, operating systems, computer security and document publishing.
Stan Mazor (b. 1941)
2009 Fellow Awards Recipient
For for his work as part of the team that developed the Intel 4004, the World's first commercial microprocessor.
John McCarthy (b. 1929)
1999 Fellow Awards Recipient
For his co-founding of the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and timesharing systems, and for major contributions to mathematics and computer science.
Carver Mead (p. 1934)
2002 Fellow Awards Recipient
For his contributions in pioneering the automation, methodology and teaching of integrated circuit design.
Bob Metcalfe (b. 1946)
2008 Fellow Awards Recipient
For fundamental contributions in the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet.
Marvin Minsky (b. 1927)
2006 Fellow Award Recipient
For co-founding the field of artificial intelligence, building the first artificial neural network, creating early robotics systems, and developing the "Society of Mind" theory of human and machine intelligence.
Gordon Moore (b. 1929)
1998 Fellow Award Recipient
For his fundamental early work in the design and production of semiconductor devices, co-founder Fairchild and Intel.
Ken Olsen (b. 1926)
1996 Fellow Award Recipient
For his introduction of the minicomputer, co-founder Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
David Patterson (b. 1947)
2007 Fellow Award Recipient
For fundamental contributions to engineering education, advances in computer architecture, and the integration of leading-edge research
with education.
Dennis Ritchie (b. 1941)
1997 Fellow Award Recipient
For his co-creation, with Ken Thompson, of the UNIX operating system, and for development of the C programming language.
Jean Sammet (b. 1928)
2001 Fellow Award Recipient
For her contributions to the field of programming languages and its history.
Masatoshi Shima (b. 1943)
2009 Fellow Award Recipient
For for his work as part of the team the developed that Intel 4004, the World's first commercial microprocessor.
Alan F. Shugart (1930-2006)
2005 Fellow Award Recipient
For his lifelong contributions to the creation of the modern disk drive industry.
Ivan E. Sutherland (b. 1938)
2005 Fellow Award Recipient
For the Sketchpad computer-aided design system and for lifelong contributions to computer graphics and education.
Charles (Chuck) Thacker (b. 1943)
2007 Fellow Award Recipient
For leading development of the Xerox PARC Alto, and for innovations in networked personal computer systems and laser printing technologies.
Ken Thompson (b. 1943)
1997 Fellow Award Recipient
For his co-creation, with Dennis Ritchie, of the UNIX operating system, and for development of the C programming language.
Linus Torvalds (b. 1969)
2008 Fellow Award Recipient
For the creation of the Linux kernel and the management of open source development of the widely used Linux operating system.
John Warnock (b. 1940)
2002 Fellow Award Recipient
For his accomplishments in the commercialization of desktop publishing with Charles Geschke and for innovations in scalable type, computer graphics and printing.
David Wheeler (1927-2004)
2003 Fellow Award Recipient
For his invention of the closed subroutine, his architectural contributions to the ILLIAC, the Cambridge Ring, and computer testing.
Maurice V. Wilkes (b. 1913)
2001 Fellow Award Recipient
For his contributions to computer technology, including early machine design, microprogramming, and the Cambridge Ring network.
Niklaus Wirth (b. 1934)
2004 Fellow Award Recipient
For seminal work in programming languages and algorithms, including Euler, Algol-W, Pascal, Modula, and Oberon.
Steve Wozniak (b. 1950)
1997 Fellow Award Recipient
For his invention of the first single-board microprocessor-based microcomputer, the Apple I; co-founder Apple Computer.
Konrad Zuse (1910-1995)
1999 Fellow Award Recipient
For his invention of the first program-controlled, electromechanical, digital computer and the first high-level programming language, "Plankalkul."
