Hall of Fellows

Frances Allen

2000 Fellow Award Honoree

For her contributions to program optimization and compiling for parallel computers

Gene Amdahl

1998 Fellow Award Honoree

For his fundamental and continuing work in computer architecture and design, project management and entrepreneurship

John Backus

1997 Fellow Award Honoree

For his development of FORTRAN, contributions to computer systems theory and software project management

Paul Baran

2005 Fellow Award Honoree

For fundamental contributions to the architecture of the internet and for a lifetime of entrepreneurial activity

Jean Bartik

2008 Fellow Award Honoree

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

2003 Fellow Award Honoree

For his key role in the minicomputer revolution, and for contributions as a computer architect and entrepreneur

Tim Berners-Lee

2003 Fellow Award Honoree

For his seminal contributions to the development of the World Wide Web

Erich Bloch

2004 Fellow Award Honoree

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

2004 Fellow Award Honoree

For advancing the utility of personal computers by developing the VisiCalc electronic spreadsheet

Frederick P. Brooks

2001 Fellow Award Honoree

For his contributions to computer architecture, operating systems, and software engineering

Vinton Cerf

2000 Fellow Award Honoree

For his contributions to computer architecture, operating systems, and software engineering

Donald Chamberlin

2009 Fellow Award Honoree

For his fundamental work on structured query language (SQL) and database architectures

Morris Chang

2007 Fellow Award Honoree

For dramatically accelerating the rate at which semiconductor-based devices and systems can be produced by developing the concept of an independent semiconductor manufacturing foundry

John Cocke

2002 Fellow Award Honoree

For his development and implementation of reduced instruction set computer architecture and program optimization technology

Fernando Corbato

2012 Fellow Award Honoree

Pioneer of timesharing and the Multics operating system

Whitfield Diffie

2011 Fellow Award Honoree

Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, and Ralph Merkle for their work on public key cryptography

Douglas C. Engelbart

2005 Fellow Award Honoree

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

2004 Fellow Award Honoree

For excellence in management of computer systems, hardware, and software development projects, including the IBM System/360, which revolutionized the computer industry

Robert Everett

2009 Fellow Award Honoree

For his work on the MIT Whirlwind and SAGE computer systems and a lifetime of directing advanced research and development projects

Federico Faggin

2009 Fellow Award Honoree

For for his work as part of the team that developed the Intel 4004, the World's first commercial microprocessor

Edward Feigenbaum

2012 Fellow Award Honoree

Pioneer of artificial intelligence and expert systems

Jay W. Forrester

1995 Fellow Award Honoree

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

2004 Fellow Award Honoree

For advancing the utility of personal computers by developing the VisiCalc electronic spreadsheet

Steve Furber

2012 Fellow Award Honoree

Chief architect of the ARM processor architecture

Charles Geschke

2002 Fellow Award Honoree

For his accomplishments in the commercialization of desktop publishing with John Warnock and for innovations in scalable type, computer graphics and printing

Martin Hellman

2011 Fellow Award Honoree

Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, and Ralph Merkle for their work on public key cryptography

John Hennessy

2007 Fellow Award Honoree

For fundamental contributions to engineering education, advances in computer architecture, and the integration of leading-edge research with education

Sir Antony Hoare

2006 Fellow Award Honoree

For development of the Quicksort algorithm and for lifelong contributions to the theory of programming languages

Marcian Hoff

2009 Fellow Award Honoree

For for his work as part of the team that developed the Intel 4004, the World's first commercial microprocessor

Grace Murray Hopper

1987 Fellow Award Honoree

For her development of programming languages, computer instruction, and lifelong naval service

Bill Joy

2011 Fellow Award Honoree

For his work on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix system and the co-founding of Sun Microsystems

Robert Kahn

2006 Fellow Award Honoree

For pioneering technical contributions to internetworking and for leadership in the application of networks to scientific research

Mitch Kapor

1996 Fellow Award Honoree

For his development of Lotus 1-2-3, the first major software application for the IBM PC

Alan Kay

1999 Fellow Award Honoree

For his fundamental contributions to personal computing and human interface development; co-founder Xerox PARC

Tom Kilburn

2000 Fellow Award Honoree

For his contributions to early computer design including random access digital storage, virtual memory and multiprograming

Donald Knuth

1998 Fellow Award Honoree

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

2006 Fellow Award Honoree

For fundamental contributions to computer science, including networked personal workstations, operating systems, computer security and document publishing

Stan Mazor

2009 Fellow Award Honoree

For for his work as part of the team that developed the Intel 4004, the World's first commercial microprocessor

John McCarthy

1999 Fellow Award Honoree

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

2002 Fellow Award Honoree

For his contributions in pioneering the automation, methodology and teaching of integrated circuit design

Ralph Merkle

2011 Fellow Award Honoree

Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, and Ralph Merkle for their work on public key cryptography

Bob Metcalfe

2008 Fellow Award Honoree

For fundamental contributions in the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet

Marvin Minsky

2006 Fellow Award Honoree

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

1998 Fellow Award Honoree

For his fundamental early work in the design and production of semiconductor devices, co-founder Fairchild and Intel

Ken Olsen

1996 Fellow Award Honoree

For his introduction of the minicomputer, co-founder Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

David Patterson

2007 Fellow Award Honoree

For fundamental contributions to engineering education, advances in computer architecture, and the integration of leading-edge research
with education

Dennis Ritchie

1997 Fellow Award Honoree

For his co-creation, with Ken Thompson, of the UNIX operating system, and for development of the C programming language

Jean Sammet

2001 Fellow Award Honoree

For her contributions to the field of programming languages and its history

Masatoshi Shima

2009 Fellow Award Honoree

For for his work as part of the team the developed that Intel 4004, the World's first commercial microprocessor

Alan F. Shugart

2005 Fellow Award Honoree

For his lifelong contributions to the creation of the modern disk drive industry

Ivan E. Sutherland

2005 Fellow Award Honoree

For the Sketchpad computer-aided design system and for lifelong contributions to computer graphics and education.

Charles (Chuck) Thacker

2007 Fellow Award Honoree

For leading development of the Xerox PARC Alto, and for innovations in networked personal computer systems and laser printing technologies

Ken Thompson

1997 Fellow Award Honoree

For his co-creation, with Dennis Ritchie, of the UNIX operating system, and for development of the C programming language

Linus Torvalds

2008 Fellow Award Honoree

For the creation of the Linux kernel and the management of open source development of the widely used Linux operating system

John Warnock

2002 Fellow Award Honoree

For his accomplishments in the commercialization of desktop publishing with Charles Geschke and for innovations in scalable type, computer graphics and printing

David Wheeler

2003 Fellow Award Honoree

For his invention of the closed subroutine, his architectural contributions to the ILLIAC, the Cambridge Ring, and computer testing

Maurice V. Wilkes

2001 Fellow Award Honoree

For his contributions to computer technology, including early machine design, microprogramming, and the Cambridge Ring network

Sophie Wilson

2012 Fellow Award Honoree

Chief architect of the ARM processor architecture

Niklaus Wirth

2004 Fellow Award Honoree

For seminal work in programming languages and algorithms, including Euler, Algol-W, Pascal, Modula, and Oberon

Steve Wozniak

1997 Fellow Award Honoree

For his invention of the first single-board microprocessor-based microcomputer, the Apple I; co-founder Apple Computer

Konrad Zuse

1999 Fellow Award Honoree

For his invention of the first program-controlled, electromechanical, digital computer and the first high-level programming language, "Plankalkul."