There may be the odd quibble about the first 30 names in the list of the founder members of the Datamation Hall of Fame, created to celebrate the 30th birthday of the Reed International Plc publication, but all the really big names are in there: the full list is Howard Aiken, credited with the first […]
There may be the odd quibble about the first 30 names in the list of the founder members of the Datamation Hall of Fame, created to celebrate the 30th birthday of the Reed International Plc publication, but all the really big names are in there: the full list is Howard Aiken, credited with the first program-controlled computer; Gene Amdahl; Charles Babbage; John Backus, Fortran pioneer; Gordon Bell, DEC chief designer; Seymour Cray; J Presper Eckert, co-developer of En-iac and Univac; Bob Evans, IBM designer; Jay Forrester, for core memory; Herman Hollerith, punch-card tabulators; Grace Hopper, Cobol; John Kemney, Basic and time-sharing; Jack Kilby, the integrated circuit; Donald Knuth, considered foremost computer scientist; John Mauchly, Eniac and Univac; John McCarthy, Lisp developer and father of artificial intelligence; William Norris, CDC founder; Robert Noyce, integrated circuit, Intel co-founder; Ken Olsen; Claude Shannon, information processing pioneer whose work set the stage for development of digital computers; William Shockley – transistor; George Stibitz, developed Complex Calculator; Alan Turing, world’s first op-erational digital computer; John von Newmann; An Wang, who invented stringing of core memory as well as founding Wang Labs; Thomas Watson Sr for creating IBM; Maurice Wilkes – world’s first business computer; Steve Wozniak, designed Apple I and II; Hideo Yamashita, early machines that laid the foundation for commercial computing in Japan; Konrad Zuse, world’s first automatic, programmable, digital computer; if you are not in there, there’s still time – one new name will be added to the Hall of Fame every year.
