InfoWorld Hall of Fame

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May 23, 20031 min

Each of these technologists has been the driving force behind a groundbreaking technology integral to today's IT

Ravi Arimilli: IBM’s patent leader, Power4 chip

Gordon Bell: PDP minicomputer and the VAX Computing Environment

Grady Booch: Design methodology called the Booch Method

Tim Bray and the XML Working Group: XML

Dan Bricklin: VisiCalc

Vint Cerf: The TCP/IP protocol and key architect of the Internet and ARPAnet

Edgar Codd and Chris Date: The relational database management system

Martin Cooper: portable cell phone

Dave Cutler: DEC’s VMS and Windows NT

James Gosling: Java

Arvel Hathcock: Alt-n-Technologies MDaemon

Anders Hejlsberg: C#

Hedy Lamarr: Patent for spread-spectrum communication technology

Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv: The Lempel-Ziv algorithm

Bob Metcalfe: Ethernet

Nathan Myhrvold: Windows NT

Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore: The technology brains behind Intel and Moore’s Law

Ray Ozzie: Lotus Notes and Groove Networks

Richard Stallman: The GNU Project

Bjarne Stroustrup: C++

Linus Torvalds: Linux