Internet Hall of Fame Awarded
2014 Internet Hall of Fame Awarded
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Douglas EngelbartDouglas Carl Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor, and an early computer and Internet pioneer. He is best known for his work on the challenges .. | Computers and Internet |
Atherton California United States |
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Susan EstradaSusan Estrada was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2014 for her pioneering work on Internet technologies beginning in the late 1980s. Named a "thinking nerd" by colleagues, Susan h.. | Computers and Internet |
San Diego California United States |
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Frank HeartHeart, working at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) in 1968, led the small group of unusually talented BBN staff that bid on and won a contract to build Interface Message Processors (routers) fo.. | Computers and Internet |
Cambridge Massachusetts United States |
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Dennis JenningsDennis M. Jennings is an Irish physicist, academic, Internet pioneer, and venture capitalist. In 1985–1986 he was responsible for three critical decisions that shaped the subsequent develo.. | Computers and Internet |
Princeton New Jersey United States |
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Rolf NordhagenRolf Nordhagen (2 August 1927 – 1 July 2013) was a Norwegian physicist and computer scientist.Rolf Nordhagen was born in Bergen, Norway. He was the son of the noted botanist, Rolf Nordhage.. | Computers and Internet |
Bergen Hordaland Norway |
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Radia PerlmanRadia Joy Perlman (born 1951) is a software designer and network engineer. She is most famous for her invention of the spanning-tree protocol (STP), which is fundamental to the operation of .. | Computers and Internet |
Portsmouth Virginia United States |
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Dai DaviesIn 1991 Davies introduced Internet technology into the pan-European backbone, EuropaNet, which was originally planned as an X.25 network. He was director of the COSINE Project, a pan-Europea.. | Computers and Internet |
Cambridge England United Kingdom |
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Demi GetschkoDemi Getschko ( Trieste , Italy ) is an engineer Brazilian born in Italy who is considered one of the pioneers of Internet in Brazil . Currently holds the position of CEO of the Center for I.. | Computers and Internet |
São Paulo São Paulo Brazil |
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Masaki HirabaruDr. Hirabaru made crucial contributions to the deployment of the Internet’s resource management. He played key roles in the formation of both JNIC/JPNIC – the Japan Network Information C.. | Computers and Internet |
Tokyo Tōkyō Japan |
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Erik HuizerDr. Huizer was the first author of the first Request For Comments to document not only the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards process but also the procedures of its Working Gro.. | Computers and Internet |
Utrecht Utrecht Netherlands |
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Steve HuterSteve Huter is the Director for the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) and a Research Associate at the University of Oregon. Steve has worked with network engineers, scientists, and In.. | Computers and Internet |
Eugene Oregon United States |
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Abhaya InduruwaAbhaya Induruwa is the inaugural Professor V K Samaranayake Endowed Professor of Computing, University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka. Currently he also serves as the Program Dire.. | Computers and Internet |
Dalugama Western Sri Lanka |
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Dorcas MuthoniDorcas Muthoni is a Kenyan an entrepreneur, computer scientist and founder of OPENWORLD LTD (http://www.openworld.co.ke/), a software consulting company she started at the age of 24. OPENWOR.. | Computers and Internet |
Nairobi Nairobi Area Kenya |
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Mahabir PunMahabir Pun is a Nepalese teacher known for his extensive work in applying wireless technologies to develop remote areas of the Himalayas, also known as the Nepal Wireless Networking Project.. | Computers and Internet |
Nangi Central Region Nepal |
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Srinivasan RamaniDr. Ramani proposed an Indian Academic Network in 1983, and this contributed to the launch of the ERNET project, involving a number of institutions that created R&D teams in networking. As c.. | Computers and Internet |
Mumbai Maharashtra India |
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Ben SegalBen Segal (21 June 1912 – 23 October 2003, Edgware, Middlesex) was Professor of Semitic Languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies.His father was Professor Moshe Zvi Segal and.. | Computers and Internet |
Edgware England United Kingdom |
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Karlheinz BrandenburgKarlheinz Brandenburg (born 20 June 1954 in Erlangen) is a German audio engineer who has contributed to the audio compression format MPEG Audio Layer 3, more commonly known as MP3... | Computers and Internet |
Erlangen Bavaria Germany |
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Douglas Van HouwelingDr. Van Houweling was serving as chief information officer at the University of Michigan and chairman of the board of the MERIT Network, a statewide computing network in Michigan in 1987, wh.. | Computers and Internet |
Ann Arbor Michigan United States |
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Eric AllmanEric Paul Allman (born September 2, 1955) is an American computer programmer who developed sendmail and its precursor delivermail in the late 1970s and early 1980s at UC Berkeley. In 1998, A.. | Computers and Internet |
Berkeley California United States |
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Eric BinaEric J. Bina (born October 1964) is the co-creator of Mosaic and the co-founder of Netscape. In 1993, Bina along with Marc Andreessen authored the first version of Mosaic while working as a .. | Computers and Internet |
Champaign Illinois United States |
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John CioffiJohn Cioffi (born November 7, 1956) is an American electrical engineer, educator and prolific inventor who has made contributions in telecommunication system theory, specifically in coding t.. | Computers and Internet |
Champaign Illinois United States |
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Hualin QianProfessor Qian has been responsible for many major Internet-related projects in China. He led the team that completed the initial Internet connection from China to the U.S. in 1994. That sam.. | Computers and Internet |
Haidian Beijing China |
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Paul VixiePaul Vixie is an American Internet pioneer, the author of several RFCs and some Unix software.He authored the standard UNIX system programs SENDS, proxynet, rtty and Vixie cron. At one point.. | Computers and Internet |
San Francisco California United States |