Windows IT Pro Hall of Fame From the Garage to Wall Street

摘要

In garages, dorm rooms, and university laboratories, technology pioneers tinkered and dreamed. Although their ideas and inventions might have been modest at first, their imaginations knew no bounds, and their innovations dramatically changed the world. The first-ever Windows IT Pro Hall of Fame honors those innovators. The list of people who have contributed to the development of the IT industry is a long one, and selecting the inductees for the 2004 Hall of Fame wasn't an easy task. We picked 34 people whose contributions have significantly shaped the IT industry that you, the IT pro, are part of today. Several of our inductees are National Medal of Technology recipients. (To find out who received the medal, see the Web sidebar, "National Medal of Technology Laureates," http://www.windowsitpro.com, InstantDoc ID 44449.) Our list is broken down into four categories of innovations: programming languages, hardware, software, and networking and communications.