IT History Society May 18, 2010 The board of directors of the IT History Society is pleased to announce the latest addition to its website. The new entry is entitled the IT Honor Roll, a listing of living individuals that have made noteworthy contributions to the information technology industry. Please review the initial Honor Roll at http://ithistory.org/honor_roll/honor-roll.php. The seeded listing of about 100 individuals which can be sorted by alphabetical order or by two categories, a creator of history or a chronicler of history. We are asking you and your fellow professionals to submit nominations of honorees by using the online form at http://ithistory.org/honor_roll/fame-form.php. We do feel that that the list should exceed 100s of entries in a short period of time. If need be that you have several nominations and are short of time, you can email nominations to info@ithistory.org. The IT Honor Roll is intended to be a community effort of IT peers, historians, and archivist. It is not the intent of the IT History Society to create a list of honorees but only to collect them from the profession suggested nominees and host the results. The initial listing is a collection of honorees by some members in the interest in getting the list started. We do expect the list to rapidly grow by IT community nominations. Please take note that the IT Honor Roll is for living individuals. For individuals that have made a noteworthy contribution to the information technology industry and that have passed on please visit a section on the website entitled In Memoriam located at http://www.ithistory.org/memoriam/memoriam.php and to nominate entries please us the online form located at http://www.ithistory.org/memoriam/memoriam-form.php The current seeded list is sort of American centric and we would hope our fellow non US professionals will be able to nominate more honorees to the IT Honor Roll so the honor roll will be truly international. Once a suggested nominee is entered, the IT Honor Roll Committee, we appreciate their time in doing this, will review each entry. The committee consists of - Dr. Glenn Bugos - Moment LLC James Cortada - IBM Corporation Michael Geslowitz - IEEE History Center Dr. John Impagliazzo - Hofstra University Professor Martin Campbell-Kelly - Warwick University Jeffery Stein - Chairman, IT History Society Dr. Arthur Tatnall - Chairman, IFIP WG9.7 We look forward to your suggested nominees. The IT History Society is now on Twitter! <http://twitter.com/ithistoryorg> Best regards, Jeffery D. Stein Chairman (415) 435-7464 Tel (415) 435-6115 Fax http://www.ithistory.org IT History Society One Blackfield Drive Suite 331 Tiburon, CA 94920 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Email that means Business, Every email, Every day! - LetterClick BrandMail(TM) found only at www.letterclick.net
