People

• Adam Bosworth. Vice President of Engineering in Google. Previously: Chief Architect and Senior Vice President of Advanced Development in BEA; co-founder of Crossgain
• Leila Boujname. Co-founder and CEO of Idee
• Michael D. Capellas. President and CEO of MCI
• Vinton Cerf. One of the Internet's founding fathers (Co-writer of the TCP-IP Protocol), chairman of ICANN, Chief Internet Evangelist of Google (source), visiting scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (source), 2004 Turing Award Winner (source), receiver of the Presidential Medal of Freedom (source). Previously: senior Vice-President of MCI (source) DBLP
• Scott Cook. Co-founder of Intuit.
• Mark Cuban. Owner of the Dallas Mavericks; co-founder of HDNet; co-founder of Broadcast.com; co-founder of MicroSolutions
• Hossein Eslambolchi. President of AT&T Global Networking Technology SErvices; CTO and CIO of AT&T
• Usama Fayyad. Senior Vice-President, and chief data officer at Yahoo. DBLP
• Juan Gilbert. Associate Professor, Computer Science and Software Engineering, Auburn University. Creator of 'Applications Quest'
• Paul Graham Venture Capitalist Investor (homepage)
• James Gosling. Creator of Java. Sun Microsystems Fellow. Blog
• Robert Hahn. Co-writer of the TCP/IP Protocol, Receiver of the Presidential Medal of Freedom (source) DBLP
• Jack Kilby. Inventor of the Integrated Circuit. Novel Prize for Physics in 2000. Co-inventor of the first handheld electronic calculator.
• Jon Kleinberg. Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. MacArthur Fellow (source).
• Arnold Kling. Author of book: Crisis of Abundance
• Jim Lanzone. CEO of Ask.com
• David Sifry. Founder and CEO of Technorati
• Tim O'Reilly. Founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media
• Kathy Rittweger. Co-founder of Blinkx (source)
• Kapenda Thomas. Founder of Jookster

Most Influential People in IT, from CIO Insight's list (2007)

#100, Larry Wall - [Programmer] Creator of Perl, one of the most common scripting languages

Awards Winners

2006 A.M. Turing Award Frances Allen

2006 ACM President's Award Eugene Spafford

2006 ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award Karen Sparck Jones (source)

2006 ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award Karen Sparck Jones (source)

2006 Distinguished Service Award Susan Graham

2006 Doctoral Dissertation Award Ren Ng

2006 Grace Murray Hopper Award Daniel Klein

2006 Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award David Wise

2006 Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award Robert K. Brayton

2007 2007 Women of Vision Award Deborah Estrin (source)

2007 2007 Women of Vision Award Leah Jamieson (source)