• The Computer Entrepreneur Award was created in 1982 by the IEEE Computer Society, for individuals with major technical or entrepreneurial contributions...
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  • Leonard Bosack (category American computer businesspeople)
    services. His net worth is approximately $200 million. He was awarded the Computer Entrepreneur Award in 2009 for co-founding Cisco Systems and pioneering and...
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    John Warnock (category American computer programmers)
    Achievement Award, being the first software executives to receive this award. In 2008, Warnock and Geschke received the Computer Entrepreneur Award from the...
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    software executives to receive this award. In 2008 he received the Computer Entrepreneur Award from the IEEE Computer Society. He also won the 2008 National...
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    list of computer-related awards is an index to articles about notable awards given for computer-related work. It excludes computer science awards and competitions...
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  • IEEE Computer Society's Computer Entrepreneur award for his important contributions to the computing industry and profession as an entrepreneurial leader...
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    business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones. An entrepreneur (French: [ɑ̃tʁəpʁənœʁ]) is an individual who creates and/or invests in...
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  • Sandy Lerner (category American women computer scientists)
    Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society honored Sandra Lerner and Leonard Bosack with its Computer Entrepreneur Award "for founding Cisco Systems...
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    Diane Greene (category American women computer scientists)
    Women. Greene and Mendel Rosenblum received the IEEE Computer Society's Computer Entrepreneur Award in 2011 for "creating a virtualization platform" as...
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    concluded that the games were the main selling point. He created The Entrepreneur, a text-based business simulation game about running a fledgling company...
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    James Henry Clark (born March 23, 1944) is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist. He founded several notable Silicon Valley technology companies...
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    Dan Bricklin (category American computer businesspeople)
    Grace Murray Hopper Award for VisiCalc. In 1996, Bricklin was awarded by the IEEE Computer Society with the Computer Entrepreneur Award for pioneering the...
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    Michael Bronstein (category Israeli computer scientists)
    Michael Bronstein (b. 1980) is an Israeli computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is a computer science professor at the University of Oxford and scientific...
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    (/ˈkɪldˌɔːl/; May 19, 1942 – July 11, 1994) was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur. During the 1970s, Kildall created the CP/M operating...
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  • David Mark Siegel (born 1961) is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He co-founded Two Sigma, where he currently serves as...
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    Nikil Viswanathan (category American computer programmers)
    America and was awarded the Eagle Scout honor. He attended Stanford University where he did his undergraduate and master's degrees in computer science with...
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    Shawn Fanning (category American computer programmers)
    Shawn Fanning (born November 22, 1980) is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and angel investor. He developed Napster, one of the first popular...
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  • Brandon Truaxe (category Canadian computer scientists)
    20 January 2019 in Toronto), was an Iranian-Canadian computer scientist and cosmetics entrepreneur known as the founder of Toronto-based beauty company...
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  • Premio Leonardo award for innovation by Giorgio Napolitano, President of Italy. In 2016 Marchetti was recognized as Italy's Entrepreneur of the Year by...
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    an entrepreneur. In 2016 he was featured as the youngest CEO in the Forbes 30 under 30 list in the Baltics and also received the presidential award for...
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    Erik Meijer (born 18 April 1963, Curaçao) is a Dutch computer scientist, entrepreneur, and tie-dye enthusiast. From 2000 to early 2013 he was a software...
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    was an American engineer, entrepreneur and medical doctor who invented the first commercially successful personal computer in 1974. He is most often known...
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    American technology entrepreneur, electrical engineer, computer programmer, philanthropist, and inventor. In 1976, he co-founded Apple Computer with his early...
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    Paul Buchheit (category American computer programmers)
    Paul T. Buchheit (born November 7, 1977) is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur who created the email service Gmail. He developed the original...
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  • Retrieved February 12, 2011. "J. Presper Eckert 1990 Computer Entrepreneur Award Recipient". IEEE Computer Society. Retrieved January 1, 2013. Mezzacappa,...
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  • Severin Hacker (category Swiss computer scientists)
    Luis von Ahn received the Tech 50 award. In 2019, Hacker received One Young World's Entrepreneur of the Year Award. IAM Robotics, a robotics company focused...
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    Gene Amdahl (category American computer businesspeople)
    10, 2015) was an American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur, chiefly known for his work on mainframe computers at IBM and later his own companies...
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    Federico Faggin (category American computer scientists)
    December 1941) is an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He is best known for designing the first commercial microprocessor,...
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    Vinod Khosla (category American computer businesspeople)
    000. In 2007, Khosla was an award recipient in the Northern California region for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award. Khosla was a member of the board...
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    Neha Narkhede (born 1984 or 1985) is an American technology entrepreneur and the co-founder and former CTO of Confluent, a streaming data technology company...
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