Consumer Technology Hall of Fame Honorees
2015 Honorees
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Bob Borchardt
Recoton
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Tom Campbell
DOW Stereo/Video
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George Feldstein
Crestron
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Vic Hayes
Father of Wi-Fi
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Noel Lee
Monster
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Bernie Mitchell
Pioneer
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Wilfred Schwartz
Federated Inc
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Dr. Floyd Toole
Harman
2014 Honorees
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George Antheil
Spread Spectrum
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C.W. Conn
Conn's
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Dr. Levy Gerzberg
Zoran Corp.
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Loyd Ivey
Mitek
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Hedy Lamarr
Spread Spectrum
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Dr. David Lee
Silicon Image
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James "Cowboy" Maloney
Cowboy Maloney's Electric City Super Stores
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Gerald McCarthy
Zenith
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Walter Mossberg
Wall Street Journal
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Victor & Janie Tsao
Linksys
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Tim Westergren
Pandora
2013 Honorees
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Jim Barton
TiVo
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Dr. Samar Basu
Bell Labs
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Gary Burrell
GPS
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Manning Greenberg
Home Furnishings Daily
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Dr. Marcian (Ted) Hoff
Inventor of Miceoprocessor
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Dr. Min-Hwan Kao
GPS
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Mikio Katayama
Sharp
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Pierre Omidyar
eBay
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Katsuhiko Pier
Sharp
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Michael Ramsay
TiVo
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Dr. Ching Tang
OLED
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Len Tweten
Magnolia Audio Video
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Jim Tweten
Magnolia Audio Video
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Steven Van Slyke
OLED
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Meg Whitman
eBay
2012 Honorees
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Willard Boyle
Bell Labs
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Robert Briskman
Inventor of Satellite Radio
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Richard Citta
Creator of the VSB digital TV transmission standard
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Bjorn Dybdahl
Bjorn’s
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Douglas Engelbart
Inventor of the computer mouse and HTML
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Charlie Ergen
Echostar and Dish Network
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Larry Finley
International Tape Association (now the International Recording Media Association)
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Fansy & Henry Harold Gregg
H. H. Gregg
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In Hwoi Koo
LG Corporation
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Byung-Chull Lee
Samsung Electronics
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George Smith
Bell Labs
2011 Honorees
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Ralph Baer
Brown Box and the Magnavox Odyssey
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Ivan Berger
Berger Braithwaite Labs/Video Magazine
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Samuel Bloomberg
Tweeter
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Lance Braithwaite
Berger Braithwaite Labs/Video Magazine
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Dr. Eli Harari
SanDisk
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Stanley Hubbard
Hubbard Broadcasting
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Dr. Fujio Masuoka
Toshiba
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Dr. Robert Metcalfe
Xerox PARC
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Samuel Runco
Runco International
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Dr. Claude Shannon
Founding both digital computer and digital circuit design theory
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Dr. Andrew Viterbi
Viterbi algorithm
2010 Honorees
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Dr. Lauren Christopher
DirecTV
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Joe & Rachelle Friedman
J&R Music and Computer World
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Dr. Ivan Getting
Inventor of GPS
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Richard Kraft
Panasonic Corp. of North America
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Frank McCann
RCA and Thomson
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David & Eugene Mondry
Highland Superstores
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Dr. Bradford Parkinson
Inventor of GPS
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Frederik Philips
Philips
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Al Sotoloff
Silo Appliance City
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Cynthia Upson
CEA
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Dr. Larry Weber
Inventor of GPS
2009 Honorees
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Maurice, Norman, Philip Cohen
Lechmere Sales
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Dr. Joseph Flaherty
HDTV/ATSC standards
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Karl Hassel
Zenith
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Dr. Irwin Jacobs
Qualcomm
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Steve Jobs
Apple
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Ralph H.G. Mathews
Zenith
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Aaron Neretin
Merchandising Week
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John Shalam
Voxx Corp.
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Walton Stinson
Listen Up/PARA
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Neil Terk
Terk Technologies
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Richard Wiley
FCC
2008 Honorees
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Jewel & David Abt
Abt Electronics
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Joe Clayton
RCA; Sirius Satellite Radio
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Martin Cooper
Motorola
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Dean Dunlavey
Sony - Betamax Case
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Hans Fantel
Stereo Review
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Eddy Hartenstein
DirecTV
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Ken Kutaragi
Sony Computer Entertainment
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Warren Lieberfarb
Warner Home Video
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Donald Linder
Motorola
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Dr. Fritz Sennheiser
Sennheiser Electronic Corp.
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Richard Sharp
Circuit City
2007 Honorees
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Paul Allen
Microsoft
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Dr. Amar Bose
Bose Corp.
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Karlheinz Brandenburg
Development of MP3
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William Crutchfield
Crutchfield
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James Edward Day
Attorney in Betamax Case
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Dr. Heinz Gerhäuser
Development of MP3
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John McDonald
Casio USA
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Steven Sasson
Kodak
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Richard Schulze
Best Buy
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Dr. Dieter Seitzer
Development of MP3
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Art Weinberg
2006 Honorees
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Dr. Donald Bitzer
Invented Plasma Display
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John "Jack" Doyle
Pioneer
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Robert Galvin
Motorola
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Andrew Stephen Grove
Intel Corp.
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George Heilmeier
RCA
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Dr. Nick Holonyak Jr.
GE
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Howard Ladd
Concord Electronics
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Gordon Moore
Intel Corp.
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A.J. Richard
P.C. Richard & Son
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John Roach
Radio Shack
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H. Gene Slottow
Invented Plasma Display
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Robert Wilson
Invented Plasma Display