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Consumer Technology Hall of Fame Honorees

The Consumer Technology Hall of Fame is a prestigious awards program that honors innovators who have made significant contributions to consumer technology.

2015 Honorees

  • Bob Borchardt

    Recoton

  • Tom Campbell

    DOW Stereo/Video

  • George Feldstein

    Crestron

  • Vic Hayes

    Father of Wi-Fi

  • Noel Lee

    Monster

  • Bernie Mitchell

    Pioneer

  • Wilfred Schwartz

    Federated Inc

  • Dr. Floyd Toole

    Harman

2014 Honorees

  • George Antheil

    Spread Spectrum

  • C.W. Conn

    Conn's

  • Dr. Levy Gerzberg

    Zoran Corp.

  • Loyd Ivey

    Mitek

  • Hedy Lamarr

    Spread Spectrum

  • Dr. David Lee

    Silicon Image

  • James "Cowboy" Maloney

    Cowboy Maloney's Electric City Super Stores

  • Gerald McCarthy

    Zenith

  • Walter Mossberg

    Wall Street Journal

  • Victor & Janie Tsao

    Linksys

  • Tim Westergren

    Pandora

2013 Honorees

  • Jim Barton

    TiVo

  • Dr. Samar Basu

    Bell Labs

  • Gary Burrell

    GPS

  • Manning Greenberg

    Home Furnishings Daily

  • Dr. Marcian (Ted) Hoff

    Inventor of Miceoprocessor

  • Dr. Min-Hwan Kao

    GPS

  • Mikio Katayama

    Sharp

  • Pierre Omidyar

    eBay

  • Katsuhiko Pier

    Sharp

  • Michael Ramsay

    TiVo

  • Dr. Ching Tang

    OLED

  • Len Tweten

    Magnolia Audio Video

  • Jim Tweten

    Magnolia Audio Video

  • Steven Van Slyke

    OLED

  • Meg Whitman

    eBay

2012 Honorees

  • Willard Boyle

    Bell Labs

  • Robert Briskman

    Inventor of Satellite Radio

  • Richard Citta

    Creator of the VSB digital TV transmission standard

  • Bjorn Dybdahl

    Bjorn’s

  • Douglas Engelbart

    Inventor of the computer mouse and HTML

  • Charlie Ergen

    Echostar and Dish Network

  • Larry Finley

    International Tape Association (now the International Recording Media Association)

  • Fansy & Henry Harold Gregg

    H. H. Gregg

  • In Hwoi Koo

    LG Corporation

  • Byung-Chull Lee

    Samsung Electronics

  • George Smith

    Bell Labs

2011 Honorees

  • Ralph Baer

    Brown Box and the Magnavox Odyssey

  • Ivan Berger

    Berger Braithwaite Labs/Video Magazine

  • Samuel Bloomberg

    Tweeter

  • Lance Braithwaite

    Berger Braithwaite Labs/Video Magazine

  • Dr. Eli Harari

    SanDisk

  • Stanley Hubbard

    Hubbard Broadcasting

  • Dr. Fujio Masuoka

    Toshiba

  • Dr. Robert Metcalfe

    Xerox PARC

  • Samuel Runco

    Runco International

  • Dr. Claude Shannon

    Founding both digital computer and digital circuit design theory

  • Dr. Andrew Viterbi

    Viterbi algorithm

2010 Honorees

  • Dr. Lauren Christopher

    DirecTV

  • Joe & Rachelle Friedman

    J&R Music and Computer World

  • Dr. Ivan Getting

    Inventor of GPS

  • Richard Kraft

    Panasonic Corp. of North America

  • Frank McCann

    RCA and Thomson

  • David & Eugene Mondry

    Highland Superstores

  • Dr. Bradford Parkinson

    Inventor of GPS

  • Frederik Philips

    Philips

  • Al Sotoloff

    Silo Appliance City

  • Cynthia Upson

    CEA

  • Dr. Larry Weber

    Inventor of GPS

2009 Honorees

  • Maurice, Norman, Philip Cohen

    Lechmere Sales

  • Dr. Joseph Flaherty

    HDTV/ATSC standards

  • Karl Hassel

    Zenith

  • Dr. Irwin Jacobs

    Qualcomm

  • Steve Jobs

    Apple

  • Ralph H.G. Mathews

    Zenith

  • Aaron Neretin

    Merchandising Week

  • John Shalam

    Voxx Corp.

  • Walton Stinson

    Listen Up/PARA

  • Neil Terk

    Terk Technologies

  • Richard Wiley

    FCC

2008 Honorees

  • Jewel & David Abt

    Abt Electronics

  • Joe Clayton

    RCA; Sirius Satellite Radio

  • Martin Cooper

    Motorola

  • Dean Dunlavey

    Sony - Betamax Case

  • Hans Fantel

    Stereo Review

  • Eddy Hartenstein

    DirecTV

  • Ken Kutaragi

    Sony Computer Entertainment

  • Warren Lieberfarb

    Warner Home Video

  • Donald Linder

    Motorola

  • Dr. Fritz Sennheiser

    Sennheiser Electronic Corp.

  • Richard Sharp

    Circuit City

2007 Honorees

  • Paul Allen

    Microsoft

  • Dr. Amar Bose

    Bose Corp.

  • Karlheinz Brandenburg

    Development of MP3

  • William Crutchfield

    Crutchfield

  • James Edward Day

    Attorney in Betamax Case

  • Dr. Heinz Gerhäuser

    Development of MP3

  • John McDonald

    Casio USA

  • Steven Sasson

    Kodak

  • Richard Schulze

    Best Buy

  • Dr. Dieter Seitzer

    Development of MP3

  • Art Weinberg

2006 Honorees

  • Dr. Donald Bitzer

    Invented Plasma Display

  • John "Jack" Doyle

    Pioneer

  • Robert Galvin

    Motorola

  • Andrew Stephen Grove

    Intel Corp.

  • George Heilmeier

    RCA

  • Dr. Nick Holonyak Jr.

    GE

  • Howard Ladd

    Concord Electronics

  • Gordon Moore

    Intel Corp.

  • A.J. Richard

    P.C. Richard & Son

  • John Roach

    Radio Shack

  • H. Gene Slottow

    Invented Plasma Display

  • Robert Wilson

    Invented Plasma Display

Honorees 2005 - 2000

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