- Konrad Zuse (for inventing the computer); here a speech, he held in the Deutsches Museum in Munich in the year 1981
- Ferdinand Piëch (for inventing the 1-litre-car VW XL1)
- Bill Gates (for inventing Windows NT)
- Intel (for inventing the first microprocessor)
- Steve Wozniak (Apple) (for inventing the PC (Apple I))
- IBM (for inventing the IBM PC)
- Ted Turner (CNN) (for inventing the United Nations Foundation)
- Craig Newmark (for inventing Craigslist.org)
- Larry Page and Sergey Brin (for inventing the Google search engine)
- Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger (for inventing the Wikipedia encyclopedia)
- Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) (for inventing the x86-64 architecture)
- Steve Jobs (Apple) (for inventing the iPhone (SmartPhone))
- Dietrich Lohmeyer (akkurad GmbH) (for inventing the solar-velomobile)
- Bruce Warwick (Warwick Yacht Design) (for inventing the Warwick 100 ("W 100") sailing catamaran)
- Knierim Yachtbau (for inventing the Tûranor Planet Solar)
- Jeff Bezos (for inventing the AWS Cloud)
- Elon Musk (for pioneering the Tesla eCars)
- Larry Ellison (for inventing the Oracle database)
- Michael Stonebraker (for inventing the Ingres and Postgres database)
- 2ndQuadrant (for inventing the Postgres-XL database)
- Michael Widenius (for inventing the MySQL database)
- PayPal (for pioneering the internet payment)
- Marc Zuckerberg (for democratizing the guestbook)
|