ASK Martin J. Wygod about his mentors and he cites Fletcher Jones, a software pioneer; Fred Carr, the investment manager; and Manny Kalish.

Tiny Troll led Kapor to join forces with two software pioneers, Daniel S. Bricklin and Robert M. Frankston, who had just developed the first personal computer spreadsheet program, called Visicalc.

Robert G. Adamson III (born 19 October 1947, Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American software pioneer.

A software pioneer who led the teams that gave the world Microsoft Word and Excel, he has amassed a personal fortune of about a billion dollars, according to Forbes Magazine.

Robert Adamson (software pioneer) - Computer scientist.

Before joining Interactive, he worked for two years at Visicorp, a software pioneer.

Fran Allen - an early software pioneer and another IBM hero for her innovative work in compilers over the decades - is inducted the next year.

Though Irish software pioneers like Iona Technologies and Trintech blazed the trail, none have capitalized on it like Baltimore.

Frank Dodge, a software pioneer who became the odd-man out after the company he started and ran for 20 years merged, is back at work.

Though the language was developed by others, Mr. Bemer and Grace Hopper, a rear admiral in the Navy and a software pioneer, were advisers.