Gordon Moore, Steve Wozniak, Gene Amdahl, Donald Knuth to be named Computer Museum Fellows; Induction on Nov. 12 at Palo Alto Hills Golf & Country Club.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 1998--Four international computer industry icons will be made Fellows of The Computer Museum and honored at a Thursday, November 12, dinner at Palo Alto Hills Golf & Country Club, hosted by The Computer Museum History Center.

This year's honorees are:

-- Gene Amdahl, founder of Amdahl Corporation and Trilogy

Systems;

-- Donald Knuth, Stanford professor and author of dozens of

books on mathematics and computer science, including the

classic, multi-volume series, The Art of Computer

Programming;

-- Gordon Moore, cofounder and chairman emeritus of Intel; and

-- Steve Wozniak, cofounder of Apple Computer, engineer,

teacher and philanthropist.

Steve Kirsch, founder and chairman of Infoseek, will emcee the induction program. Kirsch said, "All of our Computer Museum Fellows are national treasures. It is important that their work be preserved for all that will follow them."

Past Computer Museum fellows include: John Backus, who led the IBM team that created Fortran; Jay Forrester, developer of the Whirlwind I in the late '40s, the first "real-time" computer; the late Grace Murray Hopper who led the development of compilers for COBOL; Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Development and 1-2-3, now president of Kapor Enterprises, Inc.; Ken Olson, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation; and the team of Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson who led early development of the Unix operating system.

Limited tickets are available for the dinner. For information, phone Cynthia Gapud of The Computer Museum History Center, Mountain View,at 650-604-2579 (e-mail to [e-mail]).

About The Computer Museum History Center:

This two-year old division of the Computer Museum/Boston is home to the world's largest and most comprehensive archives of computing artifacts, including hardware, software, films, photographs and ephemer. It is the result of The Computer Museum's 19-year mission to preserve significant achievements in the history of computing. The History Center is now in temporary offices and warehouse space at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California, in space provided by the NASA Ames Research Center. Plans are underway to identify land for a permanent new facility in Silicon Valley to house the collections, historic exhibitions, research and administrative offices. The Computer Museum website is http://www.tcm.org.