Heinz Nixdorf (NCAG)
Heinz Billing (First German electronic computer)
Joachim Lehmann (East German computers)
Friedrich Bauer (Stack principle, PERM etc.)
Ed Feigenbaum (Expert systems)
John McCarthy (LISP)
Frans Morsch ("Fritz" chess programs)
Wolfgang Wahlster ("Verbmobil" speech processing software)
Bill Gates (Microsoft)
Bill Hewlett, David Packard (Hewlett-Packard)
Andy Grove (Intel)
Hans-Olaf Henkel (IBM Germany/Europe)
Karlheinz Brandenburg, Bernhard Grill, Harald Popp, Heinz Gerhäuser, Jürgen Herre, Ernst Eberlein (MP3)
Robert Glaser (Real Networks)
Shawn Fanning (Napster)
Kraftwerk (Techno music)