Founders The conference was co-founded in 1968 by
Norman Abramson and
Franklin F. Kuo. Kuo served as the first conference chair.
Keynote and plenary speakers HICSS has featured several notable presentations, keynote and plenary addresses by researchers and practitioners in technology, computing, information systems, and related fields. Selected speakers include
Guy Kawasaki,
Ajit Pai,
Werner Vogels,
Doug Cutting,
Cynthia Breazeal,
Ben Shneiderman,
Hal Abelson,
Ian Foster,
Lawrence Lessig,
Lotfi A. Zadeh,
Arno Allan Penzias,
Edward H. Shortliffe,
Don Norman,
Lindsay Grace,
Raj Reddy,
Niklaus Wirth,
Douglas Engelbart,
Barbara Liskov,
Tony Hoare,
Edgar F. Codd,
Larry Roberts,
Siddhartha Paul Tiwari,
Stewart Udall, and
Richard E. Bellman. ==See also==