1. Nobel Winners

Serial No.	Name/Nationality/Birth Year	Achievement	Prize	Current Institution	Note
1	ZhoresI. Alferov (Russia) (1930--)	For developing semiconductor hetero-structures used in high-speed and optoelectronics as well as in integrated circuits (chips), laying a foundation for modern information technology.	Laureate for 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics	Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia	Vice-President, Russian Academy of Sciences
2	Ivar Giaever (the United States) (1929--)	For discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors.	Laureate for 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
3	David Gross (the United States) (1941--)	For his ground-breaking discovery of asymptotic freedom in the interaction between quarks in extreme proximity	Laureate for 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics	Universityof California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
4	Roger D. Kornberg (the United States) (1947--)	The first scientist to display the process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA (eukaryotic transcription, for organisms whose cells have well-formed nuclei.)	Laureate for 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry	Schoolof Medicine, Stanford University	Being an exclusive winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry indicates the importance of the structural basis of transcription that he has disclosed.
5	James A. Mirrlees (Great Britain) (1936--)	For fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives especially under asymmetric information	Laureate for 1996 Nobel Prize in Economics	Universityof Cambridge; Chinese University of Hong Kong
6	George Smoot (the United States) (1945--)	For the discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation	Laureate for 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics	Universityof California, Berkeley
7	Martinus Veltman (Netherlands) (1931--)	For elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics	Laureate for 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics	Universityof Michigan

2. The A. M. Turing Award Winners

Serial No.	Name/Nationality/Birth Year	Achievement	Prize	Current Institution	Note
1	Robert Kahn (the United States) (1938--)	For the invention of the Internet's basic communications protocols, TCP/IP, and for pioneering contributions to networking.	Laureate for 2004 Turing Award	MCI Corporation
2	John E. Hopcroft (the United States) (1939--)	For fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures	Laureate for 1986 Turing Award	Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
3	ButlerW. Lampson (the United States) (1943--)	For contributions to the development of distributed, personal computing environments and the technology for their implementation, including workstations, networks, operating systems, programming systems, displays, security and document publishing.	Laureate for 1992 Turing Award	Microsoft Corporation
4	Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (the United States) (1946--)	World famous computer scientist	Laureate for 2000 Turing Award	Center for Advanced Study,Tsinghua University

3. Honored Guests from China to Speak at the Forum

Serial No.	Name/Nationality/Birth Year	Achievement	Prize	Current Institution	Note
1	Li Guojia (China)	In charge of the research on the Dawning-1 parallel computer, Dawning 1000 MPP (Massively Parallel Processor) and Dawning  Tianyan-series of computers		Head of the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences	Research fellow of the Chinese Academy of Engineering