The Innovation Trail and the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation’s
Massachusetts Tech Pioneers Reunion
Thursday, October 16, 2025
The Innovation Trail and the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation were proud, on October 16, 2025, to host a once in a lifetime reunion of leaders and innovators who helped build the Massachusetts tech economy from the 1960s into the 2000s.
This reception was a celebration of the makers of the Massachusetts Miracle, extraordinary doers who earned Route 128 its beloved nickname, America’s Technology Highway, creators of the Silicon Valley of the East!
The attendees included the honorees, their spouses, partners, and an impressive number of their peers. Presenting were Scott Kirsner of the Innovation Trail, Bob Perry, Rudy Ruggles, and Stephen Guerriero of the Charles River Museum, honoree Gail Goodman, Massachusetts Secretary of the Executive Office of Economic Development Eric Paley, and the Hon. Michael Dukakis, former Governor of Massachusetts.
Honorees:
Colin Angle - Co-founder: iRobot
Larry Bohn - Tech Entrepreneur; Managing Director: General Catalyst
Dan Bricklin - Co-Inventor and Co-Creator: VisiCalc and Software Arts
Joe Chung - Co-Founder: Art Technology Group
John Cullinane - Founder: Cullinet
Paul English - Co-Founder: Kayak
Bob Frankston - Co-Inventor and Co-Creator: VisiCalc and Software Arts
Gail Goodman - Former Chair, President, and CEO: Constant Contact
Sherwin Greenblatt - 1st employee, long-time president: Bose Corporation
Helen Greiner - Co-founder: iRobot
Marina Hatsopoulos - Founding CEO: Z Corporation
Danny Hillis - Founder: Thinking Machines Corporation
Jon Hirschtick - Founder and long-time CEO: SOLIDWORKS
Tom Hopcroft - Former CEO: Mass Technology Leadership Council
Joe Jones - Inventor: The Roomba
Jack Little - Co-Founder, CEO: MathWorks
Mitch Kapor - Founder: Lotus Development Corporation
Tracy Kidder - Author: Soul of a New Machine and A Truck Full of Money
Dave Lebling - Interactive Game Designer: Zork
Bob Metcalfe - Inventor: Ethernet
Nicholas Negroponte - Founder: MIT Media Lab
Ray Ozzie - Creator: Lotus Notes; Founder: Groove Networks; Chief Software Architect: Microsoft
Joyce Plotkin - President Emerita: Mass Technology Leadership Council
Bill Poduska - Co-Founder: Prime Computer; Founder: Apollo Computer
Marc Raibert - Founder: Boston Dynamics
Jonathan Rotenberg - Founder: Boston Computer Society
Tom Scholz - Founder: Scholz Research & Development, Inc.
Bill Seibel - Tech entrepreneur; Founder: Mobiquity
Jeet Singh - Co-Founder: Art Technology Group
Ray Stata - Analog Devices
That night, as part of the evening’s presentation, the Museum unveiled the video below, announcing to all attendees the Massachusetts Tech Pioneers Oral History Project, an ongoing series of conversations with innovators, catalysts, and tech pioneers connected to the digital revolution as a way to record this story for future scholarship and to preserve a record of how individuals built a transformational movement, and what we might learn from it as we move forward.
These interviews will be included in our permanent research archive available to future scholars studying the explosion in innovation that happened here in the past 50 years.
Photos from the event (click to expand)
Photos by Kathy Tarantola
