Chris Horn (computer scientist)
Dr Chris Horn | |
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Chris Horn at Engineers Ireland | |
| Known for | Founder of IONA Technologies |
| Spouse | Karlin Lillington |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Trinity College Dublin |
| Thesis | Dada - the language and its implementation (1984) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Trinity College Dublin |
Christopher J. Horn is an Irish academic and businessperson, co-founder and CEO of Ireland's first NASDAQ-listed company, IONA Technologies, once one of the world's top ten software-only companies by revenue. He also led fundraising for, and became founding chairperson of, Dublin's Science Gallery, and later its international spinoff projects. Horn, an electronics engineer and holder of a PhD in computer science, has also written extensively on technology and business innovation, and on privacy, including for The Irish Times. A former president of Engineers Ireland, and later made a Fellow of that body, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Trinity College Dublin, and a Gold Medal of the Royal Dublin Society. He has been chairperson or member of multiple commercial and voluntary boards, including those of Trinity College Dublin and Science Foundation Ireland.