The Gerald & Cullen Rapp illustration group is responsible for all of the portraits that make up the 2012 company calendar for Softmart, an IT consulting firm.  Each month displays a different inventor in the IT world, created by a different Rapp artist.

James Steinberg: George Stibitz created the first relay-based calculator in 1937

Daniel Hertzberg: Claude Shannon in 1937 proposed that binary arithmatic could be used in electronic devices

James O'Brien: Dr. An Wang co-invented the pulse transfer-controlling device in 1949

Michael Witte: Kenneth Olsen created numerous devices that advanced computing and led to the development of magnetic core memory

Daniel Baxter: James L. Fergason is best known as the inventor of the LCD, or Liquid Crystal Display

Rafael Ricoy: Douglas Engelbart invented the mouse in 1963

Peter Horvath: Dr. Peter Schultz is the co-inventor of fiber optics

Jan Feindt: Dr. Erna Schneider Hoover invented a method for automating the phone system at Bell Labs

PJ Loughran: Dr. Marcian "Ted" Hoff is one of the inventors of the microprocessor

Robert de Michiell: Amos Joel Jr. invented the cell phone

Anthony Freda: Vinton "Vint" Cerf is recognized as one of the fathers of the internet

Bob Staake: Steven S. Sasson designed and built the world's first digital camera

Arthur Giron: Dr. Mark Dean led the team that developed the ISA bus