IEEE Computer Pioneer award
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The Computer Pioneer Award was established in 1981 by the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society
to recognize and honor the vision of those people whose efforts resulted in the creation and continued vitality of the computer industry. The award is presented to outstanding individuals whose main contribution to the concepts and development of the computer field was made at least fifteen years earlier.
The recognition is engraved on a bronze medal specially struck for the Society.
All members of the profession are invited to nominate a colleague who they consider most eligible to be considered for this award.
The award has two type of recipients:
Nomination Deadline: 15 October of each year.
IEEE Computer Society
The IEEE Computer Society is a professional society of IEEE. Its purpose and scope is “to advance the theory, practice, and application of computer and information processing science and technology” and the “professional standing of its members.” The CS is the largest of 38 technical societies...
to recognize and honor the vision of those people whose efforts resulted in the creation and continued vitality of the computer industry. The award is presented to outstanding individuals whose main contribution to the concepts and development of the computer field was made at least fifteen years earlier.
The recognition is engraved on a bronze medal specially struck for the Society.
All members of the profession are invited to nominate a colleague who they consider most eligible to be considered for this award.
The award has two type of recipients:
- Computer Pioneer Charter Recipients - At the inauguration of this award the individuals who already meet the Computer Pioneer Award criteria, and also have received IEEE Computer SocietyIEEE Computer SocietyThe IEEE Computer Society is a professional society of IEEE. Its purpose and scope is “to advance the theory, practice, and application of computer and information processing science and technology” and the “professional standing of its members.” The CS is the largest of 38 technical societies...
awards prior to 1981. - Computer Pioneer Recipients - Awarded annually since 1981.
Nomination Deadline: 15 October of each year.
Computer Pioneer Charter Recipients
Computer Pioneer Recipients
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| 2009 | Jean E. Sammet Jean E. Sammet Jean E. Sammet is an American computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language in 1962.She received her B.A. in Math from Mount Holyoke College in 1948 and her M.A. in Math from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1949... |
For pioneering work and lifetime achievement as one of the first developers and researchers in programming languages. |
| Lynn Conway Lynn Conway Lynn Conway is an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, inventor, trans woman, and activist for the transgender community.... |
For contributions to superscalar architecture, including multiple-issue dynamic instruction scheduling, and for the innovation and widespread teaching of simplified VLSI design methods. | |
| 2008 | Betty Jean Jeanings Bartik Jean Bartik Jean Bartik was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.She was born Betty Jean Jennings in Gentry County, Missouri, in 1924 and attended Northwest Missouri State Teachers College, majoring in mathematics. In 1945, she was hired by the University of Pennsylvania to work for Army... |
Programmer including co-leading the first teams of ENIAC ENIAC ENIAC was the first general-purpose electronic computer. It was a Turing-complete digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems.... programmers, and pioneering work on BINAC BINAC BINAC, the Binary Automatic Computer, was an early electronic computer designed for Northrop Aircraft Company by the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation in 1949. Eckert and Mauchly, though they had started the design of EDVAC at the University of Pennsylvania, chose to leave and start EMCC, the... and UNIVAC I UNIVAC I The UNIVAC I was the first commercial computer produced in the United States. It was designed principally by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the inventors of the ENIAC... |
| Edward J. McCluskey Edward J. McCluskey Edward J. McCluskey in Orange, New Jersey, is a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. He is a pioneer in the field of Electrical Engineering.-Biography:... |
Design and synthesis of digital systems over five decades, including the first algorithm for logic synthesis (the Quine-McCluskey method) | |
| Carl A. Petri Carl Adam Petri Carl Adam Petri was a German mathematician and computer scientist. He was born in Leipzig.Petri nets were invented in August 1939 by Carl Adam Petri – at the age of 13 – for the purpose of describing chemicalprocesses... |
Petri net Petri net A Petri net is one of several mathematical modeling languages for the description of distributed systems. A Petri net is a directed bipartite graph, in which the nodes represent transitions and places... theory (1962) and then parallel and distributed computing |
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| 2006 | Mamoru Hosaka | Computing in Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... |
| Arnold M. Spielberg | Real-time Real-time computing In computer science, real-time computing , or reactive computing, is the study of hardware and software systems that are subject to a "real-time constraint"— e.g. operational deadlines from event to system response. Real-time programs must guarantee response within strict time constraints... data acquisition Data acquisition Data acquisition is the process of sampling signals that measure real world physical conditions and converting the resulting samples into digital numeric values that can be manipulated by a computer. Data acquisition systems typically convert analog waveforms into digital values for processing... and recording that significantly contributed to the definition of modern feedback and control processes |
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| 2004 | Frances E. Allen Frances E. Allen Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allen is an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, code optimization, and parallelization... |
Theory and practice of compiler optimization |
| 2003 | Martin Richards | System software portability through the programming language BCPL BCPL BCPL is a procedural, imperative, and structured computer programming language designed by Martin Richards of the University of Cambridge in 1966.- Design :... widely influential and used in academia and industry for a variety of prominent system software |
| 2002 | Per Brinch Hansen Per Brinch Hansen Per Brinch Hansen was a Danish-American computer scientist known for concurrent programming theory.-Biography:He was born in Frederiksberg, in Copenhagen, Denmark.... |
Operating systems and concurrent programming, exemplified by work on the RC4000 multiprogramming system, monitors, and Concurrent Pascal Concurrent Pascal Concurrent Pascal was designed by Per Brinch Hansen for writing concurrent computing programs such asoperating systems and real-time monitoring systems on shared memorycomputers.... |
| Robert W. Bemer | ASCII ASCII The American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text... , ASCII-alternate sets, and escape sequences |
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| 2001 | Vernon Schatz | Electronic Funds Transfer Electronic funds transfer Electronic funds transfer is the electronic exchange or transfer of money from one account to another, either within a single financial institution or across multiple institutions, through computer-based systems.... which made possible computer to computer commercial transactions via the banking system |
| William H. Bridge William Bridge William Bridge was a leading English Independent minister, preacher, and religious and political writer.-Life:A native of Cambridgeshire, the Rev. William Bridge was probably born in or around the year 1600. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, receiving an M.A... |
Computer and communications technology in the GE DATANET 30 | |
| 2000 | Harold W. Lawson Harold Lawson Harold "Bud" Lawson is a software engineer, computer architect and systems engineer. Lawson is credited with the 1964 invention of the pointer. In 2000, Lawson was presented the Computer Pioneer Award by the IEEE for his invention.... |
Inventing the pointer variable and introducing this concept into PL/I PL/I PL/I is a procedural, imperative computer programming language designed for scientific, engineering, business and systems programming applications... |
| Gennady Stolyarov Gennady Stolyarov Gennady Stolyarov is a Russian professional ice hockey right winger who currently plays for Severstal Cherepovets of the Kontinental Hockey League.Stolyarov was a late round selection by the Detroit Red Wings in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft... |
Minsk Minsk - Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened... series computers' software, of the information systems' software |
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| Georgy Lopato | Belarus of the Minsk series computers' hardware, of the multicomputer complexes and of the RV family of mobile computers for heavy field conditions | |
| 1999 | Herbert Freeman Herbert Freeman Dr. Herbert Freeman is a computer scientist who made important contributions to the field of automatic label placement, computer graphics, including anti-aliasing, and machine vision. Dr. Freeman held many prestigious professorial posts such as in RPI , NYU, and Rutgers University.Dr... |
SPEEDAC of Sperry Corporation Sperry Corporation Sperry Corporation was a major American equipment and electronics company whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the twentieth century... , and computer graphics and image processing |
| 1998 | Irving John (Jack) Good I. J. Good Irving John Good was a British mathematician who worked as a cryptologist at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing. After World War II, Good continued to work with Turing on the design of computers and Bayesian statistics at the University of Manchester... |
Field of computing as a Cryptologist and statistician during World War II at Bletchley Park Bletchley Park Bletchley Park is an estate located in the town of Bletchley, in Buckinghamshire, England, which currently houses the National Museum of Computing... , as an early worker and developer of the Colossus Colossus computer Not to be confused with the fictional computer of the same name in the movie Colossus: The Forbin Project.Colossus was the world's first electronic, digital, programmable computer. Colossus and its successors were used by British codebreakers to help read encrypted German messages during World War II... at Bletchley Park and on the University of Manchester Mark I, the world's first stored program computer |
| 1997 | Homer (Barney) Oldfield Barney Oldfield Berna Eli "Barney" Oldfield was an automobile racer and pioneer. He was born on a farm on the outskirts of Wauseon, Ohio. He was the first man to drive a car at 60 miles per hour on an oval... |
Banking applications ERMA Electronic Recording Machine, Accounting ERMA , was a pioneering computer development project run at SRI under contract to Bank of America in order to automate banking bookkeeping... , and computer manufacturing |
| Francis Elizabeth (Betty) Snyder-Holberton Betty Holberton Frances Elizabeth "Betty" Holberton was one of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer.-Early life and education:... |
Sort-merge generator for the Univac UNIVAC UNIVAC is the name of a business unit and division of the Remington Rand company formed by the 1950 purchase of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, founded four years earlier by ENIAC inventors J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, and the associated line of computers which continues to this day... and compilation |
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| 1996 | Angel Angelov Angel Angelov Anghei Anghelov is a former boxer from Bulgaria, who won a silver medal in the light welterweight division the 1972 Summer Olympics... |
Computer science technologies in Bulgaria |
| Richard F. Clippinger | Converted the ENIAC ENIAC ENIAC was the first general-purpose electronic computer. It was a Turing-complete digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems.... to a stored program at Aberdeen Proving Ground Aberdeen Proving Ground Aberdeen Proving Ground is a United States Army facility located near Aberdeen, Maryland, . Part of the facility is a census-designated place , which had a population of 3,116 at the 2000 census.- History :... |
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| Edgar Frank Codd Edgar F. Codd Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd was an English computer scientist who, while working for IBM, invented the relational model for database management, the theoretical basis for relational databases... |
Abstract model for database management | |
| Norber Fristacky | Digital devices | |
| Victor M. Glushkov | Digital automation of computer architecture | |
| Jozef Gruska | Theory of computing and organizational activities | |
| Jiri Horejs | Informatics and computer science | |
| Lubomir Georgiev Iliev | Computing in Bulgaria Bulgaria Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east... ; 1st Bulgarian computers; abstract mathematics and software |
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| Robert E. Kahn | TCP/IP protocols and the Internet Internet The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide... program |
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| Laszlo Kalmar László Kalmár László Kalmár was a Hungarian mathematician and Professor at the University of Szeged. Kalmár is considered the founder of mathematical logic and theoretical Computer Science in Hungary.- Biography :... |
1956 logical machine and the design of the MIR computer Mir (computer) MIR is the name of a series of early Soviet computers, developed from 1965 to 1969 in a group headed by Victor Glushkov. It stands for «Машина для Инженерных Расчётов» . It was designed as a relatively small-scale computer for use in engineering and scientific applications... in Hungary |
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| Antoni Kilinski | Commercial computers in Poland Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north... , and university computer science |
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| László Kozma László Kozma László Kozma was a Hungarian electrical engineer, designer of the first Hungarian digital computer , a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.... |
1930 relay machines, and early computers in post-war Hungary Hungary Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The... |
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| Sergey A. Lebedev | Computer in the Soviet Union Soviet Union The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991.... |
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| Alexey A. Lyaponov Alexey Lyapunov Alexey Andreevich Lyapunov was a Soviet mathematician and early pioneer of computer science. One of the founders of cybernetics, Lyapunov was member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and a specialist in the fields of real variable function theory, mathematical problems of cybernetics, set theory,... |
Soviet cybernetics Cybernetics Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of regulatory systems. Cybernetics is closely related to information theory, control theory and systems theory, at least in its first-order form... and programming |
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| Romuald W. Marczynski | Polish digital computers and computer architecture | |
| Grigore C. Moisil | Polyvalent Polyvalent In chemistry, polyvalence or multivalence refers to species that are not restricted to a distinct number of valence bonds.... logic switching circuits |
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| Ivan Plander | Computer hardware technology into Slovakia Slovakia The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south... and the control computer |
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| Arnold Reitsakas | Estonia Estonia Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies... 's computer age |
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| Antonin Svoboda Antonín Svoboda Antonin Svoboda was a Czech computer scientist, mathematician, electrical engineer, and researcher. He is credited with originating the design of fault-tolerant computer systems, and with the creation of SAPO, the first Czech computer design.... |
Computer research in Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992... and SAPO SAPO (computer) The SAPO was the first Czechoslovak computer. It operated in the years 1957-1960 in Výzkumný ústav matematických strojů, part of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences... and EPOS computers |
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| 1995 | Gerald Estrin Gerald Estrin Prof. Gerald Estrin, an IEEE Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a member of the Board of Governors of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Estrin received his B.S, M.S. and Ph.D... |
Early computers |
| David Evans David C. Evans David Cannon Evans was the founder of the computer science department at the University of Utah and co-founder of Evans & Sutherland, a computer firm which is known as a pioneer in the domain of computer-generated imagery.-Biography:Evans attended the University of Utah and studied electrical... |
Computer graphics Computer graphics Computer graphics are graphics created using computers and, more generally, the representation and manipulation of image data by a computer with help from specialized software and hardware.... |
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| Butler Lampson Butler Lampson Butler W. Lampson is a renowned computer scientist.After graduating from the Lawrenceville School , Lampson received his Bachelor's degree in Physics from Harvard University in 1964, and his Ph.D... |
Personal Computer Personal computer A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator... |
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| Marvin Minsky Marvin Minsky Marvin Lee Minsky is an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence , co-founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy.-Biography:... |
Artificial intelligence | |
| Kenneth Olsen | Minicomputers | |
| 1994 | Gerrit A. Blaauw Gerrit Blaauw Gerrit Anne Blaauw is one of the principal designers of the IBM System/360 line of computers, together with Fred Brooks, Gene Amdahl, and others.... |
IBM System/360 System/360 The IBM System/360 was a mainframe computer system family first announced by IBM on April 7, 1964, and sold between 1964 and 1978. It was the first family of computers designed to cover the complete range of applications, from small to large, both commercial and scientific... Series |
| Harlan B. Mills Harlan Mills Harlan D. Mills was Professor of Computer Science at the Florida Institute of Technology and founder of Software Engineering Technology, Inc. of Vero Beach, Florida . Mills' contributions to software engineering have had a profound and enduring effect on education and industrial practice. Since... |
Structured Programming Structured programming Structured programming is a programming paradigm aimed on improving the clarity, quality, and development time of a computer program by making extensive use of subroutines, block structures and for and while loops - in contrast to using simple tests and jumps such as the goto statement which could... |
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| Dennis M. Ritchie | Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna... |
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| Ken L. Thompson Ken Thompson Kenneth Lane Thompson , commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles, is an American pioneer of computer science... |
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| 1993 | Erich Bloch Erich Bloch Erich Bloch is a German-born American electrical engineer and administrator. He served as director of National Science Foundation from 1984 to 1990.... |
High speed computing |
| Jack S. Kilby | Co-inventing the integrated circuit Integrated circuit An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit is an electronic circuit manufactured by the patterned diffusion of trace elements into the surface of a thin substrate of semiconductor material... |
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| Willis H. Ware | Design of IAS and Johnniac JOHNNIAC The JOHNNIAC was an early computer built by RAND that was based on the von Neumann architecture that had been pioneered on the IAS machine. It was named in honor of von Neumann, short for John v. Neumann Numerical Integrator and Automatic Computer... computers |
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| 1992 | Stephen W. Dunwell | Project stretch |
| Douglas C. Engelbart | Human computer interaction | |
| 1991 | Bob O. Evans Bob O. Evans Bob Overton Evans , also known as "Boe" Evans, was a computer pioneer and corporate executive at IBM . He led the groundbreaking development of compatible computers that changed the industry.-Early life and education:Evans was born in Grand Island, Nebraska... |
Compatible computers |
| Robert W. Floyd | Compiler Compiler A compiler is a computer program that transforms source code written in a programming language into another computer language... s |
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| Thomas E. Kurtz | BASIC BASIC BASIC is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use - the name is an acronym from Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.... |
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| 1990 | Werner Buchholz Werner Buchholz Werner Buchholz is a noted American computer scientist. In July 1956, he coined the term byte, a unit of digital information to describe an ordered group of bits, as the smallest amount of data that a computer could process .As a member of the team at International Business Machines that designed... |
Computer architecture |
| C.A.R. Hoare | Programming language Programming language A programming language is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and/or to express algorithms precisely.... s definitions |
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| 1989 | John Cocke John Cocke John Cocke was an American computer scientist recognized for his large contribution to computer architecture and optimizing compiler design. He is considered by many to be "the father of RISC architecture."... |
Instruction pipelining and RISC concepts |
| James A. Weidenhammer | High speed I/O I/O I/O may refer to:* Input/output, a system of communication for information processing systems* Input-output model, an economic model of flow prediction between sectors... mechanisms |
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| Ralph L. Palmer | IBM 604 IBM 604 The IBM 604 was a control panel programmable Electronic Calculating Punch introduced in 1948, and was a machine on which considerable expectations for the future of IBM were pinned and in which a corresponding amount of planning talent was invested... electronic calculator |
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| Mina S. Rees | ONR Office of Naval Research The Office of Naval Research , headquartered in Arlington, Virginia , is the office within the United States Department of the Navy that coordinates, executes, and promotes the science and technology programs of the U.S... Computer R&D development beginning in 1946 |
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| 1988 | Friedrich L. Bauer Friedrich L. Bauer Friedrich Ludwig Bauer is a German computer scientist and professor emeritus at Technical University of Munich.-Life:... |
Computer stacks Stack (data structure) In computer science, a stack is a last in, first out abstract data type and linear data structure. A stack can have any abstract data type as an element, but is characterized by only three fundamental operations: push, pop and stack top. The push operation adds a new item to the top of the stack,... |
| Marcian E. Hoff, Jr. Marcian Hoff Marcian Edward "Ted" Hoff, Jr. , is one of the inventors of the microprocessor. Hoff joined Intel in 1967 as employee number 12, and is credited with coming up with the idea of using a "universal processor" rather than a variety of custom-designed circuits. His insight started the microprocessor... |
Microprocessor Microprocessor A microprocessor incorporates the functions of a computer's central processing unit on a single integrated circuit, or at most a few integrated circuits. It is a multipurpose, programmable device that accepts digital data as input, processes it according to instructions stored in its memory, and... on a chip |
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| 1987 | Robert E. Everett | Whirlwind |
| Reynold B. Johnson Reynold B. Johnson Reynold B. Johnson was an American inventor and computer pioneer. A long-time employee of IBM, Johnson is said to be the "father" of the disk drive... |
RAMAC | |
| Arthur L. Samuel Arthur Samuel Arthur Lee Samuel was an American pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence. The Samuel Checkers-playing Program appears to be the world's first self-learning program, and as such a very early demonstration of the fundamental concept of artificial intelligence... |
Adaptive non-numeric processing | |
| Nicklaus E. Wirth Niklaus Wirth Niklaus Emil Wirth is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984 he won the Turing Award for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.-Biography:Wirth... |
Pascal | |
| 1986 | Cuthbert C. Hurd Cuthbert Hurd Cuthbert Corwin Hurd was an American computer scientist and entrepreneur, who was instrumental in helping the International Business Machines Corporation develop its first general-purpose computers.-Life:... |
Computing |
| Peter Naur Peter Naur Peter Naur is a Danish pioneer in computer science and Turing award winner. His last name is the N in the BNF notation , used in the description of the syntax for most programming languages... |
Computer language development | |
| James H. Pomerene James H. Pomerene James Herbert Pomerene was an electrical engineer and computer pioneer.-Biography:Pomerene was born June 22, 1920 in Yonkers, New York. His father was Joel Pomerene and mother was Elsie Bower... |
IAS and Harvest computers | |
| Adriann van Wijngaarden Adriaan van Wijngaarden Adriaan van Wijngaarden was an important mathematician and computer scientist who is considered by many to have been the founding father of informatica in the Netherlands... |
ALGOL 68 ALGOL 68 ALGOL 68 isan imperative computerprogramming language that was conceived as a successor to theALGOL 60 programming language, designed with the goal of a... |
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| 1985 | John G. Kemeny | BASIC BASIC BASIC is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use - the name is an acronym from Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.... |
| John McCarthy John McCarthy (computer scientist) John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He coined the term "artificial intelligence" , invented the Lisp programming language and was highly influential in the early development of AI.McCarthy also influenced other areas of computing such as time sharing systems... |
LISP Lisp A lisp is a speech impediment, historically also known as sigmatism. Stereotypically, people with a lisp are unable to pronounce sibilants , and replace them with interdentals , though there are actually several kinds of lisp... and artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its... |
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| Alan Perlis Alan Perlis Alan Jay Perlis was an American computer scientist known for his pioneering work in programming languages and the first recipient of the Turing Award.-Biography:... |
Computer language translation | |
| Ivan Sutherland Ivan Sutherland Ivan Edward Sutherland is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal... |
Graphics SKETCHPAD Sketchpad Sketchpad was a revolutionary computer program written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 in the course of his PhD thesis, for which he received the Turing Award in 1988. It helped change the way people interact with computers... |
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| David J. Wheeler | Assembly language Assembly language An assembly language is a low-level programming language for computers, microprocessors, microcontrollers, and other programmable devices. It implements a symbolic representation of the machine codes and other constants needed to program a given CPU architecture... programming |
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| Heinz Zemanek Heinz Zemanek Heinz Zemanek is an Austrian computer pioneer who in 1955 developed the first complete transistorised computer on the European continent... |
Computer and computer languages for Mailüfterl Mailüfterl Mailüfterl is an Austrian nickname for the first transistorized computer on the European mainland. The first computers of this kind were TRADIC, Harwell CADET and TX-0.It was built in 1955 at the Vienna University of Technology by Heinz Zemanek... |
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| 1984 | John Vincent Atanasoff John Vincent Atanasoff John Vincent Atanasoff was an American physicist and inventor.The 1973 decision of the patent suit Honeywell v. Sperry Rand named him the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer... |
Electronic computer with serial memory |
| Jerrier A. Haddad | IBM 701 IBM 701 The IBM 701, known as the Defense Calculator while in development, was announced to the public on April 29, 1952, and was IBM’s first commercial scientific computer... |
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| Nicholas C. Metropolis Nicholas Metropolis Nicholas Constantine Metropolis was a Greek American physicist.-Work:Metropolis received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics at the University of Chicago... |
Solved atomic energy Nuclear power Nuclear power is the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate heat and electricity. Nuclear power plants provide about 6% of the world's energy and 13–14% of the world's electricity, with the U.S., France, and Japan together accounting for about 50% of nuclear generated electricity... problems on ENIAC |
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| Nathaniel Rochester Nathaniel Rochester Nathaniel Rochester was an American Revolutionary War soldier and land speculator, most noted for founding the settlement which would become Rochester, New York.-Early years:... |
Architecture of IBM 702 IBM 702 The IBM 702 was IBM's response to the UNIVAC—the first mainframe computer using magnetic tapes. Because these machines had less computational power than the IBM 701 and ERA 1103, which were favored for scientific computing, the 702 was aimed at business computing.The system used electrostatic... electronic data processing machines |
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| Willem L. van der Poel Willem van der Poel Willem Louis van der Poel is a pioneering Dutch computer scientist, who is known for designing the ZEBRA computer. In 1950 he obtained an engineering degree in applied science at Delft University of Technology. In 1956 he obtained his PhD degree from the University of Amsterdam... |
Serial computer ZEBRA Zebra Zebras are several species of African equids united by their distinctive black and white stripes. Their stripes come in different patterns unique to each individual. They are generally social animals that live in small harems to large herds... |
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| 1982 | Harry D. Huskey Harry Huskey Harry Douglas Huskey is an American computer designer pioneer.Huskey was born in the Smoky Mountains region of North Carolina and grew up in Idaho. He gained his Master's and then his PhD in 1943 from the Ohio State University on Contributions to the Problem of Geocze... |
Parallel computer SWAC SWAC (computer) The SWAC was an early electronic digital computer built in 1950 by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards in Los Angeles, California. It was designed by Harry Huskey... |
| Arthur Burks Arthur Burks Arthur Walter Burks was an American mathematician who in the 1940s as a senior engineer on the project contributed to the design of the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. Decades later, Burks and his wife Alice Burks outlined their case for the subject matter of the... |
Electronic computer logic design | |
| 1981 | Jeffrey Chuan Chu | Electronic computer logic design |