IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
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The IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award is a Technical Field Award given each year by the IEEE to an individual or small team that has made outstanding contributions to information processing systems in relation to computer science. The award is named in honor of Emanuel R. Piore
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The award was established in 1976. It may be presented to an individual or team of two.
Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.
Emanuel R. Piore
Emanuel Ruben Piore was a scientist and a manager of industrial research.Piore was born on 19 July 1908 in Vilnius, Lithuania. In 1917, his family moved to the United States, and in 1924, Emanuel Piore became a naturalized citizen of the United States.Piore obtained an undergraduate and a Ph.D...
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The award was established in 1976. It may be presented to an individual or team of two.
Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.
Recipients
The following people received the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award:- 1977: George StibitzGeorge StibitzGeorge Robert Stibitz is internationally recognized as one of the fathers of the modern digital computer...
- 1978: J. Presper EckertJ. Presper EckertJohn Adam Presper "Pres" Eckert Jr. was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly he invented the first general-purpose electronic digital computer , presented the first course in computing topics , founded the first commercial computer company , and...
and John MauchlyJohn MauchlyJohn William Mauchly was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States.Together they started the first computer company,... - 1979: Richard HammingRichard HammingRichard Wesley Hamming was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer science and telecommunications...
- 1980: Lawrence RabinerLawrence RabinerLawrence R. Rabiner is an electrical engineer working in the fields of digital signal processing and speech processing; in particular in digital signal processing for automatic speech recognition...
and Ronald W. Schafer - 1981: No Award
- 1982: Ken ThompsonKen ThompsonKenneth Lane Thompson , commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles, is an American pioneer of computer science...
and Dennis RitchieDennis RitchieDennis MacAlistair Ritchie , was an American computer scientist who "helped shape the digital era." He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the UNIX operating system... - 1983: Niklaus WirthNiklaus WirthNiklaus 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...
- 1984: Harvey G. Cragon
- 1985: Azriel RosenfeldAzriel RosenfeldProfessor Dr. Azriel Rosenfeld was an American Research Professor, a Distinguished University Professor, and Director of the Center for Automation Research at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, where he also held affiliate professorships in the Departments of Computer Science,...
- 1986: David C. EvansDavid C. EvansDavid 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...
and Ivan SutherlandIvan SutherlandIvan 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... - 1987: David KuckDavid KuckDavid J. Kuck was a professor in the Computer Science Department the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1965 to 1993. He is the father of Olympic silver medalist Jonathan Kuck...
- 1988: Grace HopperGrace HopperRear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and developed the first compiler for a computer programming language...
- 1989: Peter A. Franaszek
- 1990: Allen NewellAllen NewellAllen Newell was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department of Psychology...
- 1991: Joseph F. Traub
- 1992: Harold S. Stone
- 1993: Makoto NagaoMakoto Nagaois a Japanese computer scientist. He contributed to various fields: machine translation, natural language processing, pattern recognition, image processing and library science...
- 1994: John L. HennessyJohn L. HennessyJohn LeRoy Hennessy is an American computer scientist and academician. Hennessy is one of the founders of MIPS Computer Systems Inc. and is the 10th President of Stanford University.-Background:...
- 1995: Yale N. Patt
- 1996: Edward J. McCluskeyEdward J. McCluskeyEdward J. McCluskey in Orange, New Jersey, is a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. He is a pioneer in the field of Electrical Engineering.-Biography:...
- 1997: Shun'ichi AmariShun'ichi AmariAmari Shun'ichi, 甘利俊一 【あまりしゅんいち】, is a Japanese scholar born in 1936 in Tokyo, Japan.He majored in Mathematical Engineering in 1958 from the University of Tokyo then graduated in 1963 from the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo....
- 1998: Janak H. Patel
- 1999: Narendra Ahuja
- 2000: William KahanWilliam KahanWilliam Morton Kahan is a mathematician and computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1989 for "his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis", and was named an ACM Fellow in 1994....
- 2001: Ravishanker K. Iyer
- 2002: Brian RandellBrian RandellBrian Randell is a British computer scientist, and Emeritus Professor at the School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, U.K. He specializes in research in software fault tolerance and dependability, and is a noted authority on the early prior to 1950 history of computers.- Biography...
- 2003: Giovanni De MicheliGiovanni De MicheliGiovanni De Micheli is Professor and Director of the Integrated Systems Centre at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, and President of the Scientific Committee of CSEM, Neuchatel, Switzerland. Previously, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He holds a Nuclear Engineer degree...
- 2004: Leslie LamportLeslie LamportLeslie Lamport is an American computer scientist. A graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, he received a B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from Brandeis University, respectively in 1963 and 1972...
- 2005: Jacob A. Abraham
- 2006: Robert K. Brayton
- 2007: Randal BryantRandal BryantRandal E. Bryant is an American computer scientist and academic noted for his research on formally verifying digital hardware, and more recently some forms of software...
- 2008: Richard RashidRichard RashidRichard F. Rashid oversees Microsoft Research's worldwide operations. Previously, he was the director of Microsoft Research. He joined Microsoft Research in 1991, and was promoted to vice president in 1994. In 2000, he became senior vice president...
- 2009: David DeWittDavid DeWittDavid J. DeWitt is the John P. Morgridge Professor of at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Professor DeWitt received a B.A. degree from Colgate University in 1970, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1976...
- 2010: Nancy LynchNancy LynchNancy Ann Lynch is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the EECS department and heads the Theory of Distributed Systems research group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.She is the...
- 2011: Shafi GoldwasserShafi GoldwasserShafrira Goldwasser is the RSA Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, and a professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.-Biography:...
- 2012: Fred B. SchneiderFred B. SchneiderFred B. Schneider is an American computer scientist, based at Cornell University, New York, USA, where he is the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Computer Science. He has published extensively...