Computer Pioneer Award
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The Computer Pioneer 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 silver 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.
Past Recipients for Computer Pioneer
| 2013 | Stephen B. Furber | For pioneering work as a principal designer of the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor. |
| 2013 | Edward Feigenbaum | For pioneering work in Artificial Intelligence, including development of the basic principles and methods of knowledge-based systems and their practical applications. |
| 2012 | Cleve Moler | For improving the quality of mathematical software, making it more accessible and creating MATLAB. |
| 2011 | David Kuck | For pioneering parallel architectures including the Illiac IV, the Burroughs BSP, and Cedar; and, for revolutionary parallel compiler technology including Parafrase and KAP Tools. |
| 2009 | Jean Sammet | For pioneering work and lifetime achievement as one of the first developers and researchers in programming languages. |
| 2009 | Lynn Conway | 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 Jennings Bartik | For pioneering work as one of the first programmers, including co-leading the first teams of ENIAC programmers, and pioneering work on BINAC and UNIVAC I. |
| 2008 | Edward J. McCluskey | For seminal contributions to the design and synthesis of digital systems over five decades, including the first algorithm for logic synthesis (the Quine-McCluskey method). |
| 2008 | Carl A. Petri | For establishing Petri net theory in 1962, which not only was cited by hundreds of thousands of scientific publications but also significantly advanced the fields of parallel and distributed computing. |
| 2006 | Mamoru Hosaka | For recognition of pioneering activities within computing in Japan. |
| 2006 | Arnold M. Spielberg | For recognition of contribution to real-time data acquisition and recording that significantly contributed to the definition of modern feedback and control processes. |
| 2004 | Frances (Fran) E. Allen | For pioneering work establishing the theory and practice of compiler optimization. |
| 2003 | Martin Richards | For pioneering system software portability through the programming language BCPL widely influential and used in academia and industry for a variety of prominent system software. |
| 2002 | Per Brinch Hansen | For pioneering development in operating systems and concurrent programming, exemplified by work on the RC4000 multiprogramming system, monitors, and Concurrent Pascal. |
| 2002 | Robert W. Bemer | For meeting the world's needs for variant character sets and other symbols, via ASCII, ASCII-alternate sets, and escape sequences. |
| 2001 | Vernon L. Schatz | For the development of Electronics Funds Transfer which made possible computer to computer commercial transactions via the banking system. |
| 2001 | William H. Bridge | For the marrying of computer and communications technology in the GE DATANET 30, putting terminals on peoples desks to communicate with and timeshare a computer, leading directly to the development of the personal computer, computer networking and the internet. |
| 2000 | Harold W. Lawson | For inventing the pointer variable and introducing this concept into PL/I, thus providing for the first time, the capability to flexibly treat linked lists in a general-purpose high level language. |
| 2000 | Gennady Stolyarov | For pioneering development in Minsk series computers' software, of the information systems' software and applications and for data processing and data base management systems concepts dissemination and promotion. |
| 2000 | Georgy Lopato | For pioneering development in 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 | For pioneering work on the first computer built by the Sperry Corporation, the SPEEDAC, and for subsequent contributions to the areas of computer graphics and image processing. |
| 1998 | Irving John (Jack) Good | For significant contributions to the field of computing as a Cryptologist and statistician during World War II at Bletchley Park, as an early worker and developer of the Colossus at Bletchley Park and on the University of Manchester Mark I, the world's first stored program computer. |
| 1997 | Homer (Barney) Oldfield | For pioneering work in the development of banking applications through the implementation of ERMA, and the introduction of computer manufacturing to GE. |
| 1997 | Francis Elizabeth (Betty) Snyder-Holberton | For the development of the first sort-merge generator for the Univac which inspired the first ideas about compilation. |
| 1996 | Angel Angelov | For computer science technologies in Bulgaria. |
| 1996 | Richard F. Clippinger | For computing laboratory staff member, Aberdeen Proving Ground, who converted the ENIAC to a stored program. |
| 1996 | Edgar Frank Codd | For the invention of the first abstract model for database management. |
| 1996 | Norbert Fristacky | For pioneering digital devices. |
| 1996 | Victor M. Glushkov | For digital automation of computer architecture. |
| 1996 | Jozef Gruska | For the development of computer science in former Czechoslovakia with fundamental contributions to the theory of computing and extraordinary organizational activities. |
| 1996 | Jiri Horejs | For informatics and computer science. |
| 1996 | Lubomir Georgiev Iliev | A founder and influential leader of computing in Bulgaria; leader of the team that developed the first Bulgarian computer; made fundamental and continuing contributions to abstract mathematics and software. |
| 1996 | Robert E. Kahn | For the co-invention of the TCP/IP protocols and for originating the Internet program. |
| 1996 | Laszlo Kalmar | For recognition as the developer of a 1956 logical machine and the design of the MIR computer in Hungary. |
| 1996 | Antoni Kilinski | For pioneering work in the construction of the first commercial computers in Poland, and for the development of university curriculum in computer science. |
| 1996 | Laszlo Kozma | For development of the 1930 relay machines, and going on to build early computers in post-war Hungary. |
| 1996 | Sergey A. Lebedev | For the first computer in the Soviet Union. |
| 1996 | Alexey A. Lyapunov | For Soviet cybernetics and programming. |
| 1996 | Romuald W. Marczynski | For pioneering work in the construction of the first Polish digital computers and contributions to fundamental research in computer architecture. |
| 1996 | Grigore C. Moisil | For polyvalent logic switching circuits. |
| 1996 | Ivan Plander | For the introduction of computer hardware technology into Slovakia and the development of the first control computer. |
| 1996 | Arnols Reitsakas | For contributions to Estonia's computer age. |
| 1996 | Antonin Svoboda | For the pioneering work leading to the development of computer research in Czechoslovakis and the design and construction of the SAPO and EPOS computers. |
| 1995 | Gerald Estrin | For significant developments on early computers. |
| 1995 | David Evans | For seminal work on computer graphics. |
| 1995 | Butler Lampson | For early concepts and developments of the PC. |
| 1995 | Marvin Minsky | For conceptual development of artificial intelligence. |
| 1995 | Kenneth Olsen | For concepts and development of minicomputers. |
| 1994 | Gerrit A. Blaauw | In recognition of your contributions to the IBM System/360 Series of computers. |
| 1994 | Harlan B. Mills | In recognition of contributions to Structured Programming. |
| 1994 | Dennis M. Ritchie | In recognition of contributions to the development of Unix. |
| 1994 | Ken L. Thompson | For his work with UNIX. |
| 1993 | Erich Bloch | For high speed computing. |
| 1993 | Jack S. Kilby | For co-inventing the integrated circuit. |
| 1993 | Willis H. Ware | For the design of IAS and Johnniac computers. |
| 1992 | Stephen W. Dunwell | For project stretch. |
| 1992 | Douglas C. Engelbart | For human computer interaction. |
| 1991 | Bob O. Evans | For compatible computers. |
| 1991 | Robert W. Floyd | For early compilers. |
| 1991 | Thomas E. Kurtz | For BASIC. |
| 1990 | Werner Buchholz | For computer architecture. |
| 1990 | C.A.R. Hoare | For programming languages definitions. |
| 1989 | John Cocke | For instruction pipelining and RISC concepts. |
| 1989 | James A. Weidenhammer | For high speed I/O mechanisms. |
| 1989 | Ralph L. Palmer | For the IBM 604 electronic calculator. |
| 1989 | Mina S. Rees | For the ONR Computer R&D development beginning in 1946. |
| 1989 | Marshall C. Yovits | For the ONR Computer R&D development beginning in 1946. |
| 1989 | F. Joachim Weyl | For the ONR Computer R&D development beginning in 1946. |
| 1989 | Gordon D. Goldstein | For his work with the Office of Naval Research and computer R&R beginning in 1946. |
| 1988 | Freidrich L. Bauer | For computer stacks. |
| 1988 | Marcian E. Hoff, Jr. | For microprocessor on a chip. |
| 1987 | Robert R. Everett | For Whirlwind. |
| 1987 | Reynold B. Johnson | For RAMAC. |
| 1987 | Arthur L. Samuel | For Adaptive non-numeric processing. |
| 1987 | Nicklaus E. Wirth | For PASCAL. |
| 1986 | Cuthbert C. Hurd | For contributions to early computing. |
| 1986 | Peter Naur | For computer language development. |
| 1986 | James H. Pomerene | For IAS and Harvest computers. |
| 1986 | Adriann van Wijngaarden | For ALGOL 68. |
| 1985 | John G. Kemeny | For BASIC. |
| 1985 | John McCarthy | For LISP and artificial intelligence. |
| 1985 | Alan Perlis | For computer language translation. |
| 1985 | Ivan Sutherland | For the graphics SKETCHPAD. |
| 1985 | David J. Wheeler | For assembly language programming. |
| 1985 | Heniz Zemanek | For computer and computer languages MAILUEFTERL. |
| 1984 | John Vincent Atanasoff | For the first electronic computer with serial memory. |
| 1984 | Jerrier A. Haddad | For his part in the lead IBM 701 design team. |
| 1984 | Nicholas C. Metropolis | For the first solved atomic energy problems on ENIAC. |
| 1984 | Nathaniel Rochester | For the architecture of IBM 702 electronic data processing machines. |
| 1984 | Willem L. van der Poel | For the serial computer ZEBRA. |
| 1982 | Harry D. Huskey | For the first parallel computer SWAC. |
| 1982 | Arthur Burks | For his early work in electronic computer logic design. |
| 1981 | Jeffrey Chuan Chu | For his early work in electronic computer logic design. |
Computer Pioneer Charter Recipients
On the occasion of the initiation of the Computer Pioneer Award, the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society has named, as charter recipients of this award, the following individuals who meet the Computer Pioneer Award criteria, and who also have received previous computer awards sponsored by the Society.
| Howard H. Aiken | CR | "Large-Scale Automatic Computation" |
| Samuel N. Alexander | CR | "SEAC" |
| Gene M. Amdahl | CR | "Large-Scale Computer Architecture" |
| John W. Backus | CR | "FORTRAN" |
| Robert S. Barton | CR | "Language-Directed Architecture" |
| C. Gordon Bell | CR | "Computer Design" |
| Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. | CR | "Compatible Computer Family System/360" |
| Wesley A. Clark | CR | "First Personal Computer" |
| Fernando J. Corbato | CR | "Timesharing" |
| Seymour R. Cray | CR | "Scientific Computer Systems" |
| Edsgar W. Dijkstra | CR | "Multiprogramming Control" |
| J. Presper Eckert | CR | "First All-Electronic Computer - ENIAC" |
| Jay W. Forrester | CR | "First Large-Scale Coincident Current Memory" |
| Herman H. Goldstine | CR | "Contributions to Early Computer Design" |
| Richard W. Hamming | CR | "Error-Correcting Code" |
| Jean A. Hoerni | CR | "Planar Semiconductor Manufacturing Process" |
| Grace M. Hopper | CR | "Automatic Programming" |
| Alston S. Householder | CR | "Numerical Methods" |
| David A. Huffman | CR | Sequential Circuit Design" |
| Kenneth E. Iverson | CR | "APL" |
| Tom Kilburn | CR | "Paging Computer Design" |
| Donald E. Knuth | CR | "Science of Computer Algorithms" |
| Herman Lukoff | CR | "Early Electronic Computer Circuits" |
| John W. Mauchly | CR | "First All-Electronic Computer - ENIAC" |
| Gordon E. Moore | CR | "Integrated Circuit Production Technology" |
| Allen Newell | CR | "Contributions to Artificial Intelligence" |
| Robert N. Noyce | CR | "Integrated Circuit Production Technology" |
| Lawrence G. Roberts | CR | "Packet Switching" |
| George R. Stibitz | CR | "First Remote Computation" |
| Shmuel Winograd | CR | "Efficiency of Computational Algorithms" |
| Maurice V. Wilkes | CR | "Microprogramming" |
| Konrad Zuse | CR | "First Process Control Computer" |
MATLAB Creator Cleve Moler Wins Computer Pioneer Award
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 11 April, 2012 – MATLAB creator Cleve Moler has the distinction of being named the IEEE Computer Society’s 2012 Computer Pioneer Award recipient.
Cleve MolerMoler, a co-founder, chairman, and chief mathematician of MathWorks, received the honor “for improving the quality of mathematical software, making it more accessible, and creating MATLAB.” MATLAB is a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numerical computation. MATLAB allows for faster solutions to technical computing problems than with traditional programming languages, such as C, C++, and Fortran.
Moler is also the recipient of the 2011 Sidney Fernbach Award for fundamental contributions to linear algebra, mathematical software, and enabling tools for computational science.
In his academic career, Moler served as a professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Michigan, Stanford University, and the University of New Mexico, where he also held the position of chair of the Computer Science department. During his tenure at the University of New Mexico, he developed several packages of mathematical software for computational science and engineering. These packages eventually formed the basis for MATLAB, a high-level technical computing environment.
In 1984, Moler and Jack Little founded MathWorks to commercialize and continue development of MATLAB. Before joining MathWorks full-time in 1989, he spent five years with two computer hardware manufacturers, the Intel Hypercube organization and Ardent Computer. Moler currently serves as chief mathematician at MathWorks.
Moler is the one of the authors of the LINPACK and EISPACK scientific subroutine libraries, as well as author or co-author of five text books on numerical analysis and computational science. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a past president of SIAM, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Moler currently works remotely from his home office in Santa Fe, New Mexico, writing books, articles, and MATLAB programs.
The Computer Pioneer 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 15 years earlier. The recognition is engraved on a bronze medal specially struck for the Society.
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David Kuck Receives 2011 Computer Pioneer Award
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 25 April, 2011 – David Kuck, an influential figure in parallel computing, has been named the 2011 recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award. Over the past four decades, Kuck influenced a wide range of areas, including architecture design and evaluation, compiler technology, programming languages, and algorithms. He is especially well known for his parallel programming productivity tools.
Kuck, winner of a 2010 Ken Kennedy Award, was recognized with a Computer Pioneer Award “for pioneering parallel architectures including the Illiac IV, the Burroughs BSP, and Cedar; and, for revolutionary parallel compiler technology including Parafrase and KAP.2009.” He is set to accept his award at a May 25 dinner in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The Computer Pioneer 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 15 years earlier. The recognition is engraved on a bronze medal specially struck for the Society.
Kuck’s influence has been both theoretical and practical. At University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), he created the Computational Sciences program, which initiated a new and unique research focus that has contributed significantly to UIUC’s multidisciplinary excellence.
The Center for Supercomputing Research and Development (CSRD) at UIUC, which he created, was extraordinarily influential in developing parallel computing technology (from hardware to algorithms) in the era of vectorization and SMPs. As founder and director of Kuck and Associates (KAI) and later as an Intel Fellow, Kuck’s work subsequently influenced industry.
Every compiler in use today incorporates techniques pioneered by Kuck, targeting parallelism in its many forms and managing locality. In this era of multi-core and many-core architectures and petascale supercomputers, this work is now more important than it has ever been adapting software to use new hardware effectively. As an outgrowth of his compiler work, he initiated efforts that led to the development of OpenMP, the most common solution for incorporating threads into scientific applications.
Kuck also influenced the design of several academic and industrial parallel computers, including the Illiac IV (as the only software person on the project), Burroughs BSP, Alliant, and Cedar. Ken Kennedy’s own work was heavily influenced by David Kuck. While on sabbatical at IBM, David provided Kennedy with access to Kuck’s Parafrase system, which was the spark that initiated vectorization research both at Rice (the PFC system) and at IBM (PTRAN).
Kuck graduated more than 25 students, many of whom have gone on to have significant influence in the field in their own right, as academics, authors of influential books, and leaders in industry. They include: Duncan Lawrie, Stott Parker, David Padua, Ron Cytron, Constantine Polychronopolous, Alex Veidenbaum, Michael Wolfe, and Utpal Banerjee.
Last year’s Computer Pioneer Award recipients were Jean Sammet, one of the first developers and researchers in programming languages; and Lynne Conway, who made pioneering contributions to superscalar architecture and the widespread teaching of simplified VLSI design methods.
The 2008 recipients were ENIAC programmer Betty Jean Jennings Bartik and Edward J. McKluskey, developer of the first algorithm for logic synthesis (the Quine-McCluskey method). Bartik, shown in her acceptance video, passed away earlier this month. Click here for the full list of Computer Pioneer recipients.
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Computer Society Names Computer Pioneers
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 20 January, 2010 – University of Michigan professor Lynn Conway, who helped revolutionize Very Large System Integration design, and Jean Sammet, an early programmer and expert on programming languages, are the 2009 recipients of the IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award.
Conway, a University of Michigan professor emerita of electrical engineering and computer science, joined IBM after earning her B.S. and M.S.E.E. degrees from Columbia University. At IBM, she made foundational contributions to superscalar computer architecture in the mid-1960s, including the innovation of multiple-issue dynamic instruction scheduling (DIS).
At Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Conway innovated scalable MOS design rules and highly simplified methods for silicon chip design, co-authoring the famous “Mead-Conway” text and pioneering the new form of university course that taught these methods – thereby launching a worldwide revolution in VLSI system design in the late-1970s.
Her citation reads: “For contributions to superscalar architecture, including multiple-issue dynamic instruction scheduling, and for the innovation and widespread teaching of simplified VLSI design methods.”
Conway also pioneered the Internet-based rapid-chip prototyping infrastructure that was institutionalized as the “MOSIS” system by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the US National Science Foundation–supporting rapid development of thousands of chip designs and leading to many Silicon Valley startups in the 1980s.
After serving as assistant director for strategic computing at DARPA from 1983 to 1985, Conway joined the University of Michigan as professor of EECS and associate dean of engineering. Her VLSI design revolution enabled her multi-issue DIS innovation to come to life in Intel’s Pentium microprocessors.
Conway is an IEEE Fellow, and was the recipient of the University of Pennsylvania’s Pender Award, the Franklin Institute’s Wetherill Medal, Secretary of Defense Meritorious Achievement Award, and the Society of Women Engineers National Achievement Award. She was elected to the Electronic Design Hall of Fame and National Academy of Engineering.
Sammet has a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and an M.A. from the University of Illinois, both in mathematics. She received an honorary D.Sc. from Mount Holyoke in 1978.
Sammet organized and supervised the first scientific programming group for Sperry Gyroscope Co. from 1955 to 1958. She worked at Sylvania Electric Products from 1958 to 1961. While at Sylvania, she served as a key member of the original COBOL committee. She joined IBM in 1961 to organize and manage the Boston Programming Center in the IBM Data Systems Division to do advanced development work in programming. She initiated the concept, and directed the development, of the first FORMAC (FORmula MAnipulation Complier), for which she received an IBM Outstanding Contribution Award In 1965. (FORMAC was the first widely used general language and system for manipulating nonnumeric algebraic expressions.)
During the 1970s, she worked for IBM’s Federal Systems Division, and initiated the concept of, and managed the development of PDI/Ada and handled other Ada activities in IBM. In 1979, she became software technology manager for the division.
Sammet is the author of “PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: History and Fundamentals,” which has become a standard programming textbook, and was described as an “instant computer classic” when it was published in 1969. She taught one of the first graduate courses in programming at Adelphi College from 1956 to 1958.
She was very active in ACM and served as president, vice president, organizer, and first chair of the Special Interest Committee on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation (SIGSAM); chair of the Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN); editor-in-chief of the online sites Computing Reviews and ACM Guide to Computing Literature; general chair and program chair for the first SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages (HOPL) in 1978, and program chair for HOPL-II in 1993.
She also served on the USASI (now ANSI) X3.4 Committee on Programming Languages, and various groups on Ada. She organized and was the first chair of the AFIPS History of Computing committee, and helped start the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.
Her citation reads: “For pioneering work and lifetime achievement as one of the first developers and researchers in programming languages.” She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and among other awards received a 1985 ACM Distinguished Service Award, a 1989 Augusta Ada Lovelace Award from the Association for Women in Computing, and was named a Computer History Museum Fellow in 2001.
Cleve Moler
2012 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award
The IEEE Computer Society presented its 2012 Computer Pioneer Award to Cleve Moler for improving the quality of mathematical software, making it more accessible, and for creating MATLAB. The Computer Pioneer Award honors individuals whose contributions to the development of the computer field occur at least 15 years earlier. Dr. Moler accepted his award at the Computer Society's 13 June 2012 awards ceremony in Seattle, Washington.
Cleve Moler, a co-founder, chairman, and chief mathematician of MathWorks. During his tenure at the University of New Mexico, he developed several packages of mathematical software for computational science and engineering. These packages eventually formed the basis for MATLAB, a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numerical computation. In 1984, Moler and Jack Little founded MathWorks, Inc. to commercialize and continue development of MATLAB.
For more information about Cleve Moler: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/pioneer-cleve-moler
2011 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award
The IEEE Computer Society presented its 2011 Computer Pioneer Award to David J. Kuck for pioneering parallel architectures including the Illiac IV, the Burroughs BSP, and Cedar; and, for revolutionary parallel compiler technology including Parafrase and KAP Tools. Dr. Kuck accepted his award at the Computer Society's 25 May 2011 awards ceremony in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
David Kuck is one of the most influential figures in parallel computing, especially in productivity tools for parallel programming. In the late 1960's and 1970's, Dr. Kuck was involved with the design of the Illiac IV, regarded by many as the first true supercomputer. He then was the main architect of the Burroughs BSP and the Alliant multiprocessor. Dr. Kuck led the construction of CEDAR, a hierarchical, shared-memory, 32-processor landmark supercomputer. Every compiler in use today incorporates techniques pioneered by Kuck, targeting parallelism in its many forms and managing locality.
For more information about David J. Kuck http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/pioneer-kuck
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Lynn Conway
2009 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award
The IEEE Computer Society presented its 2009 Computer Pioneer Award to Lynn Conway for her contributions to superscalar architecture, multiple-issue dynamic instruction scheduling, and simplified VLSI design methods. Professor Conway accepted her award at the Computer Society's 9 June 2010 awards ceremony in Denver, Colorado.
Lynn Conway is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Emerita, at the University of Michigan. At IBM, she made foundational contributions to superscalar computer architecture in the mid-1960s, including the innovation of multiple-issue dynamic instruction scheduling (DIS). At Xerox PARC, Conway co-authored the famous "Mead-Conway" text and launched a world-wide revolution in VLSI system design in the late-1970s.
For more information about Lynn Conway: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/conway
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Jean E. Sammet
2009 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award:
The IEEE Computer Society presented its 2009 Computer Pioneer Award to Jean E. Sammet for pioneering work as one of the first developers and researchers in programming languages. Ms. Sammet accepted her award at the Computer Society's 9 June 2010 awards ceremony in Denver, Colorado.
Jean E. Sammet supervised the first scientific programming group for Sperry Gyroscope Co. from 1955-1958. While working at Sylvania Electric Products (1958-1962), she served as a key member of the original COBOL committee. She joined IBM in 1961 to manage the Boston Programming Center. She initiated the concept, and directed the development, of the first FORmula MAnipulation Compiler (the first used general language and system for manipulating nonnumeric algebraic expressions.) Sammet authored Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals, which was called an instant computer classic when published in 1969.
For more information about Jean E. Sammet: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/sammet
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Betty Jean Jennings Bartik
2008 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award
The 2008 Computer Pioneer Award is awarded to Betty Jean Jennings Bartik "For pioneering work as one of the first programmers, including co-leading the first teams of ENIAC programmers, and pioneering work on BINAC and UNIVAC I". Betty Jean Jennings Bartik holds a B.S. in Mathematics from Northwest Missouri State Teachers College (now Northwest Missouri State University), an M.S. in English from the University of Pennsylvania, and an honorary Doctor of Science from Northwest. Northwest also established the Jean Jennings Bartik Computing Museum to house a history of computing, its emphasis is on PCs, Digital's PDP-11, ENIAC, BINAC and Univac. Northwest became the first electronic campus in 1987 and is now leading the way with electronic textbooks.
For more information about Betty Jean Bartik: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/bartik
IEEE Computer Society Awards Ceremony
Cleve Moler
2012 Computer Pioneer
2012 CS President John Walz and 2012 Awards Chair David Bader presents Computer Pioneer Award to
Cleve Moler at the Awards Ceremony in Seattle, WA - 13 June 2012
(Click on the photo to view from 2012 awards ceremony)
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Previous Awards Ceremony
David J. Kuck
2011 Computer Pioneer
2011 CS President Sorel Reisman presents Computer Pioneer Award to
Dr. David J. Kuck at the Albuquerque Awards Ceremony in New Mexico - 25 May 2011
(Click on the photo to view from 2011 awards ceremony)
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Jean Sammet and Lynn Conway
2009 Computer Pioneer Recipients
(Click on the pictures to view more from the 2010 Awards Ceremony)
Jim Isaak presenting the Pioneer Award to Jean Sammet and Lynn Conway
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Betty Jean Jennings Bartik
2008 Computer Pioneer Recipient
(Click on the picture to view more from the 2009 Savannah Awards Ceremony)
