Computer Pioneer Award

The Computer Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computer Society has been awarded since 1981 for outstanding achievements in computer date back at least 15 years. It is connected to a silver medal.

Award winners

In addition, there were 1981 Foundation award winner (charter Recipients ):

ARM architecture Matlab ILLIAC Jean E. Sammet UNIVAC I Edward J. McCluskey Carl Adam Petri Petri net Martin Richards (computer scientist) Per Brinch Hansen Harold Lawson Herbert Freeman Sperry Corporation Barney Oldfield Betty Holberton Aberdeen Proving Ground Sergey Alexeyevich Lebedev Grigore Moisil Antonín Svoboda Gerald Estrin David C. Evans Gerrit Blaauw Harlan Mills Dennis Ritchie Willis Ware Compiler Thomas E. Kurtz BASIC Werner Buchholz John Cocke IBM 604 Mina Rees Fritz Joachim Weyl Whirlwind I Reynold B. Johnson Niklaus Wirth Cuthbert Hurd James H. Pomerene Algol 68 John G. Kemeny John McCarthy (computer scientist) Lisp (programming language) Heinz Zemanek IBM 701 Nicholas Metropolis Nathaniel Rochester (computer scientist) Willem van der Poel Arthur Burks Jeffrey Chuan Chu Howard H. Aiken Gene Amdahl Robert S. Barton Wesley A. Clark Time-sharing J. Presper Eckert Alston Scott Householder David A. Huffman Kenneth E. Iverson APL (programming language) Tom Kilburn Donald Knuth Herman Lukoff Gordon Moore Allen Newell Robert Noyce George Stibitz Shmuel Winograd Konrad Zuse

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