Harold Pender Award

Past recipients

• 2018: Yann LeCun, for his work in convolutional neural networks.
• 2013: Barbara Liskov, for her work in programming languages, programming methodology and distributed systems.
• 2010: Robert E. Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf, for their pioneering and seminal contributions to network-based information technology, and especially for the design and implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite, which continues to provide the foundation for the growing Internet
• 2006: Mildred Dresselhaus, for pioneering contributions and leadership in the field of carbon-based nanostructures and nanotechnology, and for promoting opportunities for women in science and engineering
• 2003: Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, for development of the UNIX operating system and C programming language
• 2002: John J. Hopfield, for his pioneering accomplishments in the field of computational neuroscience and neuroengineering
• 2000: Jack St. Clair Kilby, for his contribution to the invention of the integrated circuit, or microchip
• 1999: John H. Holland, founder of genetic algorithms and innovative research in the science of complexity and adaptation
• 1995: George Dantzig, developer of the simplex algorithm spawning the field of linear programming
• 1993: Hiroshi Inose, leader in advances in digital communication and in increasing our understanding of the effects of information flow on society
• 1991: Arno Penzias, discoverer of the background microwave blackbody radiation of the universe
• 1990: Dana S. Scott, pioneer in application of concepts from logic and algebra to the development of mathematical semantics of programming languages
• 1989: Leo Esaki, pioneer in tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and development of quantum well structures
• 1988: John Bardeen, co-inventor of the transistor and contributor to the theory of superconductivity
• 1987: Herbert A. Simon, contributor to cross-disciplinary work between computer science, psychology, economics, and management, including the development of artificial intelligence and cognitive science
• 1986: Ronold W. P. King, leader in the development of electromagnetic antenna theory
• 1985: Amnon Yariv, innovator in quantum electronics and integrated optics
• 1984: Carver Mead and Lynn Conway, developers of CAD techniques for VLSI technology and authors of first VLSI textbook
• 1983: John Backus, developer of speed-coding and FORTRAN
• 1982: Maurice V. Wilkes, developer of world's second large-scale general-purpose electronic digital computer and author of first digital computer programmers textbook
• 1981: Richard W. Hamming, father of algebraic coding theory
• 1980: Robert H. Noyce, developer of the integrated circuit
• 1979: Edwin H. Land, Inventor of instant photography
• 1978: Claude E. Shannon, creator of quantitative Information theory
• 1977: Jan A. Rajchman, electronic and computer research
• 1976: Hyman G. Rickover, USN, father of the nuclear navy
• 1975: Chauncey Starr, founder of the Electric Power Research Institute
• 1974: Peter C. Goldmark, inventor of the 33-1/3 rpm long-playing record
• 1973: John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, inventors of ENIAC
• 1972: Edward E. David Jr., science advisor to the President of the United States