IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award Recipients
2009 - DAVID J. DEWITT
John P. Morgridge Professor
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI, USA
“For fundamental contributions to the architecture, algorithms, and implementation of innovative database systems.”
2008 - RICHARD F. RASHID
Senior Vice President or Research
Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, WA
“For contributions to the design of modern operating systems, and for innovation and leadership in industrial research”
2007 - RANDAL E. BRYANT
Professor and Dean, School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
“For seminal contributions to the field of computer-aided circuit design and verification, including the development and promulgation of ordered binary decision diagrams”
2006 - ROBERT K. BRAYTON
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
"For development of the field of logic synthesis from its early inception through industrial maturity."
2005 - JACOB A. ABRAHAM
Professor
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
"For contributions to the development of reliable and testable computer hardware systems."
2004 - LESLIE LAMPORT
Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
Mountain View, CA
'For seminal contributions to the theory and practice of concurrent programming and fault-tolerant computing.'
2003 - GIOVANNI DeMICHELI
Professor, Electrical Engineering Dept.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
'For contributions to computer-aided synthesis of digital systems.'
2002 - BRIAN RANDELL
Professor, Computing Science Department, University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
'For seminal contributions to and leadership in computer system dependability research.'
2001 - RAVISHANKAR K. IYER
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Urbana, Illinois
'For fundamental contributions to measurement, evaluation, and design of reliable computing systems.'
2000 - WILLIAM M. (VELVEL) KAHAN
University of California at Berkley - Berkeley, CA
'For contributions to numerical analysis and standardization of floating-point arithmetic.'
1999 - NARENDRA AHUJA
University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Urbana, IL
'For contributions to computer vision and image processing.'
1998 - JANAK H. PATEL
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Urbana, IL
'For contributions to test generation and computer architecture.'
1997 - SHUN-ICHI AMARI
RIKEN - Wakou-city, Japan
'For pioneering contributions and leadership in neural networks and information geometry.'
1996 - EDWARD J. MC CLUSKEY
Stanford University - Stanford, CA
'For pioneering and fundamental contributions to design automation and fault tolerant computing.'
1995 - YALE N. PATT
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI
'For contributions to computer architecture leading to commercially viable high performance microprocessors.'
1994 - JOHN L. HENNESSY
Stanford University - Stanford, CA
'For contributions to quantitative evaluation of computer architectures and the successful implementation of Reduced Instruction-Set Computer (RISC) architecture.'
1993 - MAKOTO NAGAO
Kyoto Univ., Japan
'For leadership and contributions to natural language processing and computer vision areas.'
1992 - HAROLD S. STONE
IBM Corp. - Hawthorne, NY
'For fundamental contributions to parallel computer technology, and to computer science education.'
1991 - JOSEPH F. TRAUB
Columbia Univ., NY
'For pioneering research in algorithm complexity, iteration theory and parallelism, and for leadership in computing education.'
1990 - ALLEN NEWELL
Carnegie Mellon Univ. - Pittsburgh
'For seminal contributions to artificial intelligence.'
1989 - PETER A. FRANASZEK
IBM Corp. - Hawthorne, NY
'For contributions to the theory and practice of coding for contrained channels in digital recording.'
1988 - GRACE M. HOPPER
Digital Equipment Corp.
'For pioneering contributions in information processing and programming language.'
1987 - DAVID J. KUCK
Univ. of Illinois - Urbana, IL
'For contributions to optimizing compilers for supercomputers.'
1986 - DAVID C. EVANS
Salt Lake City, UT
and
IVAN E. SUTHERLAND
Pittsburgh, PA
'For pioneering work in the development of interactive computer graphics systems and contributions to computer science education.'
1985 - AZRIEL ROSENFELD
Univ. of Maryland, MD
'For fundamental contributions to digital image processing.'
1984 - HARVEY GEORGE CRAG0N
Texas Instruments Inc. - Dallas, TX
'For creative contributions and leadership in uniting computer architecture with the inherent capabilities of the integrated circuit.'
1983 - NIKLAUS WIRTH
Swiss Fed. Inst. of Tech. - Zurich, Switzerland
'For creative contribution to programming language and design methodology as exemplified by his development of the Pascal language.'
1982 - KENNETH L. THOMPSON
and
DENNIS M. RITCHIE
Bell Labs., NJ
'For the creation and development of an operating system of high utility, availability, and instructive value, as embodied in UNIX and its related facilities.'
1981 - NO AWARD
1980 - LAWRENCE R. RABINER
Bell Labs.
and
RONALD W. SCHAFER
Georgia Tech.
'For their contributions to digital speech processing and digital filter design.'
1979 - RICHARD W. HAMMING
U.S. Naval Postgrad. School - Monterey, CA
'For introduction of error correcting codes, pioneering work in operating systems and programming languages, and the advancement of numerical computation.'
1978 - J. PRESPER ECKERT, JR.
Dynatrend, Inc. - Springhouse, PA
'For the design and construction of electronic digital computers which stimulated the development of the computer industry.'
1977 - GEORGE ROBERT STIBITZ
Dartmouth Medical School - Hanover, NH
'For pioneering contributions to the development of computers, utilizing binary and floating-point arithmetic, memory indexing, operation from a remote console, and program-controlled computations.'
