Awards and honors

Bernardo Huberman leads research in information dynamics, examining the relationship between the local actions and the global behavior of large distributed systems, such as the Internet. Huberman, a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science, is one of the creators of the field of ecology of computation.

Robert E. Tarjan is a well-known expert in the design and analysis of computer algorithms. He is a member of Hewlett-Packard's Office of Strategy and Technology. Among other honors, Tarjan has received the Turing Award and the first Nevanlinna Prize in Information Science.

Stan Williams leads HP's quantum science research, exploring new approaches to nanometer-scale electronics that could become the integrated circuits of the future. Among other honors, Williams is a winner of the Feynman Prize for Nanotechnology and the Julius Springer Award for Applied Physics.

Goetz Graefe is one of the most accomplished and influential technologists in the areas of database query optimization and query processing. He is currently pursuing research in business intelligence, specifically on improving robustness, reliability and total cost of ownership of HP's business intelligence products.

Umesh Dayal is a widely known expert in data management, data mining and business-process management who has made fundamental contributions to the field. He leads the intelligent enterprise research program, which combines decision technologies, business-process management and enterprise solutions technologies.

Norman Jouppi is recognized for his groundbreaking work in the design and analysis of high-performance microprocessors and memory systems. He leads the HP Labs effort to design and develop advanced architectures for data systems.

Jeff Mogul has contributed extensively to the understanding and design of Internet protocols and servers, especially – but not exclusively – concerning HTTP. He likes to work at the boundary between networks and operating systems, and at the boundary between corporate and academic research.

Chandrakant Patel, known for his pioneering work in energy-efficient computing, is responsible for strategically engaging in thermo-mechanical research for future microprocessors, workstations, servers and data centers. His research now focuses on developing a "smart" data center that integrates power, cooling and system architecture.

David P. Reed, one of the pioneers of the Internet, is recognized as a worldwide expert on networks, decentralized computing platforms and group information systems. Reed contributed significantly to the TCP/IP technology that underlies today's Internet and World Wide Web, and is now concentrating on network adaptability and scalability and on wireless network architectures.

Ronald Schafer is recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on digital signal processing. Schafer, who co-authored the digital signal processing field's definitive guide and did some of the earliest research in the field, is currently exploring problems of acoustic signal processing for audio communication and entertainment.

John Wilkes is known for his contributions to the understanding of computer storage systems, especially in the area of storage management technology. He enjoys the intermingling of technology from distributed systems and operating systems with that of storage, as well as building bridges to the academic community.

Chosen by their peers, elected members of the NAE members considered to be among the world’s most accomplished engineers.

» Ron Schafer – for research, teaching and leadership in signal processing (1994)

» Bob Tarjan – for fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of data structures and computer algorithms (1988)

Election to membership in the National Academy of Sciences is one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer. Academy membership recognizes those who have made distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

» Bob Tarjan – a principal developer of sophisticated techniques for attaining very high efficiency in the manipulation of computer data structures, he has contributed techniques to many fields, including computational geometry, graph theory and numerical analysis. (1987)

Recognizes an extraordinary record of accomplishments that contributed importantly to the advancement or application of engineering, science and technology.

» Michael Schlansker (2009)
For contributions to architectures and compilers that exploit instruction-level parallelism.

» Chandrakant Patel (2008)
For leadership in thermal and energy management in data centers.

» John Apostolopoulos (2008)
For contributions to the principles and practice of video communications and secure media streaming.

» Marcelo Weinberger (2007)
For contributions to data compression.

» Jack Brassil (2005)
For contributions to computer networking and the communication theoretic analysis of information-hiding and privacy systems.

» Norm Jouppi (2003)
For contributions to the design and analysis of high-performance processors and memory systems.

»Ton Kalker (2001)
For contributions to watermarking technology and its practical applications

» Shih-Yuan Wang (1998)
For research and development of photonic high-speed photodetectors and surface-emitting lasers (1998)

» Prith Banerjee (1995)
For contributions to the application of parallel computing to computer-aided design of VLSI circuits

» Ted Kamins (1991)
For contributions to materials, processes, design, and education in semiconductor electronics

» Ronald Schafer (1977)
For contributions to digital signal processing and speech communication

 

Recognizes outstanding members for their achievements in computer science and information technology, and for significant contributions to the mission of the ACM. 

» Umeshwar Dayal (2008)
For contributions to managing federated, active, and heterogeneous databases

» Norman Jouppi (2006)
For contributions to the design and analysis of high-performance processors and memory systems

» John Wilkes (2002)
For significant contributions to our understanding of computer storage systems, especially in the area of storage management technology

» Jeffrey Mogul (2001)
For significant contributions in operating systems, file systems, Web caching, Internet performance and Internet standards

» Prith Banerjee (2000)
For contributions in parallel computing, specifically in the design of parallel algorithms for VLSI CAD, and the development of parallelizing compiler techniques for distributed memory multiprocessors

» Bob Tarjan (1994)
for fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures

» Ron Schafer – for contributions to the digital signal processing of speech and other acoustic signals

Elected by their peers, AAAS Fellows are recognized for meritorious efforts to advance science or its applications.

» Prith Banerjee – for contributions to the design of parallel algorithms for VLSI computer-aided design, parallelizing compilers, and compilation of high-level language applications to hardware (2005)

» Bernardo Huberman – for seminal contributions to the study of complexity in distributed computational systems (2004)

» Bob Tarjan – for brilliant and important studies of the mathematical foundations of computing science which have resulted in important new data structures and algorithms (1990)

Election to membership honors extraordinary accomplishments in all fields.

» Bob Tarjan – recognized as among the world's most gifted computer scientists for his important algorithms (1990)

Recognizes members who have made advances in knowledge through original research and publication, or made significant and innovative contributions in the application of physics to science and technology.

» Alexandre "Alex" Bratkovski – for contributions to the theory of magnetoresistance and spin injection and design of electronic and spintronic nanodevices, which contributed to the development of a new type of non-volatile magnetoresistance memory devices (2005)

» Bernardo Huberman– for theoretical discoveries of novel phenomena in many condensed matter systems -ranging from superionic conductors to turbulent solids (1981)

Warren Jackson – for work developing photothermal deflection spectroscopy and work on amorphous silicon (1991)

The most senior professional grade awarded by the leading professional body for those working in IT.

» Chris Tofts (2006)
» David Pym (2006)

Recognizes individual contributions and leadership in the achievement of science and technology in the area of electrochemistry and solid-state sciences.

» Ted Kamins – for contributions to the advancement of science and technology, for leadership in electrochemical and solid state science and technology, and for active participation in the affairs of the society (1990)

Awarded for outstanding contributions to the development or application of mathematics.

» Chris Tofts (2004)
» David Pym (1997)

Recognizes members who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics and imaging.

» Giordano Beretta – for achievements in the area of electronic imaging  (2002)

Recognizes members who have served with distinction in the advancement of optics.

» Shih-Yuan (SY) Wang – for advances in optics, particularly high-speed photodiodes (1992)

Awarded for outstanding achievement in imaging science or engineering.

Rodney Shaw – for fundamental contributions in pioneering or inventing many of the critical quantitative avenues within the field of imaging science (1978)

» Giordano Beretta – in recognition of contributions to imaging (2001)

Recognizes members who have made significant technical and scientific contributions in optics and optoelectronics.

» Giordano Beretta – for achievements in the area of electronic imaging (2002)

Scientific and Technical Award ("technical Oscar")

Bill Holland – for contributions to the motion picture industry in the field of motion control technology (1988)

Distinguished Member
» Hans Boehm – author of the primary author of a widely used open source "garbage collector" – a method of automated memory management in systems (2006)

Distinguished Member
» Rob Schreiber – a leader in the fields of high-performance computing languages, compilers, machine architecture, and algorithms (2006)

Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN)
» Hans Boehm  – Distinguished Service Award (2006)

Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS) Hall of Fame
» David P. Reed – co-recipient, most influential paper (2007)

Frederick Emmons Terman award
Bestowed annually to an outstanding young electrical engineering educator in recognition of the educator's contributions to the profession.

» Prith Banerjee – for publishing the textbook "Parallel Algorithms for VLSI CAD" (1996)

Electronics Division Award

» Ted Kamins – for outstanding contributions to the properties of conducting, semiconducting, and insulating films prepared by chemical vapor deposition, of beam recrystallization processes, and of silicon-on-insulator structures (1989)

Outstanding Technical Achievement

Pano Santos – for outstanding achievement in mathematics and for his work bringing technology to projects to help others (2004)

Leadership Award

Jim Brug – for pioneering leadership of joint R&D for the hard disk drive industry and the ATP Ultrahigh Density Heads Project (1997)

Taylor L. Booth Education Award

» Prith Banerjee – for outstanding contributions in advancing computer science and engineering education through research, teaching, writing a graduate level textbook, and developing a new computational science and engineering graduate program (2000)

Leadership Award

Wayne Johnson – for visionary leadership in creating global frameworks to build capacity and accelerate the transfer of knowledge and talent in a federated world (2006)

Meritorious Service Award

Lueny Morell – for superior accomplishments in international engineering education (2006)

Science, Technology & Engineering Emmy Award

Sam Lieu of HP Labs and the team that developed the MPEGscope product line received this award for work that provided the first reliable way to ensure that digital TV viewers would see the picture or hear the sound the way broadcasters intended. (1999)

Presidential Young Investigators' Award
Among the highest honors given by the U.S. government to outstanding young scientists and engineers who are selected for their ability to contribute to the future vitality of the nation's scientific and engineering effort.

» Prith Banerjee – for research in the areas of parallel algorithms and architectures (1987)

Elected membership acknowledges contributions made towards the progress of the engineering profession.

Lueny Morell (2006)

Technology in Content Delivery Award

» Tim Kindberg and Kenton O'Hara – for work on interactive mobile phone walks created to accompany the BBC's Coast TV documentary series. (2005)

Technology in Consumer Electronics Award

» Tim Kindberg and Kenton O'Hara – for an application that allowed walkers to conveniently obtain rich multimedia content with their mobile phones (2005)

Outstanding Contributions Award

» John Wilkes – for his work as lead and chief author of SNIA Shared Storage Model - a framework that captures the functional layers and properties of a storage system, regardless of the underlying design, product or installation (2001)

40 under 40
Honors 40 top innovators under the age of 40

» Susie Wee – for work co-editing the new JPSEC standard for the JPEG-2000 image security. (2007)

Horizon Award
Recognizes companies developing innovative, promising technologies that hold the potential to significantly affect enterprises in the near future

» Memory Spot wireless data chip (2007)
» Tycoon IT resource allocation system (2006)
» Jena Semantic Web toolkit (honorable mention) (2006)
» Molecular-scale cross-bar electronics (honorable mention) (2005)

Top 50 influential Hispanics in technology and business

» Pano Santos – for scientific and philanthropic activities (2005)

Technology of the Year
Recognizes developments that show great potential for redirecting business opportunities and creating new growth in the manufacturing world.

Molecular electronics research (2002)

Northern California's ABC affiliate recognizes community leaders and trailblazers in the region.

Chandrakant Patel - for leadership in science, technology, and education (2007)

Top Young Innovators under 35
An annual list of 35 innovators under the age of 35 judged to exemplify the spirit of innovation in business, technology and the arts.

» Partha Ranganathan – for innovations in power-aware computing systems (2007)
» John Apostolopoulos – for innovations improving the security of streaming video on the Web (2003)
» Susie Wee – for innovations streaming media (2002)

Best of what's new – general innovation
Honors innovations that not only influence the way we live today, but change the way we think about the future.

» Memory Spot wireless data chip (2006)

Scientific American 50 Annual list of 50 technologies that demonstrate outstanding leadership in science and technology.

» Memory Spot wireless data chip (2006)
» Nanoscale circuits (2005)
» Advancements in molecular electronics and nanoimprint lithography (2002)

Best of Small Tech - Researcher of the Year

» Phil Kuekes – for contributions to the nanoscale crossbar latch and other advances (2005)

Global Technology Innovation in Semiconductors, runner up

» Quantum Science Research – for the molecular crossbar latch - a technology that may be able to replace transistors (2005)