American engineering award
TheHarold Pender Award, initiated in 1972 and named after founding DeanHarold Pender, is given by the Faculty of theSchool of Engineering and Applied Science of theUniversity of Pennsylvania to an outstanding member of the engineering profession who has achieved distinction by significant contributions to society.[1] The Pender Award is the School of Engineering's highest honor.[2][3]
- 2018:Yann LeCun, for his work inconvolutional neural networks.
- 2013:Barbara Liskov, for her work in programming languages, programming methodology and distributed systems.
- 2010:Robert E. Kahn andVinton G. Cerf, for their pioneering and seminal contributions to network-based information technology, and especially for the design and implementation of theTCP/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-basednanostructures andnanotechnology, and for promoting opportunities for women in science and engineering
- 2003:Dennis Ritchie andKen Thompson, for development of theUNIX operating system andC programming language
- 2002:John J. Hopfield, for his pioneering accomplishments in the field ofcomputational neuroscience and neuroengineering
- 2000:Jack St. Clair Kilby, for his contribution to the invention of theintegrated circuit, or microchip
- 1999:John H. Holland, founder ofgenetic algorithms and innovative research in the science ofcomplexity and adaptation
- 1995:George Dantzig, developer of thesimplex algorithm spawning the field oflinear 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 microwaveblackbody radiation of the universe
- 1990:Dana S. Scott, pioneer in application of concepts fromlogic andalgebra to the development of mathematicalsemantics ofprogramming languages
- 1989:Leo Esaki, pioneer in tunneling phenomena insemiconductors and development ofquantum well structures
- 1988:John Bardeen, co-inventor of thetransistor and contributor to the theory ofsuperconductivity
- 1987:Herbert A. Simon, contributor to cross-disciplinary work between computer science, psychology, economics, and management, including the development ofartificial intelligence andcognitive science
- 1986:Ronold W. P. King, leader in the development ofelectromagnetic antenna theory
- 1985:Amnon Yariv, innovator inquantum electronics andintegrated optics
- 1984:Carver Mead andLynn Conway, developers ofCAD techniques forVLSI technology and authors of first VLSI textbook
- 1983:John Backus, developer of speed-coding andFORTRAN
- 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 ofalgebraic coding theory
- 1980:Robert N. Noyce, developer of theintegrated circuit
- 1979:Edwin H. Land, Inventor of instantphotography
- 1978:Claude E. Shannon, creator of quantitativeInformation theory
- 1977:Jan A. Rajchman, electronic and computer research
- 1976:Hyman G. Rickover, USN, father of the nuclear navy
- 1975:Chauncey Starr, founder of theElectric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
- 1974:Peter C. Goldmark, inventor of the 33-1/3 rpm long-playing record (among other things)
- 1973:John Mauchly andJ. Presper Eckert, inventors ofENIAC
- 1972:Edward E. David Jr., science advisor to thePresident of the United States
