The Computer Pioneer Award was established in 1981 by the Board of Governors of the

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to recognize and honor the vision of those people whose efforts resulted in the creation and continued vitality of the computer industry. The award is presented to outstanding individuals whose main contribution to the concepts and development of the computer field was made at least fifteen years earlier. The recognition is engraved on a silver medal specially struck for the Society. This award has now been renamed to "Women of the ENIAC Computer Pioneer Award".

Award types

The award has two types of recipients: * Computer Pioneer Charter Recipients - At the inauguration of this award, the individuals who already meet the Computer Pioneer Award criteria and also have received

awards prior to 1981. * Computer Pioneer Recipients - Awarded annually since 1981.

Computer Pioneer Charter Recipients

* Howard H. Aiken - Large-Scale Automatic Computation * Samuel N. Alexander - SEAC * Gene M. Amdahl - Large-Scale Computer Architecture * John W. Backus - FORTRAN * Robert S. Barton - Language-Directed Architecture * C. Gordon Bell - Computer Design * Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. - Compatible Computer Family System/ IBM 360 * Wesley A. Clark - First Personal Computer * Fernando J. Corbato - Timesharing * Seymour R. Cray - Scientific Computer Systems *

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- Multiprogramming Control * J. Presper Eckert - First All-Electronic Computer:

ENIAC ENIAC (; Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first Computer programming, programmable, Electronics, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945. Other computers had some of these features, but ENIAC was ...

* Jay W. Forrester - First Large-Scale Coincident Current Memory * Herman H. Goldstine - Contributions to Early Computer Design * Richard W. Hamming -

Error-correcting code In computing, telecommunication, information theory, and coding theory, forward error correction (FEC) or channel coding is a technique used for controlling errors in data transmission over unreliable or noisy communication channels. The centra ...

* Jean A. Hoerni - Planar Semiconductor Manufacturing Process * Grace M. Hopper - Automatic Programming * Alston S. Householder -

Numerical Methods Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation (as opposed to symbolic manipulations) for the problems of mathematical analysis (as distinguished from discrete mathematics). It is the study of numerical methods t ...

* David A. Huffman - Sequential Circuit Design * Kenneth E. Iverson - APL * Tom Kilburn - Paging Computer Design * Donald E. Knuth - Science of Computer

Algorithms In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm () is a finite sequence of mathematically rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation. Algorithms are used as specifications for per ...

* Herman Lukoff - Early Electronic Computer Circuits * John W. Mauchly - First All-Electronic Computer:

* Gordon E. Moore - Integrated Circuit Production Technology *

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- Contributions to

Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

* Robert N. Noyce - Integrated Circuit Production Technology * Lawrence G. Roberts - Packet Switching * George R. Stibitz - First Remote Computation * Shmuel Winograd - Efficiency of Computational

* Maurice V. Wilkes - Microprogramming *

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- First Process Control Computer * See external list o
Computer Pioneer Charter Recipients

Computer Pioneer Recipients

Source
IEEE Computer Society

Nomination process

All members of the profession are invited to nominate a colleague who they consider most eligible to be considered for this award. The nomination deadline is 15 October of each year.
Nomination process

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