The Computer Pioneer Award was established in 1981 by the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society 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 IEEE Computer Society 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 Wesley Allison Clark (April 10, 1927 – February 22, 2016) was an American physicist who is credited for designing the first modern personal computer. He was also a computer designer and the main participant, along with Charles Molnar, in the ...

- First Personal Computer * Fernando J. Corbato - Timesharing * Seymour R. Cray - Scientific Computer Systems * Edsger W. Dijkstra - Multiprogramming Control * J. Presper Eckert - First All-Electronic Computer: ENIAC * Jay W. Forrester - First Large-Scale Coincident Current Memory *

Herman H. Goldstine Herman Heine Goldstine (September 13, 1913 – June 16, 2004) was a mathematician and computer scientist, who worked as the director of the IAS machine at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study and helped to develop ENIAC, the ...

- Contributions to Early Computer Design * Richard W. Hamming -

Error-correcting code In computing, telecommunication, information theory, and coding theory, an error correction code, sometimes error correcting code, (ECC) is used for controlling errors in data over unreliable or noisy communication channels. The central idea i ...

* Jean A. Hoerni - Planar Semiconductor Manufacturing Process * Grace M. Hopper - Automatic Programming * Alston S. Householder - Numerical Methods * David A. Huffman - Sequential Circuit Design *

Kenneth E. Iverson Kenneth Eugene Iverson (17 December 1920 – 19 October 2004) was a Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the programming language APL. He was honored with the Turing Award in 1979 "for his pioneering effort in programming l ...

- APL *

Tom Kilburn Tom Kilburn (11 August 1921 – 17 January 2001) was an English mathematician and computer scientist. Over the course of a productive 30-year career, he was involved in the development of five computers of great historical significance. With ...

- Paging Computer Design * Donald E. Knuth - Science of Computer

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

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

Gordon E. Moore Gordon Earle Moore (born January 3, 1929) is an American businessman, engineer, and the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Intel Corporation. He is also the original proponent of Moore's law. As of March 2021, Moore's net worth is report ...

- Integrated Circuit Production Technology *

Allen Newell Allen Newell (March 19, 1927 – July 19, 1992) was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND Corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Depart ...

- Contributions to

Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech ...

* 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 Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) was a British computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), one of the earliest stored program computers, and who inv ...

- Microprogramming *

Konrad Zuse Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse (; 22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program- ...

- 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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