The Kilby International Awards was an award created by the High Tech Committee of the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce, in 1990 to boost interest in the area.Anderson, Christopher. "Hagelin & Quantum Theory: Holding on by a superstring", ''Nature'' Vol 359 (September 10, 1992) It was named after inventor

Jack Kilby Jack St. Clair Kilby (November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005) was an American electrical engineer who took part (along with Robert Noyce of Fairchild) in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1 ...

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''kilby.org'', The Kilby Awards Foundation The awards were bestowed at the Chamber's annual "Salute to High Technology" dinners, except for the 2003 Awards, which were held in London.

Recipients

Awards were granted in 1990–1998, 2000 and 2003.
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1990

*Truman Cook (Community Catalyst Award) *Mark Fulbright (Student Innovator Award) *

Michael Hawley Michael Jerome Hawley (November 18, 1961 – June 24, 2020) was an American academic and artist working in the field of digital media. Previously at MIT’s Media Laboratory where he was a professor and held the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. end ...

Bell Helicopter Textron Bell Textron Inc. is an American aerospace manufacturer headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. A subsidiary of Textron, Bell manufactures military rotorcraft at facilities in Fort Worth, and Amarillo, Texas, as well as commercial helicopters in ...

1991

*Wendy Copp (Young Innovator Award) * Apple Computer * EDS *

Rockwell International Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate involved in aircraft, the space industry, defense and commercial electronics, components in the automotive industry, printing presses, avionics and industrial products. R ...

Tandy Corporation Tandy Corporation was an American family-owned leather goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. Tandy Leather was founded in 1919 as a leather supply store. By the end of the 1950s, under the tutelage of then-CEO Charles Tandy, ...

Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American technology company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that designs and manufactures semiconductors and various integrated circuits, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globa ...

Raytheon Corporation The Raytheon Company was a major U.S. defense contractor and industrial corporation with manufacturing concentrations in weapons and military and commercial electronics. It was previously involved in corporate and special-mission aircraft unti ...

1992

* Drew Gaffney *

Richard Smalley Richard Errett Smalley (June 6, 1943 – October 28, 2005) was an American chemist who was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy at Rice University. In 1996, along with Robert Curl, also a professor of c ...

John Hagelin John Samuel Hagelin (born June 9, 1954) is the leader of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) movement in the United States. He is president of the Maharishi University of Management (MUM) in Fairfield, Iowa, and honorary chair of its board of t ...

* Fortune Education Summit

1993

* Francis S. Collins * Candace B. Pert * George F. Smoot * Mae C. Jemison *

K. Eric Drexler Kim Eric Drexler (born April 25, 1955) is an American engineer best known for studies of the potential of molecular nanotechnology (MNT), from the 1970s and 1980s. His 1991 doctoral thesis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology was revised and ...

(Young Innovator Award)

1994

* Robert D. Ballard *

Dean Kamen Dean Lawrence Kamen (born April 5, 1951) is an American engineer, inventor, and businessman. He is known for his invention of the Segway and iBOT, as well as founding the non-profit organization FIRST with Woodie Flowers. Kamen holds over 1, ...

* Stephanie L. Kwolek *Michael A. Zasloff * Mark A. Reed (Young Innovator Award)

1995

Vinton Cerf Vinton Gray Cerf (; born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of " the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Bob Kahn. He has received honorary degrees and awards that include ...

Huda Zoghbi Huda Yahya Zoghbi (Arabic: هدى الهبري الزغبي ''Hudā al-Hibrī az-Zughbī''; born 1954), born Huda El-Hibri, is a Lebanese-born American geneticist, and a professor at the Departments of Molecular and Human Genetics, Neuroscience ...

*Harry Orr * Hans Herren *

Jewel Plummer Cobb Jewel Plummer Cobb (January 17, 1924 – January 1, 2017) was an American biologist, cancer researcher, professor, dean, and academic administrator. She contributed to the field of cancer research by studying the cure for melanoma. Cobb was an adv ...

(Lifetime Achievement in Education Award) * Tim Berners-Lee (Young Innovator Award) *Marc Hannah (Young Innovator Award)

1996

* Steve Wozniak *

Helen Murray Free Helen Murray Free (February 20, 1923 – May 1, 2021) was an American chemist and educator. She is most known for revolutionizing many in vitro self-testing systems for diabetes and other diseases while working at Miles Laboratories. The tests a ...

(Lifetime Achievement Award) *Daniel Kaufman *E. Clayton Teague * Kay Toliver *Mike McCue (Young Innovator Award)

1997

James H. Clark James Henry Clark (born March 23, 1944) is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist. He founded several notable Silicon Valley technology companies, including Silicon Graphics, Netscape, myCFO, and Healtheon. His research work in comput ...

*Hector Floyd DeLuca *Sylvia A. Earle *

Barry Marshall Barry James Marshall (born 30 September 1951) is an Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Professor of Clinical Microbiology and Co-Director of the Marshall Centre at the University of Western Australia. Mars ...

*Francine Penny Patterson * Susan Athey (Young Innovator Award)

1998

Leonardo Chiariglione Leonardo Chiariglione () (born 30 January 1943 (age ) in Almese, Turin province, Piedmont, Italy) is an Italian engineer who has led the development of international technical standards for digital media. In particular, he was the chairman of t ...

*Jennifer Harris (Young Innovator Award) * Florence P. Haseltine *Karl M. Johnson (Lifetime Achievement Award) *Zafra M. Lerman *William E. Strickland *Masashi Yanagisawa

2000

*Michael Chasen (Young Innovator Award) *Matthew Pittinsky (Young Innovator Award) * Linus Benedict Torvalds (Young Innovator Award) * Frances Anne Cordova *

Bran Ferren Bran Ferren (born January 16, 1953), is an American technologist, artist, architectural designer, vehicle designer, engineer, lighting and sound designer, visual effects artist, scientist, lecturer, photographer, entrepreneur, and inventor. Ferr ...

*Hendrik Mario Geysen *Margaret Lowman *Martin Schwab *

Ada Yonath Ada E. Yonath ( he, עדה יונת, ; born 22 June 1939) is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular ...

2003

*Onesmo K. ole-MoiYoi *Dame

Bridget Ogilvie Dame Bridget Margaret Ogilvie, (born 24 March 1938) is an Australian and British scientist. Education Ogilvie was born in 1938 at Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia, to John Mylne and Margaret Beryl (née McRae) Ogilvie. During her prim ...

*Ralf David Hotchkiss *Mamphela Aletta Ramphele *

Janna Levin Janna J. Levin (born 1967) is an American theoretical cosmologist and a professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most count ...

(Young Innovator Award)

References

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