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Pender Lecture

2018: Yann LeCun – for pioneering contributions in the development of deep convolutional neural networks.

2013: Barbara Liskov – for pioneering contributions to programming languages and software system design.

2010: Robert E. Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf – for their pioneering and seminal contributions to network-based information technology, and especially for the design and implementation of the TCP/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-based nanostructures and nanotechnology, and for promoting opportunities for women in science and engineering.

2003: Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson – for development of the UNIX operating system and C programming language.

2002: John J. Hopfield – for his pioneering accomplishments in the field of Computational Neuroscience and Neuroengineering.

2000: Jack St. Clair Kilby – for his contribution to the invention of the integrated circuit, or microchip.

1999: John H. Holland – Founder of genetic algorithms and innovative research in the science of complexity and adaptation.

1995: B. George Dantzig, – Developer of the simplex algorithm spawning the field of linear 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 microwave blackbody radiation of the universe.

1990
: Dana S. Scott – Pioneer in application of concepts from logic and algebra to the development of mathematical semantics of programming languages.

1980:
Leo Esaki – Pioneer in tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and development of quantum well structures.

1988:
John Bardeen – Co-inventor of the transistor and contributor to the theory of superconductivity.

1987:
Herbert A. Simon – Contributor to cross-disciplinary work between computer science, psychology, economics, and management, including the development of artificial intelligence and cognitive science.

1986: Ronold W. P. King – Leader in the development of electromagnetic antenna theory.

1985:
Amnon Yariv – Innovator in quantum electronics and integrated optics.

1984:
Carver Mead and Lynn Conway – Developers of CAD techniques for VLSI technology and authors of first VLSI textbook.

1983:
John Backus – Developer of speed-coding and FORTRAN.

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 of algebraic coding theory.

1980:
Robert H. Noyce – Developer of the integrated circuit.

1979:
Edwin H. Land – Inventor of instant photography.

1978:
Claude E. Shannon – Creator of quantitative philosophy of information.

1977:
Jan A. Rajchman – Electronic and computer research.

1976:
Hyman G. Rickover – USN, Father of the Nuclear Navy.

1975:
Chauncey Starr – Director of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).

1974:
Peter C. Goldmark – Inventor of the 33-1/3 rpm long-playing record (among other things).

1973:
John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert – Inventors of ENIAC.

1972:
Edward E. David, Jr. – Science Advisor to the President of the United States.


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