David Packard Medal of Achievement
David Packard Medal of Achievement, formerly AeA Medal of Achievement is presented annually by TechAmerica (formerly AeA), since 1959. An award dinner is held to honor the current years recipient and to hear his/her vision of the future of the tech-industry.[1] This award is the highest award bestowed by TechAmerica.
An example of what the new David Packard Medal of Achievement might look like.
Recipients
Recipients are selected for their contributions and advances within the high-tech industry, their community, and humankind.[2]
| Year |
Recipient |
Company |
| 1959 |
H. Leslie Hoffman |
Hoffman Radio |
| |
Richard L. Paullus |
WEMA |
| 1960 |
David Packard |
Hewlett-Packard Company |
| 1961 |
Arnold O. Beckman |
Beckman Instruments |
| 1962 |
Daniel E. Noble |
Motorola |
| 1963 |
Frederick E. Terman |
Stanford University |
| 1964 |
Howard Vollum |
Tektronix, Inc. |
| 1965 |
Charles B. Thornton |
Litton Industries, Inc. |
| 1966 |
Sigurd Varian |
Varian Associates, Inc. |
|
Russell H. Varian |
Varian Associates, Inc. |
| 1967 |
Lawrence A. Hyland |
Hughes Aircraft |
| 1968 |
Alexander M. Poniatoff |
Ampex Corporation |
| 1969 |
John R. Moore |
Rockwell International |
| |
Lee A. DuBridge |
California Institute of Technology |
| 1970 |
Simon Ramo |
TRW |
| 1971 |
William R. Hewlett |
Hewlett-Packard Company |
| 1972 |
Patrick E. Haggerty |
Texas Instruments, Inc. |
| 1973 |
John S. Foster |
U.S. Department of Defense |
| 1974 |
Robert N. Noyce |
Intel Corporation |
| 1975 |
William H. Pickering |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| 1976 |
John M. Fluke |
John Fluke Manufacturing |
| 1977 |
Arthur A. Collins |
Collins Radio |
| 1978 |
C. Lester Hogan |
Fairchild Camera & Instrument |
| 1979 |
William C. Norris |
Control Data Corporation |
| 1980 |
William J. Perry |
U.S. Department of Defense |
| 1981 |
Kenneth H. Olsen |
Digital Equipment Corporation |
| 1982 |
Frank T. Cary |
IBM Corporation |
| 1983 |
John G. Linvill |
Stanford University |
| 1984 |
An Wang |
Wang Laboratories |
| 1985 |
E. E. Ferrey |
American Electronics Association |
| 1986 |
H. Ross Perot |
Electronic Data Systems |
| 1987 |
Thomas J. Davis, Jr. |
Mayfield Fund |
| |
Arthur Rock |
Arthur Rock & Company |
| 1988 |
Robert W. Galvin |
Motorola |
| 1989 |
Thomas J. Watson, Jr. |
IBM Corporation |
| 1990 |
John Young |
Hewlett-Packard Company |
| 1991 |
Ian Ross |
AT&T Bell Laboratories |
| 1992 |
Malcolm R. Currie |
Hughes Aircraft |
| 1993 |
Gordon E. Moore |
Intel Corporation |
| |
Andrew S. Grove |
Intel Corporation |
| 1994 |
Gary L. Tooker |
Motorola |
| 1995 |
J. Richard Iverson |
American Electronics Association |
| 1996 |
James F. Gibbons |
Stanford University |
| 1997 |
Ray Dolby |
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. |
| 1998 |
Dr. Irwin M. Jacobs |
QUALCOMM, Inc. |
| 1999 |
Lewis E. Platt |
Hewlett-Packard Company |
| 2000 |
Charles R. Trimble |
Trimble Navigation Limited |
| 2001 |
W. J. Sander III |
Advanced Micro Devices |
| 2002 |
Edward W. Barnholt |
Agilent Technologies |
| 2004 |
Richard M. Levy |
Varian Medical Systems |
| 2005 |
Thomas J. Engibous |
Texas Instruments, Inc. |
| 2006 |
Chuck Geschke |
Adobe Systems |
| |
John Warnock |
Adobe Systems |
| 2007 |
William T. Archey |
AeA |
| 2008 |
Paul S. Otellini |
Intel Corporation |
| 2009 |
John W. Thompson |
Symantec Corporation |
| 2010 |
Marc Benioff |
Salesforce.com |
| 2011 |
Ray Lane |
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers |
| 2012 |
Reid Hoffman |
Greylock Partners |
References