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Harold Pender Award

American award for an engineer who has made significant contributions to society

Memorial Pages

14 memorial pages

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Lynn Conway

01/02/1938 – 06/09/2024

86 years

American computer scientist and electrical engineer

Jackson

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Arno Allan Penzias

04/26/1933 – 01/22/2024

90 years

German-born American physicist

San Francisco

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Mildred Dresselhaus

11/11/1930 – 02/20/2017

86 years

American physicist

Mount Auburn Hospital

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John Henry Holland

02/02/1929 – 08/09/2015

86 years

US university professor ,American scientist

Ann Arbor

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Dennis M. Ritchie

09/09/1941 – 10/12/2011

70 years

American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language

Berkeley Heights

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Maurice Wilkes

06/26/1913 – 11/29/2010

97 years

British computer scientist

Cambridge

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Chauncey Starr

04/14/1912 – 04/17/2007

95 years

United States

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John Backus

12/03/1924 – 03/17/2007

82 years

American computer scientist

Ashland

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Jack Kilby

11/08/1923 – 06/20/2005

81 years

American electrical engineer

Dallas

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George Bernard Dantzig

11/08/1914 – 05/13/2005

90 years

American mathematician

Stanford

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Claude Shannon

04/30/1916 – 02/24/2001

84 years

American mathematician and information theorist

Medford

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Herbert Simon

06/15/1916 – 02/09/2001

84 years

American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist

Pittsburgh

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Hiroshi Inose

01/05/1927 – 10/11/2000

73 years

Japan

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John Presper Eckert

04/06/1919 – 06/03/1995

76 years

Bryn Mawr