Charles Stark Draper Prize
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The Charles Stark Draper Prize is awarded by the National Academy of Engineering for the advancement of engineering and the education of the public about engineering. The Prize is worth $500,000. The prize is named for Charles Stark Draper, the "father of inertial navigation", an MIT professor and founder of the Draper Laboratory.
Previous Winners
(Note: text taken from the website referenced below)- 1989: Jack S. Kilby and Robert N. Noyce for their independent development of the monolithic integrated circuit.
- 1991: Sir Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain for their independent development of the turbojet engine.
- 1993: John Backus for his development of FORTRAN, the first widely used, general purpose, high-level computer language.
- 1995: John R. Pierce and Harold A. Rosen for their development of communication satellite technology.
- 1997: Vladimir Haensel for his invention of "platforming".
- 1999: Charles K. Kao, Robert D. Maurer, and John B. MacChesney for the development of fiber optics.
- 2001: Vinton G. Cerf, Robert E. Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, and Lawrence G. Roberts for the development of the Internet.
- 2002: Robert Langer for the bioengineering of revolutionary medical drug delivery systems.
- 2003: Ivan A. Getting and Bradford W. Parkinson for their work developing the Global Positioning System.
- 2004: Alan C. Kay, Butler W. Lampson, Robert W. Taylor, and Charles P. Thacker for their work on Alto, the first practical networked computer.
- 2005: Minoru S. "Sam" Araki, Francis J. Madden, Edward A. Miller, James W. Plummer and Don H. Schoessler for the design, development, and operation of Corona, the first space-based Earth observation system.
- 2006: Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith for the invention of the Charge-Coupled Device (CCD), a light-sensitive component at the heart of digital cameras and other widely used imaging technologies.
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