| Year | Recipient |
|---|
| 2001 |
Dan Bricklin |
| Bob Frankston |
| 2000 |
Donna Shirley |
| 1999 |
JackS. Kilby |
| 1998 |
John R. Conrad |
| 1997 |
Frank Kreith |
| 1996 |
Wilson Greatbatch |
| 1995 |
George W. Housner |
| 1994 |
Kenneth H. Olson |
| 1993 |
William States Lee |
| 1992 |
Leon M. Lederman |
| 1991 |
Frank Borman |
| 1990 |
John H. Sununu |
| 1989 |
Sherwood L. Fawcett |
| 1988 |
James McDonald |
| 1987 |
Grace Murray Hopper |
| 1986 |
Mark Shepherd, Jr. |
| 1985 |
Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. |
| 1984 |
Robert W. Galvin |
| 1983 |
John Bardeen |
| 1982 |
Manson Benedict |
| 1981 |
John E. Swearingen |
| 1980 |
Neil A. Armstrong |
| 1979 |
Marvin Camras |
| 1978 |
Dixy Lee Ray |
| 1977 |
Michael Tenenbaum |
| 1976 |
Ralph B. Peck |
| 1975 |
David Packard |
| 1974 |
John D. deButts |
| 1973 |
John A. VolIe |
| 1972 |
Thomas Otten Paine |
| 1971 |
William L. Everitt |
| 1970 |
H.G. Rickover |
| 1969 |
Nathan M. Newmark |
| 1968 |
James B. Fisk |
| 1967 |
Frederick Lawson Hovde |
| 1966 |
Augustus Braun Kinzel |
| 1965 |
Glenn Theodore Seaborg |
| 1964 |
John Slezak |
| 1963 |
Philip Sporn |
| 1962 |
Alexander C. Monteith |
| 1961 |
William V. Kahler |
| 1960 |
Herbert Payne Sedwick |
| 1959 |
James R. Killian, Jr. |
| 1958 |
Ben Moreell |
| 1957 |
Walker Lee Cisler |
| 1956 |
Robert E. Wilson |
| 1955 |
Charles Erwin Wilson |
| 1954 |
Lillian Moller Gilbreth |
| 1953 |
Gustav Egloff |
| 1952 |
Henry Townley Heald |
| 1951 |
Edwin Howard Armstrong |
| 1950 |
Wilfred Sykes |
| 1949 |
John Lucian Savage |
| 1948 |
Ralph Edward Flanders |
| 1947 |
Karl Taylor Compton |
| 1946 |
Vannevar Bush |
| 1945 |
Arthur Holly Compton |
| 1944 |
Henry Ford |
| 1943 |
Andrey Abraham Potter |
| 1942 |
William Lamont Abbott |
| 1941 |
Ralph Budd |
| 1940 |
Daniel Cowan Jackling |
| 1939 |
Daniel Webster Mead |
| 1938 |
Frank Baldwin Jewett |
| 1937 |
Frederick Gardner Cottrell |
| 1936 |
Charles Franklin Kettering |
| 1935 |
Ambrose Swasey |
| 1932 |
William David |
| 1931 |
Ralph Modjeski |
| 1930 |
Mortimer Elwyn Cooley |
| 1929 |
Bion Joseph Arnold |
| 1928 |
Michael Idvorsky Pupin |
| 1927 |
Orville Wright |
| 1926 |
John Watson Alvord |
| 1925 |
Jonas Waldo Smith |
| 1924 |
Arthur N. Talbot |
| 1922 |
Robert W. Hunt |
| 1919 |
Herbert C. Hoover |
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Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston came up with the idea of a
computerized spreadsheet program in 1977. At the time, Mr. Bricklin, a then-Harvard
MBA student realized that a visible, interactive spreadsheet would be more efficient than
a manual one. A year later, the software program was complete and the two inventors formed a company called Software Arts, Inc. By late 1979, it was retailing for $100; by mid-1982 over 400,000 copies had been sold.
VisiCalc's success can be measured in more than just sales figures. It was one of the first applications that could be run on a personal computer, which helped establish the PC as a legitimate tool for the average consumer or business user. In
the late l970s, the software was instrumental in transforming hardware manufacturers such as Apple, IBM and Hewlett Packard into dominant industry players.
After the success of VisiCalc, the software industry exploded with the proliferation
of software programs, including other spreadsheets. The rapidly expanding computer industry created hundreds of new high tech positions and
fueled the rise of
entrepreneurialism in the mid- to late- 1980s.
In 1985, Lotus Software purchased Software Arts. Since that time, Mr. Bricklin founded a number of technology-based companies including
Trellix Corporation in 1995, where he currently serves as Chief Technology Officer.
He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering/computer science from MIT in 1973 and an MBA from Harvard University in 1979.
Bob Frankston worked for Microsoft from 1993-1998. Previously, he worked with Mr. Bricklin at Slate Corporation from 1990-1992. Prior to that, he
was with Lotus. Mr. Frankston received SB degrees in both computer science and mathematics
in 1970. He received Master’s and engineer’s degrees in computer science and electrical engineering in 1974.
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