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 fututre of the tech-industry.[1] This award is the highest award bestowed by TechAmerica.
The 2008 recipient of the Medal of Achievement is the president and Chief Executive Officer of Intel Corporation, Paul Otellini. Otellini received his bachelor degree in economics from University of San Francisco; later receiving a MBA from the University of California, Berkley. In 1974, Otellini joined in Intel, working for various branches. Otellini was elected to the board of directors, promoted to president and promoted to chief operating officer of Intel in 2002. In 2005, he was again promoted to CEO of Intel . [2]
Recipients are selected for their contributions and advances within the high-tech industry, their community, and humankind.[3]
| 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 Rano
|
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
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