Fellow: IEEE, ACM, AAAS & Member, National Academy of Engineering; Shared with John Hennessy, the IEEE John von Neumann Medal; University of California, Berkeley
(Pioneering contributions to RISC processor design)
Prof. Ian Foster
Fellow: ACM, AAAS, BCS; Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Lab.; Distinguished Professor, University of Chicago
(Introduced Grid Computing)
The Late Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh
Fellow: IEEE, AAAS, ACM, AAAI, IFSA; Member: National Academy of Engineering University of California, Berkeley
(Father of Fuzzy Logic)
Prof. H. J. Siegel
Fellow: IEEE & ACM; Distinguished Professor Colorado State University (formerly at Purdue)
(Pioneering contributions to Heterogeneous Computing)
The Late Prof. John Holland
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan
(Father of Genetic Algorithms)
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
Member: National Academy of Eng., National Academy of Science; Fellow: IEEE, ACM, AAAI; Director, CITRIS University of California, Berkeley
(Pioneering contributions to AI, HCI & vision)
Prof. Firouz Naderi
Former Director, Solar System Exploration, NASA's JPL; Former NASA's Program Manager for Mars Explortion
(Contributed to some of America's most iconic robotic space missions)