Charles Stark Draper Prize
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
- 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.
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