Previous Awardees

Previous Recipients of the George R. Stibitz and Edward O. Wilson Awards (1997-2011)

These honorees came to Bozeman, Montana &
received their awards in person.

The 2011 George R. Stibitz Lifetime Achievement Award:

Federico Faggin

For Foundational Contributions to the Development of the Modern Technological World, Including
the MOS Silicon Gate Technology that Led to the Realization of the World's First Microprocessor in 1971

The 2011 Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Technology
Pioneer Awards:

Jim Lotimer

For Pioneering Modern Fish & Wildlife Monitoring Systems & Biotelemetry Technology

John Kress Peter Belhumeur David Jacobs

For Co-Pioneering Leafsnap - the First Mobile App for Plant Identification

The 2010 George R. Stibitz Computer & Communications Pioneer Award:

Barbara Liskov

For Foundational Contributions to Computer Languages and Object Oriented Programming

Max Mathews

For Pioneering Computer Generated Music and Seminal Contributions to Digital Music Technologies & Software

Steve Sasson

For Inventing the First Digital Camera

The 2010 Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Technology
Pioneer Awards:

Sir Alec Jeffreys

For the Invention of DNA Fingerprinting - the Basis of Modern DNA Evidence

Lynn Margulis

For the Theory of Symbiogenesis and Seminal Contributions to the Understanding of Evolution and Biology

David Quammen

For Exemplary Writing About Science, Biodiversity and the Evolution of Life on Earth

The 2009 Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Technology
Pioneer Awards:

Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe

For Seminal and Exemplary Engineering Work with Ecohydrology

Steve Running

For Pioneering and Seminal Scientific Work with Climatology, Global Warming and Other Aspects of Atmospheric Science

Michael Soulé

For Exemplary Scientific and Public Outreach Work

David Ward

For Scientific Work with Thermal/Hot Spring Microbial Diversity, Ecology and Evolution

The 2006 George R. Stibitz Computer & Communications Pioneer Award:

Edward O. Wilson

For Pioneering the Electronic Encyclopedia of Life

The 2005 George R. Stibitz Computer & Communications Pioneer Awards:

Ross Perot

For Pioneering the Data Processing Industry
and the Founding of EDS

Paul Baran

For Pioneering Distributed Communications &
Packet Switching - the Seminal Foundations
of the Internet

John Blankenbaker

For Pioneering the First Personal Computer:
The Kenbak-1

The 2003 George R. Stibitz Computer & Communications Pioneer Awards:

Ralph Baer

For Inventing the First Home Video Game

Martin Cooper

For Inventing the Cell Telephone



Leroy Hood

For Inventing the Automated DNA Sequencer



Klein Gilhousen

For Principal Designer of the CDMA Digital
Cell Phone Technology



James Russell

For Inventing the Digital Compact Disc



Jon Titus

For Inventing the Mark-8:
The First Hobbyist Microcomputer Kit

The 2001 George R. Stibitz Computer & Communications Pioneer Awards:

Ted Hoff, Stan Mazor & Federico Faggin

Special 30th Anniversary Celebration Awards
for their Co-Invention of the Microprocessor

Stan Mazor
For Co-Inventing the Microprocessor

The 2000 George R. Stibitz Computer & Communications Pioneer Awards:

Steve Wozniak

For Inventing the Apple I & Apple II Computers &
For Co-Founding of the Apple Computer Company



Tim Berners-Lee

For Inventing the World Wide Web



Ray Tomlinson

For Inventing E-Mail

The 1999 George R. Stibitz Computer & Communications Pioneer Awards:

James Harris

For Key Contributions to the Invention of the
First Transistorized Computer - the TRADIC

Vinton G. Cerf

For Pioneering the Internet: Major Design and Development Contributor to the Original ARPANET NCP Protocol and Co-Inventor of the Internet's TCP/IP Protocol

Robert E. Kahn

For Pioneering the Internet: Major Designer of the ARPANET Architecture, Inventor of Open Architecture Networking and Co-Inventor of the Internet's TCP/IP Protocol

The 1998 George R. Stibitz Computer & Communications Pioneer Awards:

Ed Roberts

For Inventing of the First Successful Personal Computer: The Altair

Doug Engelbart

For Inventing the Computer Mouse & For Pioneering the Modern Graphical User Interface

The 1997 George R. Stibitz Computer & Communications Pioneer Awards:

Arthur Burks

For One of the Principal Designers of the ENIAC Computer

Chuan Chu

For Major Design Contributions to the
ENIAC Computer

Jack Kilby

For Inventing the Integrated Circuit &
Co-Inventing the Hand-held Calculator



Jerry Merryman

For Co-Inventing the Hand-held Calculator

James Van Tassel

For Co-Inventing the Hand-held Calculator



Maury Irvine

For Team Project Member of the TRADIC Computer: The First Transistorized Computer

Eldon Hall

For Inventing the Apollo Moon Mission Guidance Computer

Ted Hoff

For Co-Inventing the Microprocessor

Federico Faggin

For Co-Inventing The Microprocessor