IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award
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The IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award is a Technical Field Award of the IEEE given each year to an individual, multiple recipients, or team up to three in number that has made outstanding contributions to information storage systems. The award is named in honor of Reynold B. Johnson
Reynold B. Johnson
Reynold B. Johnson was an American inventor and computer pioneer. A long-time employee of IBM, Johnson is said to be the "father" of the disk drive...

. It is sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems is a company providing mid-range and high-end storage systems, software and services. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. and part of the Hitachi Information Systems & Telecommunications Division....

, and was formerly sponsored by IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

.

The award was established in 1991. The award includes a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.

Recipients

  • 2012: Naoya Takahashi
  • 2011: (no award)
  • 2010: Moshe Yanai
    Moshe Yanai
    Moshe Yanai is an Israeli electrical engineer . He is also a technologist and inventor, businessman, entrepreneur, aviator , investor, multi-millionaire, and philanthropist...

  • 2009: Marshall Kirk McKusick
    Marshall Kirk McKusick
    Marshall Kirk McKusick is a computer scientist, known for his extensive work on BSD, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in the present day. He was president of the USENIX Association from 1990 to 1992 and again from 2002 to 2004, and still serves on the board. He is also on the editorial board of...

  • 2008: Alan Jay Smith
    Alan Jay Smith
    Dr. Alan Jay Smith is a computer scientist and researcher in the field of development and applications of caching strategies and the measurement and analysis of computer storage systems with many important contributions to the field...

  • 2007: David Hitz
    David Hitz
    David Hitz is an American engineer. In 1992, he and James Lau founded NetApp, where he became an executive vice president.A graduate of Deep Springs College, David earned a BSE from Princeton University and went on to work as a senior engineer at Auspex and as an engineer at MIPS Computer...

     and James Lau
  • 2006: Jaishankar Menon
    Jaishankar Menon
    Jaishankar Moothedath Menon is an IBM employee who contributed to RAID technology. Menon is currently responsible for shaping IBM's technical strategy as the Vice-President of Technical Strategy, and he leads IBM's efforts to work with academia to establish innovative research programs and to...

  • 2005: François B. Dolivo
  • 2004: Bruce A. Gurney and Virgil S. Speriosu
  • 2003: H. Neal Bertram

  • 2002: Christopher Henry Bajorek
  • 2001: Tu Chen
  • 2000: Mark Kryder
    Mark Kryder
    Mark Kryder was Seagate Corp.'s senior vice president of research and chief technology officer.Kryder holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Ph.D...

  • 1999: David Patterson
    David Patterson
    David Patterson may refer to:*David Patterson , American professor of computer science at UC Berkeley*Dave Patterson , baseball player...

     and Randy Katz
    Randy Katz
    Randy Howard Katz is a distinguished professor at University of California, Berkeley of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department.Katz received an A.B. from Cornell University , MS from UC Berkeley , and Ph.D...

     and Garth Gibson
  • 1998: Jean-Pierre Lazzare
  • 1997: Alan Shugart
    Alan Shugart
    Alan Field Shugart was an American engineer, entrepreneur and business executive whose career defined the modern computer disk drive industry.-Life:...

  • 1996: Nobutake Imamura
  • 1995: James U. Lemke
  • 1994: Dennis Mee
  • 1993: John M. Harker


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