The Kilby International Awards was an award created by the High Tech Committee of the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce

North Dallas Chamber of Commerce

The North Dallas Chamber of Commerce is a chamber of commerce located in north Dallas, Texas . It has 900+ members and represents the business community interests in City of Dallas, Dallas County, and the State of Texas. It has long supported regional surface transportation and helped to get...

, in 1990 to boost interest in the area. It was named after inventor Jack Kilby

Jack Kilby

Jack St. Clair Kilby was an American physicist who took part in the invention of the integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments in 1958. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 2000. He is credited with the invention of the integrated circuit or microchip...

. The awards were bestowed at the Chamber's annual "Salute to High Technology" dinners, except for the 2003 Awards, which were held in London.

1990

• Truman Cook (Community Catalyst Award)
• Mark Fulbright (Student Innovator Award)
• Michael Hawley
  Michael Hawley
  Michael Hawley is an educator, artist and researcher working in the field of digital media. Previously at MIT’s Media Laboratory where he was a professor and held the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr...
  
  
• Bell Helicopter Textron
  Bell Helicopter Textron
  Bell Helicopter is an American rotorcraft manufacturer headquartered in Hurst, Texas, near Fort Worth. A division of Textron, Bell manufactures military helicopter and tiltrotor products in and around Fort Worth, as well as in Amarillo, Texas, and commercial rotorcraft products in Mirabel, Quebec,...
  
  

1991

• Wendy Copp (Young Innovator Award)
• Apple Computer
  Apple Computer
  Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...
  
  
• EDS
  EDS
  - Education :* Educational specialist , a terminal academic degree in the U.S.* Episcopal Divinity School, an Episcopal Seminary in Cambridge, Massachusetts* Evansville Day School, an independent college-prep school in Evansville, Indiana- Politics :...
  
  
• Rockwell International
  Rockwell International
  Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate in the latter half of the 20th century, involved in aircraft, the space industry, both defense-oriented and commercial electronics, automotive and truck components, printing presses, valves and meters, and industrial automation....
  
  
• Tandy Corporation
  Tandy Corporation
  Tandy Corporation was a family-owned leather goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas. Tandy was founded in 1919 as a leather supply store, and acquired RadioShack in 1963. The Tandy name was dropped in May 2000, when RadioShack Corporation was made the official name.-History:Tandy began in 1919...
  
  
• Texas Instruments
  Texas Instruments
  Texas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology...
  
  
• Raytheon Corporation

1992

• Drew Gaffney
• Richard Smalley
  Richard Smalley
  Richard Errett Smalley was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University, in Houston, Texas...
  
  
• John Hagelin
  John Hagelin
  John Samuel Hagelin is an American particle physicist, three-time candidate of the Natural Law Party for President of the United States , and the director of the Transcendental Meditation movement for the US....
  
  
• Fortune Education Summit
  Fortune (magazine)
  Fortune is a global business magazine published by Time Inc. Founded by Henry Luce in 1930, the publishing business, consisting of Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, grew to become Time Warner. In turn, AOL grew as it acquired Time Warner in 2000 when Time Warner was the world's largest...
  
  

1993

• Francis S. Collins
  Francis Collins (geneticist)
  Francis Sellers Collins , is an American physician-geneticist, noted for his discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the Human Genome Project . He currently serves as Director of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Prior to being appointed Director, he founded and...
  
  
• Candace B. Pert
  Candace Pert
  Candace Beebe Pert is an American neuroscientist and pharmacologist who discovered the opiate receptor, the cellular binding site for endorphins in the brain.-History:...
  
  
• George F. Smoot
• Mae C. Jemison
• K. Eric Drexler
  K. Eric Drexler
  Dr. Kim Eric Drexler is an American engineer best known for popularizing the potential of molecular nanotechnology , from the 1970s and 1980s.His 1991 doctoral thesis at MIT was revised and published as...
  
   (Young Innovator Award)

1994

• Robert D. Ballard
  Robert Ballard
  Robert Duane Ballard is a former United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is most noted for his work in underwater archaeology. He is most famous for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989,...
  
  
• Dean Kamen
  Dean Kamen
  Dean L. Kamen is an American entrepreneur and inventor from New Hampshire.Born in Rockville Centre, New York, he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but dropped out before graduating after five years of private advanced research for drug infusion pump AutoSyringe...
  
  
• Stephanie L. Kwolek
• Michael A. Zasloff
• Mark A. Reed (Young Innovator Award)

1995

• Vinton Cerf
• Huda Zoghbi
• Harry Orr
• Hans Herren
• Jewel Plummer Cobb (Lifetime Achievement in Education Award)
• Tim Berners-Lee
  Tim Berners-Lee
  Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, , also known as "TimBL", is a British computer scientist, MIT professor and the inventor of the World Wide Web...
  
   (Young Innovator Award)
• Marc Hannah (Young Innovator Award)

1996

• Steve Wozniak
  Steve Wozniak
  Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak is an American computer engineer and programmer who founded Apple Computer, Co. with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne...
  
  
• Helen Murray Free
  Helen Murray Free
  Helen Murray Free is a retired American chemist and educator. She received a B.A. in chemistry from The College of Wooster in 1944 and an M.A. in management from Central Michigan University in 1978. In 1974 she married Alfred Free, a fellow researcher in urinalysis...
  
   (Lifetime Achievement Award)
• Daniel Kaufman
• E. Clayton Teague
• Kay Toliver
  Kay Toliver
  Kay Toliver is a teacher specialising in mathematics education.-Background:Kay Toliver was born and raised in East Harlem and the South Bronx...
  
  
• Mike McCue (Young Innovator Award)

1997

• James H. Clark
  James H. Clark
  James H. Clark is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist. He founded several notable Silicon Valley technology companies, including Silicon Graphics, Inc., Netscape Communications Corporation, myCFO and Healtheon...
  
  
• Hector Floyd DeLuca
• Sylvia A. Earle
• Barry Marshall
  Barry Marshall
  Barry James Marshall, AC, FRS, FAA is an Australian physician, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine, and Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Western Australia. Marshall is well-known for proving that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori Barry James Marshall, AC, FRS, FAA...
  
  
• Francine Penny Patterson
• Susan Athey
  Susan Athey
  Susan Carleton Athey is an American economist. She is currently Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the first female winner of the John Bates Clark Medal.- Early life :...
  
   (Young Innovator Award)

1998

• Leonardo Chiariglione
  Leonardo Chiariglione
  Leonardo Chiariglione is an Italianengineer. He has been at the forefront of a number of initiatives that have helped shape media technology and business as we know them today, in particular he is the chairman and co-founded the Moving Picture Experts Group together with Hiroshi Yasuda.-...
  
  
• Jennifer Harris (Young Innovator Award)
• Florence P. Haseltine
• Karl M. Johnson (Lifetime Achievement Award)
• Zafra M. Lerman
• William E. Strickland
• Masashi Yanagisawa

2000

• Michael Chasen (Young Innovator Award)
• Matthew Pittinsky (Young Innovator Award)
• Linus Benedict Torvalds (Young Innovator Award)
• Frances Anne Cordova
• Bran Ferren
  Bran Ferren
  Bran Ferren is a co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Applied Minds and is an American designer of movie and theater special effects.Bran Ferren is the former president of research and development of Walt Disney Imagineering, as well as the co-founder of Associates and Ferren, a visual effects...
  
  
• Hendrik Mario Geysen
• Margaret Lowman
• Martin Schwab
• Ada Yonath

2003

• Onesmo K. ole-MoiYoi
• Dame Bridget Ogilvie
• Ralf David Hotchkiss
• Mamphela Aletta Ramphele
• Janna Levin
  Janna Levin
  Janna J. Levin is a theoretical cosmologist. She holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology granted in 1993 and a Bachelor of Arts in Astronomy and Physics from Barnard College granted in 1988...
  
  (Young Innovator Award)