David Packard Medal of Achievement (formerly AeA Medal of Achievement) is presented by the California Technology Council. The Medal was previously presented by TechAmerica (formerly AeA ), between 1959 and the ultimate closure and breakup of TechAmerica in 2013. An award dinner is held to honor the current recipient and to hear from a variety of those influenced by the honoree, including an expression of their impact on the technology industry.[ 1] This award is the highest award bestowed by the California Technology Council.
An example of what the new David Packard Medal of Achievement might look like.
Recipients are selected for their contributions to technology, community, and humankind.[ 2]
Year
Recipient
Company
1959
H. Leslie Hoffman
Hoffman Radio
Richard L. Paullus
WEMA
1960
David Packard
Hewlett-Packard Company
1961
Arnold O. Beckman
Beckman Instruments
1962
Daniel E. Noble
Motorola
1963
Frederick E. Terman
Stanford University
1964
Howard Vollum
Tektronix, Inc.
1965
Charles B. Thornton
Litton Industries, Inc.
1966
Sigurd Varian
Varian Associates, Inc.
Russell H. Varian
Varian Associates, Inc.
1967
Lawrence A. Hyland
Hughes Aircraft
1968
Alexander M. Poniatoff
Ampex Corporation
1969
John R. Moore
Rockwell International
Lee A. DuBridge
California Institute of Technology
1970
Simon Ramo
TRW
1971
William R. Hewlett
Hewlett-Packard Company
1972
Patrick E. Haggerty
Texas Instruments, Inc.
1973
John S. Foster
U.S. Department of Defense
1974
Robert N. Noyce
Intel Corporation
1975
William H. Pickering
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
1976
John M. Fluke
John Fluke Manufacturing
1977
Arthur A. Collins
Collins Radio
1978
C. Lester Hogan
Fairchild Camera & Instrument
1979
William C. Norris
Control Data Corporation
1980
William J. Perry
U.S. Department of Defense
1981
Kenneth H. Olsen
Digital Equipment Corporation
1982
Frank T. Cary
IBM Corporation
1983
John G. Linvill
Stanford University
1984
An Wang
Wang Laboratories
1985
E. E. Ferrey
American Electronics Association
1986
H. Ross Perot
Electronic Data Systems
1987
Thomas J. Davis, Jr.
Mayfield Fund
Arthur Rock
Arthur Rock & Company
1988
Robert W. Galvin
Motorola
1989
Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
IBM Corporation
1990
John Young
Hewlett-Packard Company
1991
Ian Ross
AT&T Bell Laboratories
1992
Malcolm R. Currie
Hughes Aircraft
1993
Gordon E. Moore
Intel Corporation
Andrew S. Grove
Intel Corporation
1994
Gary L. Tooker
Motorola
1995
J. Richard Iverson
American Electronics Association
1996
James F. Gibbons
Stanford University
1997
Ray Dolby
Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
1998
Dr. Irwin M. Jacobs
QUALCOMM, Inc.
1999
Lewis E. Platt
Hewlett-Packard Company
2000
Charles R. Trimble
Trimble Navigation Limited
2001
W. J. Sander III
Advanced Micro Devices
2002
Edward W. Barnholt
Agilent Technologies
2004
Richard M. Levy
Varian Medical Systems
2005
Thomas J. Engibous
Texas Instruments, Inc.
2006
Chuck Geschke
Adobe Systems
John Warnock
Adobe Systems
2007
William T. Archey
AeA
2008
Paul S. Otellini
Intel Corporation
2009
John W. Thompson
Symantec Corporation
2010
Marc Benioff
Salesforce.com
2011
Ray Lane
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
2012
Reid Hoffman
Greylock Partners