Computer Pioneer Award

The Computer Pioneer Award was established in 1981 by the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society to recognize and honor the vision of those people whose efforts resulted in the creation and continued vitality of the computer industry. The award is presented to outstanding individuals whose main contribution to the concepts and development of the computer field was made at least fifteen years earlier. The recognition is engraved on a silver medal specially struck for the Society.

This award has now been renamed to "Women of the ENIAC Computer Pioneer Award".

Award types
The award has two types of recipients:
 * Computer Pioneer Charter Recipients - At the inauguration of this award, the individuals who already meet the Computer Pioneer Award criteria and also have received IEEE Computer Society awards prior to 1981.
 * Computer Pioneer Recipients - Awarded annually since 1981.

Computer Pioneer Charter Recipients

 * Howard H. Aiken - Large-Scale Automatic Computation
 * Samuel N. Alexander - SEAC
 * Gene M. Amdahl - Large-Scale Computer Architecture
 * John W. Backus - FORTRAN
 * Robert S. Barton - Language-Directed Architecture
 * C. Gordon Bell - Computer Design
 * Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. - Compatible Computer Family System/IBM 360
 * Wesley A. Clark - First Personal Computer
 * Fernando J. Corbato - Timesharing
 * Seymour R. Cray - Scientific Computer Systems
 * Edsger W. Dijkstra - Multiprogramming Control
 * J. Presper Eckert - First All-Electronic Computer: ENIAC
 * Jay W. Forrester - First Large-Scale Coincident Current Memory
 * Herman H. Goldstine - Contributions to Early Computer Design
 * Richard W. Hamming - Error-correcting code
 * Jean A. Hoerni - Planar Semiconductor Manufacturing Process
 * Grace M. Hopper - Automatic Programming
 * Alston S. Householder - Numerical Methods
 * David A. Huffman 	- Sequential Circuit Design
 * Kenneth E. Iverson - APL
 * Tom Kilburn - Paging Computer Design
 * Donald E. Knuth - Science of Computer Algorithms
 * Herman Lukoff - Early Electronic Computer Circuits
 * John W. Mauchly - First All-Electronic Computer: ENIAC
 * Gordon E. Moore - Integrated Circuit Production Technology
 * Allen Newell - Contributions to Artificial Intelligence
 * Robert N. Noyce - Integrated Circuit Production Technology
 * Lawrence G. Roberts - Packet Switching
 * George R. Stibitz - First Remote Computation
 * Shmuel Winograd - Efficiency of Computational Algorithms
 * Maurice V. Wilkes - Microprogramming
 * Konrad Zuse - First Process Control Computer
 * See external list of Computer Pioneer Charter Recipients

Computer Pioneer Recipients
Source: IEEE Computer Society

Nomination process
All members of the profession are invited to nominate a colleague who they consider most eligible to be considered for this award. The nomination deadline is 15 October of each year.
 * Nomination process