Award presented by the California Technology Council
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]
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
