IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award Recipients

IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Storage Systems Award

2008 - ALAN J. SMITH
Professor
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA

“For contributions to the performance analysis of computer storage systems, including improvements to disk caches, prefetching and data placement” 

2007- Co-Recipients

DAVE HITZ
Executive Vice President and Co-Founder
Network Appliance
Sunnyvale, CA

and

JAMES LAU
Chief Strategy Officer, Executive Vice President and Co-Founder
Network Appliance
Sunnyvale, CA

"For innovation in file system technology, leading to the development of network file server appliances."

2006 - JAISHANKAR M. MENON
Director of Storage Systems Architecture and Design
IBM
San Jose, CA

"For pioneering work in the theory and application of RAID storage systems."

2005 - FRANÇOIS B. DOLIVO
Manager, Pervasive Computing Group
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
Ruschlikon, Switzerland

"For the application of digital signal processing to the magnetic recording channel in hard disk drives."

2004

BRUCE A. GURNEY
Manager, Recording Head and Nanostructure Materials Group
San Jose Research Center, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
San Jose, CA

and

VIRGIL S. SPERIOSU
Vice President of Wafer Development (Retired)
Applied Magnetics Corporation
Goleta, CA

"For key technical contributions to the development of spin valve giant magnetoresistive recording heads for computer data storage devices."


2003 - H. NEAL BERTRAM
Endowed Chair & Professor
Univ of California - San Diego
La Jolla, CA

"For fundamental and pioneering contributions to magnetic recording physics research."

2002 - CHRISTOPHER HENRY BAJOREK
Executive Vice President, Advanced Technology, KOMAG, Incorporated, San Jose, California, USA

'For leadership in the development and manufacturing of magnetoresistive recording heads for data storage devices.'

2001 - TU CHEN
Monte Sereno, California

'For leadership in the advancement of thin-film materials, tools, and processes used for magnetic information disks, and their commercialization as products'

2000 - MARK H. KRYDER
Carnegie-Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA

'For leadership in data storage research and education as founding director of the Carnegie-Mellon Magnetics Technology Center and Data Storage Systems Center.'

1999
DAVID A. PATTERSON
University of California - Berkeley, CA
and
RANDY H. KATZ
University of California - Berkeley, CA
and
GARTH A. GIBSON
Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA

'For the development of the Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) systems.'

1998 - JEAN-PIERRE LAZZARI
SILMAG - St. Egreve, France

'For contributions and key innovations in media and heads for magnetic disk drives.'

1997 - ALAN F. SHUGART
Seagate Technology - Scotts Valley, CA

'For leadership in the evolution of disk drive technology.'

1996 - NOBUTAKE IMAMURA
Tosoh Corporation - Kanagawa-ken, Japan

'For contributions to research, development, and commercialization of magneto-optic recording media and drive systems.'

1995 - JAMES U. LEMKE
Recording Physics, Inc. - San Diego, CA

'For contributions to advancing the science and technology of high density magnetic data storage.'

1994 - DENIS MEE - (IBM Fellow Emeritus)
IBM Corp. - San Jose, CA

'For contributions to the design of optical, magneto-optical, and magnetic recording files.'

1993 - JOHN M. HARKER
IBM Labs. - San Jose, CA

'For leadership in the development of information storage devices, including key contributions to the design of many generations of magnetic disk files.'