IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award

2009 - KINAM KIM
Executive Vice President and
Head of DRAM Product and Technology
Samsung Electronics
Gyeonggi-Do, Korea

“For leadership in and contribution to semiconductor memory technology which enabled the growth of low cost consumer data storage devices.”

2008 - STANLEY H. CHARAP
Professor Emeritus, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

“For quantative prediction of the superparamagnetic limit for magnetic recording.”

2007 - MASON L. WILLIAMS
Retired
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
San Jose, CA, USA

“For contributions to the modeling and design of high density magnetic recording”

2006 - ELIYAHOU HARARI
President and CEO
SanDisk
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

and

SANJAY MEHROTRA
Executive Vice-President
SanDisk
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

and

JACK YUAN
Senior Vice-President of Technology
SanDisk
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

“For leadership in the development and commercialization of Flash electrically erasable programmable read-only memory-based data storage products.”