IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award

2010 - DAVID B. BOGY
William S. Floyd, Jr. Distinguished Professor in Engineering
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
University of California
Berkeley, CA, USA

"For leadership, education, and technical contributions in the mechanics and tribology of magnetic recording disk drives."

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.”