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2017 Fellow Awards

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Channel: Computer History Museum · 2017 · Science & Technology

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[Recorded April 28, 2017] 
The annual Computer History Museum Fellow Awards program publicly recognizes individuals of outstanding merit who have significantly contributed to the development of computing broadly-defined. Chosen on the basis of accomplishment, Fellows are nominated by the Museum's community and selected by a panel composed of Museum staff, historians, industry peers, and other Computer History Museum Fellows. Each year, a who's who of the technology world assembles at the museum for a banquet and ceremony to honor these industry leaders who have forever changed the world with their accomplishments. 
 
The 2017 Fellow Awards honorees are: 
 
Alan Cooper, for his invention of the visual development environment in Visual BASIC, and for his pioneering work in establishing the field of interaction design and its fundamental tools.

Margaret Hamilton, for her leadership and work on software for DOD and NASA's Apollo space missions and for fundamental contributions to software engineering. 
 
Cleve Moler, for his creation and development of the MATLAB numerical computing environment and programming language. 
 
Larry Roberts, for his contributions to human and machine communications and for his role in the development of the ARPANET and the X.25 protocol.

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