The IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award is a Technical Field Award of the

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given each year to an individual, multiple recipients, or team up to three in number that has made outstanding contributions to information storage systems. The award is named in honor of

Reynold B. Johnson Reynold B. Johnson (July 16, 1906September 15, 1998) was an American inventor and computer pioneer. A long-time employee of IBM, Johnson is said to be the "father" of the hard disk drive. Other inventions include automatic test scoring equipmen ...

. The award was established in 1991. The award includes a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium. It was last awarded in 2015.

Recipients

* 2015:

Dov Moran Dov Moran ( he, דב מורן; born 1955) is an Israeli entrepreneur, inventor and investor, best known as the inventor of the USB memory stick, and one of the most prominent Israeli hi-tech leaders. Biography Dov Moran was born in Ramat Gan, Isra ...

and Amir Ban and Simon Litsyn * 2014:

John K. Ousterhout John Kenneth Ousterhout (, born October 15, 1954) is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He founded Electric Cloud with John Graham-Cumming. Ousterhout was a professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley ...

and

Mendel Rosenblum Mendel Rosenblum (born 1962) is a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and co-founder of VMware. Early life Mendel Rosenblum was born in 1962. He attended the University of Virginia, where he received a degree in mathematics. Wh ...

* 2013:

Michael L. Kazar Michael L. Kazar is an American engineer and technology executive. Kazar received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and ...

* 2012: Naoya Takahashi * 2011: (no award) * 2010:

Moshe Yanai Moshe Yanai ( he, משה ינאי; born 1949) is an Israeli electrical engineer. He is an inventor, businessman, entrepreneur, aviator, investor,

* 2009:

Marshall Kirk McKusick Marshall Kirk McKusick (born January 19, 1954) is a computer scientist, known for his extensive work on BSD UNIX, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in the present day. He was president of the USENIX Association from 1990 to 1992 and again from 2002 to ...

* 2008: Alan Jay Smith * 2007:

David Hitz David Hitz is an American engineer. In 1992, he, James Lau, and Michael Malcolm founded NetApp, where he became an executive vice president. A graduate of Deep Springs College, Hitz earned a BSE from Princeton University and went on to work as ...

and James Lau * 2006:

Jaishankar Menon Jaishankar Menon (born: 09 August 1956) is an Indian-American computer scientist and researcher. Life and career Menon joined IBM's research team in San Jose, California, in 1982, where he developed RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) ...

* 2005: François B. Dolivo * 2004: Bruce Gurney and Virgil S. Speriosu * 2003: Neal Bertram * 2002:

Christopher Henry Bajorek Christopher Henry Bajorek (born November 26, 1943) is a data storage engineer noted for his leadership in developing and implementing magnetoresistive sensors into magnetic stripe readers, tape drives and hard disk drives. Early life and educ ...

* 2001: Tu Chen * 2000:

Mark Kryder Mark Howard Kryder (born October 7, 1943 in Portland, Oregon) was Seagate Corp.'s senior vice president of research and chief technology officer. Kryder holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a ...

* 1999: David Patterson and

Randy Katz Randy Howard Katz is a distinguished professor at University of California, Berkeley of the electrical engineering and computer science department. Biography Katz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1955. He was first exposed to computers in Ca ...

and

Garth Gibson __NOTOC__ Garth Alan Gibson is a computer scientist from Carnegie Mellon University. Gibson's developed the RAID taxonomy of redundant data storage systems, along with David A. Patterson and Randy Katz. Born in Aurora, Ontario, he holds a Ph.D ...

* 1998: Jean-Pierre Lazzari * 1997:

Alan Shugart Alan Field Shugart (September 27, 1930 – December 12, 2006) was an American engineer, entrepreneur and business executive whose career defined the modern computer disk drive industry. Personal history Born in Los Angeles, he graduated fro ...

* 1996: Nobutake Imamura * 1995:

James U. Lemke James "Jim" U. Lemke (December 26, 1929 - February 22, 2019) was an American physicist and entrepreneur who lived in San Diego. He developed magnetic recording and internal combustion engine technologies. Lemke started six high-tech research & d ...

* 1994: Charles Denis Mee * 1993: John M. Harker

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Biographies of recipients from 2002-2015

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