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HP Senior Fellow wins Blaise Pasqual medal
Blaise Pascal Medal (June 2004)

HP Senior Fellow Robert E. Tarjan has been named winner of the 2004 Blaise Pascal Medal in Mathematics and Computer Science for his contributions to computer science and for the development of fundamental computer algorithms.

Tarjan, who has also received the prestigious A.M. Turing Award, is a well-known expert in the design and analysis of computer algorithms. He is the inventor or co-inventor of the most efficient known algorithms and data structures for problems in a wide variety of application areas.

Turing Award Honors Alan Kay As Pioneer Of Personal Computers
ACM The Association for Computing Machinery (April 2004)

ACM has named Alan Kay the winner of the 2003 Turing Award, considered the "Nobel Prize of Computing," for leading the team that invented Smalltalk, an influential programming language that used object-oriented concepts, and for fundamental contributions to personal computing. Smalltalk, the first complete dynamic object-oriented programming language, included a revolutionary visual authoring environment that is now common in computer applications.

Alan Kay named recipient of Draper Prize
National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Charles Stark Draper Prize (February 2004)

HP Senior Fellow Alan Kay received the engineering profession's highest honor for his contribution to the invention of the networked personal computer in the 1970s. Kay and three of his former colleagues at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) were honored for the invention of the Alto, an achievement, the NAE said, that "has changed almost every aspect of our lives." In addition to work on the Alto's software design, Kay invented an early personal computer in the 1960s, dynamic object-orented programming and the overlapping window graphical user interface (GUI). Kay is currently researching and developing new open source software platforms for devices and distributed applications at HP Labs.

MIT Technology Review
Top 100 Innovators (September 2003)

John Apostolopoulos, a senior research scientist in HP Labs' Streaming Media Systems group, has been named one of the world's top young innovators for his work in multimedia communication. The TR100, chosen by MIT's Technology Review and an elite panel of judges, consists of 100 innovators under age 35 whose work in technology promises to have a profound impact on the world.

VLIW Pioneer Wins Computer Architecture's Most Prestigious Award
(June 2003)

Senior HP Fellow Joseph A. ("Josh") fisher received the Eckert-Mauchly Award for his contributions to instruction-level processors (ILP) and compilers that use a style of architecture called VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word). The award, presented jointly by the IEEE and ACM, recognized Fisher's pioneering research on VLIW, which enables faster processing, and his work on ILP and custom-fit processors, widely used in special-purpose devices such as mobile phones. These inventions, the technical organizations said, "have had a lasting impact on much of computer architecture."

IEEE Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Engineering Professionalism
(April 2003)

HP Labs researcher Abigail Sellen and her co-author received the IEEE Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Engineering Professionalism for their book, exploring why the paperless office has never come to be. In The Myth of the Paperless Office, Sellen and co-author Richard Harper say that despite the fact that the paperless office has been heralded for more than 30 years, the use of paper has actually increased.