Computerworld Smithsonian Award

The Computerworld Smithsonian Award is given out annually to individuals who have used technology to produce beneficial changes for society. Nominees are proposed by a group of 100 CEOs of information technology companies. The award has been given since 1989.

Winners

1989

1989 - Inaugural winners, all listed: Bell & Howell's Image Plus Search System; Orangeburg School District 5, Orangeburg, South Carolina; Passaic River Basin Early Flood Warning System, Sierra-Micro Inc.; FIX and FAST, Fidelity Investments; The Missing Children Project, University of Illinois; BI Home Escort System; University of Iowa's National Advanced Driving Simulator; Live Aid, Uplinger Enterprise; The, LC Technologies; American Airlines SABRE Reservation Service; The Innovis DesignCenter.

1992

1992 — A Search for New Heroes

1993

1993 — Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, a joint project of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh together with Westinghouse Electric Corporation, established in 1986 by a grant from the National Science Foundation with support from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Its purpose is to develop and make available state-of-the-art high-performance computing for scientific researchers nationwide.

1994

1994 — LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY Parallel Ocean Program

1995

1995 — NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. Integrated Technology Plan
1995 - PharMark Corporation, RationalMed

1996

1996 — Carnegie Mellon FastLab, a multi-university real time financial trading simulator, for visionary use of information technology in the field of education and academia.

1997

1997 — METROPOLITAN TORONTO POLICE, the "Metropolis" program, for technology innovations in policing, including the Computer Aided Dispatch system, the automated 911 Emergency Response System, the Computer-Aided Scheduling of Courts system, the Repository of Integrated Computer Images system, the Criminals Information Processing System, the Computer Assisted Reconstruction Enhancement System, and many others

1998

1998 — UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY'S SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM
1998 - William E. Kelvie, Fannie Mae, the first internet originated mortgage
1998 - Mark R. Basile, Incredible Card Corporation, digital biometric emergency health security and retrieval system
1998 - Home Automated Living, Tim Shriver, voice-activated home automation control software

1999

1999 — Virtual Operating Room, Larry Magid, founder of SafeKids.com and SafeTeens.com

2000

2000 — EBay, Montgomery County Public Schools, Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries, Proton World, Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa, Danfoss Drives, National Marrow Donor Program, RealNetworks, Hawkes Ocean Technology, Delta Air Lines, Blackboard Inc., ROGER MAHABIR, CIO, ROYAL BANK OF CANADA DOMINION SECURITIES for advanced internet security techniques support the buying and selling of foreign currencies over the internet, supporting billions of dollars of business in the first year of operation.