Fred Brooks - Awards

Awards

In chronological order:

  • Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (1968)
  • McDowell Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Computer Art, IEEE Computer Group (1970)
  • Computer Sciences Distinguished Information Services Award, Information Technology Professionals (1970)
  • Guggenheim Fellowship for studies on computer architecture and human factors of computer systems, Cambridge University, England (1975)
  • Member, National Academy of Engineering (1976)
  • Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1976)
  • Computer Pioneer Award, IEEE Computer Society (1982)
  • National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1985)
  • Thomas Jefferson Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1986)
  • Distinguished Service Award, Association for Computing Machinery (1987)
  • Harry Goode Memorial Award, American Federation of Information Processing Societies (1989)
  • Foreign Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991)
  • Honorary Doctor of Technical Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich (1991)
  • John von Neumann Medal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1993)
  • Fellow (initial inductee), Association for Computer Machinery (1994)
  • Distinguished Fellow, British Computer Society (1994)
  • Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK (1994)
  • Allen Newell Award, Association for Computing Machinery (1994)
  • Bower Award and Prize in Science, Franklin Institute (1995)
  • CyberEdge Journal Annual Sutherland Award (April, 1997)
  • A. M. Turing Award, Association for Computing Machinery (1999)
  • Member, National Academy of Science (2001)
  • Fellow Award, Computer History Museum (2001)
  • Eckert-Mauchly Award, Association for Computing Machinery and The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers–Computer Society (2004)
  • IEEE Virtual Reality Career Award (2010)

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