1995 Bower Awards Honor Computer Science

This year, the Bower Award and Prize in Science -- the richest American science prize -- as well as the Bower Award for Business will honor the development of computer technology. The awards are presented annually by Philadelphia's Franklin Institute Science Museum. PIONEER: Frederick Brooks, Jr. was cited for his "major contribution to making the computer useful. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., who defined computer architecture in such a way that computer hardware and software developed independen

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PIONEER: Frederick Brooks, Jr. was cited for his "major contribution to making the computer useful.

David Packard, a cofounder of Hewlett-Packard Co., the Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer maker, will be presented with the Bower Award for Business Leadership for his contribution to innovative management practices. Packard will receive a gold medal but will not receive a cash prize.

The awards will be given next May at the Franklin Institute. The presentation will coincide with the 50th anniversary of the invention of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer, built in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania, also in Philadelphia (N. Sankaran, The Scientist, Aug. 21, 1995, page 3). The event will be part of a citywide celebration of the "Second American Revolution," the birth of the Information Age.

'APPROPRIATE' Heinz Pfeiffer, who helped screen candidates, says it is timely to honor computers this year.

Brooks, Kenan Professor and founder of the ...

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