In what’s been called the “Academy Awards for Engineers,” four distinguished figures in personal computer history will be awarded the Charles Stark Draper Prize tonight at a dinner in Washington, D.C. Sharing the $500,000 prize will be Robert W. Taylor, Alan C. Kay, Butler W. Lampson and Charles P. Thacker — all key players at the celebrated computer science lab at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) during the early days of personal computing.
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Xerox PARC Veterans Picked for Prestigious Draper Prize
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. February 24, 2004 07:57 AMIn what’s been called the “Academy Awards for Engineers,” four distinguished figures in personal computer history will be awarded the Charles Stark Draper Prize tonight at a dinner in Washington, D.C. Sharing the $500,000 prize will be Robert W. Taylor, Alan C. Kay, Butler W. Lampson and Charles P. Thacker — all key players at the celebrated computer science lab at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) during the early days of personal computing.