Awards & Winners

2007 National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Check winners and nominations of 2007 National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Check awards winners of 2007 National Medal of Technology and Innovation. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Paul Baran

(For the invention and development of the fundamental architecture for packet switched communication networks which provided a paradigm shift from the circuit switched communication networks of the past and later was used to build the ARPANET and the Internet.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Roscoe Brady

(For the discovery of the enzymatic defects in hereditary metabolic disorders such as Gaucher disease, Niemann-Pick disease, Fabry disease and Tay-Sachs disease, devising widely used genetic counseling procedures and development of highly effective enzyme replacement therapy that provided the foundation for patient treatment; and for stimulating the creation of and fostering the success of many biotechnology companies that now produce the therapeutics for the treatment of these diseases.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Dave Cutler

(For having envisioned, designed and implemented world standards for real-time, personal and server-based operating systems for over 30 years, carrying these projects from conception through design, engineering and production for Digital Equipment Corporation\u2019s RSX-11 and VAX/VMS and for Microsoft\u2019s Windows NT-based computer operating systems, and for his fundamental contributions to computer architecture, compilers, operating systems and software engineering.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Armand V. Feigenbaum

(For leadership in the development of the economic relationship of quality costs, productivity improvement, and profitability and for his pioneering application of economics, general systems theory and technology, statistical methods and management principles that define the Total Quality Management approach for achieving performance excellence and global competitiveness.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Adam Heller

(For fundamental contributions to electrochemistry and bioelectrochemistry and the subsequent application of those fundamentals in the development of technological products that improved the quality of life of millions across the globe, most notably in the area of human health and well-being.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Carlton Grant Willson

(For creation of novel lithographic imaging materials and techniques that have enabled the manufacturing of smaller, faster and more efficient microelectronic components that better the quality of the lives of people worldwide and improve the competitiveness of the U.S. microelectronics industry.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

eBay

(For pioneering the technology that encouraged and supported online trade, enabling global entrepreneurship and the growth of the Internet worldwide.)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Lockheed Martin, Skunk Works

(For an exceptional 65-year record of developing cutting-edge aircraft, technologies, and systems solutions for the U.S. Government, including development of unique advanced aircraft technologies critical to the national defense; and for the introduction of operational \u201Cstealth\u201D capability that has changed the landscape of U.S. war fighting capabilities.)

Yearwise list of National Medal of Technology and Innovation Winners