The Charles Stark Draper Prize is awarded by the National Academy of Engineering for the advancement of engineering and the education of the public about engineering. The Prize is worth $500,000. The prize is named for Charles Stark Draper, the "father of inertial navigation", an MIT professor and founder of the Draper Laboratory.

Previous Winners

• 1989: Jack S. Kilby and Robert N. Noyce for their independent development of the monolithic integrated circuit.
• 1991: Sir Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain for their independent development of the turbojet engine.
• 1993: John Backus for his development of FORTRAN, the first widely used, general purpose, high-level computer language.
• 1995: John R. Pierce and Harold A. Rosen for their development of communication satellite technology.
• 1997: Vladimir Haensel for his invention of "platforming".
• 1999: Charles K. Kao, Robert D. Maurer, and John B. MacChesney for the development of fiber optics.
• 2001: Vinton G. Cerf, Robert E. Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, and Lawrence G. Roberts for the development of the Internet.
• 2002: Robert Langer for the bioengineering of revolutionary medical drug delivery systems.
• 2003: Ivan A. Getting and Bradford W. Parkinson for their work developing the Global Positioning System.
• 2004: Alan C. Kay, Butler W. Lampson, Robert W. Taylor, and Charles P. Thacker for their work on Alto, the first practical networked computer.

See also

• List of prizes
• Prizes named after people

External links

• National Academy of Engineering Draper Prize (http://www.nae.edu/nae/naehome.nsf/weblinks/NAEW-4NHML8?Opendocument)