Ken Olsen

Kenneth Olsen

fundou a Digital Equipment Corporation, com Harlan Anderson
Nascimento	Kenneth Harry Olsen 20 de fevereiro de 1926 Bridgeport
Morte	6 de fevereiro de 2011 (84 anos) Lincoln
Nacionalidade	estadunidense
Cidadania	Estados Unidos
Alma mater	Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts Stratford High School
Ocupação	inventor, empreendedor, cientista de computação, engenheiro
Distinções	National Inventors Hall of Fame (1990), Medalha Nacional de Tecnologia e Inovação (1993), Medalha Fundadores IEEE (1993)
Empregador(a)	Digital Equipment Corporation
Causa da morte	acidente vascular cerebral
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Kenneth Harry Olsen (Bridgeport, 20 de fevereiro de 1926 — Lincoln, 6 de fevereiro de 2011^[1]) foi um engenheiro estadunidense que se notabilizou por co-fundar a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) em 1957.

Referências

↑ «Computer pioneer Ken Olsen dies at age 84» (em inglês). Consultado em 1 de dezembro de 2016

Ligações externas

1988 Transcript of an Oral History Interview with Ken Olsen
Ken Olsen, New England Economic Adventure

Medalha Nacional de Tecnologia e Inovação (1985 — 2014)
1985	Bell Labs · Fred Brooks, Erich Bloch e Bob Overton Evans · Steve Jobs e Steve Wozniak · Marvin M. Johnson · Ralph Landau · John T. Parsons e Frank L. Stulen · Harold Rosen e Allen E. Puckett · Joseph F. Sutter
1986	Bernard Marshall Gordon · Reynold B. Johnson · Frank Piasecki
1987	Robert Noyce · Joseph V. Charyk
1988	Arnold Orville Beckman · Edwin Land · David Packard
1989	Herbert Boyer e Stanley Norman Cohen · Helen T. Edwards, Richard A. Lundy, J. Ritchie Orr e Alvin Tollestrup
1990	John Atanasoff · Marvin Camras · Jack Kilby · Gordon Moore
1991	Grace Hopper
1992	Bill Gates
1993	Ken Olsen
1994	Irwin Mark Jacobs
1995	Alejandro Zaffaroni
1996	Stephanie Kwolek
1997	Vint Cerf e Robert Kahn · Ray Dolby
1998	Ken Thompson e Dennis Ritchie
1999	Robert Taylor
2000	Douglas Engelbart · Dean Kamen
2001	Arun Netravali
2002	Carl Donald Keith e John J. Mooney · Nick Holonyak
2003	Jan Achenbach · Watts Humphrey · Robert Metcalfe · Rodney Bagley · Irwin Lachman
2004	Ralph Baer · Roger Easton, Sr.
2005	Ronald J. Eby, Maya Koster, Dace Viceps Madore e Velupillai Puvanesarajah · Dean L. Sicking · Alfred Yi Cho
2006	Leslie A. Geddes · Paul G. Kaminski · Herwig Kogelnik · Charles M. Vest · James Edward Maceo West
2007	Paul Baran · Roscoe Brady · David N. Cutler · Armand Feigenbaum · Adam Heller · Carlton Grant Willson
2008	Forrest Bird · Esther Sans Takeuchi · John Warnock e Charles Geschke
2009	Harry Coover · Helen Murray Free · Steven Sasson · Federico Faggin, Marcian Hoff e Stanley Mazor
2010	Rakesh Agrawal · B. Jayant Baliga · Charles Donald Bateman · Yvonne Brill · Michael Francis Tompsett
2011	Frances Arnold · Arthur Rosenfeld · George Robert Carruthers · Robert Langer · Gholam A. Peyman · Samuel Emil Blum · Rangaswamy Srinivasan · James Wynne · BBN Technologies
2014	Charles Bachman · Edith Marie Flanigen · Thomas Fogarty · Eli Harari · Arthur Levinson · Cherry Murray · Mary Shaw · Douglas Lowy, John T. Schiller

Medalha Fundadores IEEE
1953–1975	David Sarnoff (1953) Alfred Norton Goldsmith (1954) Raymond Heising (1957) Walter Ransom Gail Baker (1958) Haraden Pratt (1960) Ralph Bown (1961) Frederick Terman (1963) Andrew McNaughton (1964) Elmer William Engstrom (1966) Harvey Fletcher (1967) Patrick Haggerty (1968) Emmett Finley Carter (1969) Morris D. Hooven (1970) Ernst Weber (1971) Masaru Ibuka (1972) Bill Hewlett e David Packard (1973) Lawrence A. Hyland (1974) John Grist Brainerd (1975)
1976–2000	Edward W. Herold (1976) Jerome Wiesner (1977) Donald Glen Fink (1978) Hanzo Omi (1979) Simon Ramo (1980) James Hillier (1981) Shigeru Yonezawa (1982) Joseph Mayo Pettit (1983) Koji Kobayashi (1984) William Charles Norris (1985) George Heilmeier (1986) James B. Owens (1987) Ian M. Ross (1988) van Getting (1989) Erich Bloch (1990) Irwin Dorros (1991) Roland Walter Schmitt (1992) Ken Olsen (1993) Akio Morita (1994) Malcolm Roderick Currie (1995) Norman Ralph Augustine (1996) Gordon Moore (1997) Alan W. Rudge (1998) Benjamin M. Rosen (1999) Bob Galvin (2000)
2001–presente	Robert Frosch (2001) Thomas Eugene Everhart (2002) Ray Stata (2003) Mildred Dresselhaus (2004) Eugene Wong (2005) Toshiharu Aoki (2006) Anita K. Jones (2007) Steven Sample (2008) Craig Barrett (2009) Paul Edward Gray (2010) James F. Gibbons (2011) Faqir Chand Kohli (2012) Leo Beranek (2013) Eric Schmidt (2014) James D. Plummer (2015)