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IBM memory researcher Stuart Parkin wins top IEEE award


Picture of Stuart Parker jumping for joy

IBM researcher Stuart Parkin has a reason to celebrate receiving the Daniel E. Noble Award from the IEEE for his work on random access memory (RAM). His innovations helped open the door to today’s hard disk drive industry – and are found in nearly every disk drive now in use.

Dr. Parkin, an IBM Fellow, received the award jointly with Jim Daughton and Saied Tehrani. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences and presented with an honorary doctorate from the University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands.

Dr. Parkin is part of the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA.

He shows no sign of slowing down. His latest work on “Racetrack Memory” is drawing current notice. Racetrack Memory, an entirely new way to store digital information, could lead to computer memory that combines the high performance and reliability of flash with the low cost and high capacity of the hard disk drive.

IEEE is a nonprofit organization devoted to the advancement of technology. It has more than 375,000 members, including nearly 80,000 students, in more than 160 countries.

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