IBM researcher Stuart Parkin received the Daniel E. Noble Award from the IEEE for his work on random access memory or RAM. Innovations from Dr. Parkin, an IBM Fellow, led to the revolution of the hard disk drive industry and are found in nearly every disk drive today.
Dr. Parkin, who received this award jointly with Jim Daughton and Saied Tehrani, was also elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands in April.
Recently, Dr. Parkin, of the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA, has been in the news because of new developments with his latest work, Racetrack Memory. 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.
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IBM Fellow Stuart Parkin Wins IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award (press release)