2009: Robert H. Dennard for his invention and contributions to the development of the Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), used universally in computers and other data processing and communication systems.
2008: Rudolf Kalman for the devlopment and dissemination of the optimal digital technique (known as the Kalman Filter) that is pervasively used to control a vast array of consumer, health, commercial and defense products.
2007: Timothy Berners-Lee for developing the World Wide Web.
2006: Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith for the invention of the Charge-Coupled Device (CCD), a light-sensitive component at the heart of digital cameras and other widely used imaging technologies.
2005: Minoru S. "Sam" Araki, Francis J. Madden, Edward A. Miller, James W. Plummer and Don H. Schoessler for the design, development, and operation of Corona, the first space-based Earth observation system.
2004: Alan C. Kay, Butler W. Lampson, Robert W. Taylor, and Charles P. Thacker for the vision, conception, and development of the first practical networked personal computers.
2003: Ivan A. Getting* and Bradford W. Parkinson for the concept and development of the Global Positioning System (GPS).
2002: Robert Langer for the bioengineering of revolutionary medical drug delivery systems.
2001: Vinton G. Cerf, Robert E. Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, and Lawrence G. Roberts for the development of the Internet.
1999: Charles K. Kao, Robert D. Maurer, and John B. MacChesney for the development of fiber optics.
1997: Vladimir Haensel* for his invention of the PlatformingTM process.
1995: John R. Pierce* and Harold A. Rosen for their development of communication satellite technology.
1993: John Backus* for his development of FORTRAN, the first widely used, general purpose, high-level computer language.
1991: Sir Frank Whittle* and Hans J.P. von Ohain* for their independent development of the turbojet engine.
1989: Jack S. Kilby* and Robert N. Noyce* for their independent development of the monolithic integrated circuit.
* Deceased