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The Computer Science and Engineering department confers the Distinguished Alumni Award once every two years to a graduate of the department who has distinguished herself or himself in their profession, in a highly recognizable manner.
Mr. Driscoll is an Engineer Fellow in Honeywell's research labs with 40 years experience in safety and security critical systems; including the aspects of hardware, software, and systems design. He currently is helping to apply TT-Ethernet to aerospace applications and is advancing formal methods tools for NASA. He was a principal designer of the SAE AS4710 PI-bus and the ARINC 659 SAFEbus, the only two backplane bus standards with significant fault tolerance. For this work, he was given Honeywell's highest award for technical achievement, the H. W. Sweatt award. He led the VHSIC fault tolerance program and helped design the VHSIC TM bus, which became the IEEE 1149 JTAG test bus. He led the effort to create the "Handbook for Data Network Evaluation Criteria" for the FAA. He has contributed to the electronics architecture design of the U.S. National Aerospace Plane, Space Defense Initiative, Light Helicopter Experimental, Boeing 777, NASA's Orion capsule, Advanced Launch System, and Honeywell's vetronics programs and unmanned underwater vehicles. Mr. Driscoll has developed cryptography specifically for real-time systems. Prior to joining Honeywell, he worked in the areas of voice and data cryptography for the U.S. Army Security Agency. Mr. Driscoll has 34 patents issued and a dozen pending covering safety and security critical real-time systems. He is a member of the select IEEE/IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance.
Bonnie Holub, PhD.
Ajay Pandey, MS 2000, PhD 2003.
Jeffrey Dean, BA 1990. For his contributions to the scaling of Google's systems.
Don Krantz, BA 1990, PhD 1995. For his dynamic contributions to the development of system architecture, and mobile robots, and bringing the technology to local companies, such as MTS Systems Corporation.
Richard Weinberg, MS 1976, PhD 1982. For his original contributions and leadership in the areas of Computer Graphics and Animation, and their application to the Media Arts and Sciences.
Arvind, Professor of Computer Science, MIT, MS 1972, PhD 1973. For his pioneering research in parallel computing, dataflow architectures, and declarative programming languages.
Theodore C. Johnson, BS 1982. For his innovations in technical diagramming software, and for bringing them to practice as founding Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Visio Inc.
