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Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
It is a special honor to receive an award named for Allen Newell. Allen was one of the fathers of computer science. He was especially important as a visionary and a leader in developing artificial intelligence (AI) as a subdiscipline, and in enunciating a vision for it.
What a man is is more important than what he does professionally, however, and it is Allen’s humble, honorable, and self-giving character that makes it a double honor to be a Newell awardee. I am profoundly grateful to the awards committee.

Sixto Ortiz Jr.
For a long time, researchers have been working on a marriage of human and machine that sounds like something out of science fiction: a brain-computer interface.
BCIs read electrical signals or other manifestations of brain activity and translate them into a digital form that computers can understand, process, and convert into actions of some kind, such as moving a cursor or turning on a TV.

Richard T. Kouzes, Gordon A. Anderson, Stephen T. Elbert, Ian Gorton, and
Deborah K. Gracio, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Through the development of new classes of software, algorithms, and hardware, dataintensive applications provide timely and meaningful analytical results in response to exponentially growing data complexity and associated analysis requirements.

Samuel H. Fuller, Analog Devices Inc.
Lynette I. Millett, National Research Council
The end of dramatic exponential growth in single-processor performance marks the end of the dominance of the single microproessor in computing. The era of sequential computing must give way to an era in which parallelism holds the forefront. Although important scientific and engineering challenges lie ahead, this is an opportune time for innovation in programming systems and computing architectures.