IBM Fellow Stuart Parkin Wins IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award

07.05.08 - 22:49 ... source : IBM - United States

... Honor Recognizes Outstanding Contributions to Emerging Technologies MADRID, SPAIN and SAN JOSE, CA - 07 May 2008: (NYSE: IBM) -- At the IEEE International Magnetics Conference today in Madrid, IBM Fellow Stuart Parkin received the Daniel E. Noble Award for his fundamental contributions to the development of magneto-resistive devices for non-volatile, high density, random access memory. Dr. Parkin's innovations in memory technologies led to the revolution of the hard disk drive industry and are found in nearly every disk drive on the market 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 on April 29 and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands on April 25, both this year. Most recently, Dr. Parkin, of the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA, has been in the news beca ...» Next (HTML)