UBM Electronics will present its Lifetime Achievement Award 2012 at its ACE Awards event to two hi-tech executives who've changed the landscape of graphical design over the last quarter century. The honor will be spotlighted at a Tuesday night dinner during UBM's DESIGN West conference in San Jose, Calif.
The ACE award -- ACE is an acronym for annual creativity in electronics -- will recognize James Truchard, president, CEO, and co-founder of National Instruments, and Jeff Kodosky, cofounder and NI business and technology fellow. The ACE Award will recognize them as individuals whose career contributions have had a demonstrable impact on electronics technology advancements.
Kodosky co-founded National Instruments with Truchard and William Nowlin in 1976 while working at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin. The company has grown from a three-man team to a multinational organization with more than 6,000 employees, and has seen 31 years of growth in its 33-year history.
Kodosky invented LabVIEW, a graphical programming language that enables a graphical system design methodology. The language is updated yearly, with the latest version to be unveiled at this year’s NIWeek, August 6 to 9.
Since the initial release in 1986, Kodosky has earned 68 patents associated with LabVIEW technology.
DESIGN West Conference Information:
DESIGN West comprises seven summits. The conference takes place March 26 to 29 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, Calif.
Yes, I've also heard they were a good place to work, Chuck. I've covered NI off and on over the last decade and a half. I've always been surprised at how advanced they've been in a wide range of technology. The company name suggests just hardware and components -- far from it.
@Rob I second your assertion of "good choice"... I'll even elevate it to "great choice". My association with NI started back in grad school when I needed to integrate test and measurement devices via GPIB and the NI GPIB boards and drivers were tops. Coupled with the libraries and drivers for the ASYST dialect of FORTH, NI led the way in how to do "plug & play" and saved it from the pitfalls of "plug & pray". Moving from FORTH into C, I was able to use NI's LabWindows/CVI through the 1990's to create all sorts of custom and commercial diagnostics systems. I switched over to LabVIEW when I joined academia so that I could teach future non-programming technical managers how to prototype all manner of systems by describing the system visually. I'm not sure how our undergraduate major would cover the required subject matter if we needed to take time out to master text-based programming. Kudos to Jim Truchard and Jeff Kodosky -- most deserving of a Lifetime Achievement Award...
Jim Truchard and Jeff Kodosky are a good choice for the ACE Award. The LabVIEW technology has been important in the electronics and automation world. National Instruments. has produced a wide range of technology.
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