The 1981 ACM Turing Award was presented to Edgar E Codd, an IBM Fellow of the San Jose Research Laboratory, by President Peter Denning on November 9, 1981, at the ACM Annual Conference in Los Angeles, California. It is the Association's foremost award for technical contributions to the computing community. Codd was selected by the ACM General Technical Achievement Award Committee for his "~unda...

R ay C. Fish (1902–1962) was a leading f igure in Houston’s natural gas industry and a philanthropist. He believed in the American dream of “opportunity for success.” The Ray C. Fish Foundation was established so that others might be encouraged to broaden man’s self-knowledge and to keep the American dream alive. After its founder’s death from heart disease, the Fish Foundation granted $5 milli...

The Van Wyk Prize is the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society (LPWES)’s most prestigious award in recognition of outstanding career achievement by a member in the field of pediatric endocrinology. This award, established in honor of Judson J. Van Wyk, M.D., stands in tribute to an outstanding leader who has displayed a career of scientific excellence, leadership and dedication to the heal...

Matthias H. Tschöp, MD, fromMunich, Germany, received the American Diabetes Association’s prestigious 2011 Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award. The award was presented at the Association’s 71st Scientific Sessions in San Diego, California in June 2011. The Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award recognizes distinguished scientific achievement in the field of diabetes, taking into consider...

Hypertension Research Clinical Fellowship Award 1998 The purpose of this program and research award is to stimulate physicians-in-training to pursue a career in clinical research in hypertension. The research fellow must be conducting work in which he is the major senior investigator in any area of his choice including clinical or laboratory aspects of the hypertensive diseases. The fellow’s wo...