| Name |
Year | Honor |
|---|
| Dr. Marvin Kurland |
2010 |
Dr. Marvin Kurland
was a Professor of Electrical/Computer Engineering at
The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) for 25 years. He recently passed away
unexpectedly. One of his passions was computers and robotics. He was
the adviser/coach of TCNJ's micromouse
team. A micromouse is a
miniature self propelled robot that can find its way through a complex
maze. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
every year holds contests in which awards are given for the fastest and
best performing micromouse. These contests are between student teams
from regional universities and colleges. Marvin Kurland's teams
regularly won first place and had the best record of any
university/college that competed in these contests. In recognition Dr.
Kurlan's contributions to the computer hobby resulting from his interest
in computers and robotics, his dedication to his students and the
development of a superior micromouse, he was selected for the 2010
Computer Hobbyist of the Year Award.
|
| Eric Hafler |
2009 |
Eric is an Apple/MAC enthusiast and one of the original
computer hobbyists. He is a member of several computer clubs.
Eric has been a Trenton Computer Festival (TCF) volunteer
and committee member from the very beginning. Even after
PACS dropped out as a sponsor he continued to support TCF
and was involved in the Steering Committee. For the last few
years he has chaired the Publicity Committee and was a major
contributor to design and production of posters, media announcements
and signs for TCF. This year’s festival would
not be possible without his efforts. He has contributed a huge
amount of time and even offered his own funds to keep TCF
going. He definitely is worthy and deserving of the award. I
can think of no one more appropriate to receive it this year.
|
| Leonard W. Thomas |
2009 |
For outstanding efforts in volunteer
coordination/supervision every year at the Trenton Computer
Festival. Lenny is usually one of the first people to arrive
during the early morning hours and one of the last to leave on
Saturday and Sunday to get vendors organized (load/unload, etc.)
and direct other volunteers accordingly. He has also
served on the ACGNJ Board of Directors, and for the past few
years as ACGNJ Historian. This year, he bravely tackled the
rampant chaos (out of date or completely missing information,
etc.) left behind by Market Pro after they quit TCF. He
put in countless hours tracking down and signing up vendors,
making extensive use of Bmailer (a bulke-mail program written
by Bruce Arnold for the ACGNJC/C++ Users Group) and
Magic Jack (an Internet phone device that was PCMagazine’s
2008 Product of the Year).
|
| Robert D. Hawes |
2008 | Bob has been a
long-time, willing, contributing member of ACGNJ and TCF. He
helps out in whatever way he can at all the meetings he attends and has
offered to construct custom equipment for the club. He is considered a
contributing editor to the ACGNJ Newsletter with his numerous,
entertaining articles on a variety of topics. Bob currently serves as
ACGNJ Director, a position to which he was most recently elected. |
Claude Kagan
bottom |
2007 |
Claude
was honored for his efforts in the early years of hobbyist computing.
In 1965 he founded the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.
(Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, and Other Research Subjects).
|
| Alex Goldfinger |
2006 |
Alex has been a charter member of the group.
In the past he has served as editor of the newsletter and always was ready to contribute
and help with booth monitoring at the Computer shows. He sreved on the BOD for many years.
I'm sure other membes can contribute other attributes and contributions the Alex has made to the Group.
|
| Cass and Ruth Lewart |
2005 | Dual award to Ruth and Cass Lewart.
Both have been very active computer hobbyists for nearly 30 years.
They were officers in the Bookdale User Group for many years and are also long-time members of ACGNJ.
In addition to speaking at TCF for many years, Cass has been a speaker at meetings of ACGNJ, PPCUG, and other computer clubs.
He is the author of several books about PC technologies
and has contributed papers to the Trenton Computer Festival Annual Proceedings Book. |
| Lennie Libes |
2004 | Lennie has been
involved in the creation and running of both The Amateur
Computer Group of New Jersey and the Trenton Computer Festival for 30 years.
She has taken on the thankless background tasks that nobody
wants to do because they needed doing, and has kept things moving smoothly
with her expert handling and care. |
| Frank Warren |
2003 | Frank has been an outstanding
member of the ACGNJ
for many years and a font of wisdom from a technical point of view,
member of the TCF Steering Committee,
Frank also stepped forward from Veep to Pres. when Neil Sanford passed away then
two successive elected terms as President.
Frank has given many presentations on banking, money, gold, and secure financial
transactions, security with respect to Thawt, a secure ID certificate provider,
and several on networking and wireless.
And has kept the club's Geneology SIG alive for several years. |
| Arnold Milstein |
2002 |
Arnold has handled public relations for ACGNJ, making sure
that the group is promoted at local computer shows. He also
takes care of the club equipment. At special occasions, such as
Microsoft events, he has often been first to volunteer to help,
the first to arrive and the last to leave. When asked to do a job
for the group he rarely declines. |
| Peter Fillingham |
2001 |
Peter was the leader of the LUNICS (a loose acronym representing
the various forms of Unix-like systems) Special
Interest Group of ACGNJ for many years, and has been an outspoken
proponent of open-source programming Linux, and
its Unix-like cousins. |
| Jerry Entin |
2000 |
Jerry Entin, leader of the Concordia Group and member of
the Trenton Computer Festival Steering Committee,
Jerry was cited for his contributions to ACGNJ and the Trenton
Computer Festival. |
| John Raff |
1999 |
John has been a supporting
member of the club for many years, working in the background on
Facilities, Webmaster, Vice President, Board of Director,
PC-Symposium chair and active in TCF |
| Scott Vincent |
1997 |
Scott started his group efforts in the Heath Group and
when that disbanded and mixed with ACGNJ continued his help
with Borad of Directors, President and Presiden of TCF. |
| John Hampton |
1997 |
Posthumous award to his widow in recognition
of his work for TCF. |
| Charlie Arnold |
1996 |
For his long-term service to ACGNJ |
| Alan Bloom |
1995 |
Honored for his contributions on behalf of the
hearing-impaired |
| Bill Snell |
1994 | Honored for his
long time contributions to personal
computing, including running a BBS, working as TCF Festival Director, and
for other accomplishments over a period of 18 years |
| Bruce Arnold |
1993 |
Honored for his work outside the computer group
teaching others how to program, and for writing software
to help people use personal computers to do things they would otherwise
have been unable to do. |
| Dave Raibert |
1992 | SIG/M treasurer |
| Al Katz |
1991 |
Honored for his work in creating and perpetuating the
Trenton Computer Festival. |
| Bob Todd |
1990 |
SIG/M distribution coordinator |
| Fred Gohlke |
1989 |
Honored for revitalizing the ACGNJ newsletter |
| Hank Kee |
1988 | SIG/M librarian |
| Steve Leon |
1987 | SIG/M editor |
| Sol Libes |
1986 | For his championing
of public domain software in his
magazines, despite losing advertising from software manufacturers who saw
public domain software as a threat. The tradition of honoring distributors
of public domain software was continued with the awards for 1987, 1988,
1990 and 1992. |
| Harold McIntosh |
1985 |
Of University of Mexico City. With students, wrote
the Regular Expression Compiler, an equivalent of Unix shell script
processing, particularly in the parsing of Unix regular expressions for
CP/M. (Bob Todd notes that the award really should have gone to the students,
who did most of the work.) |
| Rich Conn |
1984 | SIG/M, awarded for
the same reason. He created major
portions of the first ZCPR and all of ZCPR2 and ZCPR3, putting all of the
code into the public domain. |
| Ward Christensen |
1983 |
The first HOTY, creator of MODEM7, which was the
first generally successful PC modem program and enabled users to download
files from his bulletin board system, which was the first BBS. His award
was for making this software available to everyone. |
HOTY was conceived in 1983 by the SIG/M SIG at ACGNJ and many of the early awards
were given to those involved in distributing or writing public domain
software. In 1986, when interest in SIG/M had declined to nearly nothing,
the ACGNJ Board took over the responsibility of selecting the HOTY.
Thanks to Bob Todd's history of the award.
