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November 13, 2000 -- The National Medal of Technology is the highest honor bestowed by the President of the United States to America's leading innovators. This year, IBM has won for innovations in the technology of hard disk drives and information storage.
The primary purpose of the National Medal of Technology is to recognize technological innovators who have made lasting contributions to enhancing America's competitiveness and standard of living. IBM has supplied the disk drive business with leadership products since the mid-1950s when it invented the RAMAC 305. Since then, key inventions by IBM researchers for head sliders, thin film inductive heads, GMR heads, rotary actuators, sector servos and advanced disk designs are used in every modern hard disk drive today. IBM research has also filed important patents like the first for RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks)in 1978.
This is the first time IBM has won the award as a corporation.
Review a few of the notable events in IBM Research storage and disk drive history below by selecting the play button on the HotMedia presentation below.
IBM Research continues to explore advanced data storage technologies for magnetic recording -- such as patterned media, magnetic tunnel junction heads, low-cost designs and secondary actuators -- and alternative, non-magnetic approaches, including holographic and atomic force microscope techniques.
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