Awarded for exceptional and lasting contributions to the technology industry that span a lifetime.

A team award recognizing innovative technical achievement that has profoundly transformed the world of software.

Awarded for spearheading a visionary initiative that represents a breakthrough in the technology industry.

2013 Winner

Dave Campbell

Dave came to Microsoft in 1994, from Digital Equipment Corporation, as a developer and architect on the SQL Server Storage Engine team that was principally responsible for rewriting the core engine of SQL Server for SQL Server Version 7.0.

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2013 Winner

The Autopilot Team

The Autopilot Team in Bing has profoundly transformed internet-scale services at Microsoft. To appreciate the team’s achievements, let’s first go back to 2003 and look at the enormity of the challenges the team faced then.

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2013 Winner

Landy Wang

Landy Wang has been deeply involved in the development of operating systems for more than two decades. Though his contributions go back to to Xenix and Unix variants, his most important contributions have been to Microsoft's Windows NT-based systems.

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