[SIGCIS-Members] Charlie Bachman Receives National Medal of Honor from President Obama at White House Ceremony
Dave Walden
dave.walden.family at gmail.com
Fri Nov 21 03:01:04 PST 2014
FYI: Andy Russell interviewed Bachman in 2011. The interview
http://computer.org/comphistory/pubs/2012-03-russell.pdf
is posted on the Computer Society History Committee's website
http://computer.org/comphistory/
At 10:37 PM 11/20/2014, Andrew Russell wrote:
>Hello everyone -
>
>I’m passing on this message, via Paul Ceruzzi,
>celebrating Charlie Bachman’s visit to the White House today.
>
>Andy
>
>
>From: John Fitzsimmons
>Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 2:30 PM
>To: John Fitzsimmons
>Subject: Charlie Bachman Receives National Medal
>of Honor from President Obama at White House Ceremony
>
>Good afternoon,
>[]
>On behalf of Charlie Bachman and the Bachman
>family, I am honored to let you know that
>Charlie today received a National Medal of Honor
>from President Obama at a White House
>ceremony. We are reaching out to you as
>friends, former business colleagues and school
>alumni to express the appreciation and gratitude
>that Charlie has for everyone who helped him
>make the contributions he’s being honored for
>today. As his dear friends and colleagues, he
>wants you to know that he could not have
>succeeded without your help and faith, both of
>which have afforded the opportunities that led him to today’s recognition.
>
>Charlie was awarded the “National Medal of
>Technology and Innovation for fundamental
>inventions in database management, transaction
>processing, and software engineering.”
>
>As you may imagine, it is an exciting time for
>Charlie and the entire Bachman family. Today
>they are at the White House and a celebration
>afterward. Charlie’s children Chandini and Jon
>are responding to media requests at
><mailto:media at bachman.com>media at bachman.com.
>That is also the best address to offer Charlie
>well wishes. He will turn 90 on December 11th.
>
>For more information about the award and event,
>please reference the information and pictures
>below. Should you wish to include any of the
>information and photos in association
>newsletters, alumni news or other materials,
>please feel free to use the information as you wish.
>
>For the Bachman Family,
>Warm regards,
>
>John
>
>
>Video of the ceremony:
><http://1.usa.gov/1xWDIAt>http://1.usa.gov/1xWDIAt
>(go to minute 45 of the video)
>
>
>PRESS RELEASE ISSUED THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014
>
>Charlie Bachman, Creator of the First Computer
>Database, Honored at White House Medal Ceremony by President Obama
>
>Michigan State Alumni, Massachusetts Resident,
>Built the First Database Management System
>
>Spokesperson: Chandini Bachman -
><mailto:media at bachman.com>media at bachman.com, (202) 487-3482
>
>For immediate release—November 20,
>2014—(Washington, DC) Today at a White House
>ceremony President Obama honored computer
>technology pioneer and data architect Charles W.
>Bachman with the National Medal of Technology
>and Innovation for fundamental inventions in
>database management, transaction processing, and
>software engineering for his work designing the
>first computer database. The ceremony will be
>followed by a gala celebrating the achievements
>and contributions to society by 18 pioneers in science and technology.
>
>Inventing the First Computer Database
>“The Integrated Data Store (IDS) was designed by
>Charles W. (Charlie) Bachman, who later won the
>ACM’s Turing Award for that accomplishment. He
>was the first Turing Award winner without a
>Ph.D, the first with a background in engineering
>rather than science, and the first to spend his
>entire career in industry rather than academia.”
>– (Thomas Haigh, “Charles W. Bachman: Database
>Software Pioneer,” IEEE Annals of the History of
>Computing, Vol. 33, Num. 4, Oct-Dec 2011, pp.
>70-80. Biography of Bachman.
><http://www.tomandmaria.com/tom/Writing/BachmanBio.pdf>Available online.)
>
>In gratitude for the recognition, Charles W.
>(Charlie) Bachman said, “As a boy growing up in
>Michigan making soap box derby racers, I knew
>that all I wanted to do when I grew up was to
>build things. I wanted to be an engineer. And I
>wanted to make the world a better place. An
>honor like this is something I never expected,
>so I’m deeply grateful to the President, Senator
>Edward J. Markey and everyone at the Department
>of Commerce who voted for the recognition. It is
>important for me to credit my late wife, Connie,
>who was my partner in creativity, in business
>and in life. There are a lot of friends, family
>and colleagues who helped along the way, of
>course. I’d really like to thank them all, and
>especially those at General Electric who gave me
>the creative opportunities to invent. It is
>amazing how much faith GE had in our team with
>no guarantee of a useful result. I hope that
>young people just starting out can look at an
>honor like this and see all of the new creative
>opportunities that lay before them today, and
>the differences they can make for their generation and for future generations.”
>
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>A Brief History of Charles W. Bachman
>Charles W. Bachman was born in 1924, in
>Manhattan, Kansas, where his father—also named
>Charles W. Bachman— was head football coach at
>Kansas Agricultural College (now Kansas
>State). His mother, Grace Cary Bachman,
>graduated from the University of Oklahoma before
>World War I. She returned to graduate school at
>Kansas State where she met and married the
>football coach. Coach Bachman (1892-1986) went
>on to be the head coach at The University of
>Florida in Gainesville and then on to Michigan
>State College, now Michigan State
>University. Coach Bachman was inducted into the
>College Football Hall of Fame in 1978. Young
>Charlie Bachman’s interest in architecture began
>in East Lansing, Michigan in 1937 when Alden B.
>Dow designed his parent’s contemporary
>home. Charlie went with his parents to Dow’s
>design studio, and was fascinated by the work.
>
>Bachman began his undergraduate studies at
>Michigan State in 1943, then enlisted in the US
>Army. He served in the US Army Anti-Aircraft
>Artillery Corp 1943-1946 where he was
>[]
> first exposed to and used fire control
> computers for aiming US 90 mm guns. He was
> deployed March 1944 through February 1946 in
> New Guinea, Australia and the Philippine
> Islands and his highest rank was Technical
> Sergeant. At the end of his World War II
> military service, he returned to complete his
> mechanical engineering program at Michigan
> State where he was a member of the Phi Delta
> Theta fraternity. He graduated in 1948 with a
> bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering (Tau Beta Phi).
>
>In 1949, Bachman married his college sweetheart,
>Connie Hadley. Connie was a graduate of
>Michigan State with a degree in Art Education.
>Her father, Thomas Erle Hadley, was also very
>committed to art and design. Hadley served as
>the head of the architectural department at the
>General Motors’s Fisher Body Division, and
>during WWII, collaborated across the auto
>industry to work on the design of the Willow Run bomber factory in Detroit.
>
>On their honeymoon Connie and Charlie drove to
>Spring Green, Wisconsin, to interview with Mr.
>Frank Lloyd Wright about joining the Taliesin
>Fellowship in Wisconsin. Instead, they chose to
>go to Philadelphia, where Charlie studied at the
>University of Pennsylvania. Bachman graduated
>in 1950 with a master's degree in Mechanical
>Engineering from the Towne School. Because
>engineering courses were taught at night, he
>attended Wharton School of Business during the days
>[]
> and completed three quarters of the
> requirements for an MBA. Charlie's evolving
> engineering and computer science career led the
> couple to live in a variety of communities over
> the years, including: Philadelphia, PA;
> Midland, MI; Stamford, CT; Paradise Valley, AZ;
> Lexington, MA; Tucson, AZ; and then back to
> Lexington, MA. Bachman and his wife had four
> children, now adults. They are Chandini M.
> Bachman (Bethesda, Maryland), Thomas H. Bachman
> (Phoenix, Arizona), Sara Bachman Ducey
> (Bethesda, Maryland) and Jonathan A. Bachman
> (Lexington, Massachusetts). He also has five
> grandchildren and one great grand-daughter.
>
>In a career spanning more than 50 years, Charlie
>Bachman has been an analyst, a developer, an
>architect, a standards leader, and entrepreneur
>in one of the fastest growing and competitive
>businesses in the world – computer software. He
>was employed in succession by Dow Chemical,
>General Electric, Honeywell Information Systems,
>and Cullinet. In 1983 with his wife, Connie, and
>son, Jon, he launched his own business, Bachman
>Information Systems, Inc. which was subsequently
>listed on the NASDAQ. After he retired, he
>continued to consult and clients included the Cord
>[]
>Blood Registry System. The fundamental
>breakthrough work for which he is receiving the
>2012 National Medal of Technology and Innovation
>began in the GE Computer Department in New York City and Phoenix.
>
>In addition to receiving the ACM Turing Award in
>1973, Charlie Bachman is a Distinguished Fellow
>of the British Computer Society (BCS). U.S.
>Senator Edward J. Markey nominated Bachman for
>the National Medal of Technology and
>Innovation. Markey and Bachman first met in
>1997 when their portraits were both included in
>Wizards and Their Wonders: Portraits in
>Computing by Christopher Morgan with photographs
>by Louis Fabian Bachrach and published by the ACM Press, New York, NY.
>
>Today, Charlie Bachman lives in Lexington,
>Mass. He enjoys gardening and recently planted
>a memorial garden for his late wife, Connie
>(1927-2012). This is the seventh garden he has
>designed over the years; it is a spring garden
>full of daffodils, tree peonies, iris, poppies,
>rhododendrons and a yellow flowering magnolia
>tree. He will celebrate his 90th birthday on December 11th.
>
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>Press Release from the White House:
>
>
>The White House
>
>Office of the Press Secretary
>For Immediate Release
>November 20, 2014
>
>
>President Obama Presents the National Medals of
>Science & National Medals of Technology and Innovation
>
>
>
>Announces new commitments in support of his Educate to Innovate campaign
>
>Washington, D.C. – Today at a White House
>ceremony, President Obama will honor the newest
>recipients of the National Medal of Science and
>the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
>These awards are the highest honors bestowed by
>the United States Government for achievements in
>science, technology, and innovation.
>
>President Obama said, “The story of these
>trailblazers reflect our bigger American story
>of constant transformation. They represent the
>spirit that has always defined the American
>people, one of restless searching for the right
>solution to any problem; an inclination to dream
>big dreams; and an insistence on making those dreams come true.”
>The President will also announce new commitments
>and progress updates onEducate to Innovate, his
>all-hands-on-deck campaign to help more girls
>and boys be inspired to excel in science,
>technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects.
>Marking Five Years of Progress in the President’s Educate to Innovatecampaign
>Five years ago, President Obama launched Educate
>to Innovate, an all-hands-on-deck campaign to
>help more girls and boys be inspired to excel in
>science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)
>subjects. The campaign reflects the President’s
>core conviction that far more needs to be done
>in giving students the critical skills needed to
>succeed in STEM fields, and that success
>required action not just from the Federal
>government, but the broader community of
>educational leaders, foundations, companies,
>non-profits, and science and technology
>professionals that have unique contributions they can make.
>Today, the Administration is announcing new
>commitments and progress updatesthat showcase
>the ongoing momentum of the campaign, including:
>· 100kin10, a network of more than 200
>partners, is announcing that it has raised
>another $28 million in support of the goal of
>preparing 100,000 excellent STEM teachers over a decade.
>· Change the Equation, a coalition of
>leading CEOs, is committing to expanding
>high-quality STEM programs to more than 1 million students by 2016.
>· Discovery Communications will launch a
>new show next year to inspire students in STEM
>fields, highlighting “All-American Makers.”
>· Continued growth in students reached
>by range of companies, non-profits, Federal
>agencies and others participating in the
>President’s campaign, including National Math
>and Science Initiative, US2020, Time Warner
>Cable, Maker Education Initiative, Institute of
>Museum and Libraries Services, Corporation for
>National and Community Service,Underwater Dreams and others.
>Read the full fact sheet of announcements and
>progress updates
><http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/educate-to-innovate-announcements-11-19-14-final_0.pdf>here.
>Recognizing the Achievements of Our Innovators, Explorers, and Researchers
>
>The National Medal of Scientists honors
>individuals for their outstanding contributions
>in fields such as biology, physics, and math.
>The National Medal of Technology and Innovation
>honors the Nation’s visionary thinkers whose
>creativity and intellect have made a lasting
>impact on the United States and its workforce.
>
>Today’s recipients of the National Medal of Science are:
>Bruce Alberts
>University of California, San Francisco
>
>For intellectual leadership and experimental
>innovation in the field of DNA replication, and
>for unparalleled dedication to improving science
>education and promoting science-based public policy.
>Robert Axelrod
>University of Michigan
>
>For interdisciplinary work on the evolution of
>cooperation, complexity theory, and
>international security, and for the exploration
>of how social science models can be used to explain biological phenomena.
>May Berenbaum
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>
>For pioneering studies on chemical coevolution
>and the genetic basis of insect-plant
>interactions, and for enthusiastic commitment to
>public engagement that inspires others about the wonders of science.
>David Blackwell*
>University of California, Berkeley
>
>For fundamental contributions to probability
>theory, mathematical statistics, information
>theory, mathematical logic, and Blackwell games,
>which have had a lasting impact on critical
>endeavors such as drug testing, computer communications, and manufacturing.
>Alexandre J. Chorin
>University of California, Berkeley
>
>For the development of revolutionary methods for
>realistic fluid-flow simulation, now ubiquitous
>in the modeling and design of engines, aircraft
>wings, and heart valves, and in the analysis of natural flows.
>Thomas Kailath
>Stanford University
>
>For transformative contributions to the fields
>of information and system science, for
>distinctive and sustained mentoring of young
>scholars, and for translation of scientific
>ideas into entrepreneurial ventures that have
>had a significant impact on industry.
>Judith P. Klinman
>University of California, Berkeley
>
>For her discoveries of fundamental chemical and
>physical principles underlying enzyme catalysis
>and her leadership in the community of scientists.
>Jerrold Meinwald
>Cornell University
>
>For applying chemical principles and techniques
>to studies of plant and insect defense and
>communication, and for his seminal role in
>establishing chemical ecology as a core
>discipline important to agriculture, forestry,
>medicine, and environmental science.
>Burton Richter
>SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University
>
>For pioneering contributions to the development
>of electron accelerators, including circular and
>linear colliders, synchrotron light sources, and
>for discoveries in elementary particle physics
>and contributions to energy policy.
>Sean C. Solomon
>Columbia University
>
>For creative approaches and outstanding
>contributions to understanding the internal
>structure and evolution of the Earth, the Moon,
>and other terrestrial planets, and for his
>leadership and inspiration of new generations of scientists.
>
>*Awarded posthumously
>
> Today’s recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation
>Charles W. Bachman
>
>For fundamental inventions in database
>management, transaction processing, and software engineering.
>Edith M. Flanigen
>UOP, LLC., a Honeywell Company
>
>For innovations in the fields of silicate
>chemistry, the chemistry of zeolites, and molecular sieve materials.
>Eli Harari
>SanDisk Corporation
>
>For invention and commercialization of Flash
>storage technology to enable ubiquitous data in
>consumer electronics, mobile computing, and enterprise storage.
>Thomas J. Fogarty
>Fogarty Institute for Innovation
>
>For innovations in minimally invasive medical devices.
>Arthur Levinson
>Calico Life Sciences, LLC
>
>For pioneering contributions to the fields of
>biotechnology and personalized medicine, leading
>to the discovery and development of novel
>therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
>Cherry A. Murray
>Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
>
>For contributions to the advancement of devices
>for telecommunications, the use of light for
>studying matter, and for leadership in the
>development of the Science, Technology,
>Engineering, and Math (STEM) workforce in the United States.
>Mary Shaw
>Carnegie Mellon University
>
>For pioneering leadership in the development of
>innovative curricula in Computer Science.
>Douglas Lowy and John Schiller
>National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
>
>For developing the virus-like particles and
>related technologies that led to the generation
>of effective vaccines that specifically targeted HPV and related cancers.
>
>
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