Recipients of The Charles Stark Draper Prize
| 2009: | Robert H. Dennard For his invention and contributions to the development of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), used universally in computers and other data processing and communication systems. |
| 2008: | Rudolf Kalman For the development and dissemination of the optimal digital technique (known as the Kalman Filter) that is pervasively used to control a vast array of consumer, health, commercial and defense products. |
| 2007: | Sir Timothy J. Berners-Lee For developing the World Wide Web. |
| 2006: | Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith For the invention of the Charge-Coupled Device (CCD), a light-sensitive component at the heart of digital cameras and other widely used imaging technologies. |
| 2005: | Minoru S. "Sam" Araki, Francis J. Madden, Edward A. Miller, James W. Plummer and Don H. Schoessler For the design, development, and operation of Corona, the first space-based Earth observation system. |
| 2004: | Alan C. Kay, Butler W. Lampson, Robert W. Taylor, and Charles P. Thacker For the vision, conception, and development of the first practical networked personal computers. |
| 2003: | Ivan A. Getting and Bradford W. Parkinson For the concept and development of the Global Positioning System (GPS). |
| 2002: | 
Robert LangerFor the bioengineering of revolutionary medical drug delivery systems. |
| 2001: |
Vinton G. Cerf, Robert E. Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, and Lawrence G. Roberts For the development of the Internet. |
| 1999: | Charles K. Kao, Robert D. Maurer, and John B. MacChesney For the development of fiber optics. |
| 1997: | Vladimir Haensel For his invention of the Platforming™ process. |
| 1995: | John R. Pierce and Harold A. Rosen For their development of communication satellite technology. |
| 1993: | John Backus For his development of FORTRAN, the first widely used, general purpose, high-level computer language. |
| 1991: |
Sir Frank Whittle and Hans J.P. von Ohain For their independent development of the turbojet engine. |
| 1989: | Jack S. Kilby and Robert N. Noyce For their independent development of the monolithic integrated circuit. |
