Bader receives the 2025 Heatherington Award for Technological Innovation

Mar 6, 2025 1 min read
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Congratulations to the 2025 Hall of Fame inductees at Mimms Museum of Technology and Art (formerly Computer Museum of America). Executive Director, Rena Youngblood had the honor of presenting each person with their award at the BYTE25 annual fundraiser held Thursday, March 6th. Thank you David A. Bader, PhD, Dan Bricklin, and John Yates for joining us. This world would be a different place without you—your innovations, your willingness to collaborate, and your commitment to paying it forward.
Congratulations to the 2025 Hall of Fame inductees at Mimms Museum of Technology and Art (formerly Computer Museum of America). Executive Director, Rena Youngblood had the honor of presenting each person with their award at the BYTE25 annual fundraiser held Thursday, March 6th. Thank you David A. Bader, PhD, Dan Bricklin, and John Yates for joining us. This world would be a different place without you—your innovations, your willingness to collaborate, and your commitment to paying it forward.
Bader receives the Heatherington Award for Technological Innovation at the Mimms Museum for Technology and Art, 6 March 2025.
Bader receives the Heatherington Award for Technological Innovation at the Mimms Museum for Technology and Art, 6 March 2025.

Revolutionized the computing industry through groundbreaking innovations that democratized High-Performance Computing. Designed the first commodity-based supercomputer and prototyped a system using off-the-shelf components and a novel high-speed interconnection network, leading to “RoadRunner,” the first Linux supercomputer for open use by the national science and engineering community. Made seminal contributions to parallel computing software and pioneered general-purpose computing on accelerators. Led the team whose work was by used IBM in the first pre-assembled and configured Linux server clusters for business. Made significant research contributions in the field of novel parallel graph algorithms. Founded and chaired the School of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech.

David A. Bader
David A. Bader
Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute for Data Science

David A. Bader is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology.