NI co-founders inducted into electronic design's engineering hall of fame

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(2003), "NI co-founders inducted into electronic design's engineering hall of fame", Sensor Review, Vol. 23 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/sr.2003.08723bab.002

NI co-founders inducted into electronic design's engineering hall of fame

NI LabVIEW recognised as one of top 50 industry milestones

Keyword: National Instruments

Electronic Design, a leading publication covering the electronics industry for half a century, recently inducted National Instruments President, CEO, and co-founder, Dr James Truchard, and NI Business and Technology Fellow and co-founder, Jeff Kodosky, into its Engineering Hall of Fame, which was established with the magazine's 50th anniversary issue.

The Electronic Design Engineering Hall of Fame honours men and women who have broadly influenced the development of electronic technologies. Truchard and Kodosky together revolutionised how engineers and scientists use computers to perform measurement and automation tasks when they introduced the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment in 1986. Their goal in creating LabVIEW software was to simplify routine programming tasks for engineers and scientists in the same way that spreadsheet software eased common accounting tasks for accountants. Engineers combine NI LabVIEW with industry-standard hardware to build custom applications for industries such as consumer electronics, research, aerospace, and many more. While the historical roots of LabVIEW are in collecting measurement data, today engineers use LabVIEW throughout the enterprise – from design to verification to manufacturing. Truchard and Kodosky, who co-founded National Instruments in 1976, continue to play active roles in the company, helping to guide the research and development of new products, and expanding the vision of LabVIEW software and virtual instrumentation.