Gordon Prize - History

History

Upon earning a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT, Mr. Gordon worked on the development of UNIVAC, the world’s first commercial digital computer. He subsequently co-founded EPSCO, Inc. where the original Datrac high-speed A/D converter was developed and applied to myriad pioneering digitizing and signal processing applications.

Considered the “father of high-speed solid-state analog to digital conversion” for his inventions and contributions to signal translation, medical tomography and other high-precision instrumentation, Bernard M. Gordon has more than 200 patents worldwide. Mr. Gordon is a founder of NeuroLogica Corporation, a neuroscience-based medical imaging company in Danvers, Massachusetts that focuses on conceiving, developing, manufacturing and marketing advanced medical imaging equipment. He founded Analogic Corporation and retired as Chairman of the Board. Prior to Analogic, he was the President and co-founder of Epsco, Incorporated.

In 1986, Mr. Gordon received the National Medal of Technology from President Ronald Reagan, and in 1991, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Mr. Gordon is the recipient of several honorary engineering doctoral degrees, is a Professor of Medical Engineering at MIT, endows the Bernard Marshall Gordon Professorship of Engineering Innovation and Practice at MIT, and is a founder of the Gordon Institute, a graduate-level institution dedicated to teaching engineering leadership.

Mr. Gordon was elected to the Tufts Board of Trustees in 1996 and currently serves on the Committee for University Advancement, the Audit Committee, and the Board of Overseers for the School of Engineering. In 1992, the Gordon Institute, which Mr. Gordon founded to develop and train promising engineers to become exceptional engineering leaders, became affiliated with Tufts University. It has since become one of the university’s signature programs.