by the National Audubon Society to aid bird watchers with songbird identification. He received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Ronald Reagan in 1986. The IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award was established in 1991, and is each year presented to a small team or an individual that has made outstanding contributions to information storage systems. Johnson was awarded the Franklin Institute's Certificate of Merit in 1996. Johnson died in 1998, at the age of 92, of melanoma at Palo Alto, California. References Further reading Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering, Volume 9 (2001) 1906 births 1998 deaths IBM Fellows IBM Research computer scientists IBM employees People from Minnesota University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development alumni People from San Jose, California National Medal of Technology recipients 20th-century American inventors American people of Swedish descent Inventors from Minnesota