for Computing Machinery as the recipient of the 2009 Turing Award in recognition of his pioneering design and realization of the Alto, the first modern personal computer, and in addition for his contributions to the Ethernet and the tablet computer. Thacker received an honorary doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and was a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. References Further reading " External links Thacker biography, Microsoft An interview with Chuck Thacker IEEE John von Neumann Medal Recipients Chuck Thacker Attains Computing’s Peak Podcast interview with Chuck Thacker upon receipt of Turing Award by , Stephen Ibaraki 1943 births 2017 deaths UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni Computer designers Scientists at PARC (company) Digital Equipment Corporation people Microsoft technical fellows Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Turing Award laureates American computer scientists Draper Prize winners Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Deaths from esophageal cancer Deaths from cancer in California