David B. Bogy has been named recipient of the 2010 IEEE Reynold B, Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award, one of IEEE's most prestigious honors.

The IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Technology Award was established in 2004. It is awarded for "outstanding contributions to the advancement of information storage with emphasis on technical contributions in computer data storage device technology." The technical field for this award are significant advances in storage device technology engineering, research, leadership, or education; leading to the development of commercial data storage devices.

Professor Bogy's citation reads:

"For leadership, education and technical contributions in the mechanics and tribology of magnetic recording disk drives."

Professor Bogy is the William S. Floyd, Jr. Distinguished Professor in Engineering. He was Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley from 1991 - 1999, and he is the founding Director of the Computer Mechanics Laboratory. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineers, and he served on the U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He has served as Chair of the Executive Committees of the Applied Mechanics and the Tribology Divisions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He received his B.S. Degrees in Geology and Mechanical Engineering in 1959, and his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University in 1961. He received a Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 1966 and spent a year as Postdoctoral Fellow in Applied Mechanics at the California Institute of Technology before joining the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley in 1967.