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The 2001 Pearcey Medal presented to Tony Benson
Monday 12 November 2001 – Industry stalwart, Tony Benson, has won the 2001 Pearcey Medal in recognition of his life-time commitment to the Australian IT industry. The highly prestigious award was presented to Mr Benson by the NSW Minister for Information Technology, Kim Yeadon, at a special dinner in Parramatta on Friday night.
The event, which was jointly sponsored by the ACS, AIIA and the NSW Government Office of IT, also saw IT pioneers John Bennett and Frank Hirst become the first people inducted into the Pearcey Hall of Fame.
The Pearcey Medal commemorates the work of Trevor Pearcey, the Australian builder of the world's fourth, and Australia's first, electronic computer, which ran its first successful program 50 years ago this month, in November 1949.