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NI CEO James Truchard Named One of 50 Most Influential Industry Innovators
September 25, 2003 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
Austin, Texas — InTech magazine, the official magazine of ISA, The Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society, named National Instruments President and CEO James Truchard, Ph.D. one of the 50 most influential people in the instrument and control industry.
Named among innovators Bill Gates and the Wright brothers, Truchard was recognized for pioneering the concept of virtual instrumentation.
Truchard and NI Business and Technology Fellow Jeff Kodosky invented LabVIEW, intuitive graphical development software that offered for the first time an easy way to acquire data, control instruments and analyze and present data from a personal computer without sacrificing performance or functionality. LabVIEW spurred the widespread adoption of virtual instrumentation, and by expanding to real-time, FPGA and rugged distributed I/O targets, it continues to push virtual instrumentation into new industries and application areas, including control design and embedded control. Today, engineers and scientists use virtual instrumentation in nearly every area of measurement and automation, resulting in shorter development times, higher quality products and lower costs.
To compile their list of 50 most influential industry innovators, InTech's editors asked more than 80 instrumentation and control experts for their opinions on the top innovators credited with advancing automation, instrumentation and control technologies. Armed with these expert opinions, InTech editors paired down the list and made the final decision.
National Instruments is a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation — a concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists approach measurement and automation. For more information, visit www.ni.com.