• CIPS Founder (1958)
• CIPS President (1960-1961)
• CIPS Honorary Member (1987)
• Established first university credit course on computing in Canada (1950)
• Part of the first team in Canada to design and construct digital computers and to provide computing services (1948)
• Founded first graduate department of computer science in Canada (1964)
• Recipient of the Isaac L. Auerbach Medal (1994)
• Recipient of the Order of Canada (1996)
• Professor Emeritus in Computer Science, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto

*deceased