William “Bill” Schmidt will receive the 2022 Distinguished Achievement Award at the annual Alumni Banquet, part of Fall Festival, Sunday, Oct. 9.

This award acknowledges character and citizenship, achievement in a chosen profession or vocation, and work of benefit to humanity.

You might say Schmidt works as a translator – only the “languages” he’s translating are “human” and “computer.”

He is the principal compiler engineer for Intel Corporation’s development software engineering group, a position he took earlier this year after working for IBM for 29 years.