In 1990, Smith and Richard Shoup received the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award for their development of paint programs.[18] Smith presented the Forsythe Lecture in 1997 at Stanford University, where he received his PhD in 1970.[citation needed] His undergraduate alma mater New Mexico State University awarded him an honorary doctorate in December 1999.[19][20][21] He was inducted into the CRN Industry Hall of Fame at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA in 2004.[citation needed] In 2006, Smith was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering.[19] In 2010, Smith was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists and presented the Washington Award in Chicago for advancing "the welfare of humankind".