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TWENTY INNOVATORS RECEIVE IEEE TOP AWARDS

Pioneers from academe and industry accept their recognitions at the IEEE Honors Ceremony on 19 June

Piscataway, N.J., 18 June 2004 – The annual IEEE Honors Ceremony 19 June in Kansas City, Mo., celebrates the extraordinary accomplishments of 20 industry and academe pioneers. Below is a list of these leaders and their awards:

Tadahiro Sekimoto, former chairman of NEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan -- the 2004 IEEE Medal of Honor, “For contributions to digital satellite communications, promotion of information technology R&D, and technical and corporate leadership in computers and communications.” The IEEE Medal of Honor, sponsored by the IEEE Foundation, is the highest award of the IEEE.
Craig R. Barrett, President and CEO, Intel Corporation, Chandler, Ariz. -- the 2004 IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal, sponsored by the Intel Foundation, “For contributions to semiconductor manufacturing technology, and leadership in business and in industry initiatives.”
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Federico Capasso -- Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. -- the IEEE Edison Medal, sponsored by the IEEE Foundation, “For a career of highly creative and influential contributions to heterostructure devices and materials.” 2004 marks the 100th anniversary of the IEEE Edison Medal.
Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus – Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. – the IEEE Founders Medal, sponsored by the IEEE Foundation, “For leadership across many fields of science and engineering through research and education, and for exceptional and unique contributions to the profession."
Paul R. Gray – Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, University of California at Berkeley – the IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal, sponsored by The MathWorks, Inc., National Instruments Foundation, Pearson Prentice Hall, and Xilinx, Inc., “For exemplary contributions to electrical engineering education through mentoring of students, an influential textbook, and University-wide academic leadership.”
Richard L. Doughty, Retired Principal Consultant, E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, Inc., Preston, Md.; H. Landis Floyd, II, Senior Consultant, E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, Inc., Wilmington, De.; and Thomas E. Neal, Principal Consultant, Neal Associates, Ltd, Guilford, Conn. – the IEEE Medal for Engineering Excellence, sponsored by IEEE, “For pioneering development of empirical models for predicting electric arc incident energy, and development of protective clothing classes based upon layering of flame resistant fabrics.”
Jack Keil Wolf – Professor, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla – the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, by sponsored by AT&T Labs, “For fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of information transmission and storage.”
James H. Mc Clellan, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga., and Thomas W. Parks, Professor, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. – the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal, sponsored by Texas Instruments Incorporated, “For fundamental contributions to digital filter design and interpolation, especially the Parks-McClellan algorithm.”
Frederick H. Dill -- Distinguished Engineer, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose, Calif. -- the IEEE Juni-ichi Nishizawa Medal, sponsored by The Federation of Electric Power Companies, Japan and Semiconductor Research Foundation, "For lifetime contributions to microelectronics processing, including lithographic simulation, semiconductor lasers and magnetic recording." Dill is the first recipient of this IEEE Medal.
David Atlas – Distinguished Visiting Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Silver Spring, Md. – the IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications, sponsored by Ratheon Company, “For exceptionally outstanding leadership and significant individual technical contributions to the application of radar for the observation of weather and other atmospheric phenomena.”
Boris E. Chertok, Head Research Consultant at Rocket Space Corporation Energy, Korolev, Russia, and Nikolai N. Sheremetevsky, deceased – the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal, sponsored by TRW Foundation, “For significant contributions to systems engineering and technical leadership of control systems design for the orbiting space station Mir (Peace).”
Barbara H. Liskov – Ford Professor of Engineering and Associate Dept. Head for Computer Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. – the IEEE John Von Neumann Medal, sponsored by IBM Corporation, “For fundamental contributions to programming languages, programming methodology, and distributed systems.”
Kenneth R. Laker – Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia – the IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award, sponsored by the IEEE Technical Activities Board, “For his vision and leadership on behalf of the Institute's technical and educational activities, particularly electronic delivery of technical and educational information.”
Jerry R. Yeargan – Distinguished Professor and TI Chair of Mixed-Signal and Linear Microelectronics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark. – the IEEE Haraden Pratt Award, sponsored by the IEEE Foundation, “For outstanding contributions to the Engineering Accreditation Activities of the IEEE.”
Pasquale Pistorio – CEO and President of STMicroelectronics, Geneva, Switzerland – the IEEE Ernst Weber Engineering Leadership Recognition, sponsored by the IEEE, “For leadership in revitalizing the semiconductor industry in Europe and increasing its influence worldwide.”
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, Calif. – the IEEE Corporate Innovation Recognition, sponsored by the IEEE, “For innovation of a total system of thermal inkjet printing technology and its mass commercialization.”
Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, Calif. – the IEEE Corporate Innovation Recognition, sponsored by the IEEE, “For innovation and leadership in Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technology for mobile wireless communications.”

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