2009 IEEE Honors Ceremony
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2009 IEEE Honors Ceremony Thursday, 25 June 2009 Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, Los Angeles, CA |
The theme of the ceremony was Celebrating 125 Years of Engineering the Future. The ceremony was streamed LIVE on the web for the first time. View the Honors Ceremony video.
The IEEE award recipients that will be honored at the event include:
IEEE Medal of Honor, for an exceptional contribution or an extraordinary career in the IEEE fields of interest, sponsored by IEEE Foundation to Robert H. Dennard - IBM Fellow, IBM Thomas Watson Research Center, New York City, NY, USA
“For invention of the single transistor Dynamic Random Access Memory and for developing scaling principles for integrated circuits.”
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, for exceptional contributions to the advancement of communications sciences and engineering, sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs to Robert J. McEliece - Allen E. Puckett Professor and Professor of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
“For fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of error-correcting codes and to the design of deep space telecommunication systems.”
IEEE Edison Medal, for a career of meritorious achievement in electrical science or electrical engineering or the electrical arts, sponsored by Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd. to Tingye Li - Former Division Manager, Communications Infrastructure Research Laboratory, AT&T Labs, Holmdel, NJ, USA
“For leadership, vision, and pioneering contributions in the field of broadband optical fiber communications.”
IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal, for a career of outstanding contributions to education in the fields of interest to the IEEE, sponsored by The Mathworks, Inc., Pearson Prentice Hall, National Instruments Foundation and IEEE Life Members Committee to Jose B. Cruz, Jr. - Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
“For excellence in engineering education through creative leadership, innovative textbooks, inspirational mentoring, and research contributions to circuits, controls, and systems.”
IEEE Founders Medal, for outstanding contributions in the leadership, planning and administration of affairs of great value to the electrical and electronics engineering profession, sponsored by IEEE Foundation to Craig R. Barrett - Former Chairman, Intel Corporation, Chandler, AZ, USA
“For bold, creative, and effective leadership in the electronics industry, and promoting education, research, competitiveness and corporate responsibility.”
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, for exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems and technology, sponsored by QUALCOMM, Inc. to Peter Franaszek - Former IBM Research Staff Member, IBM Thomas Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
“For pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of run-length constrained channel coding for magnetic and optical storage.”
IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal, for outstanding achievements in signal processing, sponsored by Texas Instruments, Inc. to Charles Sidney Burrus - Dean (Emeritus), Rice University College of Engineering, Houston, TX, USA
“For contributions to Fast Fourier Transform algorithms, digital filter design, and signal processing education.”
IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal, for outstanding contributions to material and device science and technology, including practical application, sponsored by The Federation of Electric Power Companies, Japan and Semiconductor Research Foundation to Chenming Hu - TSMC Distinguished Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA
“For technical contributions to MOS device reliability, scaling of CMOS and compact device modeling.”
IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal, for exceptional contributions to the microelectronics industry, sponsored by Intel Foundation to Eli Harari - Co-Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, SanDisk Corporation, Milpitas, CA, USA
“For leadership in development and commercialization of flash memory data storage products”
IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications, for outstanding accomplishments in advancing the fields of radar technologies, sponsored by Raytheon Company to Philip Woodward - Former Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, Royal Radar Establishment, Malvern, United Kingdom
"For pioneering work of fundamental importance in radar waveform design, including the Woodward Ambiguity Function, the standard tool for waveform and matched filter analysis."
IEEE Simon Ramo Medal, for exceptional achievement in systems engineering and systems science, sponsored by Northrop Grumman Corporation to Albert Myers - Consultant, La Habra Heights, CA, USA
“For invaluable contributions to the flight-control systems and specifically for flight testing of the B-2 stealth bomber.”
IEEE John Von Neumann Medal, for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology, sponsored by IBM Corporation to Susan L. Graham - Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
“For contributions to programming language design and implementation and for exemplary service to the discipline of computer science.”
IEEE Haraden Pratt AWARD, to recognize outstanding service to the Institute, sponsored by IEEE Foundation to James H. Beall - Engineering Consultant, New Port Richey, FL, USA
“For a lifetime of continued leadership and service to the IEEE at all levels.”
IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award, for distinguished service to the development, viability, advancement, and pursuit of the technical objectives of the IEEE, sponsored by IEEE Technical Activities Board to Harold L. Flescher - Consultant, HLF Consulting Services, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, USA
“For strong and effective leadership in the major reform of the financial structures of the Technical Activities Board and the IEEE.”
IEEE Corporate Innovation Recognition, for outstanding and exemplary contributions by an industrial entity, governmental or academic organization, or other corporate body, which have resulted in major advancement of electrotechnology, sponsored by IEEE (2 Awards) to
Corning, Inc., Corning, NY, USA
“For sustained, outstanding, contributions to optical fiber technology and in particular the recent development of highly flexible fiber enabling applications breakthroughs.”
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IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
“For long-term commitment to pioneering research, innovative development and commercialization of speech recognition.”
IEEE Honorary Membership, elected by the Board of Directors from among those individuals, not members of the IEEE, who have rendered meritorious service to humanity in the IEEE’s designated fields of interest, sponsored by IEEE to Gerald J. Posakony - Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
“For pioneering contributions in ultrasonic techniques for medical diagnosis and nondestructive evaluation.”
IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award, for groundbreaking contributions that have had an exceptional impact on the development of electronics and electrical engineering or related fields, funded byWolfson Microelectronics plc to Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli - Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
“For pioneering innovation and leadership in electronic design automation that have enabled the design of modern electronics systems and their industrial implementation.”
