2005 IEEE Medal Recipients
IEEE Medal of Honor - sponsored by the IEEE Foundation to:
James L. Flanagan (LF'IEEE) - Vice President for Research, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
"For sustained leadership and outstanding contributions in speech technology."
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal - sponsored by Lucent Technologies to:
Jim K. Omura (F'IEEE) - Technology Strategist, Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, San Francisco, CA
"For contributions to the theory of communication systems and the commercial applications of spread spectrum radios and public key cryptography."
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IEEE Edison Medal - sponsored by the IEEE Foundation to:
Peter Lawrenson (LF'IEEE) - Private Consultant, Yorks, England
"For outstanding contributions to the field of electrical machines, most notably the development and commercialization of switched relunctance drives."
IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal - sponsored by Mathworks, Inc, National Instruments Foundation, Pearson Prentice Hall and Xilinx, Inc. to:
H. Vincent Poor (F'IEEE) - George Van Ness Lothrop Professor in Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
"For leadership in electrical engineering education through inspired teaching, a classic textbook, innovative curricular development and research."
IEEE Founders Medal - sponsored by the IEEE Foundation to:
Eugene Wong (LF'IEEE) - Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, Dept. EECS, Berkeley, CA
"For leadership in national and international engineering research and technology policy, for pioneering contributions in relational databases."
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal - sponsored by AT&T Labs to:
Neil A. Sloane (F'IEEE) - Technology Leader, AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ
"For contributions to coding theory and its applications to communications, computer science, mathematics and statistics."
IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Award - sponsored by Texas Instruments, Inc to:
Fumitada Itakura (F'IEEE) - Professor, Department of Information Engineering, School of Science and Technology, Meijo University, Aichi-ken, Japan
"For pioneering contributions to narrow-band speech coding."
IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal - sponsored by the Federation of Electric Power Companies-Japan and Semiconductor Research Foundation to:
Jerry M. Woodall (F'IEEE) - C. Baldwin Sawyer Professor of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT
"For pioneering contributions to the liquid-phase epitaxy in the GaAs/AIGaAs systems, including applications to photonic and electronic devices."
IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal - sponsored by Intel Foundation to:
Wilfred J. Corrigan (Non-Member) - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA
"For pioneering the modern day gate-array, standard-cell ASIC, system-on-chip and platform ASIC markets and for leadership in semiconductor business, technology, and industry cooperation."
IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications - sponsored by Raytheon Company to:
William J. Caputi, Jr. (LF'IEEE) - Independent Consultant, Centerport, NY
"For conception and development of innovative range and Doppler bandwidth reduction techniques used in wide-band radars and high resolution synthetic aperture radars."
IEEE Simon Ramo Medal - sponsored by the TRW Foundation to:
Neal A. Richardson (Non-Member) - Retired, TRW Corporation, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
George H. Gelb (Non-Member) - Retired, TRW Corporation and private consultant, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Baruch Berman (LF'IEEE) - Retired, TRW Corporation and private consultant, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
"For pioneering conception, design and demonstration of a practical hybrid automobile power train providing extremely low exhaust emissions and high fuel efficiency."
IEEE John von Neumann Medal - sponsored by IBM Corporation to:
Michael Stonebraker (Non-Member) - Adjunct Professor, Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bedford, NH
"For contributions to the design, implementation, and commercialization of relational and object-relational database systems."
IEEE Prize Paper
IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award - sponsored by IEEE Life Members Committee to:
Oliver Brand (Non-Member) - Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Christoph Hagleitner (Non-Member) - Researcher, IBM, Ruschlikon, Switzerland
Andreas Hierlemann (Non-Member) - Professor, Physical Electronics Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Henry Baltes (F'IEEE) - Professor of Physical Electronics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
For their paper entitled, "Microfabrication Techniques for Chemical/Biosensors" Proceedings of the IEEE, Volume 91, No. 6, June 2003."
IEEE Corporate Recognitions
IEEE Corporate Innovation Recognitionetica, sans-serif" size="2">- sponsored by IEEE to:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Austin, TX
"For innovations in the evolution of the x86 microprocessors and its extension to a 64-bit architecture."
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NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, Japan
"For innovations in the planning, development, and deployment of i-mode, an international leader in mobile Internet service."
IEEE Service Awards
IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award - sponsored by IEEE Technical Activities Board to:
Lloyd A. (Pete) Morley (F'IEEE) - Professor and Head, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
"For outstanding and visionary leadership of the Institute's technical and publication activities during times of great change and contributions to the effectiveness of operations."
IEEE Haraden Pratt Award - sponsored by IEEE Foundation to:
Daniel R. Benigni (SM'IEEE) - Computer Scientist, Office of the Chief Information Officer, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
"For sustained leadership on Institute major boards and committees, including transforming and transitioning Regional Activities, IEEE-USA, and Standard Activities into their current organizations."
IEEE Honorary Membership - sponsored by IEEE to:
Dean Kamen (Non-Member) - President, DEKA R&D Corporation, Chairman Segway LLC, Founder FIRST, Manchester, NH
"For innovating numerous medical devices, thereby improving the quality of life for many, and for inspiring youth to heightened interest in engineering through imaginative competitions."
