2006 IEEE Technical Field Award Recipients
IEEE CLEDO BRUNETTI AWARD - sponsored by the Brunetti Bequest
SUSUMU NAMBA (LF’IEEE) - Professor, Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
"For contributions to ion-beam and optical technologies for application to semiconductor devices."
IEEE COMPONENTS, PACKAGING, MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY AWARD - sponsored by the Components, Packaging, Manufacturing Technology Society
C. P. WONG (F’IEEE) - Regent’s Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
"For contributions in advanced polymeric materials science and processes for highly reliable electronic packages."
IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS AWARD - sponsored by Control Systems Society
P.R. KUMAR (F’IEEE) - Franklin W. Woeltge Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
"For contributions to adaptive control, manufacturing systems and wireless communications."
IEEE ELECTROMAGNETICS AWARD - sponsored by the IEEE Antennas & Propagation, IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques & the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Societies
RAJ MITTRA (LF’IEEE) - Professor of Electrical Engineering, Penn State University, University Park, PA
"For contributions to research and education in computational electromagnetics."
IEEE JAMES L. FLANAGAN SPEECH AND AUDIO PROCESSING AWARD - sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society
JAMES D. JOHNSTON (F’IEEE) - Audio Architect, Codecs Group, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
"For pioneering research in perceptual audio coding and contributions to its standardization."
IEEE ANDREW S. GROVE AWARD -sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices Society
CHANG-GYU HWANG (F’IEEE) - President and CEO of Semiconductor Business, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Gyeonggi-Do, Korea
"For contributions to the development of advanced memory products."
IEEE HERMAN HALPERIN ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION AWARD - sponsored by the Robert and Ruth Halperin Foundation
ANJAN BOSE (F’IEEE) - Dean, College of Engineering & Architecture, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
"For enhancement of transmission system operation through the development of real-time operator training simulators."
IEEE MASARU IBUKA CONSUMER ELECTRONICS AWARD - sponsored by Sony Corporation
(Co-Recipients)
WAYNE BRETL (M’IEEE) - R&D Manager, Zenith Electronics Corporation, Lincolnshire, IL
and
RICHARD CITTA (M’IEEE) - Chief Scientist, Micronas, Palatine, IL
and
WAYNE LUPLOW (F’IEEE) - Vice President, Zenith Electronics Corporation, Lincolnshire, IL
"For contributions to the development of the vestigial sideband (VSB) digital transmission system for digital television broadcasting."
IEEE AWARD IN INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION - sponsored by British Telecom
YASUO HIRATA (F’IEEE) - Chairman of the Board, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc., Saitama, Japan
"For contributions to and leadership in the development of digital mobile satellite communication systems."
IEEE INTERNET AWARD - sponsored by Nokia Corporation
SCOTT SHENKER (F’IEEE) - Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA
"For contributions towards an understanding of resource sharing on the Internet."
IEEE REYNOLD B. JOHNSON INFORMATION STORAGE SYSTEMS AWARD - sponsored by IBM Almaden Research Corporation
JAISHANKAR M. MENON (F’IEEE) – Director of Storage Systems Architecture and Design, IBM, San Jose, CA
"For pioneering work in the theory and application of RAID storage systems."
IEEE RICHARD HAROLD KAUFMANN AWARD - sponsored by the IEEE Industry Applications Society
GEORGE W. YOUNKIN (LF’IEEE) - Industrial Controls Consulting, A Division of Bullseye Marketing, Fond du Lac, WI
"For innovation design of industrial and commercial numerical control systems and process control."
IEEE JOSEPH F. KEITHLEY AWARD INSTRUMENTATION & MEASUREMENT - sponsored by Keithley Instruments, Inc.
ALESSANDRO M. FERRERO (F’IEEE) - Professor, Politecnico di Milano, Departimento di Electtrotecnica, Milano, Italy
"For advancing the measurement of electrical quantities in electric power systems under non-sinusodial conditions."
IEEE KOJI KOBAYASHI COMPUTERS AND COMMUNICATIONS AWARD - sponsored by NEC Corporation
NICHOLAS F. MAXEMCHUK (F’IEEE) - Professor, Columbia University, New York, NY
"For contributions to Metropolitan and Local Area Networks, reliable multicast, and protocol testing."
IEEE GUSTAV ROBERT KIRCHHOFF AWARD - sponsored by Circuits and Systems Society
GABOR TEMES (LF’IEEE) - School of EECS, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
"For fundamental contributions to analog signal processing techniques."
IEEE DANIEL E. NOBLE AWARD - sponsored by Motorola Foundation
CARLOS A. PAZ DE ARAUJO (M’IEEE) – Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO
"For fundamental contributions and commercialization in the field of Ferroelectric Random Access Memory (FeRAM)."
IEEE FREDERIK PHILIPS AWARD - sponsored by Philips Electronics NV
LOUIS C. PARRILLO (F’IEEE) - President, Parrillo Consulting, LLC, Austin, TX
"For leadership in advancing CMOS and Bipolar technology through technical and managerial contributions."
IEEE PHOTONICS AWARD - sponsored by the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society
FREDERICK J. LEONBERGER (F’IEEE) - Retired, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, JDS Uniphase Corporation, Bloomfield, CT
"For technical leadership, commercialization and practical deployment of photonic component technologies for optical communications."
IEEE EMANUEL PIORE AWARD - sponsored by the Piore Award Fund
ROBERT K. BRAYTON (F’IEEE) - Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
"For development of the field of logic synthesis from its early inception through industrial maturity."
IEEE JUDITH A. RESNIK AWARD - sponsored by the IEEE Aerospace Engineering, the IEEE Control Systems and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Societies
KIM M. ESS (Non-Member) - NASA Project Manager, Orbiter Boom Sensor System, Houston, TX
"For technical leadership in the development and certification of the Orbiter Boom Sensor System for the space shuttle."
IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION AWARD - sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
GEORGE A. BEKEY (LF’IEEE) - Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
"For contributions to research and education in biologically inspired and intelligent robots."
IEEE DAVID SARNOFF AWARD - sponsored by the Sarnoff Corporation
MAU-CHUNG F. CHANG (F’IEEE) - Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
"For development of HBT power amplifiers leading to their commercialization in wireless communications."
IEEE SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS AWARD - sponsored by the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
MARK A. HOROWITZ (F’IEEE) - Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
"For pioneering contributions to the design of high-performance digital integrated circuits and systems."
IEEE CHARLES PROTEUS STEINMETZ AWARD - sponsored by the IEEE Standards Association
STEVEN MARK HALPIN (F’IEEE) - Alabama Power Distinguished Professor, Auburn University, ECE Department, Alabama
"For leadership in the development and revision of power systems and power quality standards."
IEEE ERIC E. SUMNER AWARD - sponsored by Lucent Technologies
(Co-Recipients)
ROBERT A. SCHOLTZ (LF’IEEE) - Fred H. Cole Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
and
MOE Z. WIN (F’IEEE) - Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
"For pioneering contributions to ultra-wide band communications science and technology."
IEEE NIKOLA TESLA AWARD - sponsored by the Grainger Foundation and the IEEE Power Engineering Society
KONRAD REICHERT (LF’IEEE) - ETH Zentrum, Zuerich, Switzerland
"For contributions to the development of numerical methods and computer analysis and simulation of electrical machines and devices."
IEEE KIYO TOMIYASU AWARD - sponsored by the Kiyo Tomiyasu Fund
MUHAMMAD A. ALAM (SM’IEEE) - Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
"For contributions to device technology for communication systems."
IEEE LEON K. KIRCHMAYER GRADUATE TEACHING AWARD - sponsored by the Leon K. Kirchmayer Memorial Fund
TOBY BERGER (F’IEEE) – Jacobs Professor of Engineering, CornellUniversity, Ithaca, NY
"For sustained excellence in graduate education and research in information theory."
IEEE UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING AWARD - sponsored by the IEEE Foundation
JOHN B. PEATMAN (LF’IEEE) - Professor, School of ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
"For a distinguished career of inspirational teaching and mentoring of undergraduate students in digital systems design."
