2008 IEEE Medal, Recognition and Prize Paper Recipients
IEEE MEDAL OF HONOR -
sponsored by IEEE Foundation
GORDON E. MOORE
Chairman of the Board, Emeritus
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA
“For pioneering technical roles in integrated-circuit processing, and leadership in the development of MOS memory, the microprocessor computer and the semiconductor industry.”
IEEE ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL MEDAL -
sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
GERARD J. FOSCHINI
Bell Labs Fellow, Wireless Communications Research Department
Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent
Holmdel, NJ, USA
“For seminal contributions to the science and technology of multiple-antenna wireless communications.”
IEEE EDISON MEDAL -
sponsored by Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.
DOV FROHMAN-BENTCHKOWSKY
Retired, Vice President and General Manager
Intel Israel
Jerusalem, Israel
"For pioneering the development of the MOS Erasable, Programmable Read Only Memory (EPROM), a key enabler of the information age revolution."
IEEE JAMES H. MULLIGAN, JR. EDUCATION MEDAL -
sponsored by The Mathworks, Inc., Pearson Prentice Hall, National Instruments Foundation and IEEE Life Members Committee
JOSEPH BORDOGNA
Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
Philadelphia, PA, USA
“For creative contributions to engineering education through leadership in integrating research and education.”
IEEE FOUNDERS MEDAL
sponsored by IEEE Foundation
STEVEN B. SAMPLE
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
“For leadership in higher education and the engineering profession, and for pioneering contributions to consumer electronics.”
IEEE RICHARD W. HAMMING MEDAL-
sponsored by QUALCOMM, Inc.
SERGIO VERDU
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA
“For fundamental contributions to information theory and the development of multiuser detection.”
IEEE JACK S. KILBY SIGNAL PROCESSING MEDAL -
sponsored by Texas Instruments, Inc.
ROBERT M. GRAY
Lucent Technologies Professor of Engineering
Electrical Engineering Department
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
“For contributions to vector quantization and signal compression techniques.”
IEEE JUN-ICHI NISHIZAWA MEDAL -
sponsored by The Federation of Electric Power Companies, Japan
and Semiconductor Research Foundation
Co-Recipients:
WOLFGANG HELFRICH
Professor, Institut fur TheTheoretische Physik
Freie University
Berlin, Germany
AND
MARTIN SCHADT
MS High-Tech Consulting, Managing Director
Seltisberg, Switzerland
AND
JAMES FERGASON
Fergason Patent Properties LLC
Founder and Member
Menlo Park, CA, USA
“For pioneering development of twisted-nematic liquid crystal technology.”
IEEE ROBERT N. NOYCE MEDAL
sponsored by Intel Foundation
PAUL R. GRAY
Professor, Provost
University of California
Berkeley, CA, USA
“For pioneering the development of analog integrated circuits.”
IEEE DENNIS J. PICARD MEDAL FOR RADAR TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS –sponsored by Raytheon Company
YAAKOV BAR-SHALOM
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and
Marianne E. Klewin
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Connecticutt
Storrs, CT, USA
“For contributions to techniques for radar target tracking in clutter.”
IEEE SIMON RAMO MEDAL -
sponsored by Northrop Grumman Corporation
CHRYSOSTOMOS L. (MAX) NIKIAS
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Professor of Electrical Engineering-Systems
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
“For outstanding leadership in engineering systems research and education, and for pioneering contributions to integrated media systems for the entertainment industry.”
IEEE JOHN VON NEUMANN MEDAL -
sponsored by IBM Corporation
LESLIE LAMPORT
Researcher, Microsoft Corporation
Silicon Valley Research Center
Mountain View, CA, USA
“For establishment of the foundations of distributed and concurrent computing.”
IEEE HARADEN PRATT AWARD -
sponsored by IEEE Foundation
MAURICE PAPO
Independent Senior Consultant
Nice, France
“For furthering IEEE transnational activities and for conceiving and implementing major operational improvements leading to more effective and efficient IEEE volunteer activities.”
IEEE RICHARD M. EMBERSON AWARD -
sponsored by IEEE Technical Activities Board
JAMES T. (TOM) CAIN
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
“For valuable contributions to the Institute’s publications and for the advancement of Electrical and Computer Engineering in engineering curricula.”
CORPORATE INNOVATION RECOGNITION -
sponsored by IEEE
RESEARCH IN MOTION
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
“For developing and promoting the BlackBerry, and thereby transforming the mobile work environment."
DONALD G. FINK PRIZE PAPER AWARD-
sponsored by IEEE Life Members Committee
YANN FRAUEL
Instituto de Investegaciones en Matematicas Aplicadas y en Sistemas
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
D. F. Mexico
and
BAHRAM JAVIDI
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
Univ of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
and
THOMAS J. NAUGHTON
Department of Computer Science
National University of Ireland
Maynooth, Ireland
and
OSAMU MATOBA
Dept of Computer and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Kobe University
Kobe, Japan
and
ENRIQUE TAJAHUERCE
Dept de Ciencies Experimentals
Universitat Jaume I
Castello, Spain
For their paper entitled,"Three Dimensional Imaging and Processing Using Computational Holographic Imaging," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 94, no. 3, March 2006, pp. 636-653
HONORARY MEMBERSHIP -
sponsored by IEEE
JONG YONG YUN
Vice Chairman and CEO
Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd.
Seoul, Korea
"For exceptional achievements in pioneering technology-driven innovation within the electronics industry, advancing engineering education, and encouraging a multidisciplinary engineering community."
IEEE/RSE WOLFSON JAMES CLERK MAXWELL AWARD -
funded by Wolfson Microelectronics plc
SIR TIMOTHY BERNERS-LEE
Director of the World Wide Web Consortium and Science Researcher
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA
“For conceiving and further developing the World Wide Web.”
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