2009 IEEE Technical Field Award and 2008 Eric Herz Award recipients
IEEE CLEDO BRUNETTI AWARD — recognizes outstanding contributions to miniaturization in the electronic arts — sponsored by the Brunetti Bequest to:
BURN JENG LIN (LF’IEEE)
Senior Director of Micropatterning Division
TSMC, Ltd.
Hsin-Chu, Taiwan
“For contributions to immersion lithography for the manufacture of integrated circuit devices.”
IEEE COMPONENTS, PACKAGING, MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY AWARD — recognizes meritorious contributions to the advancement of components, electronic packaging or manufacturing technologies — sponsored by the IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Society to:
GEORGE HARMAN (LF’IEEE)
NIST Scientist Emeritus (Retired NIST Fellow)
Consultant
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
“For achievements in wire bonding technologies.”
IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS AWARD — recognizes outstanding contributions to control systems engineering, science, or technology —sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society to:
DAVID Q. MAYNE (LF’IEEE)
Emeritus Professor of Control Theory and Senior Research Fellow
Imperial College
London, England
“For contributions to the application of optimization to modern control theory.”
IEEE ELECTROMAGNETICS AWARD — recognizes outstanding contributions to electromagnetics in theory, application or education — sponsored by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques, and IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing Societies to:
KENNETH K. MEI (LF’IEEE)
Professor and Chair of Applied Electromagnetics
City University of Hong Kong
Kowloon, Hong Kong
“For contributions to computational electromagnetics and Maxwellian circuits.”
IEEE JAMES L. FLANAGAN SPEECH AND AUDIO PROCESSING AWARD — recognizes outstanding contribution to the advancement of speech and/or audio signal processing — sponsored by IEEE Signal Processing Society to:
JOHN MAKHOUL (LF’IEEE)
Chief Scientist, BBN Technologies
Speech and Language Processing Dept
Cambridge, MA, USA
“For pioneering contributions to speech modeling.”
IEEE ANDREW S. GROVE AWARD — recognizes outstanding contributions to solid-state devices and technology — sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices Society to:
ERIC R. FOSSUM (F’IEEE)
Consultant
Samsung Electronics Semiconductor Research Center
Yongin City, South Korea
“For significant contributions to the invention, development and commercialization of CMOS image sensors”
IEEE HERMAN HALPERIN ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION AWARD— recognizes outstanding contributions to electric transmission and distribution — sponsored by the Robert and Ruth Halperin Foundation, in memory of Herman and Edna Halperin, and the IEEE Power & Energy Society to:
CARSON W. TAYLOR (LF’ IEEE)
(Retired) Principal Engineer
Bonneville Power Administration
Portland, OR, USA
“For contributions to enhance the voltage stability, dynamic performance, and reliability of large interconnected electric power systems.”
IEEE MASARU IBUKA CONSUMER ELETRONICS AWARD — recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of consumer electronics technology — sponsored by Sony Corporation to:
EUGENE J. POLLEY (Non-Member)
Retired Engineer, Head of Video Recording Group
Zenith Electronics LLC
Lincolnshire, IL, USA
“For contributions to the technology of the wireless remote control for television and other consumer electronics products”
IEEE INTERNET AWARD — recognizes exceptional contributions to the advancement of Internet technology for network architecture, mobility and/or end-use- applications — sponsored by Nokia Corporation to:
LIXIA ZHANG (F’IEEE)
Professor, Computer Science Department
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
“For contributions toward an understanding of the complex interactions between Internet components and the development of the Internet architecture.”
IEEE REYNOLD B. JOHNSON DATA STORAGE DEVICE TECHNOLOGY AWARD — recognizes outstanding contributions to the advancement of information storage with emphasis on technical contributions in computer data storage device technology — sponsored by Hitachi Global Storage Technologies to:
KINAM KIM (F’IEEE)
Executive Vice President and Head of DRAM Product and Technology
Samsung Electronics
Gyeonggi-Do, Korea
“For leadership in and contribution to semiconductor memory technology which enabled the growth of low cost consumer data storage devices.”
IEEE RICHARD HAROLD KAUFMANN AWARD — recognizes outstanding contributions in industrial systems engineering — sponsored by the IEEE Industry Applications Society to:
RONALD G. HARLEY (F’IEEE)
Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA, USA
“For contributions to monitoring, control and optimization of electrical processes including electrical machines and power networks.”
IEEE GUSTAV ROBERT KIRCHHOFF AWARD— recognizes outstanding contributions to the fundamentals of any aspect of electronic circuits and systems that has a long-term significance or impact — sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society to:
ERNEST S. KUH (LF’IEEE)
William S. Floyd, Jr. Professor Emeritus in Engineering
University of California
Berkeley, CA, USA
“For outstanding contributions to theory and practice in circuits and systems and for pioneering work in electronics design automation.”
IEEE KOJI KOBAYASHI COMPUTERS AND COMMUNICATIONS AWARD — recognizes outstanding contributions to the integration of computers and communications — sponsored by NEC Corporation to:
NICK MCKEOWN (F’IEEE)
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
“For pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of input-queued switches, their scheduling algorithms, and router buffers.”
IEEE WILLIAM E. NEWELL POWER ELECTRONICS AWARD — recognizes outstanding contribution(s) to the advancement of power electronics — sponsored by IEEE Power Electronics Society to:
TADASHI FUKAO (F’IEEE)
Independent Consultant
Yokohama, Japan
“For contributions to the development of cycloconverters and bearingless drives.”
IEEE DANIEL E. NOBLE AWARD — outstanding contributions to emerging technologies recognized within recent years — sponsored by Motorola Foundation to:
LARRY F. WEBER (F’IEEE)
President, Society for Information Display (SID)
San Jose, CA, USA
“For pioneering contributions to Plasma Display Technology and its commercialization.”
IEEE FREDERIK PHILIPS AWARD — recognizes outstanding accomplishments in the management of research and development resulting in effective innovation in the electrical and electronics industry —sponsored by Philips Electronics NV to:
SHOJIRO ASAI (F’IEEE)
Executive Vice President and Member of the Board
Rigaku Corporation
Tokyo, Japan
“For leadership in research and development in electron device technologies and their applications.”
IEEE PHOTONICS AWARD — recognizes outstanding achievements in photonics — sponsored by the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society to:
ROBERT L. BYER (F’IEEE)
Professor, Department of Applied Physics
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
“For seminal contributions to nonlinear optics and solid-state lasers for commercial applications from precision measurement to manufacturing.”
IEEE EMANUEL R. PIORE AWARD — recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of information processing in relation to computer science — sponsored by the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award Fund to:
DAVID J. DEWITT (Non-Member)
John P. Morgridge Professor
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI, USA
“For fundamental contributions to the architecture, algorithms, and implementation of innovative database systems.”
IEEE JUDITH A. RESNIK AWARD — recognizes outstanding contributions to space engineering, within the fields of interest of the IEEE — sponsored by the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Control Systems, and IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Societies to:
SUDHAKAR K. RAO (F’IEEE)
Division Fellow
Lockheed Martin Space Systems
Newtown, PA, USA
“For innovations and contributions leading to advanced multiple beam and reconfigurable beam payloads for communication satellites”
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION AWARD — recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of robotics and automation — sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society to:
ANTAL BEJCZY (LF’IEEE)
Senior Research Scientist (retired)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
California Institute of Technology (CIT)
Pasadena, CA, USA
“For leadership and sustained contributions to a broad set of innovative robotic and automation techniques applicable to space research and on Earth.”
IEEE FRANK ROSENBLATT AWARD — recognizes outstanding contributions to the advancement of the design, practice, techniques, or theory in biologically and linguistically motivated computational paradigms, including but not limited to neural networks, connectionist systems, evolutionary computation, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems in which these paradigms are contained — sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society to:
JOHN J. HOPFIELD (NON-Member)
Howard A. Prior Professor in the Life Sciences
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA
“For seminal contributions to the understanding of information processing in biological systems.”
IEEE DAVID SARNOFF AWARD — recognizes exceptional contributions to electronics — sponsored by Sarnoff Corporation to: (Co-Recipients)
YASUHIKO ARAKAWA (SM’IEEE)
Professor
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology
Tokyo, Japan
and
KAM-YIN LAU (F’IEEE)
Professor, EECS
University of California
Berkeley, CA, USA
and
KERRY J. VAHALA (SM’IEEE)
Jenkins Professor
Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA, USA
“For seminal contributions to improved dynamics of quantum well semiconductor lasers.”
IEEE DONALD O. PEDERSEN AWARD IN SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS— recognizes outstanding contributions to solid-state circuits —sponsored by the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society to:
TERESA H. MENG (F’IEEE)
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
“For pioneering contributions to the development of integrated wireless communications systems.”
IEEE CHARLES PROTEUS STEINMETZ AWARD — recognizes exceptional contributions to the development and/or advancement of standards in electrical and electronics engineering — sponsored by the IEEE Standards Association to:
JAMES THOMAS CARLO (F’IEEE)
Principal, J Carlo Consulting LLC
Dallas, TX, USA
“For professional leadership in and contributions to the development of networking standards with global impact.”
IEEE LEON K. KIRCHMAYER GRADUATE TEACHING AWARD — recognizes inspirational teaching of graduate students in the IEEE fields of interest — sponsored by the Leon K. Kirchmayer Memorial Fund to:
ROGER W. BROCKETT (LF’IEEE)
An Wang Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, USA
“For inspirational mentoring of generations of graduate students who have gone on to define the field of control engineering.”
IEEE UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING AWARD — recognizes inspirational teaching of undergraduate students in the fields of interest of the IEEE — sponsored by the IEEE Education Society to:
JOHN C. BEAN (F’IEEE)
J.M. Money Professor of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA, USA
“For providing opportunities to both undergraduate and pre-college students for discovery through both laboratory projects and virtual experiments on the world wide web.”
IEEE NIKOLA TESLA AWARD — recognizes outstanding contributions to the generation and utilization of electric power — sponsored by the Grainger Foundation and the IEEE Power & Energy Society to:
DONALD WAYNE NOVOTNY (LF’IEEE)
Professor (Emeritus)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA
“For pioneering contributions to the analysis and understanding of ac machine dynamic behavior and performance in adjustable-speed drives.”
IEEE KIYO TOMIYASU AWARD — recognizes outstanding early to mid-career contributions to technologies holding the promise of innovative applications — sponsored by the Kiyo Tomiyasu Fund and the IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society to:
SHIH-FU CHANG (F’IEEE)
Professor and Chairman
Department of Electrical Engineering
Digital Video and Multimedia Lab
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
“For contributions to Automated Image Classification and Search.”
2008 IEEE Eric Herz Outstanding Staff Member Award - sponsored by IEEE to:
Fern Katronetsky
Executive Director
IEEE Foundation & Awards
“For extraordinary commitment to the goals and objectives of the Institute and unwavering leadership and invaluable support of volunteers and staff for over 30 years.”
