IEEE Honorary Membership Recipients
2008 - 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.”
2007 -
IAN C. McRAE
Eskom (RETIRED)
Germiston, South Africa
“For contributions to electrification and development of the electrical grid in Southern Africa.”
and
TSUTAE SHINODA
Fellow, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.
Akashi, Japan
“For outstanding innovative and pioneering contributions to commercializing large area color plasma displays.”
2006 - VLADIMIR ROKHLIN
Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA
“For the development of the Fast Multipole Method.”
2005 - DEAN KAMEN
President, DEKA R&D Corporation
Chairman Segway LLC, Founder FIRST
Manchester, NH, USA
"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."
2004 - NOT AWARDED
2003 - JORMA OLLILA
Chairman and CEO, Nokia Corporation
Finland
"For contributions to launching mobile communications, a major global industry that has fundamentally changed the way people communicate."
2003 - TADASHI SASAKI
President and CEO, International Center for Materials Research
Japan
"For leadership of the commercialization of Liquid Crystal Displays and development of the pocket calculator."
2002 - JAMES C. MORGAN
Chairman and CEO, Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA
'For his contributions of 25 years to the semiconductor industry and vision in building Applied Materials into a technology pioneer enabling the global information infrastructure.'
2001 - CHARLES M. GESCHKE
Adobe Systems (Retired)
San Jose, CA, USA
'For many years of inspiring visionary leadership in the software industry related to digital publishing for the World Wide Web, print and dynamic media.'
2000 - NORIO OHGA
Sony Corporation
Tokyo, Japan 'For visionary leadership in the development of the MiniDisc.'
1999 - NO AWARD
1998 - PAVAGUDA VENKATA INDIRESAN
President, Indian National Academy of Engineering
New Delhi, India
'For contributions to the growth of electrical engineering in India through his leadership in education, applied research and professional engineering institutions.'
1998 - SHELIA E. WIDNALL
Secretary, United States Air Force - Washington, D.C., USA
'For outstanding leadership to United States Air Force science and technology.'
1997 - PEKKA J. TARJANNE
Secretary-General - International Telecom Union
Geneva, Switzerland
'For outstanding leadership and contributions to the implementation of new working methods and structures for the International Telecommunications Union.'
1996 - LEON M. LEDERMAN
Fermilab - Batavia, IL, USA
'For his leadership in research and science education and his advocacy of the importance of science education to the intellectual and economic health of society.'
1996 - HIROYUKI MIZUNO
Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Osaka, JAPAN
'For technical leadership in semiconductor research, manufacturing and its application in consumer electronics and for promoting international technical cooperation.'
1995 - LARS H. RAMQVIST
LM Ericsson - Stockholm, Sweden
'For distinguished and far-sighted leadership of the Ericsson Group in a period of rapid technology change and market development.'
1994 - MICHEL A. G. CARPENTIER
Information Market and Exploitation Research
Commission of European Communities
Brussels, Belgium
'For leadership in pioneering the R&D and policy initiatives at the European Community level in the areas of environment and information and communication technologies.'
1994 - RALPH E. GOMORY
IBM, NY, USA
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
New York, NY, USA
'For his outstanding leadership of the research activities of IBM, and the resulting technological benefits to IBM and the computer and semiconductor industries.'
1993 - ROBERT W. GALVIN
Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg, IL, USA
'For distinguished leadership of Motorola, Inc., and for his many beneficial contributions to quality processes, competitiveness, and public policy.'
1992 - MARK KRIVOCHEEV
State Radio Res. Inst. - Moscow, Russian Federation
'For technical contributions to television and leadership in developing international standardization.'
1991 - AKIO MORITA
SONY Corp. - Tokyo, Japan
'For his distinguished leadership of Sony Corporation and the integration of emerging technologies into consumer electronics products.'
1990 - NO AWARD
1989 - NO AWARD
1988 - LUIS W. ALVAREZ
'For the invention and development of the first successful aircraft landing system using ground control radar and the first proton linear accelerator; for numerous discoveries in the field of particle and resonance physics; and for pioneering work on the extraterrestrial impact theory.'
1987 - GENE H. GOLUB
Stanford University - Stanford, CA, USA
'For improvements in signal processing, modeling, control, and other areas through numerical methods for least-squares estimation and matrix singular value decomposition.'
1987 - ARNO A. PENZIAS
AT&T Bell Labs. - Murray Hill, NJ, USA
'For leadership in the research activities of AT&T Bell Laboratories, and for outstanding contributions to radio communications and radio astronomy.'
1986 - ARTHUR E. BRYSON, JR.
Stanford University - Stanford, CA, USA
'For contributions to education and for research in the theory and implementation of optimal control techniques.'
1985 - HIDEO YAMASHITA
University of Tokyo - Tokyo, Japan
'For contributions to research in computers, for fostering international cooperation in the science and technology of information processing, and for leadership in electrical engineering education.'
1984 - M. G. K. MENON
Government of India - New Delhi
'For contributions to the planning and growth of science and technology, particularly electronics, and its application to development; promotion of international scientific cooperation; and experimental research in particle physics and cosmic rays.'
1984 - HERBERT A. SIMON
Carnegie-Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA, USA
'For contributions to the theory of human understanding and decision-making and the utilization of computers in artificial intelligence, and for notable leadership in computer science education.'
1983 - GEORGE B. DANTZIG
Stanford University - Stanford, CA, USA
'For the development of linear programming and its numerous extensions, which have led to the widespread use of optimization techniques in many branches of electrical engineering design.'
1983 - NORMAN RAMSEY
Harvard University - Cambridge, MA, USA
'For the invention of the hydrogen maser, the development of high precision atomic clocks and contributions to the standardization of the second in terms of the cesium resonance.'
1983 - CECIL H. GREEN
Texas Instruments - Dallas, TX, USA
'For creative philanthropy fostering collaboration of educational institutions and industry in the advancement of electrical sciences.'
1982 - BRIAN D. JOSEPHSON
University of Cambridge - Cambridge, England
'For his prediction (discovery) of pair tunneling between superconductors which constitutes the basis of a Josephson junction technology for high speed and low power computing elements and memories.'
1982 - DONALD E. KNUTH
Stanford University - Stanford, CA, USA
'For his contributions to the field of computer science, through research and education.'
1982 - WOLFGANG K. H. PANOFSKY
Stanford Linear Accel. Ctr. - Stanford, CA, USA
'For extensive pioneering contributions to the development of linear particle accelerators, advancement of high power microwave technology, and high energy particle physics.'
1981 - WALTER H. BRATTAIN
Bell Laboratories
Murray Hill, NJ, USA
'For significant contributions to fundamental semiconductor physics leading to the invention of the TRANSISTOR.'
1981 - JOHN BARDEEN
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL, USA
'For significant contributions to solid state physics leading to the invention of the TRANSISTOR and to the theoretical understanding of superconductivity.'
1981 - EDWIN H. LAND
Polaroid Corporation
Cambridge, MA, USA
"For his pioneering work in science and technology of photography and light."
