IEEE Executives
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Lewis M. Terman |
John R. Vig |
Leah H. Jamieson |
Presidents' Columns in The Institute
Lewis M. Terman
2008 IEEE President and CEO
Lewis Terman is President and CEO of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) worldwide. IEEE is the world's largest scientific, educational and professional society with over 370,000 members in more than 160 countries. Through its members, the IEEE is a leading authority in areas ranging from aerospace, computers and telecommunications to biomedicine, electric power and consumer electronics.
Lewis Terman received the B.S. in Physics and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EE from Stanford in 1956, 1958, and 1961 respectively. He joined the IBM Research Division in 1961, where he worked on solid-state circuits, semiconductor technology, memory design and technology, digital and analog circuits, and processor design. He did two tours of duty on the Research Division technical planning staff, 1979-1980 and 1991-1993. He was manager and senior manager of groups working in MOS logic and memory design and technology, and was involved in a number of programs leading to products. He received nine major IBM technical awards, including three Corporate awards. He was elected to the IBM Academy of Technology in 1991, and served as president in 2001-2003. He became Associate Director, IBM Research Systems Department in 2003, and retired in 2006. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
IEEE Activities– (S’58-M’61-SM’74-F’75-LF’97) OFFICES: IEEE Board of Directors, 2007-08, 2004-05, 2001; IEEE President, 2008; IEEE President-Elect, 2007; Division I Director, 2004-05.
COMMITTEES/BOARDS: Vice President Technical Activities Board, 2001; Nominations and Appointments, 1993-94; Strategic Planning, 1998-99, 2005; Awards Board, Vice Chair, 1996-97; Awards Planning and Policy, Chair, 1996-97; Proceedings of the IEEE Editorial Board, 1989-2004; Proceedings of the IEEE, Guest Co-Editor, 1995; IEEE Spectrum Editorial Board, 1999-2005; PSPB Treasurer, 2003; Technical Activities Board, Member, 1990-2002, 2004-05; Treasurer, 1995-98; Technical Meetings Committee, Chair, 1993-94; Strategic Planning and Review, Chair, 1999; Restructuring Committee, 1991-92; Ad Hoc Budget Review, Chair, 1992; Blue Ribbon Committee on Restructuring, 1996-97; TABARC, Chair, 2003-04; Society Review Committee, Chair, 1995.
SOCIETIES: Solid-State Circuits: President, 1998-99; Vice President, 1996-97; Treasurer, 1988-89; IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Editor, 1974-77, Special Issue Guest Editor, 1972, 1973; Awards, Chair, 1986-87; Electron Devices: President, 1990-91; Vice President, 1988-89; Awards, Chair, 1988-89; IEEE Electron Devices Transactions, Special Issue Editorial College, 1979, 1980, 1985; Circuits & Systems: Board of Governors, 1981-83; Long Range Planning, 1995.
CONFERENCES: International Solid-State Circuits Conference, Program Chair, 1983; Symposium on VLSI Technology, Systems, and Applications, Technical Program Co-Chair, 1985, 1987; Symposium on VLSI Technology, Chair, 1985-86, Technical Program, Chair, 1987; Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Co-Chair, 1988-89, Technical Program Co-Chair, 1987; Symposium on Low Power Electronics, Chair, 1995.
AWARDS: IEEE Fellow 1975; Solid-State Circuits Technical Field Award, 1995; Electron Devices Society Distinguished Service Award, 1995.
John R. Vig
2008 IEEE President-Elect
John Vig received the B.S. degree from CCNY, in 1964; and the Ph.D. in Physics from Rutgers - The State University, in 1969. He joined the Electronic Components Laboratory at Fort Monmouth, NJ, USA, in 1969. Throughout his professional career, working as an electronics engineer and program manager, he performed and led research aimed at developing precision clocks, sensors and low-noise oscillators. In 1988, he was elected Fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to the technology of quartz crystals for precision frequency control and timing." He retired in 2006 and is now working as a consultant.
He has been awarded 55 patents, and has published more than 100 papers and nine book chapters. He serves as a volunteer in his home town - as an Environmental Commissioner and trustee of the Friends of the Library. In his spare time, he and his wife of 44 years enjoy ballroom dancing.
IEEE Activities – (M’72-SM’84-F’89) OFFICES: Board of Directors, 2008, 2005, 2002-03; IEEE President-Elect, 2008; Vice President, Technical Activities, 2005; Director, Division IX, 2002-2003.
COMMITTEES/BOARDS: Investment AdHoc Committee, 2003; Investment Committee, 2002-03; Marketing and Sales Committee, 2005-07; Trust & Communications Working Group, 2003; Technical Activities Board (TAB), 1998-2005; TAB Chair, 2005; SPARC Chair, 2004; Ethics & Conflict Resolution Committee, 2006; TAB Representative to Investment Committee, 2004; Chair, Investment Advisory Ad Hoc Committee, 2003-04; Nominations & Appointments Committee, 2002-03; Finance Committee, 2001; Electronic Products & Services Committee, 2002; Business Simplification Team, 2002-03; New Technology Directions Committee, 1998-2002; Ad Hoc Committee on Globalization, 1999; Focus Group on Public Image of Engineers, 1999; New Financial Model, 1999; Membership Development Committee, 1999; Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Sensors, 1998-99. Standards Coordinating Committee 27 on Time & Frequency: Chair, 1995-99; Vice-chair, 2000-07.
SOCIETIES/COUNCILS: Sensors Council: Main proponent, 1998-99; Founding President, 2000-01; Associate Editor, Sensors Journal, 2003-05; Senior Editor, Sensors Journal, 2006-07; Special Issue Guest Editor, 2005; AdCom member representing the UFFC-S, 2006-07; VP, Conferences, 2002; Publicity Chair, 2001-07; Exhibits Chair, 2002-03; Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society (UFFC-S): President, 1998-99; AdCom (elected twice), 1995-97, 1986-89; Transactions on UFFC, Associate Editor, 2002-07; Special Issues Guest Editor, 1998, 1987-88; Publicity Chair, 2006-07; Constitution & Bylaws Review Committee, 2005-07, 1995-98; Founding Web Editor-in-Chief, 1996-2004; Nominating Committee, 1986-92; Publications Committee, 1997-2003; Frequency Control Standing Committee, 1983-2006; Standards Committee Vice-chair, 1998-2007; Time and Frequency Standards Subcommittee, Chair, 1988-99; History Committee, 2006; Instrumentation & Measurement Society: Committee on Time and Frequency (TC-3): Chair, 1999-2001; Vice-chair, 1979-99.
CONFERENCES: Int’l Frequency Control Symposium: General Chair, 1996-97, 1983-88; Technical Program Committee (TPC), 1972-2007; TPC Chair, 2002; Editorial, Chair, 1989-2003; Ultrasonics Symposium, Technical Program Committee, 1986-2006; Sensors Council VP for Conferences, 2002; IEEE SENSORS 2003: TPC and Publicity Chair, 2003; IEEE-NANO TPC, 2001-02.
REPRESENTATIVE: Hoover Medal Board of Award, 1991-2005.
AWARDS: UFFC-S Distinguished Service Award, 2005; UFFC-S Achievement Award, 2000; C. B. Sawyer Memorial Award, 2006; W. G. Cady Award, 1990; UFFC-S Distinguished Lecturer, 1992-93; IEEE Fellow, 1989.
IEEE Accomplishments – Founded the IEEE Sensors Council – Vig proposed and shepherded the Council through the approval process, and was elected its founding president. Today, the Council has a successful journal, the IEEE Sensors Journal, which started in 2001 with ~400 pages. In 2007, it will publish ~2000 pages. The Council also started a conference, IEEE SENSORS, which attracts ~600 participants annually. Before, the IEEE had no journal and no major conference devoted to sensors.
Brought what is now the IEEE Frequency Control Symposium into the IEEE. While he was general chairman of this originally non-IEEE conference, Vig negotiated the agreement that allowed the IEEE to take over this conference.
Other accomplishments – please see www.JohnVig.org for details:
- Creation of the Investment Operations Manual – including a prudent investment policy
- Simplification of the membership admission process (elimination of the “REP list”)
- Openness in IEEE
- Availability of IEEE’s tax return on IEEE’s website
- Confidentiality policy
- Wider budget CD distribution
- E-mail voting policy - Conferences strategic planning
- Transnational scorecard
- Ethics and Conflict Resolution Committee in TAB
- Proposed establishing a “venture capital fund” to encourage creativity throughout IEEE and to speed up investments in new products and services.
Leah H. Jamieson
2008 IEEE Past-President
Leah Jamieson received the BS in mathematics from MIT and the MSE and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University. She is the John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering, Ransburg Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and holds a courtesy appointment in Purdue's Department of Engineering at Purdue University. Her technical interests include speech recognition, parallel signal processing algorithms, and engineering education; she has published over 160 papers. Jamieson is co-founder and past director of the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) undergraduate engineering design program, initiated at Purdue and adopted by 17 universities. For her work with EPICS, she was co-recipient of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering’s 2005 Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. She has served on advisory committees of the U. S. National Science Foundation and on the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association. She is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.
IEEE Activities – (S’75-M’76-SM’91-F’93) OFFICES: Board of Directors, 2005-08, 2003; ExCom, 2005-08, 2003; IEEE Past President, 2008; IEEE President, 2007; IEEE President-Elect, 2006; Vice President, Technical Activities, 2003; Vice President, Publication Services and Products, 2005.
COMMITTEES/BOARDS: IEEE New Initiatives Committee Chair, 2005; IEEE N&A, 2006; IEEE Strategic Planning 2002, 2005, 2006. Marketing and Sales Ad Hoc, 2005. Technical Activities Board Chair, 2003; TAB New Technology Directions Chair, 2004-05; TAB N&A Chair, 2004; TAB Management Chair, 2003; TAB Strategic Planning and Review (SPARC) Chair, 2002; TAB Periodicals Chair, 2000-01; TAB Governance Working Group Chair, 2003-04. Technical Activities Board, 1998-04; Finance, 2000-03; Management, 2002-04; SPARC, 2003-05; TAB Colloquia, 2003-04; Book Broker, 1998-99; New Technology Directions, 1996-97, 1999-00, 2003-05; TAB Periodicals, 1999; TAB Ad Hoc Committees on Streamlining Decision Making, New Financial Models, and Branding, 1998-2000; RAB-TAB Chapters, 1998. Publication Services and Products Board Chair, 2005; Vice Chair, 2001; Strategic Planning Chair, 2005; Operations Chair, 2005; Publication Service and Products Board, 2000-01; Finance, 2000-01, 2005; Operations, 2001, 2005; Strategic Planning, 2000-01; PAB/TAB Electronic Products, 2000-01. Awards Board, 1996-99; Jack S. Kilby Medal Committee, Chair, 1996-99; James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal Committee, 2004-05; Fellow Committee, 1995-97. Women in Engineering, 2001-06. Proceedings of the IEEE Editorial Board, 2000-01
SECTIONS: Central Indiana: Signal Processing Chapter, 1990-06.
SOCIETIES: Signal Processing: President, 1998-99; N&A Chair, 2000-01; Awards & Membership Vice President, 1994-95; Awards Board Chair, 1983-84, 1991-94; Technical Directions Chair, 1996-97; Technical Committee on VLSI Signal Processing, 1983-95, Chair, 1993-94; Technical Committee on Design & Implementation of Signal Processing Systems, 1996-2000, Advisory Committee 2001-06; Technical Committee on Signal Processing Education, 1999-2001; Board of Governors, 1993-01; AdCom, 1981-83; Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Associate Editor, 1986-87; Distinguished Lecturer, 1989-91. Computer: Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Associate Editor, 1991-94; Distinguished Visitor, 1990-94. Education: Harriett B. Rigas Award Committee, 2002-03, Chair, 2003. Social Implications of Technology: Member.
CONFERENCES: International Conference on Parallel Processing, Technical Program Co-Chair, 1983. International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Treasurer, 1984-85; Technical Program Vice Chair, 1991. Workshop on VLSI Signal Processing, Program Committee, 1984-96. International Parallel Processing Symposium, Program Committee, 1994, 1995.
AWARDS: IEEE Fellow, 1993; Computer Society Golden Core, 1997; Third Millennium Medal, 2000; IEEE Education Society/Hewlett-Packard Harriett B. Rigas “Outstanding Woman Engineering Educator” Award, 2000; IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award, 2003.
