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SPEECH TECHNOLOGY PIONEER JAMES L. FLANAGAN
RECEIVES 2005 IEEE MEDAL OF HONOR
Annual Ceremony Honors Morley and Benigni for IEEE Service, AMD and NTT DoCoMo for Corporate Innovation, and 14 others for Professional Contributions
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PISCATAWAY, N.J., 4 June 2005 -- A visionary and pioneer in speech analysis, speech transmission and acoustics technology whose work influenced the viability of voice mail, speech recognition devices, Voice Over Internet Protocol, and many other developments, is being recognized with the 2005 IEEE Medal of Honor.
James L. Flanagan, IEEE Life Fellow, is receiving the highest IEEE award for his sustained leadership and outstanding contributions in speech technology. He is former director of the Information Principles Research Laboratory at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., and recently retired Vice President of Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., USA.
The IEEE Medal of Honor, sponsored by the IEEE Foundation, will be presented at the annual IEEE Honors Ceremony on 18 June in Chantilly, Va., USA.
The event also recognizes two individuals for their leadership within the IEEE, as well as two corporations and 14 other engineers, educators, scientists and industry leaders who have made significant contributions to technology and their profession.
Receiving these 2005 IEEE awards are the following:
Dr. Lloyd A. Pete Morley (FIEEE)* -- Professor, Electrical Engineering, the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala., USA -- IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award, sponsored by the IEEE Technical Activities Board for outstanding and visionary leadership of the Institute's technical and publication activities during times of great change and contributions to the effectiveness of operations
Mr. Daniel R. Benigni (SMIEEE)* -- Senior analyst, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Dept. of Commerce Gaithersburg, Md., USA -- IEEE Haraden Pratt Award, sponsored by IEEE Foundation for sustained leadership on Institute major boards and committees, including transforming and transitioning Regional Activities, IEEE-USA, and Standard Activities into their current organizations.
Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, Calif., USA an IEEE Corporate Innovation Recognition for innovations in the evolution of the x86 microprocessor and its extension to a 64-bit architecture.
NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, Japan -- An IEEE Corporate Innovation Recognition for innovations in the planning, development, and deployment of i-mode, an international leader in mobile Internet service.
Dr. Jim K. Omura (FIEEE), Technology Strategist, Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, San Francisco, Calif. USA -- IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, sponsored by Lucent Technologies, for contributions to the theory of communication systems and the commercial applications of spread spectrum radios and public key cryptography.
Prof. Peter Lawrenson (LFIEEE)*, Professor and private consultant, Wetherby, West Yorks, United Kingdom -- IEEE Edison Medal, sponsored by IEEE Technical Activities, for outstanding contributions to the field of electrical machines, most notably the development and commercialization of switched reluctance drives.
Dr. H. Vincent Poor (FIEEE), George Van Ness Lothrop Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J., USA -- IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal, sponsored by The MathWorks, Inc., National Instruments Foundation, Pearson Prentice Hall, and Xilinx, Inc.,for leadership in electrical engineering education through inspired teaching, a classic textbook, innovative curricular development and research.
Dr. Eugene Wong (LFIEEE), Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science -- IEEE Founders Medal, sponsored by IEEE Foundation, for leadership in national and international engineering research and technology policy, for pioneering contributions in relational databases.
Dr. Neil James Alexander Sloane (F IEEE), Technology leader, AT&T Labs, Florham Park, N.J., USA -- IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, sponsored by AT&T Labs, for contributions to coding theory and its applications to communications, computer science, mathematics and statistics.
Dr. Fumitada Itakura (FIEEE), Professor, Department of Information Engineering, School of Science and Technology, Meijo University, Aichi-ken, Japan -- IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal, sponsored by Texas Instruments, Inc., for pioneering contributions to narrow-band speech coding.
Dr. Jerry M. Woodall (FIEEE), Professor and U.S. National Medal of Technology Laureate, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., USA --IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal, sponsored by Semiconductor Research Foundation and The Federation of Electric Power Companies, Japan, for pioneering contributions to the liquid-phase epitaxy in the GaAs/AIGaAs systems, including applications to photonic and electronic devices.
Mr. Wilfred J. Corrigan, Chairman, LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, Calif., USA -- IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal, sponsored by Intel Foundation for pioneering the modern day gate-array, standard-cell ASIC, system-on-chip and platform ASIC markets and for leadership in semiconductor business, technology and industry cooperation
Dr. William J. Caputi, Jr. (LFIEEE), Independent consultant, Centerport, N.Y., USA -- IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications, sponsored by Raytheon Company for conception and development of innovative range and Doppler bandwidth reduction techniques used in wide-band radars and high resolution synthetic aperture radars
Drs. Baruch Berman (LF), George H. Gelb, Neal A. Richardson, co-recipients, retired, TRW, Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., USA --IEEE Simon Ramo Medal, sponsored by Northrop Grumman for pioneering conception, design and demonstration of a practical hybrid automobile power train providing extremely low exhaust emissions and high fuel efficiency
Dr. Michael Stonebraker, Adjunct professor, Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., and founder and chief technology officer StreamBase Systems, Lexington, Mass., USA -- IEEE John von Neumann Medal, sponsored by IBM Corporation for contributions to the design, implementation, and commercialization of relational and object-relational database systems
Mr. Dean Kamen, President, DEKA Research & Development Corporation, chairman, Segway LLC, founder FIRST program, Bedford, NH., USA -- Honorary Membership "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
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*FIEEE= IEEE Fellow
*LFIEEE= IEEE Life Fellow
*SMIEEE= IEEE Senior Member
