Celebrating the 2009 IEEE Honors Ceremony Recipients

The IEEE Honors Ceremony is designed to recognize a wide range of technical professionals for their excellence in engineering, education through creative leadership, the countless innovative offerings they have made to their respective fields and for continually pushing theoretical limitations for the betterment of humankind.

Meet some of the extraordinary IEEE Honors Ceremony Recipients that have devoted their lives’ work to advancing innovation and technological excellence for the benefit of our global community.

"The level of success that DRAM has achieved is due to a steady influx of new ideas and improved technology along the way from thousands of people throughout the world. I’m amazed at how far scaling has gone and how much our lives have been impacted by the resulting growth in computing capability.”

- Robert H. Dennard, IEEE Life Fellow and 2009 IEEE Medal of Honor Recipient

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"My primary research area is the mathematics of information, and my close association with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and more recently Sony Corporation has allowed me to use discrete mathematics to analyze and improve a number of space communications and digital storage systems.”

- Robert J. McEliece, IEEE Life Fellow and 2009 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal Recipient

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"I have been fortunate to play a role in the development of digital fly-by-wire technology which has proved to be of major aeronautical importance during the last half century.”

- Albert F. Myers, IEEE Member and 2009 IEEE Simon Ramo Medal Recipient

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Read about all the 2009 Honors Ceremony Recipients.