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2008 Honors Ceremony Awardees

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IEEE Medal of Honor
sponsored by IEEE Foundation

Gordon Moore
Chairman of the Board, Emeritus
Intel Corporation
Santa Clara, California, USA

"For pioneering technical roles in integrated-circuit processing, and leadership in the development of MOS memory, the microprocessor computer and the semiconductor industry."

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IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal
sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent

Gerard J. Foschini
Bell Labs Fellow
Wireless Communications Research Department
Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent
Holmdel, New Jersey, USA

"For seminal contributions to the science and technology of multiple-antenna wireless communications."

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IEEE Edison Medal
sponsored by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Dov Frohman-Bentchkowsky
Retired, Vice President and General Manager
Intel Israel
Jerusalem, Israel

"For pioneering the development of the MOS Erasable, Programmable Read Only Memory (EPROM), a key enabler of the information age revolution."

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IEEE James H. Mulligan Jr. Education Medal
Sponsored by The Mathworks, Inc. Pearson Prentice Hall, National Instruments Foundation and the IEEE Life Members Committee

Joseph Bordogna
Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Engineering
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

"For creative contributions to engineering education through leadership in integrating research and education."

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IEEE Founders Medal
sponsored by IEEE Foundation

Steven B. Sample
President
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, USA

 "For leadership in higher education and the engineering profession, and for pioneering contributions to consumer electronics."

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IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
sponsored by QUALCOMM Inc.

Sergio Verdu
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey, USA

"For fundamental contributions to information theory and the development of multilaser detection."

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IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal
sponsored by Texas Instruments, Inc.

Robert M. Gray
Lucent Technologies Professor of Engineering
Electrical Engineering Department
Stanford University
Standford, California, USA

“For contributions to vector quantization and signal compression techniques.”

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IEEE Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal
sponsored by The Federation of Electric Power Companies, Japan
and Semiconductor Research Foundation

Wolfgang Helfrich
Professor
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Freie Universitaet
Berlin, Germany

Martin Schadt
MS High-Tech Consulting
Managing Director
Seltisberg, Switzerland

James Fergason
Fergason Patent Properties LLC
Founder and Member
Menlo Park, California, USA

"For pioneering development of twisted-nematic liquid crystal technology."

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IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal
sponsored by Intel Foundation

Paul R. Gray
Professor
Provost University of Calfornia
Berkeley, California, USA

"For pioneering the development of analog integrated circuits."

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IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications
sponsored by Raytheon Company

Yaakov Bar-Shalom
Professor
University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut, USA

"For contributions to techniques for radar tracking in clutter."

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IEEE Simon Ramo Medal
sponsored by Northrop Grumman Corporation

Chrysostomos L. (Max) Nikias
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Professor of Electrical Engineering-Systems
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, USA

"For outstanding leadership in engineering systems research and education, and for pioneering contributions to integrated media systems for the entertainment industry."

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IEEE John von Neumann Medal
sponsored by IBM Corporation

Leslie Lamport
Researcher
Microsoft Corporation
Silicon Valley Research Center
Mountain View, California, USA

"For establishment of the foundations of distributed and concurrent computing."

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IEEE Haraden Pratt Award
sponsored by IEEE Foundation

Maurice Papo
Independent Senior Consultant
Nice, France

"For furthering IEEE transnational activities and for conceiving and implementing major operational improvements leading to more effective and efficient IEEE volunteer activities."

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IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award
sponsored by IEEE Technical Activities Board

James T. (Tom) Cain
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Univerisity of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

"For valuable contributions to the Institute's publications and for the advancement of Electrical and Computer Engineering in engineering curricula."

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Corporate Innovation Recognition
sponsored by IEEE

Research In Motion
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

"For developing and promoting the Personal Data Assistant, Blackberry, and thereby transforming the mobile work environment."

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Honorary Membership
sponsored by IEEE

Jong Jong 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 engineerings community."

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IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clark Maxwell Award
Funded by Wolfson Microelectronics plc

Sir Timothy Berners-Lee
Directors of the World Wide Web Consortium and Science Researcher
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

"For conceiving and further developing the World Wide Web."

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