2006 IEEE Honors Ceremony

The IEEE's annual Honors Ceremony will be held on Saturday, 24 June 2006 at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The IEEE Board of Directors will be honoring these outstanding recipients at its event.

MEDAL OF HONOR The IEEE Medal of Honor, the most prestigious IEEE award, will be presented to Dr. James D. Meindl - Director and Petit Chair Professor of Microelectronics, Microelectronics Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
"For pioneering contributions to microelectronics, including low-power, biomedical, physical limits and on-chip interconnect networks."

The IEEE will also be honoring the other Institute-level Medals and Recognition Award recipients at the event for their contributions to electro and information technologies and sciences:

IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal
sponsored by Lucent Technologies

Dr. John M. Wozencraft  – Professor Emeritus, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT., Cambridge, MA.

“For the development of sequential decoding and the signal space approach to digital communication.”

IEEE Edison Medal – sponsored by Samsung Electronics, Ltd. to Professor Fawwaz T. Ulaby – Vice President for Research & Williams Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

“For pioneering research in microwave and radar remote sensing technology and their environmental and industrial applications.

IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal –sponsored by The Mathworks, Inc., Pearson Prentice Hall, National Instruments Foundation and Xilinx, Inc. to Professor Sanjit K. Mitra  – Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.

“For outstanding contributions to electrical engineering education through pioneering textbooks, innovative laboratory development, and curriculum reform.”

IEEE Founders Medal –sponsored by IEEE Foundation to Dr. Toshiharu Aoki  – Counselor and Senior Vice President, NTT Data Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.

“For outstanding visionary leadership in global standardization and commercialization of broadband multi-media networks.”

IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal –sponsored by QUALCOMM Inc to Dr. Vladimir I. Levenshtein – Leading Scientific Researcher, Keldysh Institute for Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia

“For contributions to the theory of error-correcting codes and information theory, including the Levenshtein distance.”

IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal – sponsored by Texas Instruments, Inc. to Dr. Thomas Kailath  – Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

“For seminal contributions to the theory and applications of statistical signal processing.”

IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal –sponsored by The Federation of Electric Power Companies, Japan and Semiconductor Research Foundation to three co-recipients:

Dr. Mitsumasa Koyanagi – Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Robotics, Tohoku University,  Sendai,  Japan; Dr. Kiyoo Itoh – Fellow, Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan; Dr. Hideo Sunami – Professor, Research Center for Nanodevices and Systems, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

“For pioneering contributions to dynamic random access memory (DRAM) cell structures and architecture.”

IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal – sponsored by Intel Foundation to Mr. Shoichiro Yoshida – Chairman of the Board and CEO, Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

“For contributions to, and leadership in, the technology and business development of IC lithography.”

IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications  – sponsored by Raytheon Company to Dr. Eli Brookner  – Principle Engineering Fellow, Raytheon Corporation, Sudbury, MA

“For pioneering contributions to phased array radar system designs, to radar signal processing designs, and to continuing education programs for radar engineers.”

IEEE Simon Ramo Medal –sponsored by Northrop Grumman Corporation to Mr. Donald C. Wetzel – Retired, Co-Founder, Chairman and Sales Manager, Electronic Signature Verification Systems, Dallas, TX

“For conceiving, implementing, and promoting the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM).”

IEEE John von Neumann Medal –sponsored by IBM Corporation to Dr. Edwin Catmull -  President, Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, CA

“For fundamental contributions to computer graphics, and a pioneering role in the use of computer animation in motion pictures.”

IEEE SERVICE AWARDS:

IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award –sponsored by IEEE Technical Activities Board to Dr. Donald M. Bolle – Professor Emeritus, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA and Provost Emeritus, Polytechnic University, New York, NY

 “For a distinguished career of Institute leadership in the technical and transnational areas.”

IEEE Haraden Pratt Award –sponsored by IEEE Foundation to Mr. Antonio C. Bastos –Assistant for Planning and Academic Management, Faculadade de Technologia e Ciencias, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

“For leadership and distinguished service in sustaining and extending IEEE’s global recognition.”

IEEE CORPORATE INNOVATION RECOGNITION:

IEEE Corporate Innovation Recognition –sponsored by IEEE to ARM Limited, Cambridge, England

“For creating the ARM microprocessor technology that has been successfully embedded into a broad spectrum of today’s digital consumer electronic products.”

IEEE HONORARY MEMBERSHIP:

Honorary Membership – sponsored by IEEE to Dr. Vladimir Rokhlin – Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, Yale University, New Haven, CT

"For the development of the Fast Multipole Method.”