IEEE Ernst Weber Engineering Leadership Recognition Recipients

IEEE Ernst Weber Leadership Recognition

2008 - NOT AWARDED

2007 - NARAYANA N. R. MURTHY
Chairman and Chief Mentor
Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Bangalore, India

“For a pioneering role in the globalization of information technology software and services, and leadership in establishing global business and governance practices in India.”

2006 - NOT AWARDED


2005 - NOT AWARDED


2004 - PASQUALE PISTORIO
CEO and President, STMicroelectronics
Geneva, Switzerland

"For leadership in revitalizing the semiconductor industry in Europe and increasing its influence worldwide."

2003 - WILLIAM J. SPENCER
Chairman and CEO, Emeritus, SEMATECH
Austin, TX, USA

"For engineering leadership in raising performance in semiconductor manufacturing and fostering cooperative work towards international standards."

2002 - NOT AWARDED

2001
MICHAEL J. BIRCK
Chair and CEO Tellabs - Lisle, IL, USA

'For his entrepreneurial and technical leadership in founding Tellabs, a leader in digital cross connect systems and broadband access telecommunications products.'

and

CHRISTOPHER MARTIN EARNSHAW
Group Engineering Director and Chief Technology Officer, British Telecommunications Plc (BT)
United Kingdom

'For technical and managerial leadership as Chief Technology Officer of Britsh Telecommunications in the development and introduction of advanced networking technologies and communications platforms.'

2000 - JOEL S. BIRNBAUM
Senior VP Hewlett Packard - Palo Alto, CA, USA (Retired)

'For leadership in integrating, extending and shaping industrial research and development in measurement, computing and communications.'

1999 - BERNARD S. MEYERSON
IBM/TJ Watson Research Center - Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

'For his leadership in bringing about seminal advances in growth and control of Si/SiGe heterostructures enabling the emergence of new technological applications.'

1998 - JEROME SWARTZ
Symbol Technologies, Inc. - Holtsville, NY, USA

'For exceptional technical and managerial leadership in the development of an industry based on mobile bar code scanners and related data transaction systems.'

and

ANGUS MCMILLAN TAIT
Managing Director, Tait Electronics Ltd.
Christchurch, New Zealand

'For leadership and contributions in creating and expanding radio communication approaches that achieved international recognition and success.'

1997 - JOHN H. CRAWFORD
Intel Corporation - Santa Clara, CA, USA

'For leadership in the development of microprocessors for the personal computer industry.'

1997 - WILLIAM J. WEISZ
Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg, IL, USA

'For engineering leadership and major contributions in two-way radio and paging systems.'

1996 - ALAN G. CHYNOWETH
Bellcore - Livingston, NJ, USA

'For the initiation, organization and inspired leadership of Bellcore's Applied Research Division.'

1996 - SOL TRIEBWASSER
IBM Corporation - Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

'For pioneering leadership in the development of MOS large scale integration.'

1995 - JOHN B. TERRY
Bell Northern Research Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

'For technical and managerial leadership in developing digital switching systems and architectures for advanced telecommunications networks.'

1994 - CLARENCE G. THORNTON

U.S. Army Electronics Technology and Devices Laboratory - Fort Monmouth, NJ, USA

'For scientific and managerial leadership in developing military electronic technologies and for his key role in transferring these developments to industry and academia.'

1993 - PERCY BARNEVIK
Asea Brown Boveri, Ltd. - Zurich, Switzerland

'For managerial leadership in creating a global enterprise in the areas of electric power apparatus and systems, transportation, and environmental technologies.'

1992 - BERNARD M. GORDON
Analogic Corporation - Peabody, MA, USA

'Through his bold leadership, his many inventions, and his innovative entrepreneurial activities, he has been a prime contributor to the growth of electro-technology.'

1991 - SEYMOUR R. CRAY
Cray Computer Corporation - Colorado Springs, CO, USA

'For exceptional personal leadership in the design and construction of the world's highest performance general-purpose supercomputers.'

1990 - IRWIN DORROS
Bell Communications Research, Inc. - Livingston, NJ, USA

'For outstanding leadership in the creation and management of Bell Communications Research, Inc., an engineering and research organization which provides technical support to a national telecommunications network.'

1990 - EDSON FREGNI
Spectrum, Ltd. Sao Paulo, Brazil

'For pioneering the computer industry in Brazil as founder and president of one of the first companies in the field of information technology, and as a major contributor to his country's national policy of technological development.'

1989 - ARNALDO M. ANGELINI
ENEL, Rome, Italy

'For his leadership and exceptional contribution to the reconstruction of his country after the war and the development of electric power systems elevating the level and the prestige of the engineering profession.'

1989 - ROLAND W. SCHMITT
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Troy, NY, USA

'For his leadership in directing one of the world's most diversified and prolific industrial research and development organizations, and for his contributions to national science and technology policy.'

1988 - RALPH E. GOMORY
IBM Corporation - Armonk, NY, USA

'For exemplary leadership in directing and utilizing the contributions of an outstanding research laboratory to effect major change in the technologies and standards of the computer industry.'

1987 - ANDREW S. GROVE
INTEL Corporation - Santa Clara, CA, USA

'For leadership in developing exemplary management and manufacturing practices, and for outstanding entrepreneurship in the semiconductor industry.'

1986 - WILLIAM C. NORRIS
Control Data Corp.

'For engineering management leading to development of the Cyber series of the computers.'

1986 - KENNETH H. OLSEN
Digital Equipment Corp.

'For engineering management leading to the development of the microcomputer.'