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  Semiconductor Laser Pioneer to Receive 2003 IEEE Medal of Honor. - HighBeam Encyclopedia
The IEEE has named Nick Holonyak, Jr., professor and John Bardeen Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as recipient of the 2003 IEEE Medal of Honor.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Holonyak is recognized for his career of pioneering contributions to the field of semiconductors, specifically in the areas of semiconductor alloys, heterojunctions, visible light-emitting diodes and injection lasers.
The IEEE Medal of Honor, sponsored by the IEEE Foundation, is the highest award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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  Britain.tv Wikipedia - IEEE
The goal of the IEEE education programs is to ensure the growth of skill and knowledge among the technical profession and to foster individual commitment to continuing education among IEEE members, the engineering and scientific community, and the general public.
IEEE also sponsors www.tryengineering.org, a website designed to help young people understand better what engineering means, and how an engineering career can be made part of their future.
The IEEE requires that a proposed draft of the standard receive a response rate of 75% (i.e., at least 75% of potential ballots are returned) and that, of the responding ballots, at least 75% approve the proposed draft of the standard.
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 Alan N. Willson, Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The IEEE has a worldwide membership of over 352,000 members, 3,000 of whom were selected to be recipients of the IEEE Millennium Medal in honor of their contributions to the IEEE as it enters the third millennium.
Willson was honored with this medal "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the Society".
The IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize Award was established in 1956 and is presented by the IEEE Board of Directors for the most outstanding paper, reporting original work, in the Transactions, Journals and Magazines of the IEEE Societies, or in the Proceedings of the IEEE, issued between 1 January and 31 December of the preceding year.
www.ee.ucla.edu /faculty/bios/willson.htm   (795 words)

  
 IEEE Medal of Honor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The IEEE Medal of Honor is the highest recognition of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
It is given for an exceptional contribution or an extraordinary career in the IEEE fields of interest.
The medal was originally founded by the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) as the IRE Medal of Honor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/IEEE_Medal_of_Honor   (147 words)

  
 IEEE Presents Its Highest Award to Semiconductor Pioneer. - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The IEEE will present Nick Holonyak Jr., a John Bardeen Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with the 2003 IEEE Medal of Honor for his contributions to semiconductors and to visible light-emitting diodes and injection lasers.
He will receive the medal, which is the highest recognition awarded by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, at the annual IEEE Honors Ceremony on 21 June in Nashville, Tenn.
Among Holonyak's many awards are the Global Energy Prize (2003), the Frederic Ives Medal of the Optical Society of America (2001), the Japan Prize (1995), the National Academy of Sciences' Award for the Industrial Application of Science (1993), the Optical Society's Charles Hard Townes Award (1992) and the U.S. National Medal of Science (1990).
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 IEEE Policies
The IEEE Medal of Honor, shall be awarded for an exceptional contribution or an extraordinary career in the IEEE fields of interest.
IEEE Medals may be awarded annually when, in the judgment of the Awards Board, suitable candidates are available.
IEEE recognitions are awards given in addition to the IEEE Medal of Honor, the IEEE Medals, and the Technical Field Awards.
www.ieee.com /web/aboutus/whatis/policies/p4-8.html   (1967 words)

  
 UH:  IEEE Third Millenium Medals ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Grove, who also is the 2000 recipient of the IEEE's highest award, the IEEE Medal of Honor, was the keynote speaker for the event.
The President's Award was created in 2000 to recognize IEEE members and non-members whose careers have exhibited distinguished leadership and contributions to the public.
Approximately 3,000 such medals are being awarded this year to IEEE members worldwide for their contributions to their technical areas or to the IEEE.
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 IEEE-Sacramento
IEEE is the world's leading resource for technological innovation and professional networking in the field of electrical engineering, electronics, and computing.
IEEE Society publications and conferences are the world's most respected sources for accurate, up-to-date information in electrical engineering, electronics, and computer science.
IEEE is the single largest concentration of high-technology professionals identified in business, industry, government, and academia to be found anywhere.
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 IEEE-vesit......best viewed in 1024*768   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The IEEE Medal of Honor is the Institute's highest award.
In the years that followed, the IEEE Medal of Honor became the highest award in the radio engineering profession, given only to those who had attained preeminence in the field through outstanding technical contributions.
Following the merger of the Institute of Radio Engineers and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1963, the IEEE Medal of Honor became the highest award of The IEEE, and its scope was correspondingly broadened.
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 ECE News: ECE Alumnus to Receive IEEE Medal of Honor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The IEEE Medal of Honor, sponsored by the IEEE Foundation, is the IEEE's highest award.
A Fellow of IEEE and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Meindl belongs to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, and has been part of their academic advisory board.
ECE alumnus James Meindl is the 2006 recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor.
www.ece.cmu.edu /news/story/2006/03/ece_alumnus_to   (292 words)

  
 Columbia News ::: Egelston and Pupin Medals Honor Rudolf Kalman, Richard Zare
He has received the IEEE Medal of Honor, IEEE Centennial Medal, Kyoto Prize in High Technology, Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society and Bellman Prize of the American Automatic Control Council.
First awarded in 1939, the medal is presented annually in recognition of a graduate’s work in the application of engineering principles to other professions or the public good, or the demonstration of exceptional professional leadership in engineering.
The Pupin Medal was created by the Columbia Engineering School Alumni Association in 1958 to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Michael I. Pupin (1858-1935), physicist, inventor and professor of electro-mechanics at Columbia from 1901 to 1931.
www.columbia.edu /cu/news/05/11/elgeston_medal.html   (591 words)

  
 IEEE Canada Newsletter/ Bulletin de IEEE Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The award of this medal is a rare distinction given that the EIC has eight member societies with a total membership approximating 35,000.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Sekimoto is being recognized for his contributions to the field of digital satellite communications, promotion of information technology research and development, and technical and corporate leadership in computers and communications.
The IEEE Medal of Honor as well as many other prestigious awards and honors will be presented at the annual IEEE Honors Ceremony in June 2004 in Kansas City, MO, USA.
www.ieee.ca /news/2004/feb2004.htm   (848 words)

  
 IEEE Orlando Section - SCOOP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
IEEE policy does not currently allow for officer positions to be held by members of Associate grade.
The IEEE Medal of Honor is the IEEE's highest award.
Each year, the IEEE Medal of Honor is awarded to an individual for exceptional contributions or an extraordinary career in the IEEE fields of interest.
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 EETimes.com - DFM pioneer wins highest IEEE award
IEEE last week picked Kailath as recipient of its highest award, its annual Medal of Honor.
The IEEE Medal of Honor acknowledges an exceptional contribution to or extraordinary career in an IEEE field of interest.
This year the institute is honoring Kailath for his contributions to communications, computing, control and signal processing.
www.eetimes.com /issue/na/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197004188   (613 words)

  
 Graegert.com - » Thomas Kailath Receives IEEE Medal of Honor
Since the medal was inaugurated in 1917, only one other Indian American has received it - C. Kumar Patel of AT&T Bell Labs, who was given the medal in 1989 for his contributions in developing the carbon dioxide laser and the spin flip Raman laser.
IEEE also announced this week that Narayana N.R. Murthy, chairman and chief mentor of Bangalore-based Infosys Technologies Ltd., would receive the Ernst Weber Engineering Leadership Recognition honor, among 12 medals, a service award and leadership recognition award to be presented in June.
Kailath said that while there have been other Medal of Honor winners in signal processing - in areas such as speech recognition, for example, he believes he is the only one in the statistical signal processing field.
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 Photonics Pioneer to Receive 2001 IEEE Medal of Honor. - Business Wire - HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Kogelnik will accept the IEEE's highest award "For fundamental contributions to the science and technology of lasers and optoelectronics, and for leadership in research and development of photonics and lightwave communication systems." Kogelnik's work has helped to revolutionize global information movement and management by making lightwave communications systems practical, cost-effective, and ubiquitous.
The IEEE Medal of Honor, sponsored by the IEEE Foundation, and the awards named below will be presented at the annual IEEE Honors Ceremony scheduled for 23 June 2001 at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, N.J. Outstanding Leadership
The IEEE serves more than 360,000 members in the electrotechnology and information technology communities in approximately 150 countries.
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 Lotfi A. Zadeh | EECS at UC Berkeley
An alumnus of the University of Teheran, MIT, and Columbia University, Dr. Zadeh is a fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, ACM and AAAI, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Zadeh was the recipient of the IEEE Education Medal in 1973 and a recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984.
He has published extensively on a wide variety of subjects relating to the conception, design and analysis of information/intelligent systems, and is serving on the editorial boards of over fifty journals.
www.eecs.berkeley.edu /Faculty/Homepages/zadeh.html   (511 words)

  
 IEEE Medal of Honor Information
The IEEE Medal of Honor is the highest recognition of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
The medal was originally founded by the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) as the IRE Medal of Honor.
It became the IEEE Medal of Honor when IRE merged with the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) to form IEEE in 1963.
www.bookrags.com /IEEE_Medal_of_Honor   (115 words)

  
 PRESS RELEASE Nobel Physics Laureate To Receive 2002 IEEE Medal Of Honor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The IEEE Medal of Honor, sponsored by the IEEE Foundation, and the awards named below will be presented at the annual IEEE Honors Ceremony scheduled for June 2002 at the in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The IEEE is the world's largest technical professional society with more than 366,000 members in approximately 150 countries.
The IEEE produces a large portion of the world's literature in the electrical and electronics engineering and control technology fields, and has developed more than 900 active consensus standards.
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 IEEE Annual Honors Ceremony
The 2006 IEEE 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.
Presentation of all IEEE Medals, Service Awards, and Corporate Recognitions are made by the IEEE President at the annual IEEE Honors Ceremony.
ieee.org /portal/pages/about/awards/HonorsCeremony/annualhc_.html   (178 words)

  
 EIT 2003
Also in 1992, he was awarded the Kampe de Feriet Medal and became an Honorary Member of the Austrian Society of Cybernetic Studies.
In 1998, Dr. Zadeh was awarded the Edward Feigenbaum Medal by the International Society for Intelligent Systems, and the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award by the American Council on Automatic Control.
Lotfi Zadeh is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, ACM and AAAI.
www.cis-ieee.org /eit2003/zadeh.asp   (3607 words)

  
 IEEE Medal of Honor Nomination Form
IEEE Medal of Honor, shall be given for an exceptional contribution or an extraordinary career in the IEEE fields of interest.
Achievements pertinent to the qualifications for the IEEE Medal of Honor.
NOTE: The IEEE Awards Board reserves the right to consider any nomination for Institute Awards other than the award suggested when, in its judgment, the support and justification may more appropriately apply to other Institute Awards.
www.ieee.org /portal/pages/about/awards/noms/mohnom.html   (277 words)

  
 Clear Shape Co-Founder Prof. Thomas Kailath Awarded 2007 IEEE Medal of Honor
The IEEE is the world's largest technical professional society, with 365,000 members in 160 countries.
Each year the IEEE Awards Board recommends a select group of recipients to receive the IEEE's most prestigious honors, and the Medal of Honor is their top award.
"It is an honor for the IEEE to be able to recognize him with our most prestigious award," she added.
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 Bell Labs Research Pioneer to Receive IEEE Medal Of Honor | LinuxElectrons
Flanagan, a pioneer in the areas of speech analysis, speech transmission and acoustics, as recipient of the 2005 IEEE Medal of Honor.
The IEEE Medal of Honor, the highest award given by the IEEE, is presented to individuals for their exceptional contributions or extraordinary careers in any of the IEEE fields of interest.
He is also a recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal and the National Medal of Science, and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
www.linuxelectrons.com /article.php/20050210175723261   (456 words)

  
 A party in celebration of Mr. Tadahiro Sekimoto's reception of the IEEE Medal of Honor was given. : Publications & ...
Tadahiro Sekimoto's reception of the IEEE Medal of Honor was given.
On Wednesday, July 14, 2004, a party celebrating Chairman Sekimoto's reception of the IEEE Medal of Honor was organized by 71 promoters including Mr.
Akito Arima, Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo and ex-member of the House of Councillors, and Mr.
www.i-ise.com /en/lecture/lect_200407.html   (169 words)

  
 Welcome to American Automatic Control Council Home Page
He has received honors and awards from the International Federation of Information Processing Society (1977), NASA (1978, 1992,1995, and 1996), and, in 1980, the Guillemin Prize in recognition of the major impact that his original contributions have had in setting the research direction of communications and control.
He was the recipient of the IEEE Education Medal in 1973 and a recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984.
He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the IEEE Medal of Honor (1974), the IEEE Centennial Medal (1984), the Kyoto Prize in High Technology from the Inamori foundation, Japan (1985), the Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society (1987).
www.a2c2.org /awards/bellman/index1994_1998.php   (2524 words)

  
 Herwig Kogelnik - Kogelnik Still Seeks Research Challenges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In June, Kogelnik received the 2001 IEEE Medal of Honor at the Liberty Science Center, adding to the long list of awards Kogelnik has garnered in his illustrious career.
The Medal, the highest award the IEEE bestows, recognized Kogelnik "for fundamental contributions to the science and technology of lasers and optoelectronics, and for leadership in research and development of photonics and lightwave communication systems."
This last project, he thinks, is largely responsible for the Medal of Honor he received from the IEEE.
www.bell-labs.com /user/feature/archives/kogelnik   (892 words)

  
 IEEE-USA News Release (11/04/03): Four U.S. IEEE Members to Receive Nation's Top Technology Medal
He is one of only 13 Americans who has received both the National Medal of Technology and National Medal of Science, the latter awarded in 1990.
"I received the medal of Science from the first President Bush and now the Medal of Technology will come from the second President Bush," said Holonyak, an IEEE Medal of Honor winner who has been a professor at the University of Illinois in Champaign since 1963.
The National Medal of Technology is the highest honor bestowed by the president to America's leading innovators.
www.ieeeusa.org /communications/releases/2003/110403pr(1).html   (403 words)

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