2016 IEEE Honors Ceremony
IEEE Honors Ceremony: Just as it only takes a spark to light a fire, it only takes an idea to ignite innovation. The 2016 IEEE Honors Ceremony was held on Saturday, 18 June, at Gotham Hall, NYC, USA. The theme of the event was "Igniting the Future" and there were 27 recipients recognized.
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2016 IEEE Honors Ceremony (full stream)
Igniting the Future: Watch the full stream of the 2016 IEEE Honors Ceremony, recorded live on Saturday, June 18th at Gotham Hall in New York City. Join the IEEE in its annual celebration of technology giants and innovators who have dedicated their career to electrical engineering. #IEEEHonorsCeremony
2016 IEEE Honors: IEEE Medal of Honor - G. David Forney, Jr.
President Barry Shoop presents the prestigious IEEE Medal of Honor to G. David Forney, Jr. for in his integral work in coding theory, enabling today’s high speed communications networks. Forney influenced almost every major advance in coding theory.
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2016 IEEE Honors: IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society Award - Sean Sliger
IEEE President Barry Shoop announces the IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society Award to Neuropace, accepted by therapy consultant Sean Sliger, for their smarter technology that can help reduce seizures in epileptic patients. Read more
2016 IEEE Honors: IEEE Spectrum Emerging Technology Award -Roozbeh Ghaffari
IEEE President Barry Shoop announces the IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society Award to Neuropace, accepted by therapy consultant Sean Sliger, for their smarter technology that can help reduce seizures in epileptic patients. Read more
2016 IEEE Honors: IEEE Corporate Innovation Award - Kaizad Mistry
IEEE President Barry Shoop presents the IEEE Corporate Innovation Award to Intel’s Kaizad Mistry, VP of Technology and Manufacturing Group, for pioneering new materials such as High-K Metal Gate Transistors and Finfet Tri-Gate Technology. Read more
2016 IEEE Honors: IEEE Ernst Weber Managerial Leadership Award- David Fairbank Welch
President-Elect Karen Bartleson presents David Fairbank Welch the IEEE Ernst Weber Managerial Leadership Award for exceptional managerial leadership in the fields of interest of the IEEE. Welch’s impact has been transformational. Read more
2016 IEEE Honors: IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award - Stephen Weinstein
IEEE President Barry Shoop presents the IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award to Stephen Weinstein, for distinguished service in the advancement and pursuit of technical objectives of the IEEE. This award is sponsored the IEEE Technical Activities Board.
2016 IEEE Honors: IEEE Haraden Pratt Award - Moshe Kam
IEEE President Barry Shoop presents the IEEE Haraden Pratt Award to Moshe Kam in recognition for outstanding service to the IEEE. With his dedication to breaking down barriers in the engineering profession, Moshe Kam transformed IEEE.
2016 IEEE Honors: IEEE Honorary Membership - Serge Haroche & Rodolfo Zich
President-Elect Karen Bartleson announces IEEE Honorary Membership to Serge Haroche, for his ground-breaking experiments in quantum engineering, and Rodolfo Zich for excellence in engineering and his global contribution to research and education.
2016 IEEE Honors: IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal - Roberto Padovani
President Barry Shoop presents the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal to Roberto Padovani for exceptional contributions to the advancement of communications sciences and engineering. Padovani was a key leader in forming the basis for all 3G cellular.
2016 IEEE Honors: IEEE Edison Medal - Robert Brodersen
President-Elect Karen Bartleson presents the Samsung-sponsored IEEE Edison Medal to Robert Brodersen for a career of meritorious achievement in electrical science, electrical engineering in wireless communications technology.
2016 IEEE Honors: IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal - Abbas El Gamal
President Barry Shoop present the Qualcomm-sponsored IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal to Abbas El Gamal for exceptional contributions for to Information Theory, Wireless Networks, FPGAS (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) and digital imaging.
2016 IEEE Honors: IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology - Charles A. Mistretta
President-Elect Karen Bartleson presents the IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology to Charles A. Mistretta for transforming diagnostic radiology, and his revolutionary improvements to the diagnosis and treatment of vascular disease.
2016 IEEE Honors: IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal - Louis Scharf
President Barry Shoop presents the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal to Louis Scharf for profoundly impacting how statistics are used in modern-day signal processing and his contribution to radar, sonar and hyper-spectral processing.
2016 IEEE Honors: IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal - Geoffrey Hinton
President Barry Shoop presents the IEEE/RSE (Royal Society of Edinburgh) James Clerk Maxwell Medal to Geoffrey Hinton for his groundbreaking contributions to Machine Learning and Neural Network Learning. Hinton’s work is still on the forefront today.
2016 IEEE Honors: IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal - Simon Haykin
President Barry Shoop presents prolific engineering author and educator Simon Haykin with IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal, sponsored by MathWorks, Pearson, and the IEEE, for his outstanding contributions in engineering education.
2016 IEEE Honors: IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal - Masayoshi Esashi
President-Elect Karen Bartleson presents Masayoshi Esashi with the IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal, sponsored by the Federation of Electric Power Companies Japan, for his contributions throughout his career as a pioneer of MEMs technology.
2016 IEEE Honors: IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal - Takuo Sugano
President Barry Shoop presents Takuo Sugano with the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal, sponsored by the Intel Foundation, for strengthening the understanding of semiconductor materials and the development of enhanced silicon-based electronic devices.
2016 IEEE Honors: IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications - Nadav Levanon
President-Elect Karen Bartleson presents world-expert on radar theory and practice, Nadav Levanon, with the IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications, for his career dedicated to tirelessly advancing radar technologies.
2016 IEEE Honors: IEEE Medal in Power Engineering -Arun G. Phadke
President Barry Shoop presents Arun G. Phadke with the IEEE Medal in Power Engineering, for his leadership in power systems engineering that make a profound difference in the reliability of the North American power grid and overall grid stability.
2016 IEEE Honors: IEEE John von Neumann Medal - Christos H. Papadimitriou
President-Elect Karen Bartleson presents Christos Papadimitriou with the IBM-sponsored IEEE John von Neumann Medal for his contribution to technology, economics, biology and a career dedicated understanding computational complexity.
2016 IEEE Honors: IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies - Masahiko Miyaki, Yukihiro Shinohara & Katsuhiko Takeuchi
President Barry Shoop presents the Toyota-sponsored IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies to diesel engine innovators Masahiko Miyaki, Yukihiro Shinohara and Katsuhiko Takeuchi for their collaborative work in reducing emissions.
2016 IEEE Honors: IEEE Simon Ramo Medal - John P. Lehoczky, Ragunathan Rajkumar & Lui Sha
President-Elect Karen Bartleson presents the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal to developers John P. Lehoczky, Ragunathan Rajkumar and Lui Sha for their groundbreaking work, revolutionary in real-time system design, and GRMS used in U.S. Defense and space.