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IEEE
2006
IEEE
AWARDS 1
TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S
Letter from the IEEE President
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Letter from the IEEE Awards Board Chair and 2006 IEEE Award Sponsors
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IEEE Medal of Honor
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IEEE Medals
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IEEE Service Awards
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IEEE Honorary Membership
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IEEE Corporate Recognition
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IEEE Technical Field Awards
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IEEE Prize Paper Award
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IEEE Fellows of 2006
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Joyce E. Farrell IEEE Staff Award
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IEEE Medals and Technical Field Awards Potential Nominee Form
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IEEE Medals and Technical Field Awards Descriptions
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IEEE Board of Directors, Awards Board, and Fellow Committee
33 L E T T E R F R O M T H E I E E E A W A R D S B O A R D C H A I R
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Distinguished Colleagues and Friends,
For nearly a century, the IEEE Awards program has paid tribute to extraordinary
technical professionals whose exceptional achievements and outstanding
contributions have made a lasting impact on technology, society and the
engineering profession. As IEEE Awards Board Chair, it gives me great pleasure
to share that tradition of public recognition with you this year.
As you read through this booklet, you will see that IEEE Awards honor
accomplished individuals in education, industry, research and service, as well
as corporate leaders. These awards celebrate innovations that encompass the
breadth of many IEEE technical areas of interest from computer science,
electrical engineering, information technologies and microelectronics, to
optoelectronics, radar technologies, signal processing and beyond.
The 2006 IEEE Awards would not be possible without the sponsorship of some
of the worlds leading corporations, foundations, and individuals whose interest
in the IEEEs technological disciplines are shown by their support. On behalf of
the IEEE Awards Board, I would especially like to recognize the support provided
by the IEEE Foundation. Through its philanthropic programs, the IEEE Foundation
encourages excellence in engineering at the highest level and promotes public
awareness of the long-reaching effects of the work of engineers.
I encourage you to join me in participating in the IEEE Awards program by
nominating one of your distinguished colleagues. On page 29 of this booklet
you will find a Potential Nominee Form, which takes only moments to complete
and submit. Help decide who will receive the prestigious IEEE Awards of the
future. Please forward any comments or questions to awards@ieee.org.
IEEE Awards Board Chair,
Dov Jaron
Sponsors of 2006 IEEE Awards
Brunetti Bequest
The Federation of Electric Power Companies, Japan
Charles LeGeyt Fortescue Graduate Scholarship
The Grainger Foundation
Robert and Ruth Halperin Foundation
in Memory of Herman and Edna Halperin
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
IBM Corporation
IBM Almaden Research Center
Intel Foundation
Keithley Instruments, Incorporated
Leon K. Kirchmayer Memorial Fund
Lucent Technologies
The MathWorks, Incorporated
Motorola Foundation
National Instruments Foundation
NEC Corporation
Nokia Corporation
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Pearson Prentice Hall
Philips Electronics N.V.
QUALCOMM, Incorporated
Raytheon Company
Sarnoff Corporation
Samsung Electronics Company, Limited
Semiconductor Research Foundation
Sony Corporation
Texas Instruments, Incorporated
Kiyo Tomiyasu Fund
Xilinx, Incorporated
IEEE Sponsors of 2006 IEEE Awards:
IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society
IEEE Award in International Communication Fund
IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing
Technology Society
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
IEEE Control Systems Society
IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society
IEEE Electron Devices Society
IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award Fund
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
IEEE Foundation
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
IEEE Industry Applications Society
IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society
IEEE Life Members Committee
IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
IEEE Power Electronics Society
IEEE Power Engineering Society
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
IEEE Signal Processing Society
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
IEEE Standards Association
IEEE Technical Activities Board 3
2006 IEEE Medal of Honor
Sponsored by IEEE Foundation
For pioneering contributions to microelectronics, including low power,
biomedical, physical limits and on-chip interconnect networks
I E E E M E D A L O F H O N O R
James D. Meindl
During his career as a scientist, educator and high-level technology executive,
Dr. James D. Meindl, Director and Pettit Chair Professor of the Joseph M. Pettit
Microelectronics Research Center at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, has
logged a string of exceptional accomplishments.
Early in his career, Dr. Meindl developed micropower integrated circuits for portable
military equipment at the U.S. Army Electronics Laboratory in Fort Monmouth, New
Jersey. He then joined Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where he developed
low-power integrated circuits and sensors for a portable electronic reading aid for
the blind, miniature wireless radio telemetry systems for biomedical research, and
non-invasive ultrasonic imaging and blood-flow measurement systems. Dr. Meindl
was the founding director of the Integrated Circuits Laboratory and a founding
co-director of the Center for Integrated Systems at Stanford. The latter was a model
for university and industry cooperative research in microelectronics.
From 1986 to 1993, Dr. Meindl was senior vice president for academic affairs and
provost of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. In this role he was
responsible for all teaching and research.
He joined Georgia Tech in 1993 as director of its Microelectronics Research Center.
In 1998, he became the founding director of the Interconnect Focus Center, where he
led a team of more than 60 faculty members from MIT, Stanford, Rensselaer, SUNY
Albany, and Georgia Tech in a partnership with industry and government. His
research at Georgia Tech includes exploring different solutions for solving intercon-
nectivity problems that arise from trying to interconnect billions of transistors within a
tiny chip.
Over his career, Dr. Meindl has supervised over 80 Ph.D. graduates at Stanford,
Rensselaer and Georgia Tech, who have gone on to have profoundly impacted the
semiconductor industry.
An IEEE Life Fellow and member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering,
Dr. Meindl is the recipient of the Benjamin Garver Lamme Medal of the American
Association for Engineering Education, the J.J. Ebers Award of the IEEE Electron
Devices Society, the IEEE Education Medal and the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Award. John M. Wozencraft
Dr. John M. Wozencrafts pioneering work
on error-correcting codes provided one of
the foundations for the design of reliable
digital transmission systems over the past
50 years. Coding is an integral part of
todays nearly error-free communications
systems, including deep-space commu-
nication, the Internet and next-generation
mobile telephony.
Based on the notion of random coding, Dr. Wozencraft's sequential
decoding was the first error-correcting algorithm whereby arbitrarily
accurate fixed-data-rate communication could be attained over noisy
transmission channels with reasonable computational complexity. This
approach paved the way for other algorithms that ultimately revolution-
ized the communications industry. It was a critical conceptual milestone
in the evolution of error-correction coding from abstract mathematics to
todays palette of computationally practical error-correction techniques.
2006 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal
Sponsored by Lucent Technologies
For the development of sequential decoding and
the signal space approach to digital communication
I E E E M E D A L S
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Sequential decoding became the method of choice for the low signal-to-
noise ratio environment of deep space communications. It was first chosen
for the Pioneer 9 deep space mission and was NASAs standard coding
system for deep space for nearly a decade.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Wozencraft is Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in Cambridge. He co-authored the book,
Principles of Communication Engineering, which sparked a revolution in
how communications engineers think about digital communication. It
was widely recognized as the bible of communications theory for more
than two decades.
Fawwaz T. Ulaby
Dr. Fawwaz T. Ulaby is one of the worlds
foremost authorities in radar remote
sensing. He is the R. Jamieson and Betty
Williams Professor of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science, and
former vice president for research at the
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
In 1968, when he was an assistant professor
at the University of Kansas in Lawrence,
he obtained a small grant to start a research program that, over the next
decade, became the worlds leadi