The IEEE Honors Ceremony is designed to recognize technical professionals in a wide variety of disciplines for exceptional achievements and outstanding contributions that have made a lasting impact on technology, society, and the engineering profession. View highlights from past ceremonies here.
Meet the Recipients of the 2016 IEEE Medals and Awards
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IEEE MEDAL OF HONOR
G. DAVID FORNEY, JR.
For pioneering contributions to the theory of error-correcting codes and the development of reliable high-speed data communications.
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IEEE ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL MEDAL
ROBERTO PADOVANI
For innovations enabling efficient, wideband, wireless access to the Internet, that is central to all third-generation cellular networks.
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IEEE EDISON MEDAL
ROBERT BRODERSEN
For contributions to integrated systems for wired and wireless communications, including wireless connectivity of personal devices.
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IEEE MEDAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES
MASAHIKO MIYAKI, YUKIHIRO SHINOHARA, & KATSUHIKO TAKEUCHI
For development of electronic multipoint fuel-injection systems, enabling fuel-efficient and low-emission diesel engines.
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IEEE RICHARD W. HAMMING MEDAL
ABBAS EL GAMAL
For contributions to network multi-user information theory and for wide ranging impact on programmable circuit architectures.
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IEEE MEDAL FOR INNOVATIONS IN HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY
CHARLES A. MISTRETTA
For the development of imaging instrumentation and techniques that have transformed the diagnosis and treatment of vascular disease.
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IEEE JACK S. KILBY SIGNAL PROCESSING MEDAL
LOUIS SCHARF
For pioneering and sustained contributions to statistical signal processing and its practice.
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IEEE/RSE JAMES CLERK MAXWELL MEDAL
GEOFFREY HINTON
For pioneering and sustained contributions to machine learning, including developments in deep neural networks.
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IEEE JAMES H. MULLIGAN, JR. EDUCATION MEDAL
SIMON HAYKIN
For contributions to engineering education in adaptive signal processing and communication.
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IEEE JUN-ICHI NISHIZAWA MEDAL
MASAYOSHI ESASHI
For pioneering contributions to micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), and their uses in automobiles, cellular phones, industrial equipment, and medical devices.
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IEEE ROBERT N. NOYCE MEDAL
TAKUO SUGANO
For contributions to and leadership in the research and development of the science and technology of semiconductor devices.
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IEEE DENNIS J. PICARD MEDAL FOR RADAR TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS
NADAV LEVANON
For contributions to radar signal design and analysis, pulse compression, and signal processing.
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IEEE MEDAL IN POWER ENGINEERING
ARUN G. PHADKE
For contributions to synchrophasor technology for monitoring, control, and protection of electric power systems.
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IEEE SIMON RAMO MEDAL
John P. Lehoczky, Ragunathan Rajkumar, & Lui Sha
For technical leadership and contributions to fundamental theory, practice, and standardization for engineering real-time systems.
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IEEE JOHN VON NEUMANN MEDAL
CHRISTOS H. PAPADIMITRIOU
For providing a deeper understanding of computational complexity and its implications for approximation algorithms, artificial intelligence, economics, database theory, and biology.
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IEEE CORPORATE INNOVATION AWARD
INTEL CORPORATION
For pioneering the use of high-k metal gate and tri-gate transistor technologies in high-volume manufacturing.
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IEEE ERNST WEBER MANAGERIAL LEADERSHIP AWARD
DAVID FAIRBANK WELCH
For leadership in enabling the growth of cloud-based services and the Internet in optical transport networks.
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IEEE RICHARD M. EMBERSON AWARD
STEPHEN WEINSTEIN
For contributions to IEEE Publications, Awards, and globalization.
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IEEE HARADEN PRATT AWARD
MOSHE KAM
For original and high-impact contributions to IEEE's Educational Activities, expanding IEEE's global reach and effectiveness.
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IEEE HONORARY MEMBERSHIP
SERGE HAROCHE
For the development of cavity quantum electrodynamics, leading to fundamental quantum physics studies and to a wide range of applications.
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IEEE HONORARY MEMBERSHIP
RODOLFO ZICH
For leadership in the global integration of electrical and electronics engineering education and research.
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