IEEE Awards Booklet - 2009 - 2

L E T T E R

F R O M

T H E

I E E E

P R E S I D E N T

Dear IEEE Members,
Distinguished Colleagues, and Friends,
Spanning three centuries, IEEE has helped engineer the future by engaging a broad array of technical professionals in
a diverse set of communities. In this 125th anniversary year,
IEEE celebrates this diversity as one of its greatest strengths.
Examples of this technical diversity are found among this year's
award recipients who have been cited for technological feats
that fostered faster, more reliable, and smaller computers; enabled deep-space exploration; made possible the expansion
of all types of communications through high-speed broadband
transmission; improved capabilities for digital storage technology; and advanced acoustic and radar detection, among others.
IEEE's recognition of these extraordinary contributions helps
make the accomplishments more visible to the public and
-enhances the image of these professionals and IEEE members worldwide. This year, we are also honoring our IEEE
student members by presenting the top three prizes from the
IEEE Presidents' Change the World competition. Students
were challenged to develop unique solutions to real-world
problems using engineering, science, computing and leadership skills to benefit the community and/or humanity.
Passionate individual and corporate donors as well as the IEEE
Foundation sponsor these IEEE awards. The Foundation, in addition to being a generous sponsor of the Medal of Honor and
other awards, also has recently established The Humanitarian
Technology Fund which will award grants to projects that develop and implement technological solutions for pressing
human needs, especially in developing countries.
Please help us in publicly praising and rewarding the work
of extraordinary technology professionals by nominating an
individual who has helped engineer a bright technological
future for us all.
IEEE President and CEO
John R. Vig
IEEE Awards Board Chair
David A. Hodges

www.ieee.org/awards
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AWA R D S

B O A R D

C H A I R

IEEE proudly acknowledges the sponsorship
of its 2009 awards by some of the world's
leading corporations, foundations, and
individuals who are interested in the
technological disciplines within the scope
of interest of IEEE. These sponsors
(funders) include:
* Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
* Brunetti Bequest
* The Federation of Electric
  Power Companies, Japan
* Charles LeGeyt Fortescue
  Graduate Scholarship Fund
* 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
* KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc.
* Keithley Instruments, Incorporated
* Leon K. Kirchmayer Memorial Fund
* 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, Ltd.
* Semiconductor Research Foundation
* Sony Corporation
* Texas Instruments, Incorporated
* Dr. Kiyo Tomiyasu
* Wolfson Microelectronics plc (Funder)

IEEE Sponsors of 2009 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 Education 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 Life Members Committee
* IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
* IEEE Photonics Society
* IEEE Power Electronics Society
* IEEE Power & Energy Society
* IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
* IEEE Signal Processing Society
* IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
* IEEE Standards Association
* IEEE Technical Activities Board
http://www.ieee.org/awards
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