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HKN EMINENT MEMBERS RECOGNITION

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HKN Eminent Members Recognition

C O R P O R AT E

R E C O G N I T I O N

2009 IEEE
Corporate Innovation Recognition

The society's highest membership classification is conferred
upon those select few whose technical attainment and
contributions to society through leadership in the fields
of electrical and computer engineering have resulted in
significant benefits to humankind.

Sponsored by IEEE

ETA KAPPA NU

Corning Incorporated

Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society

Eric Herz

For sustained, outstanding contributions to optical fiber
technology and in particular the recent development of
highly flexible fiber enabling applications breakthroughs

Eric Herz, IEEE director emeritus, was an engineering and
program manager in the U.S. aerospace industry for 28 years on
programs such as Atlas, Mercury, space shuttle and cruise missile.
After leaving industry, he was general manager and executive
director of IEEE for 14 years. Herz is a Fellow of IEEE, the Chinese
Institute of Electronics and previously of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science. He served as governor of the
American Association of Engineering Societies, president of
Kappa Nu, president of the Council of Engineering and Scientific
Societies, executive director and treasurer of the IEEE Foundation,
president of IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society and
IEEE vice president for Technical Activities. A graduate of
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, he was awarded an Sc.D (h.c.)
by Manhattan College. He has been on the IEEE Board of
Directors for the past 33 years.

Corning Incorporated, world leader in specialty glass and
ceramics, is internationally known for its innovations and accomplishments in optical fiber technology. Corning Incorporated
applies science and engineering to enable high-technology
systems in areas such as consumer electronics, telecommunications and life sciences.
Corning Incorporated's latest innovation in optical fiber technology overcomes the signal loss inherent with standard optical
fiber when it is bent around tight corners, which is a hindrance
to installing fiber cables in multiple dwelling units such as apartments or condominiums. Corning's groundbreaking ClearCurve®
optical fiber is 100 times more flexible than standard optical
fiber but with virtually no signal loss. The bend performance is
achieved by using engineered "nanoStructures" in a controlled
mesh configuration within the fiber cladding. By making fundamental changes in the way light travels in the fiber, Corning was
able to trap the light in the core of the fiber, where it is supposed
to travel and virtually eliminating signal loss when the fiber
bends. ClearCurve was introduced to market in 2007 and was
named one of Time magazine's "Best Inventions of the Year."

ETA KAPPA NU
Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society

Among Corning's many pioneering advances in optical fiber technology, it invented the first low-loss glass optical fiber, which
reduced attenuation loss and made glass fibers practical for telecommunications systems, and the "large effective area fiber"
(LEAF), which implemented a larger core size to reduce nonlinear
effects, enabling rapid advancements in long haul telecommunications systems. With headquarters located in Corning, New York,
Corning Incorporated continues to provide real-world solutions
to life through its research and manufacturing capabilities.

Gerald J. Posakony
Gerald Posakony graduated from Iowa State College in Ames
Iowa in 1949 with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering.
He then joined a small electronic firm in Denver that manufactured high frequency resonant oscillators, frequency maters and
preamplifier is for television equipment. He worked for Motorola
as a field engineer for Motorola before joining the staff of the
University of Colorado, Medical Center in 1953 to work in the
field of diagnostic ultrasound. He became Vice President and
General Manager of the Research Division of Automation
Industries in Boulder Colorado, designing and building ultrasonic
transducers and systems and electromagnetic instrumentation.
Mr. Posakony left Automation in 1973 to join the staff of what is
now the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA,
where he is a Senior Research Scientist in ultrasonic transducers,
ultrasonic wave propagation and sonochemistry.
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