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PEOPLE

Member Achievements
the award at a banquet on 23 June in
in San Francisco.

LEAH JAMIESON

ANTHONY AGNELLO

IEEE Senior Member Anthony
■Agnello
[above, left] and Richard

Factor were honored with a
Lifetime Achievement Technical
Grammy Award by the Recording
Academy for their influence
on the record-making process
in the music industry.
They work at Eventide, an audioeffects hardware manufacturer
in Little Ferry, N.J. The company,
cofounded by Factor, revolutionized the industry with the H910
Harmonizer effects processor,
developed by Agnello in the early
1970s. The H910 forms the basis of
today's pitch-shifting and pitchcorrection devices.
Agnello, president of the company's audio division, is a member of
the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

RORY COOPER

Rory Cooper was named
■oneFellow
of O, the Oprah Magazine's
Health Heroes for this year. He was
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profiled in the
January issue.
Cooper is
director of
the Human
Engineering
Research Laboratories (HERL),
a joint effort of
the University of
Pittsburgh and the U.S. Department
of Veterans Affairs. In 1980, while
serving as a U.S. Army sergeant
in Worms, Germany, he sustained
a spinal-cord injury in a bicycle
accident that left him partially
paralyzed.
He and other HERL researchers
recently developed the Mobility
Enhancement Robotic wheelchair
(MEBot), which can handle rugged
terrain yet is narrow enough to
cruise through doorways. The
researchers were challenged to
build the chair by the U.S. Marine
Corps Wounded Warrior Regiment.
Cooper also invented the PARA
(patient assist robotic arm), and he is
working with RE2 Robotics, a Pittsburgh startup, to bring it to market.
He is a member of the IEEE Control Systems and IEEE Engineering in
Medicine and Biology societies.

JOHN HENNESSY,
DAVID PATTERSON
Life Fellows John Hennessy
■[below,
left] and David Patterson
received the Association for Computing Machinery's Turing Award. They
created a systematic and quantitative approach to designing faster, lowpower RISC (reduced-instruction-set
computer) microprocessors.
Hennessy recently was named
executive chairman of Google's parent
company, Alphabet. Patterson is a professor emeritus of computer science at
the University of California, Berkeley.
The award includes a US $1 million
stipend from Google. Hennessy and
Patterson, both IEEE Computer Society members, are scheduled to receive

has named its Women in Engineering program after Life Fellow Leah
Jamieson, the 2007 IEEE president. The
program is the first in the nation dedicated to women
in the field.
Jamieson told
Inside Indiana
Business that the
opportunity to
have a lasting
impact on women
studying engineering at Purdue
touches her heart.
She is a professor of electrical and
computer engineering and a dean
emerita of engineering at Purdue.
She is a member of the IEEE Education and Signal Processing societies,
the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology, and IEEE Women
in Engineering. She is also a former
president of the IEEE Foundation.

LONNIE PARKER

Member Lonnie Parker was named
■a Modern
Day Technology Leader by
U.S. Black Engineer Information Technology magazine. The award honors
high-achieving,
mid-career professionals who
are engineering the future
through R&D.
Parker is
an electrical
engineer at
the U.S. Naval
Undersea
Warfare Center in Newport, R.I. He
serves as principal investigator for
the imaging portion of the center's
Submarine Advanced Development
Processing project.
He is a member of the IEEE
Robotics and Automation Society
and IEEE Young Professionals.
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AGNELLO/FACTOR: EVENTIDE; COOPER: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH; HENNESSY: STANFORD; PATTERSON: UC BERKELEY; JAMIESON: PURDUE UNIVERSITY; PARKER: GEORGIA TECH

Purdue University's College of
■Engineering,
in West Lafayette, Ind.,

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