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Award, the 2003 Charles Stark
Draper Prize, and several honors
from IEEE, NASA, and other
organizations.
The IEEE Foundation sponsors
the Medal of Honor.
Parkinson is to receive the
award during the IEEE Honors Ceremony, scheduled for 11 May at the
Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The
ceremony is being held in conjunction with the IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit.
-Amanda Davis

Piuri and Zurada
Run Again for
President-Elect
T H E IE E E B OA R D of Directors

has nominated Fellow Vincenzo
Piuri and Life Fellow Jacek Zurada
as candidates for IEEE presidentelect. The candidate chosen in
this year's annual election will
serve as IEEE president in 2020.
Piuri and Zurada ran in last
year's election, which was won by
IEEE Life Fellow José M.F. Moura,
a petition candidate.
Piuri is a professor of intelligent systems and former chair
of the information technology
department at the University of
Milan, as well as an honorary pro-

fessor at four other universities.
His interests include intelligent
systems, machine learning, neural networks, pattern recognition,
signal and image processing, and
digital architectures.
He coauthored four books
and founded a startup focused
on intelligent systems for industrial applications. Elevated to
Fellow in 2001 for "contributions
to neural network techniques
and embedded digital architectures for industrial applications," he is a member of IEEE
Eta Kappa Nu, the organization's
honor society.
He was 2015 vice president of
IEEE Technical Activities, IEEE
Division X director/delegate from
2010 to 2012, and president of the
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
in 2006 and
2007.
He has
been editor
in chief of the
IEEE Systems
Journal since
Vincenzo Piuri
2013, and he
has served on the IEEE Publication Services and Products and
IEEE Technical Activities boards
as well as on several IEEE
committees.
Zurada is director of the
Computational Intelligence
Laboratory at the University of

Louisville, in Kentucky, where
he is a professor of electrical and
computer engineering and former chair of the department. His
work focuses on computational
intelligence,
machine
learning,
and image
and signal
processing. He has
served as a
consultant to
industry and
Jacek Zurada
to startups.
He has authored or coauthored three books including
the textbook Introduction to
Artificial Neural Systems. His
research has been cited more
than 11,000 times.
Elevated to Fellow in 1996
for "contributions to engineering
education in the area of neural
networks," he was elected a foreign
member of the Polish Academy of
Sciences and has been awarded
five honorary professorships.
Zurada was 2014 vice president, IEEE Technical Activities,
and president of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
in 2004 and 2005. He was editor
in chief of IEEE Transactions on
Neural Networks from 1998 to
2003 and chaired the IEEE Technical Activities Board periodicals committee in 2010 and 2011.

Calendar
of Events

MARCH
3-10

IEEE Aerospace Conference,
Big Sky, Mont.

10-11
IEEE Region 8 meeting, Athens

APRIL

6-8
IEEE Region 5 meeting, Austin, Texas

19-22
IEEE Region 3 meeting, St. Petersburg, Fla.

15-19
IEEE International Conference on
Computer Communications, Honolulu

-A.D.

Five Elected to the Board

TH E IN STITUTE MAR CH 2018

Activities; Witold M. Kinsner, IEEE vice president,
Educational Activities; and Joseph V. Lillie, IEEE
treasurer. Samir M. El-Ghazaly and William
P. Walsh [far right] were elected to serve a second
year as IEEE vice president, Publication Services
and Products, and IEEE secretary, respectively.
-A.D.

24-26
IEEE European Symposium on
Security and Privacy, London
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: JACEK ZURADA; WILLIAM P. WALSH; NSF;
BILL CRAMER; WITOLD M. KINSNER; FRANCIS B. GROSZ JR.; VINCENZO PIURI

T H E I E E E A S S E M B LY I N N OV E M B E R

elected five officers to the IEEE Board of Directors for 2018. They began serving their terms on
1 January.
Three of the five are serving their first terms
[pictured left to right]: Francis B. Grosz Jr., IEEE
vice president-elect, Member and Geographic

MAY
11

IEEE Vision, Innovation, and
Challenges Summit and IEEE
Honors Ceremony, San Francisco

18-20
Maker Faire Bay Area, San Francisco

21-22
IEEE Women in Engineering International
Leadership Conference, San Jose, Calif.

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