2011 IEEE Medals

On August 20th, IEEE hosted the 2011 IEEE Honors Ceremony and Sections Congress. The event took place in San Francisco, CA, and was hosted by IEEE President Moshe Kam, PA Z ’77, and IEEE President-Elect Gordon Day, IL A ’66.

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There were 22 individual medals and recognitions presented. Here are the winners that are Tau Bates:

James M. Headrick (TX A ’39) was honored posthumously with the Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications. Read the news release

Dr. James F. Gibbons (IL G ’53) received the Founders Medal as a leader of University-Industry Collaboration. Dr. Gibbons is a research professor at Stanford University. Read more

Bernard J. Lechner (NY A ’57) one of three to be awarded a Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal for being forefathers of flat-panel display technology. Lechner is currently a consultant and “was the first to analyze the limitations of early liquid crystal cells” while at RCA Laboratories. Click here for the news release

Dr. Toby Berger (CT A ’62) was awarded the Richard W. Hamming Medal for being a pioneering information theorist. Dr. Berger is Professor Emeritus of Engineering at Cornell University. Read the full news release

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