Igniting the Future: Watch the full stream of the 2016 IEEE Honors Ceremony, recorded live on Saturday, June 18th at Gotham Hall in New York City. Join the IEEE in its annual celebration of technology giants and innovators who have dedicated their career to electrical engineering. #IEEEHonorsCeremony

President Barry Shoop presents the prestigious IEEE Medal of Honor to G. David Forney, Jr. for in his integral work in coding theory, enabling today’s high speed communications networks. Forney influenced almost every major advance in coding theory during the span of his 50 year career in the field, revolutionizing the modern modem and creating the first high-speed telephone line modem. This medal is sponsored by the IEEE Foundation, given to an individual for an exceptional contribution or an extraordinary career in the IEEE fields of interest. Learn more about the 2016 Honors Ceremony at https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/honors_ceremony.html

IEEE President Barry Shoop announces the IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society Award to Neuropace, accepted by therapy consultant Sean Sliger, for their smarter technology that can help reduce seizures in epileptic patients. Using neural implants, Neuropace technology can identify dangerous patterns of brain activity leading up a seizure. Read more at https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/honors_ceremony.html

IEEE President Barry Shoop announces the IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society Award to Neuropace, accepted by therapy consultant Sean Sliger, for their smarter technology that can help reduce seizures in epileptic patients. Using neural implants, Neuropace technology can identify dangerous patterns of brain activity leading up a seizure. Read more at https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/honors_ceremony.html

IEEE President Barry Shoop presents the IEEE Corporate Innovation Award to Kaizad Mistry, VP of Technology and Manufacturing Group at Intel, for pioneering new materials and structures with High-K Metal Gate Transistors and Finfet Tri-Gate Technology. Learn more about the 2016 Honors Ceremony at https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/honors_ceremony.html

President-Elect Karen Bartleson presents David Fairbank Welch the IEEE Ernst Weber Managerial Leadership Award for exceptional managerial leadership in the fields of interest of the IEEE. Welch’s contributions to Optical Devices for Telecommunications Networks have enabled the growth of the Internet and Cloud-based Services, providing faster communications around the world. Learn more about the 2016 Honors Ceremony at https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/honors_ceremony.html

IEEE President Barry Shoop presents the IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award to Stephen Weinstein, for distinguished service in the advancement and pursuit of technical objectives of the IEEE. This award is sponsored the IEEE Technical Activities Board. With over 45 years of experience within the IEEE, Stephen Weinstein encouraged the localization of the IEEE and extended the reach of the Communications Society. Learn more about the 2016 Honors Ceremony at https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/honors_ceremony.html

IEEE President Barry Shoop presents the IEEE Haraden Pratt Award to Moshe Kam in recognition for outstanding service to the IEEE. With his dedication to breaking down barriers in the engineering profession, Moshe Kam transformed IEEE and IEEE Educational Activities as a key contributor to the development of accreditation programs outside the U.S. Learn more about the 2016 Honors Ceremony at https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/honors_ceremony.html

President-Elect Karen Bartleson announces IEEE Honorary Membership to Serge Haroche for meritorious service to humanity. The IEEE Board of Directors recognize Serge Haroche for his ground-breaking experiments, making quantum engineering a reality. AlthoughHaroche was unable to attend the ceremony, the audience honors his achievements with a round of applause.

Bartleson then presents Professor Rodolfo Zich, a leading scientist in electromagnetic wave scattering and antennas, with an IEEE Honorary Membership for excellence in engineering and global contribution to research and education. Professor Zich created a worldwide network of cooperative efforts with over 50 participating universities from all continents, he also started the International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications.

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President Barry Shoop presents the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal to Roberto Padovani for exceptional contributions to the advancement of communications sciences and engineering. Roberto Padovani was a key leader in development and commercialization of CDMA Technology to increase voice capacity and enable efficient HDR packet-switched communications, thus forming the basis of all 3G cellular systems. Learn more about the 2016 Honors Ceremony at https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/honors_ceremony.html

President-Elect Karen Bartleson presents the Samsung-sponsored IEEE Edison Medal to Robert Brodersen for a career of meritorious achievement in electrical science, electrical engineering, or the electrical arts. Always at the forefront of innovation, Brodersen’s ideals fundamentally changed the way we interact with information, enabling wireless spectrum utilization and increasing energy efficiency for wireless devices. Learn more about the 2016 Honors Ceremony at https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/honors_ceremony.html

President Barry Shoop present the Qualcomm-sponsored IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal to Abbas El Gamal for exceptional contributions for to information sciences, systems and technology. Gamal’s contributions to Information Theory, Wireless Networks, FPGAS (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) and digital imaging, have had a tremendous impact on today’s society. Learn more about the 2016 Honors Ceremony at https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/honors_ceremony.html

President-Elect Karen Bartleson presents the IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology, in which the IEEE recognizes outstanding contributions and/or innovations in the fields of medicine, biology or health care, to Charles A. Mistretta. Mistretta’s Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA), time-resolved Magnet Resonance Angiography (MRA)  and accelerated imaging algorithms, he transformed diagnostic radiology. Learn more about the 2016 Honors Ceremony at https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/honors_ceremony.html

President Barry Shoop presents the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal to Louis Scharf, a scholar, teacher and practitioner, for profoundly impacting the way that statistics are used in modern-day signal processing and his contribution to radar, sonar and hyper-spectral processing. Scharf is most known for his work in modal analysis, dimension reduction, invariance theories and coherent statistics for space-time signal processing. 

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President Barry Shoop presents the IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal, awarded in collaboration with the Royal Society of Edinburgh for exceptional impact on electronics and electrical engineering or related fields, to Geoffrey Hinton for groundbreaking contributions to Machine Learning and Neural Network Learning. Hinton’s work is still on the forefront today, such as speech and visual object recognition, plant monitoring, automated check verification and fraud detection. Learn more about the 2016 Honors Ceremony at https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/honors_ceremony.html

President Barry Shoop presents prolific engineering author and educator Simon Haykin with IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal, sponsored by MathWorks, Pearson, and the IEEE Life Members Fund, for igniting the minds of students and professionals around the world. Ensuring that Education and Research regularly reinforce each other, Haykin is one of the most influential engineering educators of our generation with his textbooks being used by students globally. Learn more about the 2016 Honors Ceremony at https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/honors_ceremony.html

President-Elect Karen Bartleson presents Masayoshi Esashi with the IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal, sponsored by the Federation of Electric Power Companies Japan, for his contributions throughout his career as a pioneer of MEMs technology.  Esashi has left an indelible mark on automobiles, cellular phones, industrial equipment and medical devices, known for his work on ion-sensitive field-effect transistors that led to the development of medical catheters.  Learn more about the 2016 Honors Ceremony at https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/honors_ceremony.html

President Barry Shoop presents Takuo Sugano with the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal, sponsored by the Intel Foundation, for exceptional contributions in the microelectronics industry. Sugano dedicated his career to strengthening the understanding of semiconductor materials, helping to advance the development of enhanced silicon-based electronic devices.  Learn more about the 2016 Honors Ceremony at https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/honors_ceremony.html

President-Elect Karen Bartleson presents world-expert on radar theory and practice, Nadav Levanon, with the IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications. Sponsored by Raytheon Company, this medal recognizes outstanding accomplishments in advancing the field of radar technology and their applications. Best known for his PAF, Periodic Ambiguity Function, the main tool in utilizing and analyzing waveforms. Learn more about the 2016 Honors Ceremony at https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/honors_ceremony.html

President Barry Shoop presents Arun G. Phadke with the IEEE Medal in Power Engineering, for his leadership in power systems engineering that make a profound difference in the reliability of the North American power grid and overall grid stability. This medal is sponsored by several IEEE power-related societies, and honors outstanding contributions to technology associated with the generation, transmission, distribution, application and utilization of electric power for the betterment of society. Learn more about the 2016 Honors Ceremony at https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/honors_ceremony.html

President-Elect Karen Bartleson presents Christos Papadimitriou with the IBM-sponsored IEEE John von Neumann Medal, given for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology. A key player in the development of “NP Total Search Problems”, igniting a path to find answers that aren’t easy to find. His work on the Nash Equilibrium helped to develop algorithmic game theory, involving the convergence of game theory and economic theory. Learn more about the 2016 Honors Ceremony at https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/honors_ceremony.html

President Barry Shoop presents the Toyota-sponsored IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies to diesel engine innovators Masahiko Miyaki, Yukihiro Shinohara and Katsuhiko Takeuchi for their collaborative work in reducing emissions and recreating the diesel landscape. This award is given for outstanding accomplishments in the application of technology, in the fields of interest of the IEEE that improve the environment and/or public safety. Learn more about the 2016 Honors Ceremony at https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/honors_ceremony.html

President-Elect Karen Bartleson presents the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal to developers John P. Lehoczky, Ragunathan Rajkumar and Lui Sha for their groundbreaking work, revolutionary in real-time system design, and GRMS used in U.S. Defense and space voyaging. Sponsored by the Northrop Grumman Corporation, this award is given for exceptional achievement in systems engineering and systems science. Learn more about the 2016 Honors Ceremony at https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/honors_ceremony.html