The IEEE Frederik Philips Award is a
Technical Field Award that was established by the
IEEE
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines.
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in 1971. The award is presented for outstanding accomplishments in the management of
research and development
Research and development (R&D or R+D), known in some countries as OKB, experiment and design, is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products. R&D constitutes the first stage ...
resulting in effective innovation in the electrical and electronics industry.
This award may be presented to an individual or team of up to three people.
Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.
Recipients
Source:
IEEE
* 1971: Frederik J. Philips
* 1972: William O. Baker
William Oliver Baker (July 15, 1915 – October 31, 2005) was president of Bell Labs from 1973 to 1979 and advisor on scientific matters to five United States presidents.
Biography
He was born on July 15, 1915, in Chestertown, Maryland.
He recei ...
* 1973: John H. Dessauer
* 1974: Chauncey Guy Suits
Chauncey Guy Suits (March 12, 1905August 14, 1991) was a distinguished director of the General Electric (GE) Research Laboratory, and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Biography
Suits was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, studied ...
* 1975: C. Lester Hogan
Clarence Lester Hogan (February 8, 1920 – August 12, 2008) was an American physicist and a pioneer in microwave and semiconductor technology.
He grew up as a brother to three sisters in Great Falls, Montana, where his father worked for the Grea ...
* 1976: Koji Kobayashi
* 1977: No Award
* 1978: William E. Shoupp
* 1979: Gordon Moore
Gordon Earle Moore (January 3, 1929 – March 24, 2023) was an American businessman, engineer, and the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation. He proposed Moore's law which makes the observation that the number of transistors i ...
* 1980: William M. Webster
* 1981: Dean A. Watkins
* 1982: Werner J. Kleen
* 1983: Allen E. Puckett
* 1984: John K. Galt
* 1985: George Heilmeier
* 1986: William Hittinger
* 1987: Solomon J. Buchsbaum
* 1988: George F. Smith
* 1989: Klaus D. Bowers
* 1990: Rajinder J. Khosla
* 1991: Gene Strull
* 1992: Alan Gerald Chynoweth
* 1993: Max Tibor Weiss
* 1994: Minoru Nagata
* 1995: James C. McGroddy
* 1996: Michiyuki Uenohara
* 1997: Roland P. O. Hüber
* 1998: Larry W. Sumney
* 1998: Robert M. Burger
* 1998: William C. Holton
* 1999: Roger J. Van Overstraeten
* 2000: Gerald M. Borsuk
* 2001: Arun N. Netravali
Arun N. Netravali (born 26 May 1945) is an Indian–American computer engineer credited with contributions in digital technology including HDTV. He conducted research in digital compression, signal processing and other fields. Netravali was the ...
* 2002: Toshiharu Aoki
* 2003: Thomas Rowbotham
* 2004: Youssef El-Mansy
* 2005: Hiroyoshi Komiya
* 2006: Louis C. Parrillo
* 2007: Yong-Kyung (Kenneth) Lee
* 2008: Gilbert J. Declerck
* 2009: Shojiro Asai
* 2010: John E. Kelly III
John E. Kelly III is an American executive at IBM. He has been described as the "father" of Watson, a computer system most known for competing against humans on ''Jeopardy!'' He joined IBM in 1980 and has served as the director of IBM Research.
...
* 2011: Dim-Lee Kwong
* 2012: Chih-Yuan (C. Y.) Lu
* 2013: William M. Holt
* 2014: Henry T. Nicholas, III
* 2015: Benedetto Vigna
* 2016: Kelin J. Kuhn
* 2017: Gary L. Patton
* 2018: Ian A. Young
* 2019: Asad M. Madni
* 2020: Kazuo Yano
References
External links
IEEE Frederik Philips Award page at IEEE
List of recipients of the IEEE Frederik Philips Award
Frederik Philips Award
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