The IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award is a
Technical Field Award established by the
IEEE
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Board of Directors in 2011. The IEEE Technical Field Awards are awarded for contributions or leadership in specific fields of interest of the IEEE.
This award is typically presented to an individual or a team of up to three people. Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.
Recipients
* 2014: Balaji Prabhakar "For his demonstration of the innovative use of information technology and distributed computing systems to solve long-standing societal problems, in areas ranging from transportation to healthcare and recycling."
* 2015: Takemochi Ishii and Hirokazu Ihara and Atsunobu Ichikawa "For pioneering the concept of dependable autonomous decentralized systems and contributing to its practical application in early transport control systems."
* 2016:
William H. Sanders "For the assessment-driven design of trustworthy cyber infrastructures for electric grid systems."
* 2017: Antonello (Anto) Monti "For accelerating innovation of energy, information, and communication technologies for the urban environment."
* 2018: David F. Ferraiolo, D. Richard Kuhn, and Ravi Sandhu "For advancing the foundations and practice of
information security
Information security is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks. It is part of information risk management. It typically involves preventing or reducing the probability of unauthorized or inappropriate access to data ...
through creation, development, and technology transfer of role-based access control (RBAC)."
* 2019: Andy Vidan, Paul Breimyer, and Gregory G. Hogan
"For development of real-time collaborative and distributed emergency response and recovery systems."
* 2020:
Masaru Kitsuregawa
* 2021:
Elisa Bertino
Elisa Bertino is a professor of computer science at Purdue University and is acting as the research director of CERIAS, the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, an institute attached to Purdue University. Berti ...
References
External links
IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award page at IEEEList of recipients of the IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award
IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award
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