IEEE Honors Engineering Pioneers [Society News]

Every year the IEEE Awards Board recommends a select group of recipients to receive IEEE’s most prestigious honors. These are individuals whose exceptional achievements and outstanding contributions have made a lasting impact on technology, society, and the engineering profession. This year at the IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit (VICS) and Honors Ceremony in Atlanta, GA, USA, there were several recipients of the IEEE medals. Amongst them were Vinton “Vint” Cerf, widely known as the “Father of the Internet,” remote sensing pioneer Melba Crawford, National Instruments (NI) Cofounder James Truchard, and robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) gurus Rodney Brooks and Lydia Kavraki. Other notable names in the power and semiconductor arena included Canadian Professor Kamal Al-Haddad, silicon carbide (SiC) material pioneer Hiroyuki Matsunami, and superjunction power devices researchers Tatsuhiko Fujihira, David James Coe, and Gerald Deboy.