IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal
Encyclopedia
The IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal is presented "for outstanding achievements in signal processing
" theory
, technology
or commerce
. The recipients of this award will receive a gold medal
, together with a replica
in bronze
, a certificate and a honorarium
.
The award was established in 1995 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE) and is sponsored by Texas Instruments Inc. It is named after Jack S. Kilby, whose innovation – like the co-invention of the integrated circuit
– was fundamental for the signal processor
and related digital signal processing
development. The award may be presented to an individual or a group up to three in number.
Signal processing
Signal processing is an area of systems engineering, electrical engineering and applied mathematics that deals with operations on or analysis of signals, in either discrete or continuous time...
" theory
Theory
The English word theory was derived from a technical term in Ancient Greek philosophy. The word theoria, , meant "a looking at, viewing, beholding", and referring to contemplation or speculation, as opposed to action...
, technology
Technology
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or commerce
Commerce
While business refers to the value-creating activities of an organization for profit, commerce means the whole system of an economy that constitutes an environment for business. The system includes legal, economic, political, social, cultural, and technological systems that are in operation in any...
. The recipients of this award will receive a gold medal
Gold medal
A gold medal is typically the medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture...
, together with a replica
Replica
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in bronze
Bronze
Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive. It is hard and brittle, and it was particularly significant in antiquity, so much so that the Bronze Age was named after the metal...
, a certificate and a honorarium
Honorarium
An honorarium is an ex gratia payment made to a person for their services in a volunteer capacity or for services for which fees are not traditionally required. This is used by groups such as schools or sporting clubs to pay coaches for their costs...
.
The award was established in 1995 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a non-profit professional association headquartered in New York City that is dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence...
(IEEE) and is sponsored by Texas Instruments Inc. It is named after Jack S. Kilby, whose innovation – like the co-invention of the integrated circuit
Integrated circuit
An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit is an electronic circuit manufactured by the patterned diffusion of trace elements into the surface of a thin substrate of semiconductor material...
– was fundamental for the signal processor
Signal processor
A signal processor is an electronic circuit that removes information from an analog signal as quantifiable units for further analysis. Most modern signal processors are either dedicated microprocessor integrated circuits or general-purpose programmable microprocessors. A DSP is an electronic...
and related digital signal processing
Digital signal processing
Digital signal processing is concerned with the representation of discrete time signals by a sequence of numbers or symbols and the processing of these signals. Digital signal processing and analog signal processing are subfields of signal processing...
development. The award may be presented to an individual or a group up to three in number.
Recipients
The following people received the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal:- 1997: Bernard Gold and Charles M. Rader
- 1998: Thomas G. Stockham
- 1999: Lawrence R. Rabiner
- 2000: James F. Kaiser
- 2001: Thomas S. Huang and Arun N. Netravali
- 2002: James W. Cooley
- 2003: Hans W. Schuessler
- 2004: Thomas W. ParksThomas W. ParksThomas W. Parks is an American electrical engineer and Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. He is best known for his contributions to digital signal processing, especially digital filter design and computation of the fast Fourier transform...
and James H. McClellanJames H. McClellanJames H. McClellan is the Byers Professor of Signal Processing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is widely known for his creation of the McClellan transform and for his co-authorship of the Parks-McClellan filter design algorithm.- Education :...
- 2005: Fumitada ItakuraFumitada Itakurais a Japanese scientist who did pioneering work in statistical signal processing and its application to speech analysis and synthesis.Itakura was born in Toyokawa, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. He received undergraduate and graduate degrees from Nagoya University in 1963 and 1965, respectively. In 1968,...
- 2006: Thomas KailathThomas KailathThomas Kailath is an Indian electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University...
- 2007: Alan V. Oppenheim
- 2008: Robert M. GrayRobert M. GrayRobert M. Gray is an American information theorist, and the Alcatel-Lucent Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. He is best known for his contributions to quantization and compression, particularly the development of vector quantization.- Awards :Gray...
- 2009: Charles Sidney BurrusC. Sidney BurrusCharles Sidney Burrus is an American electrical engineer and the Maxfield and Oshman Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas...
- 2010: Ronald W. Schafer
- 2011: Ingrid DaubechiesIngrid DaubechiesIngrid Daubechies is a Belgian physicist and mathematician. She was between 2004 and 2011 the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor in the mathematics and applied mathematics departments at Princeton University. In January 2011 she moved to Duke University as a Professor in mathematics. She is the first...