IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award
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The IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award is a Technical Field Award of the IEEE given for outstanding contributions to consumer electronics technology
. It is named in honor of Masaru Ibuka
, co-founder and honorary chairman of Sony Corporation
. The award is currently given each year to an individual or a team of up to three people (although in 2002, it was given to five people). The award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1987, and is sponsored by Sony Corporation.
Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, a certificate and an honorarium.
Consumer electronics
Consumer electronics are electronic equipment intended for everyday use, most often in entertainment, communications and office productivity. Radio broadcasting in the early 20th century brought the first major consumer product, the broadcast receiver...
. It is named in honor of Masaru Ibuka
Masaru Ibuka
Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics industrialist. He co-founded what is now Sony....
, co-founder and honorary chairman of Sony Corporation
Sony
, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
. The award is currently given each year to an individual or a team of up to three people (although in 2002, it was given to five people). The award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1987, and is sponsored by Sony Corporation.
Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, a certificate and an honorarium.
Recipients
- 1989: Heitaro Nakajima
- 1989: Johannes Petrus Sinjou
- 1990: Norman L. Stauffer
- 1991: Gilbert F. Amelio
- 1992: Isamu Washizuka
- 1993: George L. Brantingham
- 1993: Paul S. Breedlove
- 1993: Richard H. Wiggins
- 1994: Carl G. Eilers
- 1995: Irving S. ReedIrving S. ReedIrving Stoy Reed is a mathematician and engineer. He is best known for co-inventing a class of algebraic error-correcting and error-detecting codes known as Reed-Solomon codes in collaboration with Gustave Solomon...
- 1995: Gustave SolomonGustave SolomonGustave Solomon was a mathematician and engineer who was one of the founders of the algebraic theory of error-correction. He received Ph.D. in Mathematics at MIT in 1956 under direction of Kenkichi Iwasawa....
- 1996: Kees A. Schouhamer ImminkKees A. Schouhamer ImminkKornelis Antonie Schouhamer Immink is a Dutch scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur, who pioneered and advanced the era of digital audio, video, and data recording including popular digital media such as Compact Disc, DVD and Blu-Ray Disc. He has been a prolific and influential engineer, who...
- 1997: Ray M. Dolby
- 1998: Jerrold A. Heller
- 1999: Leonardo ChiariglioneLeonardo ChiariglioneLeonardo Chiariglione is an Italianengineer. He has been at the forefront of a number of initiatives that have helped shape media technology and business as we know them today, in particular he is the chairman and co-founded the Moving Picture Experts Group together with Hiroshi Yasuda.-...
- 2000: Marvin H. White
- 2001: Ulrich Reimers
- 2002: Takashi Fujio
- 2002: Kozo Hayashi
- 2002: Masao Sugimoto
- 2002: Masahiko Morizono
- 2002: Yuichi Ninomiya
- 2003: Richard H. SmallRichard H. SmallRichard H. Small is an American scientist, who worked mainly on electroacoustics. The Thiele/Small parameters are named after him and Neville Thiele.-Career:...
- 2003: Neville ThieleNeville ThieleDr. Albert Neville Thiele OAM born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, generally known as Neville Thiele and publishing under the name A...
- 2004: Karlheinz BrandenburgKarlheinz BrandenburgKarlheinz Brandenburg is an audio engineer who has contributed to the audio compression format MPEG Audio Layer 3, more commonly known as MP3.- Biography :...
- 2005: No Award
- 2006: Wayne Bretl
- 2006: Richard Citta
- 2006: Wayne Luplow
- 2007: Tomlinson HolmanTomlinson HolmanTomlinson M. Holman is an American film theorist, audio engineer, and inventor of film technologies, notably the Lucasfilm THX sound system. He developed the world's first 10.2 sound system. Earlier, Holman developed what was known as the Holman Preamplifier, for the Apt Corporation. He holds a...
- 2008: Ralph H. BaerRalph H. BaerRalph H. Baer is a German-born American video game pioneer, inventor, engineer, known as "The Father of Video Games", who is noted for his many contributions to games and the video game industry...
- 2009: Eugene J. Polley
- 2010: James Barton
- 2011: Joan Laverne Mitchell
- 2012: Gisle Bjøntegaard
- 2012: Gary J. SullivanGary Sullivan (engineer)Gary J. Sullivan is an American electrical engineer who led the development of the H.264/AVC video coding standard and created the DirectX Video Acceleration API/DDI video decoding feature of the Microsoft Windows operating system platform...
- 2012: Thomas WiegandThomas WiegandThomas Wiegand is a German electrical engineer who actively participated in the creation of the H.264/AVC video coding standard. He was one of the chairmen of the Joint Video Team standardization committee that created the standard and was the editor of the standard itself...