Ernie Kuh has received the 2009 IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award. The
citation reads: "For outstanding contributions to theory and practice in circuits and systems and for pioneering work in electronics design automation." The award is given for outstanding contributions to the fundamentals of any aspect of electronic circuits and systems that has a long-term significance or impact.
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July 7
Jitendra Malik and EECS alumnus Christoph Bregler have won the 2008 Longuet-Higgins prize for "Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision That have Stood the Test of Time". The award will be given at IEEE CVPR 2008, Anchorage, Alaska. The citation reads: "Tracking people with twists and exponential maps. An inspired application of kinematic modeling techniques from robotics to the challenge of tracking people in motion from a single camera view, including a memorable model-based analysis of the Muybridge motion study videos." This is the second consecutive award for Prof. Malik - he was a co-winner of the 2007 prize for his paper with Jianbo Shi on "Normalized Cuts and Image Segmentation."
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June 30
Kam Lau won the 2009 IEEE David Sarnoff Award. The award is given for exceptional contributions to electronics; the citation reads: "For seminal contributions to improved dynamics of quantum well semiconductor lasers." This is the second major award in optoelectronics garnered by Prof. Lau this year, following the Nicholas Holonyak Award from Optical Society of America earlier this year.
June 23
Richard M. Karp has been awarded the 2008 Kyoto Prize, an international award that honors significant contributions to the scientific, cultural and spiritual development of humanity. He has been selected to receive the award for his fundamental contributions to the theory of computational complexity, which he began developing in the early 1970s by establishing the theory of NP-completeness. In addition to creating many practical computer algorithms of his own, Prof. Karp's work has exerted profound influence on the guiding principles behind the analysis and design of algorithms used in many scientific disciplines.
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June 20
Ali Javey has been selected to present his research at the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 14th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium. This event will bring together engineers ages 30 to 45 who are performing exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines. The participants--from industry, academia, and government--were nominated by fellow engineers or organizations and chosen from more than 230 applicants. The symposium will examine emerging nanoelectric devices, cognitive engineering, drug delivery systems, and understanding and countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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June 18
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