Photonics Pioneer to Receive 2001 IEEE Medal of Honor.

Business/Technology Editors

PISCATAWAY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2001

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) announces that Herwig Kogelnik, Adjunct Photonics Systems Research Vice President at Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs, will receive the 2001 IEEE Medal of Honor.

Kogelnik will accept the IEEE's highest award "For fundamental contributions to the science and technology of lasers and optoelectronics, and for leadership in research and development of photonics and lightwave communication systems." Kogelnik's work has helped to revolutionize global information movement and management by making lightwave communications systems practical, cost-effective, and ubiquitous. The IEEE Medal of Honor, sponsored by the IEEE Foundation, and the awards named below will be presented at the annual IEEE Honors Ceremony scheduled for 23 June 2001 at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, N.J.

Outstanding Leadership

- Michael J. Birck - Chair, Tellabs, Lisle, Ill. -- an IEEE Ernst Weber
Engineering Leadership Recognition, sponsored by IEEE, "For his entrepreneurial
and technical leadership in founding Tellabs, a leader in digital cross connect
systems and broadband access telecommunications products."

- Christopher Martin Earnshaw - Group Engineering Director and Chief Technology
Officer, British Telecommunications Plc, United Kingdom

-- an IEEE Ernst Weber Engineering Leadership Recognition, "For technical and
managerial leadership as Chief Technology Officer of British Telecommunications
in the development and introduction of advanced networking technologies and
communications platforms."

DRAM Innovator

- Robert H. Dennard - IBM Fellow, IBM Research Division, IBM T.J.

Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, N.Y.-- the IEEE Edison

Medal, sponsored by Hitachi, Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric

Corporation, and Toshiba Corporation of Japan "For the invention

of the 1 transistor DRAM cell, and contributions to the

development of MOSFET device scaling principles."

Inspiring Educator

- Brian D.O. Anderson - Professor, Research School of Information

Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University,

Canberra, Australia -- the IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education

Medal, sponsored by AT&T Labs, "For outstanding graduate texts of

lasting value and far-reaching international influence, and for

outstanding leadership in the development of electrical

engineering education in Australia."

Safety Expert

- L. Bruce McClung - Corporate Fellow, Union Carbide Corporation,

South Charleston, W. Va. -- the IEEE Medal For Engineering

Excellence, sponsored by Siemens AG, "For pioneering application

of technology and standards leading to improved safety of

industrial electrical systems."

Industrial Ecology "Founding Father"

- Robert A. Frosch - Associate, Senior Research Fellow, Belfer

Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy

School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. -- the

IEEE Founders Medal, sponsored by IEEE Foundation, "For a career

of significant advances in aerospace and automotive technology,

and industrial ecology, and for skilled administration of R & D in

industry, government and academia."

Network Visionary

- Alexander G. Fraser - Director and Chief Scientist, AT&T Labs

Research, Murray Hill, N.J., -- the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal,

by sponsored by AT&T Labs, "For pioneering contributions to the

architecture of communication networks through the development of

virtual circuit switching technology."

Leader in Electromagnetics

- Adrianus Teunis De Hoop - Professor, Faculty of Information

Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The

Netherlands -- the IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal, "For fundamental

contributions to the theory of reciprocity and to the

understanding of electromagnetic wave propagation in layered

media."

Image Processing Pioneers

- Thomas S. Huang - Professor, University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Ill., and Arun N. Netravali - President

of Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies and Lucent's Chief

Technology Officer and Chief Network Architect, Murray Hill, N.J.

-- the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal. Sponsored by

Texas Instruments, the award honors Huang and Netravali "For

pioneering and sustained contributions to image sequence

processing and its applications to digital TV, to pattern

recognition, and to computer animation."

NEC Chairman of the Board

- Hajime Sasaki - Chairman of the Board, NEC Corporation, Tokyo,

Japan -- the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal, sponsored by the Intel

Foundation, recognizes Sasaki "For contributions to, and

leadership in, the technology and business development of

semiconductor devices and the harmonization of the global

semiconductor industry."

Radar Expert

- Fritz Steudel - Consultant, Raytheon Company, Sudbury, Mass. --

the IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and

Applications, sponsored by Ratheon Company, "For outstanding

leadership, technical contributions and the implementation of

innovative concepts in the design, development, and deployment of

large wide-band phased array radar systems.

MEMS Innovator

- Kurt E. Petersen - President and Chief Operating Officer, Cepheid,

Sunnyvale, Calif. -- the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal, sponsored by TRW

Foundation, "For contributions to micro-electromechanical systems

(MEMS) science and technology and their integration into systems

applications."

Visionary System Designer

- Butler W. Lampson - Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft, Cambridge,

Mass. -- the IEEE John Von Neumann Medal, sponsored by IBM

Corporation, "For technical leadership in the creation of

timesharing, distributed computing, networking, security and

program languages."

Adobe Systems Founder

- Charles M. Geschke - Chairman of the Board, Adobe Systems, San

Jose, Calif. -- IEEE Honorary Membership, sponsored by IEEE, "For

many years of inspiring visionary leadership in the software

industry related to digital publishing for the World Wide Web,

print and dynamic media."

Biomedical Engineering Expert

- Charles J. Robinson - Director, Center for Biomedical Engineering

and Rehabilitation Science, Louisiana Tech. University, Los

Angeles, Calif. -- IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award, sponsored by

the IEEE Technical Activities Board, "For outstanding sustained

contributions to the Institute's technical objectives through

innovative enhancements in society and corporate leadership,

technical publications, conferences, membership development, and

transnational outreach."

Transistor Pioneer

- Arthur P. Stern - (Retired) Vice Chair, Magnavox, President,

Magnavox Advanced Products and Systems Co., Los Angeles, Calif. --

IEEE Haraden Pratt Award, sponsored by the IEEE Foundation, "For

decades of contributions to IRE and AIEE, advancing solid-state

technology, and providing outstanding leadership in the early

years of IEEE."

The IEEE serves more than 360,000 members in the electrotechnology and information technology communities in approximately 150 countries.