SPS Members Receive 2013 IEEE Awards

IEEE has announced the 2013 recipients of the IEEE Medals, Prize Paper, Service Awards, Corporate Recognitions and/or Honorary Membership awards.

The following six Signal Processing Society members received IEEE Awards:

IEEE FOUNDERS MEDAL to LEO BERANEK (LFIEEE) – Founder (retired), Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Boston, MA, USA

IEEE RICHARD W. HAMMING MEDAL to ARTHUR ROBERT CALDERBANK (FIEEE) – Dean of Natural Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

IEEE JACK S. KILBY SIGNAL PROCESSING MEDAL to BISHNU S. ATAL (LFIEEE) - Affiliate Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

IEEE DENNIS J. PICARD MEDAL FOR RADAR TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS to MICHAEL WICKS (FIEEE) – Senior Scientist, Sensors Signal Processing, United States Air Force Research Laboratory (retired), Rome, NY, USA

IEEE RICHARD M. EMBERSON AWARD to LEAH H. JAMIESON (FIEEE) - John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

IEEE DONALD FINK AWARD to ANNA SCAGLIONE (FIEEE) - Professor, University of California - Davis, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Davis, CA, USA with co-recipients Stefano Galli and Zhifang Wang.