IEEE Awards Booklet - 2011 - 19

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2011 IEEE
Andrew S. Grove Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices Society

Judy L. Hoyt and Eugene A. Fitzgerald
For seminal contributions to the demonstration of SiGe lattice mismatch strain
engineering for enhanced carrier transport properties in MOSFET devices
strained silicon on a low-defect relaxed SiGe spurred Dr. Hoyt's
work. He was able to solve defect formation problems to allow
the joining of Si and Ge. He also demonstrated that highly
strained materials could be deposited in small areas, or, alternatively, strain-free SiGe could be deposited over large areas with
a very low defect density. The ability to engineer highly relaxed
and highly strained levels on Si led to Dr. Fitzgerald creating the
first high-quality, high-mobility strained Si material. An IEEE
Fellow, Dr. Hoyt is a professor of electrical engineering and
computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), Cambridge, and associate director of MIT's Microsystems
Technologies Laboratories. An IEEE Member, Dr. Fitzgerald is
the Merton C. Flemings-Singapore MIT Alliance Professor of
Materials Engineering with the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge.

The groundbreaking work of Judy L. Hoyt and Eugene A.
Fitzgerald involving strained silicon semiconductor materials
has enabled the continued shrinking of integrated circuits,
providing faster chips and devices. Based on Dr. Fitzgerald's
breakthrough of successfully fabricating strained (Si) on relaxed
silicon germanium (SiGe) (stretching the Si crystal when applied
to another material) in 1990, Dr. Hoyt and colleagues at Stanford
pioneered the application of strained silicon to increase carrier
transport properties in Si metal-oxide field-effect transistors
(MOSFETs). In 1992 Dr. Hoyt used thin strained layers of Si on
top of a relaxed SiGe artificial substrate to demonstrate the first
fully functioning strained-channel MOSFETs. She later showed
potential for the strain-engineered high-performance MOSFETs;
results that inspired industry to harness strain in modern Si integrated circuits. Dr. Fitzgerald's development of high mobility

2011 IEEE
Masaru Ibuka Consumer
Electronics Award

2011 IEEE
Internet Award

Sponsored by Nokia Corporation

Joan L. Mitchell

Jun Murai

For fundamental contributions to image compression in
printing technology and digital image processing in
consumer electronics

For leadership in the development and deployment of the
global Internet, especially across the Asia-Pacific region

When you surf the Internet, use a digital camera or print a color
image you have benefited from Joan L. Mitchell's contributions to
compression methods for faster printing and transmission of image
files. Dr. Mitchell was one of the key contributors to the JPEG
(Joint Photographic Experts Group) algorithm for photographic
image compression as well as some of the MPEG (Motion Picture
Expert Group) standards for video. Working at IBM with William B.
Pennebaker, Dr. Mitchell helped fine tune the JPEG standard into
something that was also practical for software. She served as
co-editor of the standard and helped define many of the extensions that made it a flexible tool for image compression. Dr.
Mitchell was also instrumental in solving throughput bottlenecks
affecting IBM high-end printers, enabling for the first time full-color page decoding for JPEG at rated speeds. An IEEE Fellow, Dr.
Mitchell retired from InfoPrint Solutions Company, Boulder, Colo.,
in 2009, where she was an InfoPrint Fellow.

Jun Murai is considered the "Father of Japanese Internet," establishing the Internet in Japan. In 1984, Dr. Murai deployed the
Japanese University Network (JUNET), a computer network connecting Japanese universities that served as the cornerstone of
Japan's Internet. In 1988, Dr. Murai evolved JUNET into the
Widely Integrated Distributed Environment (WIDE) Project. The
WIDE project started the first transfer control protocol/Internet
protocol (IP) network in the Asia-Pacific region and became the
backbone of Japan's Internet. The WIDE project also initiated
standard Japanese character coding for the Internet, utilized by
Japanese Internet users every day, and IPv6 (the next IP designed
to alleviate eventual Internet address exhaustion). Dr. Murai was
instrumental in launching Japan's first Internet service provider
and first Internet exchange point and contributed to the internationalization of the Internet e-mail system. An IEEE Associate
Member, Dr. Murai is the dean of the Faculty of Environment and
Information Studies, Keio University, Kanagawa, Japan.
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