IEEE Awards Booklet - 2013 - 20

2013 IEEE TECHNICAL FIELD AWARDS

IEEE Frederik Philips Award

IEEE Photonics Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Photonics Society

William M. Holt

Peter Franklin Moulton

For leadership in the development and
high-volume manufacturing of leadingedge logic technologies

For the discovery of the Ti:Sapphire laser
and the development of many novel
solid-state laser systems and applications

William M. Holt established a reputation at Intel Corporation for
developing innovative advanced logic technologies and guiding them
to high-volume production before industry competitors. With expertise that spans chip design, software, factory automation, and wafer
testing, Mr. Holt fostered an environment that encourages risk-taking
but still delivers on time. Under Mr. Holt's direction, Intel rolled out
six generations of new process technology, each generation improving performance, lowering power consumption, and reducing cost
per transistor. To help Intel bring its technology to market, Mr. Holt
has to ensure internal cooperation among the groups he manages,
which represents over 40,000 employees. Mr. Holt was instrumental in leading the development of industry firsts such as the use of
strained silicon to improve carrier mobility, high-k dielectrics combined with metal gates, and tri-gate transistors on 22-nm technology.
William Holt is senior vice president and general manager
of Intel Corporation's Technology and Manufacturing Group,
Hillsboro, Ore.

For over 35 years Peter Moulton has worked to develop and commercialize solid-state laser and nonlinear optical devices. While
at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in 1982 he invented the Ti:Sapphire
tunable solid-state laser, which revolutionized the field of ultrafast
lasers and helped enable a number of significant scientific and
engineering advances. He helped found what has evolved to QPeak, Inc., and led a team of researchers that has transitioned many
novel materials and devices out of the laboratory for use in applicatons including science, medicine, and defense. His efforts in
the development of high-power visible-wavelength sources have
led to a venture-capital-funded spin-out company, Laser Light
Engines, now working to enable large-screen, laser-based digital
projectors.
An IEEE Life Fellow and member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Dr. Moulton recently retired as the vicepresident and chief technology officer of Q-Peak, Inc., Bedford,
Mass., and remains there as a principal scientist.

IEEE Robotics and Automation Award

IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award

Sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

Ruzena Bajcsy

Terrence Sejnowski

For contributions to computer vision,
the active perception paradigm, and
medical robotics

For contributions to computational
neuroscience

A driving force in the field of robotics for over three decades,
Ruzena Bajcsy's pioneering work on machine vision and perception has helped robots achieve humanlike performance.
During the 1980s, she was the first to recognize that active perception was needed to improve computer vision/information
acquisition. Dr. Bajcsy's landmark work on computer vision
also includes modeling of deformable objects, elastic model
matching, and visual hyperacuity, which has had important implications for medical robotics and imaging. Dr. Bajcsy founded
the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception
(GRASP) Laboratory in 1978 at the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1998, she became the first woman to lead the National Science Foundation's Directorate of Computer and Information
Science and Engineering.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Bajcsy is the NEC Chair Professor
with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.

A pioneer of computational neuroscience,Terrence Sejnowski has
developed methods important for studying and understanding
how the human brain learns and stores memories. Dr. Sejnowksi's
contributions ultimately may provide medical specialists with important clues to combating Alzheimer's disease. He has created
methods for representing how networks of neurons generate dynamical patterns of activity, how sensory information is represented in the cerebral cortex, and how memory representations are
formed and consolidated during sleep. In 1987 he created NETtalk for converting English words to speech. In 1995, with Tony
Bell, he introduced the infomax independent component analysis
algorithm for blind source separation.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Sejnowski is one of only 10 living persons to be a member of the U.S. Institute of Medicine, the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences, and the U.S. National Academy of
Engineering. He is the Francis Crick Chair with the Salk Institute
for Biological Studies, La Jolla, Calif.

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