IEEE Awards Booklet - 2015 - 26

2015 ieee PriZe PaPer

IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award
Sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems, IEEE Communications, IEEE Control Systems, IEEE Information Theory,
IEEE Power & Energy, IEEE Signal Processing, and IEEE Vehicular Technology Societies

thomas l. marzetta

For the paper "Non-cooperative Cellular Wireless with Unlimited
Numbers of Base Station Antennas"

Thomas Marzetta's pioneering paper demonstrates the feasibility of using large-scale multiple input/multiple output (MIMO)
antenna systems to meet the ever-increasing demand for wireless
throughput. Appearing in the November 2010 issue of the IEEE
Transactions on Wireless Communications (vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 3590-
3600), the paper launched the field of "Massive MIMO." Massive
MIMO systems employ a very large number of antennas which
focus the transmission and reception of signal energy into eversmaller regions of space to provide improvements in throughput
and energy efficiency, overcoming the drawbacks of traditional
MIMO systems. The paper presents a complete multicellular

analysis in the limit of a large number of antennas, taking into
account the practical limitations of intercellular interference and
errors associated with channel state information. It demonstrates
that, in this "Massive MIMO" limit, the effects of noise and fast
fading vanish, spectral efficiency is independent of bandwidth,
and the required transmit energy per bit vanishes.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Marzetta is currently group leader of
Large Scale Antenna Systems and co-head of the FutureX Massive MIMO Project at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Murray Hill, NJ,
USA.

2014 ieee staff awards

IEEE Eric Herz Outstanding Staff Member Award

Joyce E. Farrell IEEE Staff Award

Sponsored by IEEE

Fran Zappulla

Beth surmont

For outstanding leadership in the success
of IEEE publications

For demonstrating distinguished job performance and serving as a role model to
IEEE professional staff

Fran Zappulla has notably advanced IEEE's e-first publishing program in her 25-year career at IEEE, leading the development of
electronic publishing processes and online experiments from the
mid-1990's to today's multiyear, multimillion dollar effort to provide
more interactive, HTML-formatted content to IEEE readers. She
directed the use of SGML-tagged journal content in 1995-1996 to
create IEEE Xplore's predecessor, the online digital platform, delivering content in PDF and simple HTML. She introduced Web-based
article submission and peer review tools in 1998-1999 to replace the
hard-copy article review process.Today, under Ms. Zappulla's supervision, the Publishing Operations group publishes journal articles in
50% less time than it did 3 years ago and at 28% less cost since 1996.
She also effectively collaborates with volunteers and staff to achieve
additional economies of scale in editorial and production services.
An IEEE Member and member of the IEEE Communications
Society, Ms. Zappulla is the senior director of IEEE Publishing
Operations, Piscataway, NJ, USA.

Displaying optimism and leadership that has been infectious
throughout her team at IEEE, Beth Surmont believes she can
always do better and that a better experience is available for IEEE
customers. She is seen by her colleagues as embodying the best
of IEEE in service, intelligence, character, energy, vision, tenacity,
patience, and hope.With more than 15 years of professional planning experience, Ms. Surmont has a passion for experiential event
design. A certified meeting planner since 2008, she has worked
in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors and has a wide range
of knowledge, with experience in almost every aspect of meeting
planning from registration, to logistics, to program management
and production. She has presented globally on meeting design
and innovation and regularly facilitates event design sessions for
IEEE. She serves on the American Society of Association Executives Meeting & Exposition Council and has been an active
volunteer with a youth program in her community for 10 years.

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