IEEE Lotfi A. Zadeh Award for Emerging Technologies
About Award
The IEEE Lotfi A. Zadeh Award for Emerging Technologies was was previously named the Morris N. Liebmann Award, which was originally established by the Institute of Radio Engineers in 1919 and then assumed by the IEEE in 1963 when the two organizations merged.
The award was renamed to the IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award for Emerging Technologies in 2010 in honor of Dr. Daniel E. Noble, Executive Vice Chairman of the Board emeritus of Motorola, who was an IEEE Life Fellowand was awarded the IEEE Edison Medal in 1978, "For leadership and innovation in meeting important public needs, especially in developing mobile communications and solid state electronics." He was significantly known for the design and installation of the nation's first statewide two-way radio communications system. The system was the first in the world to use FM technology.
In 2022, the award was renamed to the IEEE Lotfi A. Zadeh Award for Emerging Technologies. Lotfi A. Zadeh was a Fellow of the IEEE and a recipient of the 1973 IEEE Education Medal, the 1992 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, an IEEE Centennial Medal, and the IEEE Medal of Honor in 1995 "For pioneering development of fuzzy logic and its many diverse applications."
The Lotfi A. Zadeh Award for Emerging Technologies Recipient selection is administered by the Technical Field Awards Council of the IEEE Awards Board.
Award Recipients
- Katsutoshi Izumi, 2001
- Masataka Nakazawa, 2002
- Kenichi Iga, 2003
- Larry J. Hornbeck, 2004
- David Harame, 2005
- Carlos A. Paz de Araujo, 2006
- Stephen R. Forrest, 2007
- Richard Friend, 2007
- Ching Wan Tang, 2007
- James M. Daughton, 2008
- Stuart Parkin, 2008
- Saied Tehrani, 2008
- Larry F. Weber, 2009
- Shinichi Abe, Shoichi Sasaki, and Takehisa Yaegashi, 2010
- Mark L. Burgener and Ronald E. Reedy, 2011
- Subramanian S. Iyer, 2012
- Jan P. Allebach, 2013
- Gabriel M. Rebeiz, 2014
- Khalil Najafi, 2015
- Mark G. Allen, 2016
- Miguel A. L. Nicolelis, 2017
- Rajiv V. Joshi, 2018
- Thomas Kenny, 2019
- Miro Micovic, 2020
- no award, 2021
- no award, 2022
- no award, 2023
- Andras Kis, 2024
Previous award designs
IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award for Emerging Technologies
