IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award
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About Award
The IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1987.
The Award is named in honor of Dr. Masaru Ibuka, Honorary Chairman and Co-Founder of Sony Corporation, whose innovative achievements and leadership in state of the art and have been an inspiration to several generations of electrical, electronics, and computer engineers.
Recipient selection is administered through the Technical Field Awards Council of the IEEE Awards Board.
Award Recipients
- Heitaro Nakajima, 1989
- Johannes Petrus Sinjou, 1989
- Norman L. Stauffer, 1990
- Gilbert F. Amelio, 1991
- Isamu Washizuka, 1992
- George L. Brantingham, 1993
- Paul S. Breedlove, 1993
- Richard H. Wiggins, 1993
- Carl G. Eilers, 1994
- Irving S. Reed, 1995
- Gustave Solomon, 1995
- Kees A. Schouhamer Immink, 1996
- Ray M. Dolby, 1997
- Jerrold A. Heller, 1998
- Leonardo Chiariglione, 1999
- Marvin H. White, 2000
- Ulrich Reimers, 2001
- Takashi Fujio, 2002
- Kozo Hayashi, 2002
- Masao Sugimoto, 2002
- Masahiko Morizono, 2002
- Yuichi Ninomiya, 2002
- Richard Small, 2003
- Neville Thiele, 2003
- Karlheinz Brandenburg, 2004
- No Award, 2005
- Wayne Bretl, 2006
- Richard Citta, 2006
- Wayne Luplow, 2006
- Tomlinson Holman, 2007
- Ralph H. Baer, 2008
- Eugene J. Polley, 2009
- James Barton, 2010
- Joan L. Mitchell, 2011
- Gisle Bjøntegaard, Gary J. Sullivan, and Thomas Wiegand, 2012
- Martin Dietz, Kristofer Kjörling, and Lars Liljeryd, 2013
- no award, 2014
- Martin Cooper, 2015
- Steven J. Sasson, 2016
- John O'Sullivan, David Skellern, Terence Percival, 2017
- Linus Benedict Torvalds, 2018
- Tomonori Aoyama, Takashi Hayasaka, 2019
- Eben Upton, 2020
- Steve Wozniak, 2021
- Peter Dillon and Albert Brault, 2022
- Ken Sakamura, 2023
- Steve B. Furber and Sophie Wilson, 2024
- Steve Mann, 2025
