E E C S  MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Honors and Awards, 1999-00

We are proud to announce that our faculty members continue to receive many awards. These have included:

Faculty Promotions

Promotion to Institute Professor
Joel Moses
Promotion to Associate Professor
Martin Rinard
Rajeev Ram
Promotion to Tenured Associate Professor
Akintunde Akinwande
Duane Boning
Anantha Chandrakasan
Amos Lapidoth
Steven Leeb
Madhu Sudan

Chair Appointments

Dugald C. Jackson Professorship of Electrical Engineering
Paul Penfield, Jr.
Vitesse Professorship of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Clifton Fonstad, Jr.
Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professorship of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Ron Rivest
Edwin Sibley Webster Professorship of Electrical Engineering
Alan Willsky
Edward Hood Taplin Chair in Medical Engineering
Martha Gray
KDD Career Development Chair
Hari Balakrishnan

Teaching & Advising Awards

IEEE Course VI Outstanding Advisor Award
Frans Kaashoek
Ruth and Joel Spira Teaching Award
Leonard McMillan
Celsius Lecturer (Sweden 2000)
Mildred Dresselhaus

Elected Societies

Fellow of the Institute of Physics
Jeffrey H. Shapiro
John F. & Virginia B. Taplin Faculty Fellow in Health Sciences and Technology
Thomas F. Weiss
Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Eric Grimson
Leslie Kaelbling
Member of the National Academy of Engineering
Gerald Jay Sussman
Fellow of the Industrial Engineering Consortium
Robert Gallager
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
Albert M. Meyer
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Tom Magnanti

Awards & Prizes

Aristotle Award, Semiconductor Research Corporation
Rafael Reif
National Medal of Science
Ken Stevens
NSF Career Award 2000
Hari Balakrishnan
IBM Faculty Partnership Award
Hari Balakrishnan
R.W. Wood Prize of the American Optical Society
Marvin Minsky
Nicholson Medal-American Physical Society
Mildred Dresselhaus
Women in Science Millennial Achievement Award
Mildred Dresselhaus
Discover Magazine Award Finalist
Steven B. Leeb
IEEE Third Millenium Medal
Robert Gallager
James L. Kirtley
John G. Kassakian
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
John Chapin
IEEE Control Systems Award 2000
Sanjoy K. Mitter
Outstanding Service Award, National Electrical Engineering Department Heads Association
Paul Penfield
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Golden Jubilee Award
Paul Penfield
S.T. Li Prize 2000
Jin A. Kong
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Distinguished Achievement Award
Jin A. Kong
Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles Medal for Paris Sciences 2000
Markus Zahn

Paper Awards

Best Paper Award Symposium on Operating System Principles
Frans Kaashoek
Robert Morris
Outstanding Paper Prize, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
David Karger
Best Paper Award - ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking 2000
Hari Balakrishnan

Honors

Doctor honoris causa-U. Leuven, Belguim
Mildred Dresselhaus
Nominated by President Clinton as Director of the Office of Science
Mildred Dresselhaus
Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award-U. Cal Berkeley
Erich P. Ippen

Recent honors

Honors and Awards for other academic years

Awards and Honors for other years:       1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99, 2000-01


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