MIT community members win 2023 IEEE medals and awards
The IEEE just lately introduced the annual winners of their 2023 prestigious medals and technical awards, and a lot of MIT school and alumni have been honored.
Rodney Brooks, Panasonic Professor of Robotics Emeritus of the Division of Electrical Engineering and Laptop Science, was awarded the IEEE Founders Medal “for management in analysis and commercialization of autonomous robotics, together with cellular, humanoid, service, and manufacturing robots.” An entrepreneur, Brooks is the CTO and co-founder of Strong AI. Previous to his time at Strong AI, he was founder, chair, and CTO of Rethink Robotics, and previous to that, was a founder, former board member and former CTO of iRobot Corp. Brooks is the previous director of the MIT Synthetic Intelligence Laboratory after which the MIT Laptop Science and Synthetic Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He acquired levels in pure arithmetic from the Flinders College of South Australia and a PhD in laptop science from Stanford College in 1981. He held analysis positions at Carnegie Mellon College and MIT, and a school place at Stanford earlier than becoming a member of the school of MIT in 1984.
Frank Thomson “Tom” Leighton PhD ’81, professor of utilized arithmetic and a member of CSAIL at MIT, acquired the 2023 IEEE John von Neumann Medal “for basic contributions to algorithm design and their utility to content material supply networks.” In 1998, Leighton co-founded Akamai Applied sciences, the place he’s presently the CEO and a member of the board of administrators. Leighton is taken into account an authority on algorithms for community functions, and has printed over 100 papers on algorithms, cryptography, parallel architectures, distributed computing, combinatorial optimization, and graph principle. He additionally holds quite a few patents involving content material supply, web protocols, algorithms for networks, cryptography, and digital rights administration. He shares the Graduate Faculty Council’s 2016 Irwin Sizer Award with Professor Michael Sipser for his or her improvement of the 18C main, arithmetic with laptop science. Leighton acquired his BSE in electrical engineering and laptop science from Princeton College in 1978, and his PhD in utilized arithmetic from MIT in 1981, below the route of Gary Miller. He joined the MIT arithmetic school in 1982, and have become professor in 1989.
José Manuel Fonseca Moura EE ’73, SM ’73, SCD ’75, was awarded the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Sign Processing Medal “for contributions to principle and apply of statistical, graph, and distributed sign processing.” A graduate of the MIT Division of Electrical Engineering and Laptop Science, Moura is now the Philip L. and Marsha Dowd College Professor at Carnegie Mellon College (CMU). He’s a member of the U.S. Nationwide Academy of Engineers, fellow of the U.S. Nationwide Academy of Inventors, a member of the Portugal Academy of Science, an IEEE Fellow, and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A detector Moura patented with co-inventor Alek Kavcic is utilized in greater than 3 billion disk drives (in over 60 p.c of all computer systems offered worldwide within the final 16 years). Earlier than coming to MIT, Moura studied electrical engineering on the Technical College of Lisbon.
Rebecca Rae Richards-Kortum SM ’87, PhD ’90 (physics and well being sciences and know-how) was awarded the IEEE Medal for Improvements in Healthcare Know-how, “for contributions to optical options for most cancers detection and management in establishing the sphere of world well being engineering.” Richards-Kortum is presently the Malcolm Gillis College Professor, a professor of bioengineering and electrical and laptop engineering, and director of the Rice 360: Institute for World Well being Know-how at Rice College. Her analysis and educating focus is on the event of low-cost, high-performance applied sciences to supply entry to life-saving well being applied sciences that deal with illnesses and circumstances that trigger excessive morbidity and mortality, corresponding to cervical and oral most cancers, untimely start, sickle cell illness and malaria. She acquired her bachelor’s in physics and arithmetic from the College of Nebraska in 1985, her MS in physics from MIT in 1987, and her PhD in medical physics in 1990 from the Harvard-MIT Program in Well being Sciences and Know-how.
Daniela Rus, director of the MIT Laptop Science and Synthetic Intelligence Laboratory, MIT Schwarzman School of Computing Deputy Dean of Analysis, and the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor throughout the Division of Electrical Engineering and Laptop Science, was awarded the IEEE Robotics and Automation Award “for pioneering contributions to the design, realization, and theoretical foundations of modern distributed, networked autonomous programs.” Rus’ analysis in robotics, synthetic intelligence, and knowledge science focuses totally on growing the science and engineering of autonomy, with the long-term goal of enabling a future the place machines are built-in into every day life to help each cognitive and bodily duties. Rus is a Class of 2002 MacArthur Fellow, a fellow of ACM, AAAI and IEEE, and a member of the Nationwide Academy of Engineers, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She earned her PhD in laptop science from Cornell College. Previous to becoming a member of MIT, Rus was a professor within the Division of Laptop Science at Dartmouth School.
Radia Perlman ’73, SM ’76, PhD ’88 acquired the IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award “for contributions to web routing and bridging protocols.” At present a Dell EMC Fellow, she is greatest recognized for her invention of the algorithm behind STP, the Spanning Tree Protocol, which solved a difficult data routing downside and earned her the moniker “Mother of the Internet.” She is a member of the Web Corridor of Fame, and is extensively thought of to be one of the vital influential individuals within the networking revolution. She graduated from MIT with a BS in 1973 and an MS in 1976, each in arithmetic. She later earned her PhD in laptop science from MIT in 1988, suggested by David D. Clark of the Laptop Science and Synthetic Intelligence Laboratory, together with her doctoral thesis on routing in environments the place malicious community failures are current — which serves as the premise for a lot of the work that now exists on this space. She has additionally labored at Digital; Novell; Solar Microsystems; and Bolt, Berenek, and Newman, and holds over 100 patents.
Alexander Waibel ’79 was introduced the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award, “for pioneering contributions to spoken language translation and supporting applied sciences.” Waibel is a professor of laptop science at Carnegie Mellon College and on the Karlsruhe Institute of Know-how (Germany), and director of the Worldwide Middle for Superior Communication Applied sciences. He’s recognized for his work on AI, machine studying, multimodal interfaces and speech translation programs. Waibel based greater than 10 corporations that transferred tutorial outcomes to sensible deployment; together with Jibbigo, the primary industrial speech translator on a telephone (acquired by Fb in 2013); and KITES, the primary simultaneous lecture translation service (acquired by Zoom in 2021). Different deployments embody dialog translators for humanitarian missions, and interpretation help on the European Parliament. Waibel is a member of the Nationwide Academy of Sciences of Germany and a Life Fellow of the IEEE. He acquired his BS from MIT in electrical engineering and laptop science, and his MS and PhD levels from Carnegie Mellon College.