IEEE Announces 2006 Fellows

T he IEEE Board of Directors recently conferred the title of Fellow upon 271 senior members of the IEEE, including 63 Computer Society members (out of 114 original nominees). IEEE policy limits the total number of Fellows selected in any one year to no more than 0.10 percent of the IEEE's total voting membership. With IEEE membership now standing at more than 350,000 professionals, this year's Fellows class is even more exclusive than the policy mandates. Senior IEEE members have already demonstrated outstanding achievement in engineering. The original 1912 constitution of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, a forerunner of the IEEE, outlined a procedure for naming Fellows. Today, Fellow status recognizes a person who has established an extraordinary record of achievement in any of the IEEE fields of interest. One IEEE member with no society affiliation was named a 2006 Fellow for his contributions to computing: Wen-Lian Hsu, of the Academia Sinica, for contributions to natural-language systems and bioinformatics. The Computer Society members whose names appear below are now IEEE Fellows, effective 1 January 2006. An accompanying citation details the accomplishments of each new Fellow. In cases where a Computer Society member has been named a Fellow based on contributions to a field other than computing, the name of the evaluating IEEE society appears after the citation. A Magdy Abadir, Freescale Semiconductor , for contributions to the test and verification of microprocessors. B Vijay Bhatkar, International Institute of Information Technology, for leadership in supercomputing, broadband, and multilingual technology. Andrei Broder, IBM, for contributions to the theory and application of randomized algorithms. for contributions to the development of medical, intelligence, and security informatics. Brussels, for contributions to ant colony optimization and swarm intelligence. (Computational Intelligence) Hugh Durrant-Whyt, University of Sydney, for contributions with application to decentralized data fusion algorithms with application to simultaneous localization and navigation. (Robotics and Automation) G Carlo Ghezzi, Milan Polytechnic, for contributions to software engineering and programming languages. Austin, for contributions to the theory and practice of multilearner systems. for contributions to sensor data processing and shared dynamic world modeling for autonomous real-world multiagents systems. for contributions to neural networks and fundamental models of learning in image processing, pattern recognition, and robotics. Polytechnical School, for contributions to the verification of real-time and hybrid systems. Tin Ho, Bell Laboratories, for contributions to pattern recognition methodology and tools. Defense, for leadership in computational science and engineering.