IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award

IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award
Awarded for	The most outstanding survey, review, or tutorial paper published in one of the IEEE publications between 1 January and 31 December of the preceding year
Presented by	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
First awarded	1979
Last awarded	2016[1]
Website	IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award

The IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award was established in 1979 by the board of directors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in honor of Donald G. Fink. He was a past president of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE), and the first general manager and executive director of the IEEE. Recipients of this award received a certificate and an honorarium.[2] The award was presented annually since 1981 and discontinued in 2016.[1]

Purpose

This award was given for "the most outstanding survey, review, or tutorial paper published in the IEEE Transactions, Journals, Magazines, or in the Proceedings of the IEEE between 1 January and 31 December of the preceding year". The award recipient was selected from the nominees by IEEE's Prize Papers/Scholarship Awards Committee and Awards Board.[2]

Recipients

The following people received the IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award:[3]

• 2016: Timothy York, Samuel B. Powell, Shenkui Gao, Lindsey Kahan, Tauseef Charanya, Debajit Saha, Nicholas W. Roberts, Thomas W. Cronin, Justin Marshall, Samuel Achilefu, Spencer P. Lake, Baranidharan Raman and Viktor Gruev
• 2015: Theodore S. Rappaport, Shu Sun, Rimma Mayzus, Hang Zhao, Yaniv Azar, Kevin Wang, George N. Wong, Jocelyn K. Schulz, Mathew Samimi and Felix Gutierrez, Jr.
• 2014: Dipankar Raychaudhuri and Narayan B. Mandayam
• 2013: Stefano Galli, Anna Scaglione and Zhifang Wang
• 2012: Kannan Krishnan[4]
• 2011: Andreas F. Molisch, Larry J. Greenstein and Mansoor Shafi
• 2010: John W. Arthur [5]
• 2009: Daniel J. Costello [6] and G. David Forney, Jr.
• 2008: Yann Frauel,[7] Thomas J. Naughton,[8] Osamu Matoba,[9] Enrique Tajahuerce[10] and Bahram Javidi[11]
• 2007: Michael Shur[12] and Arturas Zukauskas[13]
• 2006: Suhas N. Diggavi,[14] Naofal Al-Dhahir,[15] A. Stamoulis[16] and A. R. Calderbank[17]
• 2005: Oliver Brand, Christoph Hagleitner, Andreas Hierlemann and Henry Baltes
• 2004: Alan S. Willsky[18]
• 2003: Sunil R. Das, C. V. Ramamoorthy, Mansour H. Assaf, Emil M. Petriu and Wen-Ben Jone
• 2002: Ted Painter and Andreas S. Spanias
• 2001: Xin Yao
• 2000: Ezio Biglieri, John Proakis and Shlomo Shamai
• 1999: Richard P. Wildes
• 1998: Francis T. S. Yu and Don A. Gregory
• 1997: Asad A. Abidi
• 1996: Ali H. Sayed and Thomas Kailath
• 1995: Nikil Jayant, James D. Johnston and Robert J. Safranek
• 1994: Andrew P. Sage
• 1993: Pravas R. Mahapatra and Dusan S. Zrni
• 1992: Anthony Ephremides and Sergio Verdú
• 1991: Tadao Murata
• 1990: G. David Forney, Jr.
• 1989: Karl Johan Åström
• 1988: Raymond L. Murray
• 1987: Shahid U. H. Qureshi
• 1986: Thomas H. Johnson
• 1985: Arnold Reisman
• 1984: Enders A. Robinson; Robert A. Scholtz (each for their own paper)
• 1983: Anil K. Jain
• 1982: Arun N. Netravali and John O. Limb
• 1981: Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman

References

1. "Discontinued IEEE-Level Awards". IEEE. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
2. "IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award". IEEE. Archived from the original on October 14, 2014. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
3. "IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 24, 2010. Retrieved March 31, 2017.
4. "Kannan M. Krishnan - Engineering and Technology History Wiki". ethw.org. 2 February 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
5. "John W. Arthur - Engineering and Technology History Wiki". ethw.org. February 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
6. "Daniel J. Costello - Engineering and Technology History Wiki". ethw.org. 21 January 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
7. "Yann Frauel - Engineering and Technology History Wiki". ethw.org. 9 March 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
8. "Thomas J. Naughton - Engineering and Technology History Wiki". ethw.org. 29 February 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
9. "Osamu Matoba - Engineering and Technology History Wiki". ethw.org. 11 February 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
10. "Enrique Tajahuerce - Engineering and Technology History Wiki". ethw.org. 22 January 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
11. "Bahram Javidi - Engineering and Technology History Wiki". ethw.org. 18 January 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
12. "Michael Shur - Engineering and Technology History Wiki". ethw.org. 8 February 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
13. "Arturas Zukauskas - Engineering and Technology History Wiki". ethw.org. 18 January 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
14. "Suhas N. Diggavi - Engineering and Technology History Wiki". ethw.org. 29 February 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
15. "Naofal Al-Dhahir - Engineering and Technology History Wiki". ethw.org. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
16. "Anastasios Stamoulis - Engineering and Technology History Wiki". ethw.org. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
17. "Robert Calderbank - Engineering and Technology History Wiki". ethw.org. 24 February 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
18. "Alan Willsky - MIT LIDS". mit.edu. Retrieved 14 March 2017.