IEEE David Sarnoff Award

The IEEE David Sarnoff Award was a Technical Field Award presented in 1959–2016 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It was awarded annually for exceptional contributions to electronics.[1]

IEEE David Sarnoff Award
Awarded forExceptional contributions to electronics
Presented byIEEE
First awarded1959
Last awarded2016
WebsiteIEEE David Sarnoff Award

The award was established in 1959 by the RCA Corporation; in 1989 the Sarnoff Corporation became its sponsor. It consisted of a bronze medal, certificate and honorarium, and was presented each year to an individual or small team (up to three people).

The award was discontinued in 2016.[1]

Recipients

Source: IEEE

gollark: So we could replace most accountants if things had better APIs?
gollark: The obvious solution is to just stop using paper here.
gollark: Humans can process language without much intellectual effort too after a long training phase, but it takes large amounts of expensive (cheaper than humans by a lot actually) GPU power and training data to do those things.
gollark: Stuff like repetitive tasks, adding large columns of numbers, etc, are hard for humans (we get bored and can't do maths very efficiently), but computers can happily do them easily.
gollark: You could probably replace a significant amount of office workers with some SQL queries and possibly language model things.

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References
  1. "Discontinued IEEE-Level Awards". IEEE. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
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