IEEE Professional Communication Society Newsletter • ISSN 1539-3593 • Volume 51, Number 10 • November 2007
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Five Society Awards Given at IPCC 2007

by Muriel Zimmerman


The awards event is a highlight of each International Professional Communication Conference (IPCC). The Alfred N. Goldsmith Award, the Emily K. Schlesinger Award, and the Ronald S. Blicq Award recognize achievements in the areas of engineering communication, Society service, and distinction in technical communication education, respectively. The Rudolph J. Joenk, Jr. Award is presented for Best Paper in the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, and the IPCC Best Paper Award honors a paper selected from those submitted for the conference proceedings.

The Goldsmith Award was presented to Ray Kurzweil, author, inventor, and pioneer in areas including optical character recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. The Schlesinger Award was presented to Kim Campbell in recognition of her 10 years of exemplary service as editor of IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. Dr. Campbell is Professor of Management Communication at the University of Alabama.

The Joenk Award for Best Paper in the 2006 Transactions was presented to Arijit Sengupta and Andrew Dillon for "Query By Templates: Using the Shape of Information to Search Next Generation Databases." Dr. Sengupta is Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management in the Raj Soin College of Business at Wright State University. Dr. Dillon is Dean and Professor, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin.

The IPCC Best Paper Award was given to Mark Melenhorst and Mark van Setten for their conference paper, "Usefulness of Tags in Providing Access to Large Information Systems." Drs. Melenhorst and van Setten are researchers at Telematica Instituut in the Netherlands and earned their doctorates at the University of Twente.

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Muriel Zimmerman is Awards Chair and Secretary, IEEE-PC.


 

 

 

 


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