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The Region 8 Awards and Recognition Sub-Committee takes the pleasure to announce that during the 2010 IEEE Honors Ceremony which was held at Montreal on june 26, 2010, one of the  IEEE Medals which are are the highest awards in the hierarchy of IEEE recognitions is attributed to our collegue Alfonso Farina (Italy) and two of the Technical Field awards are given to our collegues Herbert Reichl (Germany) and John W. Arthur (UK). You find below details about the three recognitions.

IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal For Radar Technologies And Applications

Sponsor: Raytheon Co.

Recipient : ALFONSO FARINA

SELEX Sistemi Integrati, Rome

For continuous, innovative, theoretical, and practical contributions to radar systems and adaptive signal processing techniques.”

II IEEE Components Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Award

Sponsor: IEEE Components Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Society

Recipient : HERBERT REICHL

Technische Universitat Berlin , Germany

For contributions to the integration of reliability in electronic systems, and leadership in research and education in electronic packaging.

III IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award

Sponsor: IEEE Life Members Committee

Recipient : JOHN W. ARTHUR

University of Edinburgh

For his paper, “The Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Theory Revisited,” IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, Volume 50, No. 1, Feb. 2008, pp. 19–65

Victor Fouad Hanna, Chair of the ARC-8