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Awards In The Field Of Information Technologies: Social And Cultural Impact

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IEEE Medal of Honor IEEE Edison Medal Turing Award
Laureates Individual [member or not] Individual (or a group up to 3)[members or not]
Procedure open nomination (with 3 to 5endorsements)Medal Committee choses a winner and an alternateMedal Council reviews the decision by medal committeeAwards Board reviews validate that procedure was competitive and endorses a recipientBoard of Directors approves the recipient open nomination (with 4 to 8 endorsements)Turing Award Subcommittee choses a winnerAwards Committee overseas a selection process and confirms a recipient
Committee Medal Committee is composed by 9 volunteersmembers of Medal Committee (as well as Medal Council) are appointed by Awards Board and the decision is based on candidate’s expertisemembers of Medal Committee shouldn’t be IEEE members, but they should represent different regions and institution1/3 of members rotates annually, leaving members suggest replacement candidates to Awards BoardAwards Board members hold an offices for a year terms (up to three terms in a row), application for a vacant position is open for IEEE Members Turing Award Subcommittee is composed by 10 member volunteerssubcommittee members appointed by Awards CommitteeAwards Committee members resign when new ACM President is elected or when their term is expiredrecruiting new Awards Committee members is supervised by the committees’ vice-president
Criteria the achievementimpact on societyimpact on professionbreadth and originalitypatents/papersquality of nomination technical leadershipduration of dominanceindividual contributionbreadth and originalitypatents/papersaccomplishmentshonorsquality of nomination technical leadershipduration of dominanceindividual contributionbreadth and originalitypatents/papersaccomplishmentshonorsquality of nomination
Prize gold medalbronze replica50 thousand USDHonor Wall (inscription) gold medalbronze replica20 thousand USD trophy1 million USD
Celebration Honors Ceremony on IEEE Annual Summit, announcement in IEEE Spectrum Honors Ceremony on IEEE Annual Summit, announcement in Proceedings of IEEE ACM Awards Banquet, Turing Award lecture, announcement in Communication of the ACM
Winners 100 (0,96 per year) 107 (0,96 per year) 70 (1,32 per year)
Associations 9 Nobel Prizes in Physics10 IEEE Edison Medals1 ACM Turing Award 1 Nobel Prizes in Physics (*)10 IEEE Medals of Honor 1 Nobel Prizes in Economics (**)1 IEEE Medals of Honor (***)
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