Kees Schouhamer Immink - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

• Foreign associate, National Academy of Engineering, 2007.
• SMPTE Progress Medal awarded by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), 2004, For the central role played in research and development of audio and video recording products.
• IEEE Consumer Electronics Engineering Excellence Award, 2004.
• Heyser Memorial lecturer awarded by the Audio Engineering Society, May 2004.
• Technology and Engineering Emmy Award awarded by the National Television Academy 2003, For coding technology for optical recording formats.
• Inducted into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame, (CEA), 2003.
• Knighthood in the Order of Orange-Nassau awarded by Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands, 2000.

• Honorary member, Netherlands Electronics and Radio Society (NERG), 2000.

• Millennium Medal awarded by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, (IEEE), 2000.

• AES Gold Medal awarded by the Audio Engineering Society, (AES), 1999, For significant contributions to the advancement of consumer audio technology.

• IEEE Edison Medal, 1999, For a career of creative contributions to the technologies of digital video, audio, and data recording.

• Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation awarded by the IEEE Information Theory Society, 1998, For the invention of constrained codes for commercial recording systems.

• AES 50th Anniversary Commemorative Medal awarded by the Audio Engineering Society, 1998.

• Academician, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, (KNAW) 1996.

• Fellow, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE),1996.

• IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award awarded by the IEEE, 1996, For pioneering contributions to consumer digital audio and video recording products

• Alexander M. Poniatoff Gold Medal Award for Technical Excellence awarded by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, 1994, For outstanding contributions to the development of new techniques and/or equipment that have contributed to the advancement of audio or video magnetic recording and reproduction.

• Sir J.J. Thomson Medal awarded by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), 1993, For distinguished contributions to electronics.

• AES Silver Medal awarded by the Audio Engineering Society, 1992, For major contributions to the development of digital audio recording systems.