Society Award
The Society Award honors outstanding technical contributions in a field within the scope of the Signal Processing Society and outstanding leadership within that field. The prize shall be $2500, a plaque and a certificate, and shall be presented at the Society's Awards Ceremonies, normally held during ICASSP in the Spring following selection of the winner. Current officers and members of the Signal Processing Society Board of Governors are ineligible. Previous recipients of the Signal Processing Society Award are ineligible. Nominees shall be judged on the basis of outstanding technical contributions and leadership in a field within the scope of the Society as evidenced by publications, patents, books, lectures, etc. Self-nominations are not accepted or considered. Nominations may arise from any individual or technical committees of the Society and shall be submitted directly to the Society's Awards Board. The Awards Board will insure that all nominations are vetted by the appropriate Society Technical Committee(s) prior to final nomination and subsequent balloting by the Board of Governors.
Nominations must be received by the SPS Vice President-Awards and Membership as follows:
- Nominations from SPS Community: by 1 May
- Nominations from Technical Committees: 1 October
Recipients of the Pioneer in Speech Communication Award
1967: H. Dudley
1972: F.S. Cooper
Recipients of the Society Award
1975: J.L. Flanagan
1976: No Recipient
1977: H. S. McDonald
1978: H. W. Schuessler
1979: A. V. Oppenheim
1980: L. R. Rabiner
1981: J. F. Kaiser
1982: R.W. Schafer
1983: J.W. Cooley
1984: C. M. Rader
1985: B. Gold
1986: K. Steiglitz
1987: T. W. Parks
1988: J. Makhoul
1989: R.M. Mersereau
1990: T. Kailath
1991: T. S. Huang
1992: B. S. Atal
1993: R. M. Gray
1994: C. S. Burrus
1995: J. H. McClellan
1996: F. Itakura
1997: F. Jelinek
1998: B. Widrow
1999: B. Liu
2000: M. Kaveh
2001: S. K. Mitra
2002: A.Gersho
2003: D. C. Munson, Jr.
2004: L. Scharf
2005: S. Furui
2006: P. Stoica
2007: R.K. Ward
2008: Edward J. Delp
2009: Rama Chellappa