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Morris Tanenbaum Silicon microchip inventor Fellow, 94; died 26 February Tanenbaum’s research in the mid-1950s proved that silicon was a better semiconductor material for transistors than germanium, which was commonly used at the time.

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JANUARY 14, 2024

He was a key figure in the creation of EIT Digital , an organization that invests in research and continuing education to bring new digital technologies to the European market. Robert Saracco, an IEEE senior member dedicated to empowering the next generation of digital innovators in Europe, died unexpectedly on 5 December at the age of 70.

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JULY 13, 2023

Nobel Laureate John B. Goodenough , one of the inventors of the lithium-ion battery, died on 25 June at age 100. Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin , authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. He and his colleagues were recently granted a U.S.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2023

IEEE Life Fellow Theodore W. Ted” Hissey died on 14 October at the age of 97. An active volunteer whose involvement with IEEE spanned more than six decades, Hissey served as IEEE director emeritus from 1994 to 1996. In 1997 he was vice president of the IEEE Foundation.

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

Frederick P. Brooks Jr. , a prolific computer scientist and longtime professor of computer science, died on 17 November at the age of 91. While working as a project manager at IBM in the 1960s, the IEEE Life Fellow led the development of the System/360 computer family. It was the first vertically compatible family of mainframe computers.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Ken Laker , the 1999 IEEE president, died on 2 August at the age of 76. Laker worked with the IEEE Board of Directors in the early 1990s to purchase personal computers for the organization’s leaders to make it easier to conduct IEEE business via the Internet.

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AUGUST 8, 2023

Stephen Unger, founder and past president of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology , died on 4 July at the age of 92. An IEEE Fellow, he played a principal role in developing the IEEE Code of Ethics.

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JULY 18, 2023

Christopher Davis Codeveloper of a lunar retroreflector Life Fellow, 78; died 1 April Davis taught engineering at the University of Maryland in College Park for 48 years. Born in Manchester, England, he moved to the United States in 1973 to work as an instructor and research associate at Cornell.

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MAY 26, 2022

University at Buffalo. Sargur “Hari” Srihari. Pioneer of computational forensics. Life Fellow, 72; died 8 March. Srihari helped create an artificial intelligence system in 1991 that enabled machines to read handwritten letters. Postal Service still uses the system to sort mail.

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APRIL 18, 2023

Ross Stone, an influential IEEE Technical Activities leader, died on 29 March at the age of 75. The Life Fellow received the 2023 IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award “for sustained contributions to and impactful leadership in the IEEE Technical Activities publication enterprise.”

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Hodges Former dean of engineering Life Fellow, 85; died 13 November Hodges, who was dean of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley , conducted pioneering research in IC design and semiconductor manufacturing.

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MARCH 29, 2022

Merrill Skolnik First recipient of the IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal Life Fellow, 94; died 27 January. Skolnik served as superintendent of the radar division of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., for more than 30 years.

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JUNE 16, 2022

Kamisetty Ramamohan “K.R.” Rao died on 15 January 2021 at the age of 89. He co-invented the discrete cosine transform (DCT) technique, which is widely used in digital signal processing and data compression. Rao was a professor of electrical engineering at the. University of Texas at Arlington for more than 50 years.

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OCTOBER 1, 2022

Nick Holonyak, Jr. holds a part of a stoplight that utilizes a newer LED designed by his students. Ralf-Finn Hestoft/Getty Images. Nick Holonyak Jr., a prolific inventor and longtime professor of electrical engineering and computing, died on 17 September at the age of 93.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Alexander , 1997 IEEE president, died on 17 October at the age of 79. The active volunteer held many high-level positions throughout the organization, including 1991–1992 IEEE Region 2 director. He was also the 1993 vice president of the IEEE United States Activities Board (now IEEE-USA ).

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MAY 20, 2022

Larson , 1982 IEEE president, died on 10 March at the age of 83. An active volunteer who held many high-level positions throughout the organization, Larson was the 1975–1976 president of the IEEE Control Systems Society and also served as IEEE Foundation president.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

Alexander “Sandy” Fraser Developer of the first virtual circuit network switch Fellow, 85; died 13 June Fraser developed the Datakit , the first virtual circuit network switch, while working at AT&T Labs in Florham Park, N.J. The telecommunications technology is used by all major U.S. telephone companies.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Richard Gowen , 1984 IEEE president, died on 12 November at the age of 86. An active volunteer who held many high-level positions throughout the organization, Gowen was president of the IEEE Foundation from 2005 to 2011 and two years later was appointed as president emeritus of the IEEE Foundation.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

Sadaoki Furui Speech processing pioneer Life Fellow, 77; died 31 July Furui was a leading speech processing researcher who played an important role in improving communication between humans and machines. Geselowitz , senior director of the IEEE History Center , describes him as a “pillar in the speech processing community.”

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APRIL 1, 2022

Bob” Lucky, a communications pioneer and prolific technology writer, died on 10 March at the age of 86. As an engineer, Lucky conducted pioneering research at AT&T Bell Labs in Holmdel, N.J., for more than 30 years.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Jung Uck Seo , who served as 2003–2004 IEEE Region 10 director, died on 11 January at the age of 70. While working at Korea Telecom , the IEEE Life Fellow led the development of the TDX-1 digital telephone switching system. Later he worked to commercialize the code division multiple access method of encoding data sources.

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JUNE 7, 2023

Mo-Shing Chen , a world-renowned power engineering educator and researcher, died on 1 May at the age of 91. The IEEE Fellow was a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington for more than 40 years. He founded the university’s Energy Systems Research Center in 1968 and served as its director until he retired in 2003.

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Jacob Ziv , codeveloper of the Lempel-Ziv data compression algorithm , died on 26 March at the age of 91. The IEEE Life Fellow was awarded the 2021 IEEE Medal of Honor “for fundamental contributions to information theory and data compression technology, and for distinguished research leadership.”

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