Seminar in Honor of Kees
Schouhamer Immink
June 16, 2017, Rotterdam
Occasion:
As announced by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
KEES SCHOUHAMER IMMINK
(President, Turing Machines, Inc., Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
has been named the recipient of the
2017 IEEE MEDAL OF
HONOR
“for pioneering contributions to video, audio, and
data recording technology, including compact disc, DVD, and Blu-ray” (see video)
Kees has received the medal on May 25, 2017, in San
Francisco, CA, USA, see https://ieeetv.ieee.org/ieeetv-specials/2017-ieee-honors-ceremony-full-stream
(from 1.20 hrs).
Venue and Date:
In order to celebrate the unique fact that this
award is bestowed upon a member of the
Benelux information theory community, a seminar (lunch, afternoon lectures,
drinks, optional dinner) in honor of Kees was held in
Sociëteit
KR&ZV “De Maas”,
Veerdam
1, 3016 DD Rotterdam, http://www.de-maas.nl/index.php/en/
Friday June 16, 2017
Program:
The program is available by clicking here.
Lectures/Slides
Han Vinck
(University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany): “Four myths about Kees Immink”
John
Watkinson (Run Length Limited, UK): “Impact of Kees Immink’s work
on digital data- video- and audio recording”
Hiroshi Kamabe (Gifu University, Japan): “Immink Codes for
Phase Change Memory”
Ronald Aarts (Philips Research & Eindhoven University of
Technology, NL): “Kees
and his channel coding for CD”
Peter de
With (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL): “In the beginning ..... there
was Justesen”
Dirk Van Hertem (KU
Leuven, Belgium & Chairman of the IEEE Benelux Section): “The IEEE
and its Medal of Honor”
Jos Weber
(Delft University of Technology, NL): “Kees Immink: his current work, his importance
to the Benelux IT Community, and his UJ Honorary Doctorate”
Organizing
committee:
Han
Vinck (Universität Duisburg-Essen, han.vinck@uni-due.de)
Jos
Weber (TU Delft, j.h.weber@tudelft.nl)
Peter de With (TU Eindhoven, p.h.n.de.With@tue.nl)
Report:
A report on this meeting appeared in the September
2017 issue of the IEEE Information Theory Newsletter, available by clicking here (pages 14 and 15).
Sponsors:
·
Shannon Foundation
·
IEEE Benelux Chapter on Information Theory
·
Werkgemeenschap
voor Informatie- en Communicatietheorie (WIC)
