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Newcomb, Robert

Newcomb, Robert

Professor Emeritus
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Brain and Behavior Institute
A.V. Williams 1347
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HONORS AND AWARDS

    •    IEEE Life Fellow
    •    IEEE CAS Society Golden Jubilee Medal Award
    •    IEEE CAS Society Education Award
    •    Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
    •    The laboratory "Laboratorio de Comunicacion Oral Robert Wayne Newcomb" at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid was named after Professor Newcomb (2005)
    •    Fellowship for undergraduates was named after Professor Newcomb at Pohung University of Science and Technology, POSTECH, South Korea
    •    Cited among "1000 International Living Legends" by Cambridge Biographical (2004)
    •    Awarded Fulbright-Hayes Scholarship to Malaysia (1983)
    •    Undergraduate Best Teaching Award, "Order of the Ohm," awarded by the Eta Kappa Nu undergraduates (1979)
    •    Awarded Fulbright Scholarship to Australia (1963)
    •    Editor of "Neurocomputing Letters" (2001-2006)
    •    Associate Editor of four different versions of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems
    •    Editor of the Prentice-Hall Series on Networks
    •    Honorary Member (as founder) of the governing board of the international conference "Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems" (MTNS)
    •    IEEE Circuits and Systems Distinguished Lecturer on Semistate Theory, Ear-Type Systems, and The Scientific Basis of the Gita (2001)
    •    IEEE Midwest Circuits and Systems Conference was designated, and held a special lunch, in Prof. Newcomb's honor (2000)
    •    Technical Program Vice Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, Dec. 2006, Pasadena, California
    •    "Systems Workshop on Adaptive Systems" (SWAN'06) being held in Prof. Newcomb's and his doctoral student's honor at the University of Texas, December 2006