Awards and Accolades bestowed on K.A. Schouhamer Immink

  • SMPTE Progress Medal awarded by the Society of Motion Picture and Televison 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 (AES), May 2004.
  • Technology and Engineering Emmy Award awarded by the National Television Academy (NATAS), 2003, For coding technology for optical recording formats.
  • Inducted into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame, (CEA), 2003.
  • President, Audio Engineering Society, 2002.
  • Knighthood in the Order of Oranje-Nassau awarded by Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands, 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.
  • AES 50th Anniversary Commemorative Medal awarded by the Audio Engineering Society, 1998.
  • Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award awarded by the IEEE, 1996, For pioneering contributions to consumer digital audio and video recording products.
  • A.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.
    Honorary Memberships
  • Member, Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, Koninklijke Hollandse Maatschappij der Wetenschappen te Haarlem.
  • Foreign associate, (US) National Academy of Engineering, (NAE), For pioneering and advancing the era of digital audio, video, and data recording.
  • Member, Batavian Society of Experimental Philosophy (Bataafsch Genootschap der Proefondervindelijke Wijsbegeerte).
  • Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), 1996.
  • Honorary member, Netherlands Electronics and Radio Society, (NERG).
  • Fellow, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, (SMPTE).
  • Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, (IEEE), For contributions to optical laser recording and compact disc digital audio systems.
  • Fellow, Institution of Electrical Engineers, (IEE).
  • Fellow, Audio Engineering Society, (AES).
  • Chartered Engineer, Engineering Counsel, UK.
    Best Paper Awards
  • Co-recipient (with Jun Lee) Chester Sall Best Paper Award for "DC-free Multimode Code Design Using Novel Selection Criteria for Optical Recording Systems," IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, May 2009.
  • Co-recipient (with Cai Kui) Best Paper Award for "A general construction of constrained parity-check codes for optical recording," 2008 IEEE Communications Society, Data Storage Technical Committee in Signal Processing and Coding for Data Storage, 2009.