Candidates´ views: Responses

I favor establishing field awards not only for Public Interest Service, but for Professional Activities. But I think your question does not go far enough. Since IEEE is legally constituted as a dual purpose (technical and professional) organization, I believe IEEE ought to have an equal number of its major awards (Medal of Honor, etc.) devoted to non-technical endeavors. Moreover, it is time IEEE elevated members to the rank of Fellow in recognition of their professional activities. Indeed, I spoke to members of IEEE´s Awards Committee about this at headquarters this past spring. At my urging, the Board of Directors has asked Nathan Cohn (IEEE´s Fellows Committee) to look into expand-panding the scope of the Fellows awards.