IEEE Medal of Honor. The IEEE Medal of Honor is the highest recognition of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It has been awarded since 1917, when its first recipient was Major Edwin H. Armstrong. It is given for an exceptional contribution or an extraordinary career in the IEEE fields of interest. The award consists of a gold medal, bronze replica, certificate and honorarium. The medal was originally founded by the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) as the IRE Medal of Honor. Recipients[edit] Notes and references[edit] External links[edit]
Morris Chang. Morris Chang (traditional Chinese: 張忠謀; simplified Chinese: 张忠谋; pinyin: Zhāng Zhōngmóu; born July 10, 1931), is the founding Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC) in 1987. TSMC pioneered the "dedicated silicon foundry" industry and is the largest silicon foundry in the world. Morris is known as the father of Taiwan's chip industry. Biography[edit] Chang was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, Republic of China.
When he was younger, he had wanted to become a writer. However, his father, an official in the Ningbo county government, persuaded him otherwise. During his 25 year career (1958–1983) at Texas Instruments, he rose in the ranks to become Group Vice President responsible for worldwide semiconductor business. Morris Chang worked on a four transistor project for TI where manufacturing was done by IBM.
As of June 2009, Chang has returned to the position of TSMC's CEO once again. Chang and his wife Sophie reside in Taiwan. Affiliations[edit] Degrees[edit] 22C3: Jacob Appelbaum - Profile :: CareerCtr. Profile :: CareerCtr. Profile :: CareerCtr. Jacob Appelbaum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Profile :: CareerCtr. He is currently living in Berlin and he has been contributing extensively in the selection for publication of documents revealed by Edward Snowden in June 2013.[7][7][7][8][9] On December 28, 2013, at Chaos Communication Congress,[8][10] he presented documents revealed by Snowden, showing that the NSA can turn iPhones into eavesdropping tools and has developed devices to harvest electronic information from computer even if not online.
The devices are listed in the NSA ANT catalog, published in part by Der Spiegel[7] and in full by LeakSource.[11] Appelbaum, under the handle "ioerror", has been an active member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective since 2008,[12] and is the co-founder of the San Francisco hackerspace Noisebridge with Mitch Altman. He has worked for Kink.com,[13] Greenpeace[14] and has volunteered for the Ruckus Society and the Rainforest Action Network.[15] He is also an ambassador for the art group monochrom.[16] Research and activism[edit] Personal life[edit]