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.