Feb 14, 2003:

Tatsuo Itoh, TRW Chair in Microwave Electronics and professor of electrical engineering, University of California, Los Angeles. For advances in electromagnetic engineering for microwave and wireless components, circuits, and systems.

Sanjit K. Mitra, professor, department of electrical and computer engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara. For contributions to signal and image processing, for research supervision, and for writing pioneering textbooks.

Eugene W. Myers, professor, department of electrical engineering and computer science, University of California, Berkeley. For pioneering research and leadership in the development of computational methods of genome sequencing and assembly.

Eli Yablonovitch, professor, electrical engineering department, University of California, Los Angeles. For introducing photonic band-gap engineering and applying semiconductor concepts to electromagnetic waves in artificial periodic structures.

Shuji Nakamura, professor of materials, University of California, Santa Barbara. For contributions to optoelectronic engineering of gallium-nitride materials, culminating in the development of violet/blue lasers and light-emitting diodes.

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