Awards and accolades bestowed on Kees A. Schouhamer Immink

• IEEE Medal of Honor, For pioneering contributions to video, audio, and data recording technology, including compact disc, DVD, and Blu-ray, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017.
  
  
• IET Faraday Medal, For significant contributions to digital audio, video, and data storage, Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2015.
  
  
  
• Finalist, European Inventor Award, Lifetime Achievement Category, Coding methods for CD, DVD and Blu-ray, enabling a revolution in consumer electronics, European Patent Office, 2015.
  
  
• Eduard Rhein Technology Prize, For contributions to the theory and practice of channel codes that enable efficient and reliable optical recording, and creative contributions to digital recording technology, Eduard Rhein Foundation, 2014.
  
  
  
• Honorary doctorate, University of Johannesburg, 2014.
  
  
• Progress Medal, For the central role played in research and development of audio and video recording products, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, 2004.
  
  
• IEEE Consumer Electronics Engineering Excellence Award, 2004.
  
  
• Heyser Memorial lecturer, Audio Engineering Society, 2004.
  
  
• Personal Technology and Engineering Emmy Award, For coding technology of optical recording formats, National Television Academy (NATAS), 2003.
  
  
• Inducted into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame, Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), 2003.
  
  
• President, Audio Engineering Society, 2002.
  
  
• Knighthood in the Order of Oranje-Nassau awarded by Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands, 2000.
  
  
• IEEE Millennium Medal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2000.
  
  
• AES Gold Medal, For significant contributions to the advancement of consumer audio technology by the Audio Engineering Society, 1999.
  
  
• IEEE Edison Medal, For a career of creative contributions to the technologies of digital video, audio, and data recording, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1999.
  
  
• Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation, For the invention of constrained codes, IEEE Information Theory Society, 1998.
  
  
• AES 50th Anniversary Commemorative Medal, Audio Engineering Society, 1998.
  
  
• Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award, For pioneering contributions to consumer digital audio and video recording products, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1996.
  
  
• A.M. Poniatoff Gold Medal Award for Technical Excellence, 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, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, 1994.
  
  
• Sir J.J. Thomson Medal, For distinguished contributions to electronics, Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1993.
  
  
• AES Silver Medal, For major contributions to the development of digital audio recording systems, Audio Engineering Society, 1992.
  
  
  

Honorary Memberships

• Member, Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, Koninklijke Hollandse Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, Haarlem, 2014.
• Foreign member, (US) National Academy of Engineering, (NAE), For pioneering and advancing the era of digital audio, video, and data recording, 2004.
• Member, Batavian Society of Experimental Philosophy (Bataafsch Genootschap der Proefondervindelijke Wijsbegeerte), Rotterdam, 2004.
• Honorary member, Netherlands Electronics and Radio Society, (NERG), 2000.
• Fellow, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), 1996.
• Fellow, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, (SMPTE), 1992.
• Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, (IEEE), For contributions to optical laser recording and compact disc digital audio systems, 1990.
• Fellow, Institution of Engineering and Technology, (IET), 1990.
• Chartered Engineer, Engineering Counsel, UK, 1990.
• Fellow, Audio Engineering Society, (AES), 1986.
  
  

Best Paper Awards

• Co-recipient (with Jun Lee) Chester Sall 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 Kui Cai) 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.
  
  Awards and accolades bestowed on Kees A. Schouhamer Immink