Kampé de Fériet award

The Kampé de Fériet award is granted every two years on the occasion of the IPMU conference. It is awarded for outstanding scientific achievements and exceptional contributions to the field of information processing and management of uncertainty. The award has first been given to Lotfi Zadeh in 1992, and was since then granted to a number of prominent personalities; the complete list of former recipients as well as information about the historical background of the award can be found here.

In view of his eminent research contributions to the handling of uncertainty in clustering, data analysis and pattern recognition, the Kampe de Feriet award 2010 will be confered to Dr. James C. Bezdek.

Dr. Bezdek received the PhD in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University in 1973. He is past president of NAFIPS (North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society), IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association) and the IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society): founding editor the International Journal Approximate Reasoning and the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems: fellow of the IEEE and IFSA; and a recipient of the IEEE 3rd Millennium, IEEE CIS Fuzzy Systems Pioneer, and IEEE CIS Rosenblatt medals. His interests: woodworking, optimization, motorcycles, pattern recognition, cigars, clustering in very large data, fishing, poker, co-clustering, blues music, and visual clustering in relational data. Jim retired in 2007, and will be coming to a university near you soon.

The award ceremony will take place during the banquet on Wednesday, June 30.