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1. Newly Elected IEEE Fellows for 2010

The IEEE Board of Directors approved and announced the 2010 Class of IEEE Fellows at the Board of Directors meeting during November 2009 in New Brunswick , NJ .

The IEEE Fellows are an elite group from around the globe. The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and shall be conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The accomplishments that are being honored shall have contributed importantly to the advancement or application of engineering, science and technology, bringing the realization of significant value to society.

The total number of Fellows selected in any one year does not exceed one-tenth of one percent of the total voting IEEE membership.

Please join us in congratulating the following members of the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society who were elevated as an IEEE Fellow on January 1, 2010:

Yutaka Hata
University of Hyogo
for contributions to fuzzy logic based image processing in biomedical informatics

Joseph Hellerstein
Google, Inc.
for contributions to control engineering for performance management of computing systems

Bart Kosko
University of Southern California
for contributions to neural and fuzzy systems

Seong-Whan Lee
Korea University
for contributions to pattern recognition for biometrics and document image analysis

Chih-Min (Jimmy) Lin
Yuan Ze University
for contributions to fuzzy system, neural network, and cerebellar model articulation controllers

Robin Murphy
Texas A&M University
for contributions to rescue robotics and insertion of robots into major disasters

Ronald Patton
Hull University
for contributions to robust fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control

Shun-Feng Su
National Taiwan Univ. of Science and Technology
for contributions to computational intelligence and intelligent control
A complete list of IEEE Fellows can be viewed at the following location.

2. The SMC Society welcomes the following new senior members

Anibal T De Almedia	James H Lambert	Kay C Tan	Yuri A Ivanov
Ching-Chih Tsai	Xin Xin	Bilgee Sukhbaatar	Liu Qiao
Yiu-Wing Leung	O L Chacon Mondragon	Mia N Siddique	Yong Shi
Thomas M Martinetz	Eunice E Santos	Vladimir S Jotsov	Suman K Mitra
Guang J Liu	Kenji Nakayama	David D Haynes	Michael Jiang
Marian S Stachowicz	Gregory G Griffes	Paulo J Leitao	Tong Lee
Roger A Grice	Victor-Emil I Neagoe	Shantaram Vasikarla	Steven D Silver
L. M Camarinha-Matos	Ellis F Hitt	Chia-Feng Juang	Minghu Ha
Ashraf S Saad	Vicente B Feliu	Xuemin Chen	Robin K Burk
Abdullah Al-Mamun	William J Tastle	Umesh Harigopal	Bernhard Schoelkopf
Anastasios Bezerianos	Aladdin Ayesh	Raymond Harbert	Sebastiano Impedovo
Xiaoyi Jiang