Honors Received by Interval Researchers

The R. E. Moore Prize for Applications of Interval Analysis

• The R. E. Moore Prize for Applications of Interval Analysis: Description and Rationale
• Kyoko Makino and Martine Berz receive 3rd R. E. Moore Prize for their work on Suppression of the Wrapping Effect by Taylor Model-based Verified Integrators (2008)
• Thomas C. Hales receives 2nd R. E. Moore Prize for his solution of the Kepler conjecture about the densest arrangement of spheres in space (2004)
• Warwick Tucker receives 1st R. E. Moore Prize for proving that the renowned Lorenz equations do in fact possess a strange attractor (2002) (2002)

Other International Honors

• Dongrui Wu's interval-related dissertation received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2011)
• Isaac Elishakoff elected a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Georgia (2010)
• PhD Dissertation "New Interval Methods for Competitive Location Problems" by Boglarka G.-Toth (University of Almeria, Spain, supervisors: Jose Fernandez Hernandez, Blas Pelegrin, and Leocadio G. Casado) was one of the three finalists in the EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition in Operational Research (2009)
• Martin Berz awarded Honorary Doctoral Degree from Saint Petersburg State University, Russia (2008)
• Jerry Mendel, one of the world leading researchers in interval-valued fuzzy techniques, receives 2008 Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
• Thomas C. Hales and Samuel P. Furgeson receive the 2007 Robbins Prize
• George Klir receives 2007 Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
• PhD Dissertation "New Interval Methods for Competitive Location Problems" by Boglarka G.-Toth (University of Almeria, Spain, supervisors: Jose Fernandez Hernandez, Blas Pelegrin, and Leocadio G. Casado) won the UPS-SOLA Biannual Dissertation Award from the Section on Locational Analysis (SOLA) of the INstitutue For Operations Research and the Management Sciences INFORMS (2007)
• Nick Sahinidis and Mohit Tawarmalani receive the 2006 Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize of the Mathematical Programming Society for a paper describing the global optimization package BARON (2006) The prize citation explicitly mentions interval arithmetic among the techniques employed.
• Janusz Kacprzyk receives the Kaufmann Prize and Gold Medal (2006)
• Warwick Tucker receives a European Mathematical Society prize (2004)
• Professor Alefeld Elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences (2004)
• The 2003 Chauvenet Prize awarded to Thomas C. Hales for an interval-related work (2003)
• Jonathan Shewchuk Receives 2003 Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software (2003)
• Patricia Nava receives the Third Millennium Medal from IEEE (2001)
• Innovative Application of Artificial Intelligence Award from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) given to an interval paper by Eero Hyvonen and Stefano de Pascale during the IAAI/AAAI'99 conference in Orlando, Florida (1999)
• Stadtherr gets Computing in Chemical Engineering Award for work using intervals (1998)
• Interval-related paper chosen as Outstanding at AI conference (1998)
• Outstanding International Student Award for interval research (1998)
• Robot success repeated (1997)
• Daneil E. Cooke elected Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee (1997)
• Pawlak wins Lofti A. Zadeh Best Paper Award (1996)
• Peter Fishburn receives von Neumann Prize (1996)
• Interval methods help a robot succeed (1996)
• Daniel E. Cooke elected Senior Member of IEEE (1996)

National Honors

• Yuri Matiyasevich elected Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2008)
• Keller Elected Foreign Member of Polish Academy of Sciences (2005)
• Andrew Bernat to Join Computing Research Association as its New Executive Director (2002)
• Tony Nolan receives the "Order of Australia" Medal (2001)
• Hung T. Nguyen Selected as a Distinguished Lukacz Professor (2000)
• Pavel Pankov awarded Kyrgyzstani State Prize (1998)
• Vladik Kreinovich elected Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Metrological Sciences (1998)
• Pankov elected Corresponding Member of the Kyrgyzstani National Academy of Sciences (1997)

Regional Honors

• Oscar Mondragon Receives Best Dissertation Award for an Interval-Related Dissertation (2005)
• Patricia A. Nava Receives Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award (2004)
• Vladik Kreinovich gets El Paso Energy Award for work using intervals (2003)
• Raul A. Trejo Receives Best Dissertation Award for an Interval-Related Dissertation (2002)
• Carol Walker Selected as the 2001 Distinguished Alumna (2001)
• Chenyi Hu receives the UHD Faculty Award on Scholarly/Creative Activities (1999)

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