IEEE award for Uwe Kraus, DJ8DW
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe E. Kraus, Fachbereich E, Chair of Communications at University 
of Wuppertal, is getting the "IEEE fellow" award. Worlds biggest society of 
engineers "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers" is giving this 
honour to only the thousands part of its members each year for outstanding 
achievements in research and development having an influence on society.

Prof. Uwe Kraus from Solingen, Germany, (AR call DJ8DW, president of AGAF, the 
german amateur TV society) is getting the award for his contributions to 
improvements of TV quality and digital television, i.e. development of flicker-free 
100 Hz CRT TV sets at Philips, Eindhoven, research on the european terrestrial DTV 
standard DVB-T at the University of Wuppertal together with WDR Cologne (western 
Germany TV station) and development of the first working test receiver for the 
north american HDTV system ATSC. Prof. Kraus is also involved in coordination of 
several international IEEE conferences.

The award will be handed over at the International Conference on Consumer 
Electronics, ICCE, in January 2010 in Las Vegas, USA.