Jelinek 's works won " best paper " awards on several occasions , and he received a number of company awards while he worked at IBM . He received the Society Award for " outstanding technical contributions and leadership " from the IEEE Signal Processing Society for 1997 , and the ESCA Medal for Scientific Achievement in 1999 . He was a recipient of an IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000 , the European Language Resources Association 's first Antonio Zampolli Prize in 2004 , the 2005 James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award , and the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Computational Linguistics . He received an '' honoris causa '' Ph.D. from Charles University in 2001 , was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 and was made one of twelve inaugural fellows of the International Speech Communication Association in 2008
James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award
IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award
Frederick Jelinek