The Magnetics Society of the IEEE honors one of its outstanding members each year for his or her lifelong professional achievement. This is the highest award of the Magnetics Society and is given for scientific, technical and service contributions to the society. The award is presented at Intermag each year and consists of a diploma with citation and a cash prize.
Dr. Judy has made many significant contributions to understanding the fundamental limitations of thin film media and developing ways to improve media performance. He was a pioneer in the observation of the zig-zag pattern of domain walls at the edge of magnetically recorded bits that cause transition noise and showed they are caused by microstructure. Further work in media led to CoCr alloy structures and the use of C-N overcoats. He has recently made contributions to perpendicular recording media showing extraordinary properties in Co/Pd multilayers gown on indium-tin-oxide. He has also contributed to the understanding of thin films and magnetic materials for GMR recording sensors and magnetic random access memories.
He has consistently emphasized the sharing of knowledge and the education of students and fellow scientists. He has authored more than 180 papers and directly supervised more than 50 students. He founded the Center for Micromagnetics and Information Technology at the University of Minnesota. He is also one of the original founders of The Magnetic Recording Conference.
Dr. Judy received B.S.E.E and M.S.E.E. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota, where he has been a professor since 1969. Prior to joining the faculty at the U. Minn. he worked at the IBM Storage Systems Division in Boulder Colorado.
He has received many external honors, including having been named a fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and receiving the Technical Achievement Award of the National Storage Industrial Consortium.
Beginning as a student member of the Magnetics Society, Dr. Judy has contributed
his time and energy to the Society in many capacities. He has served as chair
of the twin cities section, as a Distinguished Lecturer, has participated in
the organizing of TMRC and PMRC conferences and served on the Society’s
Administrative Committee and the Distinguished Lecturer and Education committees.
He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE.
Professor Jack H. Judy joins a distinguished list of past recipients: Fred Luborsky 1981, Herb Storm 1982, Harold Lord 1984, Joe Suozzi 1985, Fritz Friedlaender 1986, Andrew Bobeck 1987, Floyd Humphrey 1988, Paul Biringer 1989, Daniel Gordon 1990, Emerson Pugh 1991, Yoshifumi Sakurai 1992, William Doyle 1993, Richard Barker 1994, Mark Kryder 1995, Koosuke Harada 1996, Gordon Slemon 1997, Stan Charap 1998 Dave Thompson 1999, Denis Mee 2000, Fred Hagedorn 2001, Sun-ichi Iwasaki 2002, Carl Patton 2003 , Yutaka Sugita 2004, Robert Fontana 2005, Neal Bertram 2006. and John C. Mallinson 2007.
Bruce Gurney
Chairman, Awards Committee, IEEE Magnetics Society
Phone: 408-323-7239
Fax: 408-323-7010
E-mail bruce.gurney@hgst.com