<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;text-align:justify;word-break:break-word"><span lang="EN-US" style="word-break:break-word"><font face="georgia, serif">Dear Colleagues:<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;text-align:justify;word-break:break-word"><span lang="EN-US" style="word-break:break-word"><font face="georgia, serif">Please accept our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><font face="georgia, serif"><b><div><font face="georgia, serif"><b><br></b></font></div>Call for Nominations (CFN) - HITC Award for Excellence (Industrial Impact Award)-2024</b><br></font><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin-bottom:8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:22pt;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt">The HITC Award for Excellence in Hyper-Intelligence (Industrial Impact Award) recognizes up to 3 individuals or small companies who have made distinguished, influential, and on-going yet towards long-lasting contributions in the field of hyper-intelligent systems with applications.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:22pt;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:22pt;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"><b>Nominations:</b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:22pt;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt">A candidate must be nominated by members of the community. Nominations must be submitted via email to the selection secretary (and CC the Committee chair). The subject of the nomination email should be named as: HITC + award category+ nominee, for example, HITC-PhD Dissertation Award- Abbott, HITC-Early Career Award-Obama, HITC-Middle Career Award-George Washington, HITC-Achievement Award-Macron, HITC-Industrial Impact Award-Jack. A nomination application (as a single PDF file) must consist of the following materials:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:22pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:11pt">· </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt">Name/email of person making the nomination (self-nominations are not eligible).</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:22pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:11pt">· </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt">Name/email of the nominee.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:22pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:11pt">· </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt">A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the nominee is highly deserving of the award both on excellence and in relation to IEEE HITC.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:22pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:11pt">· </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt">CV of the nominee or supporting materials of the company showing the current impact/potential impact of the innovation (max 20-page length).</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:22pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:11pt">· </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt">Up to three support letters from persons other than the nominator-these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:22pt;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:22pt;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"><b>Important Dates:</b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt;line-height:22pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:11pt">· </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt">Nomination Deadline: July 15, 2024</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt;line-height:22pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:11pt">· </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt">Results Notification: August 31, 2024</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:22pt;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:22pt;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"><b>Award Selection Committee:</b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:22pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:11pt">· </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt">Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada (<a href="mailto:ltyang@ieee.org" target="_blank">ltyang@ieee.org</a>)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:22pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:11pt">· </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt">Flavia C. Delicato, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil (<a href="mailto:felipe@cos.ufrj.br" target="_blank">felipe@cos.ufrj.br</a>)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:22pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:11pt">· </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt">Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan (<a href="mailto:bob@is.kyusan-u.ac.jp" target="_blank">bob@is.kyusan-u.ac.jp</a>)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:22pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:11pt">· </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt">Anna Kobusińska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland (<a href="mailto:Anna.Kobusinska@cs.put.poznan.pl" target="_blank">Anna.Kobusinska@cs.put.poznan.pl</a>)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"></span></p><p align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:22pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:11pt">· </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt">Klimis Ntalianis, University of West Attica, Greece (<a href="mailto:kntal@image.ntua.gr" target="_blank">kntal@image.ntua.gr</a>)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:22pt;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:22pt;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"><b>Award Selection Secretary:</b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:22pt;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt">Zhi Liu, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan (<a href="mailto:liu@ieee.org" target="_blank">liu@ieee.org</a>)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:22pt;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:22pt;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"><b>Award & Presentation Note:</b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin-bottom:8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt"></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:22pt;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:11pt">Awardees will be presented a plaque and will be recognized by IEEE HITC in its website, newsletter and archives. The awards for 2024 will be presented at a selected IEEE HITC sponsored conference.</span></p></div></div>