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Editor Achievement Award for Professor Bashir Al-Hashimi
Professor Bashir Al-Hashimi has received the first Research Journal Editor Achievement Award from the Institution of Engineering and Technology, for his outstanding work not only in editing IET Computers & Digital Techniques but also in contributing to other areas of the IET’s publishing operation.
Professor Al-Hashimi has been the editor-in-chief of IET Computers & Digital Techniques for the last five years, during which time the journal has gone from strength to strength, with a number of high-quality and timely special issues. Since his appointment, Professor Al-Hashimi has relaunched the journal to reflect emerging and new trends in system-on-chip, low power embedded computing systems and CAD tools; has appointed a high quality editorial board from the electronics design and test community; and forged strong links with many major conferences in the field. As a result the submission rate and quality has increased significantly and the journal is now recognized as one of the leading journals in its field.
Publisher Stuart Govan said: “This award is intended to recognize outstanding contributions to IET journals in particular and our publishing operation in general. Professor Al-Hashimi is a most worthy recipient of this first award. I have worked closely with him for the last five years and have always been impressed with his vision, energy and commitment to the journal. He has worked extraordinarily hard on improving the quality of IET CDT and commissioning high quality articles in the form of invited papers and themed issues.
"While this publishing award primarily recognizes his contribution to IET Computers & Digital Techniques, it also recognizes his work in editing the highly regarded and popular IET book (System-on-Chip: Next Generation Electronics) and efforts in forging close links between the IET and the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference as part of his association with the IET Technical Professional Network on Microelectronics and Signal Processing”.
"I am delighted that I am the recipient of the first IET Editor Achievement Award," said Professor Al-Hashimi, "and I look forward to moving the journal forward to establish it as the journal of choice for researchers worldwide to publish their new research results in the area of computer engineering."
