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Best Paper Awards - 1998 Dr. Young C. Lee has won the 1998 Best Paper award with his description of a key aspect of the Global Positioning System (GPS). His paper, "Analysis of Range and Position Comparison Methods as a Means to Provide GPS Integrity in the User Receiver," appeared in Volume V of the Institute of Navigation Red Books, a special monograph series on GPS. Lee’s paper was originally presented at an Institute of Navigation (ION) conference in June 1986, but was first published in a peer-reviewed publication in 1998. The volume is dedicated to the topic of Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM), a safety-critical element in the use of GPS that is especially important for civil users. Lee’s paper was the first to address RAIM techniques; in fact, it not only proposed the concept that is now known as RAIM for the first time, but also demonstrated its performance limitations by means of mathematical analysis. In addition, it provides excellent background for overall understanding of the RAIM problem. Vice President and Chief Technology Officer David H. Lehman, who chairs the Best Paper committee, notes that, "Lee’s entry was the seminal paper in its field. No one had ever considered the need for these methods before the paper was published, and this area, now known as RAIM, is very important not only for aircraft navigation, but also for any GPS application that has a potentially critical dependence on GPS." The Best Paper Competition, sponsored by the MITRE Technology Program, recognizes outstanding contributions by MITRE staff to the body of knowledge of their respective disciplines. Papers undergo a constructive peer review and appear in a peer-reviewed journal (or similar publication) prior to the competition. This year’s competition drew 23 entries from MITRE’s four centers. In addition to the Best Paper winner, 17 papers met the competition’s criteria for technical content and required level of peer review, and two shorter entries on communications technology received awards. A full listing of the 1998 award winners, many of which include abstracts of the entries and links to the full papers, follows. Award Winners
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