Congratulations to Vladik Kreinovich, Professor of Computer Sciences with the University of Texas at El Paso, who received the IEEE 2026 Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award (sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society) at IEEE WCCI 2026. This award recognizes Vladik’s outstanding and pioneering contributions to developing interval techniques for dealing with fuzzy uncertainty. Good Job: this is a very well-deserved award! (Notice that Vladik is the current IFSA President and EUSFLAT board member; he was EUSFLAT Vice Chair in the past).