IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Recipients

IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal

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2008 - GERARD J. FOSCHINI
Bell Labs Fellow, Wireless Communications Research Department
Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent
Holmdel, NJ, USA

“For seminal contributions to the science and technology of multiple-antenna wireless communications.”

 

2007 - NORMAN ABRAMSON
University of Hawaii
Department of Electrical Engineering
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

“For contributions to the development of modern data networks through fundamental work in random multiple access”

 

2006 - JOHN WOZENCRAFT
Professor Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA

“For the development of sequential decoding and the signal space approach to digital communication.”

 

2005-JIM K. OMURA
Technology Strategist, Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation
San Francisco, CA, USA

'For contributions to the theory of communication systems and the commercial applications of spread spectrum radios and public key cryptography.'

 

2004 - NOT AWARDED

 

2003 - JOACHIM HAGENAUER
Professor, Munich University of Technology
Munich, Germany

'For contributions to soft decoding and its application to iterative decoding algorithm.'

 

2002 - TSUNEO NAKAHARA
Executive Advisor to CEO
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd
Osaka, Japan

'For pioneering work on the design and development of manufacturing systems for optical fibers.'

 

2001 - NOT AWARDED

 

2000 - VLADIMIR A. KOTELNIKOV
Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow, Russia

'For fundamental contributions to signal theory.'  

 

1999 - DAVID G. MESSERSCHMITT
Roger A. Strauch Professor of EECS
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

'For fundamental contributions to communications theory and practice, including VLSI for signal processing, and simulation and modeling software'

 

1998 - RICHARD E. BLAHUT
Department of Electrical and Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana, Urbana, IL, USA

'For contributions to error-control coding, particularly by combining algebraic coding theory and digital transform techniques.'

 

1997 - VINTON G. CERF
Senior Vice President
MCI Telecommunications Corp.
Reston, VA, USA

and

ROBERT E. KAHN
Founder and President
Corp. for National Research Initiative (CNRI)
Reston, VA, USA

'For conceiving the Internet architecture and protocols, and for the vision and sustained leadership that led to the current Internet.'

 

1996 - TADAHIRO SEKIMOTO
NEC Corporation
Tokyo, Japan

'For pioneering contributions to digital satellite communications and industry leadership in developing digital communications.'

 

1995 - IRWIN M. JACOBS
QUALCOMM, Inc.
San Diego, CA, USA

'For outstanding contributions to telecommunications, including leadership, theory, practice and product development.'

 

1994 - HIROSHI INOSE
NCSIS 
Tokyo, Japan

'For pioneering contributions to digital switching and modulation, and for leadership in international telecommunications.'

 

1993 - DONALD C. COX
Bellcore
Red Bank, NJ, USA

'For pioneering and leadership in personal portable communications.'

 

1992 - JAMES L. MASSEY
Swiss Fed. Tech. University
Zurich, Switzerland

'For contributions to the theory and practical implementation of forward-error-correcting codes, multi-user communications, and cryptographic systems; and for excellence in engineering education.'

 

1991 - C. CHAPIN CUTLER (Retired)
and
JOHN O. LIMB
Hewlett-Packard, CA, USA
and
ARUN N. NETRAVALI
Bell, NJ, USA

'For the invention and development of predictive coding of pictures and picture sequences.'

 

1990 - PAUL BARAN
Interfax Inc.
Menlo Park, CA, USA

For pioneering in Packet Switching.'

 

1989 - GERALD R. ASH
and
BILLY B. OLIVER
Bell Labs., NJ, USA

'For contributions to the conception and implementation of Dynamic Nonhierarchical Routing (DNHR) in telecommunications networks.'

 

1988 - ROBERT M. METCALFE
3Com Corp.
Santa Clara, CA, USA

'For contributions to the invention, standardization and commercialization of local area networks -- especially the Ethernet.'

 

1987 - JOEL S. ENGEL,
MCI Comm., VA, USA
and
RICHARD H. FRENKIEL
Bell, NJ, USA
and
WILLIAM C. JAKES, JR.
Bell, MA, USA

'For fundamental contributions to the theory, design and deployment of cellular mobile communications systems.'

 

1986 - BERNARD WIDROW
Stanford University, CA, USA

'For fundamental contributions to adaptive filtering, adaptive noise and echo cancellation, and adaptive antennas.'

 

1985 - CHARLES K. KAO
ITT Corp.
Shelton, CT, USA

'For pioneering contributions to optical fiber communications.'

 

1984 - ANDREW J. VITERBI
Linkabit Corp.
San Diego, CA, USA

'For fundamental contributions to telecommunication theory and practice and for leadership in teaching.'

 

1983 - STEPHEN O. RICE
Univ. of California
San Diego, CA, USA

'For his contributions to the fundamental understanding of communications systems and to the underlying mathematics, and for inspiring younger scientists and engineers.'

 

1982 - HAROLD A. ROSEN

'For pioneering contributions to, and leadership in, geostationary communication satellites.'

 

1981 - DAVID SLEPIAN

'For fundamental contributions to communication theory.'

 

1980 - RICHARD R. HOUGH

'For his contributions to the nationwide and international telephone network and, particularly, the introduction of electronic switching therein.'

 

1979 - A. CHRISTIAN JACOBAEUS

'For pioneering work in the theory of switching systems and technical leadership in the development of telecommunication systems.'

 

1978 - M. ROBERT AARON
and
JOHN S. MAYO
and
ERIC E. SUMNER

'For personal contributions to, and leadership in, the practical realization of high-speed digital communications.'

 

1977 - EBERHARDT RECHTIN

'For pioneering and lasting contributions to deep-space-vehicle communications technology and for leadership in defense telecommunications.'

 

1976 - AMOS E. JOEL, JR.,
WILLIAM KEISTER
and
RAYMOND W. KETCHLEDGE

'For conception and development of Electronic Switching Systems and their effective introduction into a nation-wide telephone system.'